The Xbone

[=sw=warlord]

...Did anyone even mention the kinect breaking?
No? then what does that have to do with the price of cheese?

The bones of contempt lay in A: the kinect is always watching, always listening, B: mandatory, now it's no longer mandatory I no longer have to wonder whether some NSA jerk is making crude photoshop mustaches on video feed taken from the kinect whilst i'm gaming.

[ODX]

The breaking part was one of the only good reasons I can think of for it not being mandatory anymore, so if it does break your console isn't rendered useless.

Oh god, the NSA thing. Don't get me started. All I can say is my personal opinion is that it doesn't freaking matter if someone sees me staring at a TV screen playing games. But that's another thread.

[Kornman00]

Oh god, the NSA thing. Don't get me started. All I can say is my personal opinion is that it doesn't freaking matter if someone sees me staring at a TV screen playing games. But that's another thread.

Good thing it's not called the ODXbox

[PlasbianX]

If your biggest argument against buying the new xbox is the NSA, you might wanna just throw your cellphone away, get rid of your pc, and go hide in a bunker. We all carry phones with front facing cameras, if they wanted to spy, it wouldn't be with your console. Jesus.

[Donut]

So what was the excuse for leaving it always on then? I can't think of any other reason other than the pay-per-person movie pricing, which seems difficult if not impossible to even enforce.

[Ki11a_FTW]

So what was the excuse for leaving it always on then? I can't think of any other reason other than the pay-per-person movie pricing, which seems difficult if not impossible to even enforce.

Just put a picture of an empty living room infront of the camera, then you won't even have to pay for one person

[Donut]

Hence why I said it

...seems difficult if not impossible to even enforce.

At that point, why even bother? Honestly, I don't think Microsoft had some global evil genius plan with making the Kinect always on. It really sounds like they were trying to promote the use of the Kinect by ensuring developers that people would always have one, but like everything else, they went about it the wrong way. They could have just as easily (and much less controversially) said "Hey guys, all Xbox One units come with the Kinect sensor, that way developers can integrate it into their games knowing everybody will have one!" They didn't have to pull a big brother on us.

[Bodzilla]

When microsuck has been implemented as a willing paticpate in the biggest infringement on privacy in our history, as well as providing day 0 exploits to government agency's to exploit diplomatic computers from other nations, i think it's wise to not be indifferent to a fucking camera and microphone in your living room. on at all times.

[=sw=warlord]

If your biggest argument against buying the new xbox is the NSA, you might wanna just throw your cellphone away, get rid of your pc, and go hide in a bunker. We all carry phones with front facing cameras, if they wanted to spy, it wouldn't be with your console. Jesus.

Not everyone has a smart phone, I personally only have my phone on whilst I'm out and about and when I do have the phone with me, it's not normally on anyway because I'm usually busy and don't want people calling me every 5 minutes.
As for PC, it's easier to secure your pc than it is securing a console because you have access to all the controls.

[t3h m00kz]

I keep my network disabled on my phone unless I absolutely need it. 4G is off 99% of the time