Took me only three days before finishing this book because it is really entertaining and does a very good job explaining the game developers / publishers relationships and Hollywood with great insights and facts i never heard before - like the development of the NEMO console!
If you are in the games industry - read this book! ( )

From within the Game Bundle, this happens to be my least favorite book. Not because it didn't have enough data, quite on the contrary. You can see that there was a lot of research in this book (although it could use another review). The problem is that Generation Xbox is such a dense, factual, tedious, not-fun-to-read book that could be summed-up into "games-based movies are not successful because people who make the movies never actually played the goddamned game", which is mentioned by a Gabe Newell quote near the end of the book. The book does mention how the video games affected a couple of technologies used by the movie, but it still gave out the idea that it was about why movies based on video game stories did not succeed. ( )