don't know about you guys but I'm leaning toward a XBOX one now, design wise that sober look is awesome, makes me remember carbon fiber tuned cars.
Meh, didn't care about DRM that much.
What I care about still isn't fixed - there are no good GAEMZ for the thing.
Walking through the mall, I saw pre-order signs up at every electronics retailer. I'm assuming they would take them down if they could not longer take pre-orders...
And also, are there even maximum capacities to preorder numbers?
I don't recall saying anything about prices decreasing, and it certainly is not my "entire argument". Digital has other advantages besides the potential price drops. And I agree all consoles should go digital only, but they do not have to for it to work, in the same way that pretty much all music is still sold as CDs in retail stores, but digital distribution is better, so it's still successful.Your entire argument for this system Microsoft wanted to implement is so that games would decrease in price when the only time we've seen a title not selling at the established price is if it was unpopular and sold like crap, or if it was aging and new copies were still on the shelf. Precedent still debunks this notion, and until all consoles go digital only, the perfect digital model will not come true.
Digital may be better in an ideal future, but at the moment the industry is anything but ideal. Let the PC scene grow into a proper model and keep the old model with the consoles. Transition slowly and not as fast as a meth addict on fresh drugs.I don't recall saying anything about prices decreasing, and it certainly is not my "entire argument". Digital has other advantages besides the potential price drops. And I agree all consoles should go digital only, but they do not have to for it to work, in the same way that pretty much all music is still sold as CDs in retail stores, but digital distribution is better, so it's still successful.
Now, if we can convince Microsoft to change windows back, Microsoft would be great againWow. Microsoft actually listened to something.
Probably the same "region free" policy that they had with the 360. Games can be region free, but probably won't.Thank goodness they actually listened to what their customers wanted. Region free is pretty cool too.
Heartbroken MS employee said:The premise is simple and elegant, when you buy your games for Xbox One, you can set any of them to be part of your shared library. Anyone who you deem to be family had access to these games regardless of where they are in the world. There was never any catch to that, they didn't have to share the same billing address or physical address it could be anyone. When your family member accesses any of your games, they're placed into a special demo mode. This demo mode in most cases would be the full game with a 15-45 minute timer and in some cases an hour. This allowed the person to play the game, get familiar with it then make a purchase if they wanted to. When the time limit was up they would automatically be prompted to the Marketplace so that they may order it if liked the game. We were toying around with a limit on the number of times members could access the shared game (as to discourage gamers from simply beating the game by doing multiple playthroughs). but we had not settled on an appropriate way of handling it. One thing we knew is that we wanted the experience to be seamless for both the person sharing and the family member benefiting. There weren't many models of this system already in the wild other than Sony's horrendous game sharing implementation, but it was clear their approach (if one could call it that) was not the way to go. Developers complained about the lost sales and gamers complained about overbearing DRM that punished those who didn't share that implemented by publishers to quell gamers from taking advantage of a poorly thought out system. We wanted our family sharing plan to be something that was talked about and genuinely enjoyed by the masses as a way of inciting gamers to try new games.
Digital may be better in an ideal future, but at the moment the industry is anything but ideal. Let the PC scene grow into a proper model and keep the old model with the consoles. Transition slowly and not as fast as a meth addict on fresh drugs.
Not to mention you still need internet to set the damn thing up; there are heaps of people I know who wont be able to play out-the-box without doing Wi-Fi hunting.
[New Mexican]"Hey neighbor, may I use your internet and TV for a second...Oh, you only have a CRT, never mind..."[/New Mexican]
That would prolly piss of the yanks who work for Gamestop or the like if you asked them to set it up for you...at least at my local Gamestop. They suck and are unknowlegeable i.e. "I can't buy this PS2 from you without the original HDMI cable that came with it". dafuq?If the phone shop will offer to set up a phone for me, the TV shop will send people round to calibrate it for me, the bed shop will set up a bed for me and so forth I imagine a game shop will offer to set up a game console for me. Not an ideal situation by any means but not an insurmountable problem either.
"I can't buy this PS2 from you without the original HDMI cable that came with it". dafuq?