Xbox One

Ok, let's just say that the pastebin post is correct, and that's what they want to do. Then, if that's their plan.... let's see them do it up front. If you want to get in peoples homes and show how your trying to curb used games and get the money in the hands of the devs... launch brand new games at $39.99. I bought Tomb Raider PC for $33 on launch day (instead of $60 on consoles) and pre-ordered Battlefield 4 for PC for less than $40.

The only aspect of the debacle that I find really crazy is this: this is a fight which Microsoft had no need to pick. As I mentioned, Sony will apply similar DRM to digital purchases, just like everyone else in every entertainment and software industry does. In the coming five years, more and more of the software published and purchased on PS4 will be digital software. The physical retail channel will remain, and it will keep the industry honest by providing a competitive pricing channel, but by and large, Sony will end up selling digital software subject to fairly strict restrictions - all without having had to pick an enormous fight and look like an utterly black-hearted villain for kicking the legs out from under physical, boxed games. Microsoft, too, will be mostly a digital business in five years. Was it really worth risking the company's image and its product's popularity with the core market, potentially undoing years of hard work at building up the Xbox business, just in order to hasten on that process by a few years? Was this not a fight that could have been won just by being a little more patient?

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I don't buy the argument presented in that link. Forcing games to function like downloads when they were not is dumb. If they want to move to more of a Steam setup, leave the discs at $59.99 and put the digital version on XBL or PSN at a substantially lower price from day 1. That will push more sales digital than anything else. And offer sales like Steam does. Neither XBL or PSN do the sale thing like Steam does. Sure the pub/dev makes less per sale, but the numbers are that Steam sales boost unit volume by as much as 4000%

And MS is making far too much of a big deal about the cable box pass through feature. Like punching the input button on a remote is too much work.

And the Kinect IS a child's toy really. And really, the patent MS filed for using the Kinect's recognition abilities for Pay Per Viewer content should scare the hell out of any Xbone adopter. Sure the EULA doesn't have the anything in it now, but that would only take pushing a mandatory firmware update and EULA update to make that a reality.

 
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All in good fun...I do think the PS4 will be a great system, and I do recognize the areas of concern for the One. I am simply just not ready to throw my hat in the PS4 corner just yet. I do believe that much like the original xbox and the 360, my personal preferences will lean to Microsoft over Sony. Could be wrong...really hope that I am right! :)

 
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