I do agree with that. There are a lot of people who haven't recovered from the depression. Which is supposedly over though to the people that decide, over means major corporations are making the same profits again. It doesn't apply to the average worker at all. And while major corporations are making bigger profits than ever, they aren't any more willing to pass that money on to employees. In fact, they have mostly cut hours and benefits for average employees. The last depression ...
@Majiebeast
In your continuing effort to hate everything Microsoft you ignored reality with your very first group on your list. I believe it's Microsoft that provides the Xboxes and all of the logistics for those machines for the troops. Including the software. And I'm not sure that there are any limits on what they can get so there wouldn't be a need to pirate for the soldiers in the first place. So that eliminates the need for DRM on those machines. I also doubt...
This is a solution for most. I'm sure most people on this site, well over 90% have a smartphone. I'm not one of them, but this does make this easier to deal with. I do understand where they are coming from. But, I don't like this at all. But this solution makes it less of a problem. I do believe the only people that should be complaining are the people who actually intended to get one. PS fans hoping to get people to switch have made themselves so annoying that the PS4 is less of ...
Blu-ray is far from standard. DVD is still the movie standard. And more people use streaming than Blu-ray. And now that MS and Sony are offering same day downloads of all titles, a lot of games won't be bought on Blu-ray. That may be from brainwashed PS3 users that get Blu-ray is king fed into their heads all day. I doubt this had anything to do with it. It was probably based on the fact that the size of games will be bigger. Period. Streaming is taking over and resolution is getting bett...
I am online the vast majority of the time. But the idea that I must have a connection to play a single player game is asking a lot. There is no need for that. The vast majority will have a connection, but there people that won't. Not from the what if my ISP is down stand point. If your ISP is that unreliable you need to switch. But just what if I don't want to pay for Internet to save a little while. I go a couple of months without my games? That's asking a lot. They need to add ...
I absolutely hate the idea of needing to re-connect every 24 hours. That would probably make me think long and hard about getting a Xbox One even though I see a lot of potential in the design, the 24 hour clock is too much.
There is one last thing that gives me pause and would bring me back in.
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You two are really kidding yourselves if you think gamers won't follow the titles of EA and Activision. Most of the people that buy FIFA and CoD are more casual then hardcore. You think they care about Sony. You're crazy. It's just like when people initially thought Ultimate Team was exclusive. Many would have left PS. The same will happen if there is no CoD, FIFA or BF. Remember, it's about teh exclusives.
The fact that there are idiots still talking this Kinect spying nonsense shows how dumb and uniformed some of these people are. It's been all over the news all week that the NSA makes all of the phone companies turn over information everyday and these idiots are worried about Kinect. If the Founding Fathers had known how stupid most Americans would turn out to be they would have never picked up a gun.
You would be wrong if you think Xbox doesn't make money. Use common sense. For Xbox to not be making money, that would mean the console is being sold at a loss. Kinect at a loss. And Live is making a loss. Only a fool believes any of those things. Every piece of hardware is sold for a profit. Live makes a profit on subscriptions, DLC and and marketplace items. Where is it you believe they are losing money. Don't mistake the billion and a half they spend on R&D and the cost of all ...
@dantesparda
I get my information about more modifications from the same rumors that told you the PS4 was more powerful and had GDDR5. Maybe you didn't notice the Move Engines and ESRAM. GDDR5 also has more latency than DDR3. And a ton more than ESRAM. In your mind maybe that latency doesn't mean anything, but in a world where physics actually apply, it might.
If ESRAM has 102gbs of bandwidth and has far lower latency, it makes a difference.
@UltimateUnknown
I've worked with powerful people in the past that are known throughout the world. I got along extremely well with the vast majority of them. Though I was very young, I had my own ideas and was willing to make my own decisions. One of those rich and powerful people told once that people like them despise sheep. Grow a pair and they will respect you and look out for you. Act like a dog and they have little time for you. They prefer their pets with more hair...
It's cool. If I was as feeble minded as they are I would care. But being a independent thinking person I don't hear sheep.
I can't believe so many think there are going to be regular batteries. All of the bitching about the reveal is obviously BS because there are way too many that have no idea what they are talking about. They read one misinformed comment to lead them and they run with it. If only there was a cliff. Please let there be a cliff. The world won't survive another 100 years once these sheep take over.
I think this is why the nay-sayers are shortsighted. This would completely change the game and was the obvious vision for the design of One. Cost isn't a problem, if you already rent a box or DVR, this could replace that. If you are a gamer anyway this eliminates the fees you currently pay for a box or DVR. If they include Live access to rental units that makes it an even better deal.
And more than anything One looks to be far better than the current Motorola boxes. I'...
dc1 your head would have exploded if you had read the articles where MS employees like Major Nelson mention they actually own PS3s. I think company execs that are really gamers are gamers and not fanboys. They leave the stupidity to the fans.
@Lou-Cipher
Gotta love the guy that's a fan of the company contemplating splitting up to survive believing the company making record profits is going away. I thought the devil was supposed to do what he does because he was evil. Turns out it was all just stupidity.
Raw power doesn't mean better. There has been talk that while the PS4 has the same CPU, it is less modified than the one in the Xbox. Same for the GPU. No one can say for sure what the 32mb of esram in the GPU will do for rendering speed. All of the assumptions are that the design leaks are geared toward adding bandwidth. But no one has said that for sure. They could very well be for other things. Soldierone MS might have said a MS CPU because they have made a lot of changes. MS did make ...
Peter Molyneux may not have done anything recently but I love his new approach to making games. By hiring people from industries that have nothing to do with gaming it should bring new ideas to light instead of the same old mechanics we've had for years now. I'm looking forward to what they do next.
But if they release on one console, the other won't have as many people to sell to. And if DRM is their idea and Sony refuses, if they gave it to them a year late it would kill their sales. If the exclusives sell consoles, like most Sony fans seem to believe, then MS having the vast majority of the major exclusives and all of the biggest, MS would have a huge advantage. It would be the same for Sony. If you lose EA and Activision, you lose CoD, BF, FIFA and Madden. Those games alone means...