Developers didn't ask for it, Microsoft came up with the idea (Cboat confirmed this). They wanted the whole system behind a paywall!
How exactly? Less power + more restrictions + higher price = win?
Aww, did the poor little fanboy troll lose all his new bubbles?
Where is your country? 5000 what?
Leave then!
Yep, £429 = $668
So UK seems to be getting Xboned the hardest!
Remember, Remember
The fifth of November
Gunpowder, treason and plot!
5th = Bonfire/Fireworks night in England, we burn a effigy of Guy Fawkes (tried to blow up parliament). Not sure if thats a good or bad omen!
NeoGaf has industry insiders and a more intellectual clientele, but a bloody-awful interface.
Major Nelson called MGS 'exclusive' on his blog, how's that for padding/lying through teeth?
PS3 CPU and gpu cost well over $300. PS4 Apu rumoured to be ~$100-$150. Could easily undercut Xbox and still make a profit,
I really hope that is sarcasm Teddy ;-)
When you create a cutting-edge design like the Xbone, you want to use it as much as possible /s .
I'm really not surprised (I caught a few of his comments).
@count
He's an industry insider who has leaked Information since 2004 on NeoGaf without once being wrong on the things he positively confirmed. That is why his words are respected (and yours make you look like a noob fool).
Addictive UK = Addicting USA?
DDR 3 is cheap you moron. I guess this isn't going to sell like hotcakes then.
@sGIBMBR
It's an American thing. Its in all their tv and films. The fact that "I could care less" means that they DO care about it whereas "I couldn't care less" means they DON'T care about it seems beyond their comprehension for some unknown reason.
The thing that I find funny is the words like "gotten" which isn't a word in English but is completely normal in American English. What is wrong with "I've never had&...
I don't know about the 'sole reason'. Apparently XboxOne development is lagging behind PS4 development due to the complexity of programming for eSRAM. They've probably gone with Sony because the game is a little further along on that hardware.
@sevir
I don't think Sony or Microsoft are stopping anyone pre-ordering anything. Probably Gamestop's own policy. I live in the UK and have pre-ordered Killzone and DriveClub at Game (our Gamestop equivalent) with no problems at all.
The thing is, everyone was talking about 'publishers pressuring Microsoft and Sony for DRM', however that is not what happened.
Microsoft dreamt up the cloud idea and all the DRM and then TOOK THIS MODEL TO THE PUBLISHERS!!!
They wanted to create a paywalled garden where they could lock people in and control their funds more easily. At no time were they under pressure from the publishers and even Activision thought it wasn't a great idea (EA and Ubisoft loved it). ...