Ever felt the urge to reread Genesis after a game of Halo?
Bible Navigator X has you covered, on the 360 at least, for 400 Microsoft Points.
This was discussed on
Revelife last week with readers not quite sure what to think about it. It's just a new translation of the Bible that you can keep on your Xbox and doesn't seem to have any other features. I'm sure this is something that has been tried before on other systems (one poster says he had a Bible cartridge on his Gameboy), but I still think it's a pretty strange idea. If I wanted to look something up in the Bible, I would more likely just go to a computer and search for it than buy a copy for convenience's sake on my gaming system. I'm sure there is a market for this, but I don't know how large it is.
Is a console an appropriate place to keep a copy of the Bible (or Torah, Qur'an, or other holy book)? Would you purchase a digital copy of your religion's holy book for a gaming system?
Comments (23)
No, I wouldn't. The 360 interface is cumbersome as it stands. The internet is a much, much better place to do this sort of thing.
I wouldn't buy it since I'm not Christian. But I wouldn't mind if other people buy it . . . you know, in case they want to shoot zombies after reading a small exert.
could you digitally chop it up and burn it too, just to piss of fundamentalists?
Never would I buy that, ever.
is there an option to go Slayer on it and "throw it into a pool of blood so the lies on its' pages can't affect me"?
@dork936@xanga - lol i'd pay to see that happen on the xbox360
Some people may buy it, because there are Christian gamers who use XBox Live as an opportunity to witness. They might want easy access to a Bible on their console for that purpose.
I wouldn't probably buy this; it just feels odd. I'm the type of person who prefers reading published books printed on pages, how much more so for the Bible.
@animaeariesgirl@xanga - Totally agree with you there. Something about the feel of paper in my hands is just so much better.
@TheModernBunny@xanga - Even more reason not to make it available. No point making their lives easier to make ours more miserable...
Not a fan of religious books on gaming systems.
Heh, actually, this would be very useful for me. I host a small group Bible study once a week at my house, and the whole lot of us are nerds, so very few of us actually have physical Bibles in our hands. Typically a few guys have iPhones busted out (one even reading a Japanese translation on his), while for others we have BibleGateway.com pulled up via the PS3 web browser on our 32" TV.
So if the 360 Bible app is any more efficient than going through the PS3's less-than-smooth web browser, I might go for this.
Outside of the incredibly rare case of having a ridiculously nerdy Bible study group over at your house, I don't see much use for this.
That's completely stupid.
Oh, dear. *rolls eyes*
WTF?
I think it's brilliant. People uses their console for watching dvds, listening to music, some plug their computers to the tv to have a bigger screen to surf the web, so why not?
Obviously it's better to have your own paper printed Bible but if it allows to search key words or passages, it's just like a web version of it.
Nothing really odd about this. But I agree with @canicus@xanga . The interface seems too cumbersome. Would definitely need a keyboard. (Which I have for the Xbox so it's all good.) Then again I have an actual library for my books, CDs, movies, and games. I can just as easily pick up a physical Bible for reference if I need to.
Mt family already owns like ten Bibles, usually like two or three per person. Why would I spend money on an immaterial version of the Bible - for a system I don't own, by the way - just so I can read it after playing murder simulators? Okay, so maybe it would be nice to have something to remind you of sin and such after gleefully dismembering droves of mindless AI, but then again wouldn't you just crack open a regular Bible?
I mean, if you're so into reading the Bible that you'd buy this, you already own at least one study Bible, usually like two. What's the point? Plus, they probably only have the "New Living Translation" or some crap. But maybe I want to read the old King James Version. Cause they can't have thought it through so well as to have several versions. Businesses like this don't think that hard about religion.
Lastly, I just like having a tangible copy of whatever I'm reading. There's nothing like the feel of paper and the smell of ink to get you into reading.
@dork936@xanga - I'm heavily resisting the urge to destroy you right now. That or spamming your comments until you're blue in the face. Whichever.
That is the antithesis of all things gaming. How dare they foul the name of X-Box with the Bible. *fist shake*
@laytexduckie@xanga - Preferably after reading Revelations.
@misuriver@xanga - Most likely. Maybe Jesus might make a guest appearance in the game.
@laytexduckie@xanga - I get to kill Zombie Jesus?!! There's so much wrong, yet right about that concept.
@misuriver@xanga - Well, hey. He would just come back right later, right?
@laytexduckie@xanga - Yep. Endless killing.