The Xbone

[Ki11a_FTW]

I might buy the new COD but not the xbox.



Probably posted before but lol.

[TeeKup]

I hate that man. I really do.

[Warsaw]

It explains the policies in sympathetic manner but I don't think it'll change many minds. They're still restrictive and if Microsoft are as sincere as the poster seems to believe, they could have been implemented better.

For example, rather than locking down the console's ability to play games if it fails its 24 hour phone home, why not have it on a per-game basis and allow for it to bypassed if the disc is in the tray? You'd still be required to activate the game on the first run though or you could install it on one console and then keep the disc in another console that has no connection.

Or they could do like Steam does, which lets you basically register the game locally and download certain files to be able to play it off-line when in off-line mode. Microsoft is comparing their policy to Steam, the big difference is that Steam doesn't require a $60 annual fee to use. I mean, I guess the Xbox One doesn't either, if you want to get anal, but nearly all of the "features" they are saying make the always on-line policy mandatory and not that big of a deal kind of require it.

That was actually my post XD The Wired link actually said both Xbox AND Sony were not profitable.

http://games.slashdot.org/story/13/0...the-impossible

The second link was mine... wasn't the best post I've written, to say the least, but yeah. First link, of course, was the Wired article I refered to.

The blurb I read pre-dates your post by 6 months or so, I hadn't actually seen yours (I visit /. off and on, the environment is rather caustic). Actually, it was a comment to a Windows 8 article in response to the topic of Microsoft's market strategies.

[Amit]

lawl:

[TeeKup]

BAH HA HA HA HA PEOPLE WERE BOOING.

[ODX]

Except that isn't the actual audio, unless they somehow cut out the clapping audio and traced onto the one or two cows in the audience.

Sorry, it sounds like "mooooooooooooo" to me lol.

[TVTyrant]

Except that isn't the actual audio, unless they somehow cut out the clapping audio and traced onto the one or two cows in the audience.

Sorry, it sounds like "mooooooooooooo" to me lol.

Nobody cares. This E3, much like the E3 where Sony presented the PS3, will go down in memory as being a tremendous fuckup.

[Kornman00]

I recognize that 'quiet!' line, they used the same audio from that one stage demo of MGS or some shit near the end of MS's conference where the game essentially crashed or audio stopped working or something and they had to reboot.

[Btcc22]

Most of it is from the Crimson Dragon trailer, when they accidentally broadcast the crowd sound instead of the trailer's.

[Tnnaas]

I enjoyed this.