These days if Microsoft's Peter Moore speaks his words are often over analyzed and twisted like a pretzel... The latest buzz this week was created when Peter Moore talked generally about bringing more people in by making it easier and more intuitive (aka - trying to sell more stuff) and the complexity of current controllers... All the while he was praising the Nintendo Wii controller. This has been the latest game industry 'marketing speak' since e3 this year (wash... rinse... repeat...).
The best use of the Media remote is for quickly skipping through custom soundtracks while playing games; its too much trouble to hit Guide, scroll down to music, pick HDD, pick album, etc, etc, just hit |>