Meanwhile, back in the real world...
Exactly, when was CoD considered a showcase?
@n4rc "I know I'm not alone in getting p****d at that the product I bought keeps changing in an effort to please a bunch of irrational whiners.."
m$ aren't changing policy after policy because people are "irrational whiners", they're doing it because it seems many of them are not as willing as yourself to put down their money on a product they are unhappy with.
"They sold out their preorder stock.. People obviously like wh...
@ zeal0us "The overall situation is similar to what Microsoft is doing with Kinect 2.0 and the Xbox One. "
Nintendo didn't concentrate on showing how their controller made the Wii U more than just a console, they showed it playing games. When did m$ offer any compelling evidence for kinect 2.0 in this regard?
Menu navigation and changing TV channels isn't what people want to hear about - they want to see these revolutionary kinect 2.0 games ...
A kinect-less SKU a year down the line would be an absolute slap in the face for early adopters.
Many of the people who buy consoles day one or in the first few months are some of the most hardcore, dedicated fans and well-informed gamers out there. To force kinect 2.0 on these guys and then offer a kinect-less bone a year later would be a double bitch-slap, one on each cheek, to your biggest supporters...
Not only did you not want kinect 2.0, you were forced...
@MikeyDucati1 "So they backed themselves into a corner for listening to the voices of gamers and changing their policies?"
No, they backed themselves into a corner after looking at why their pre-orders were markedly low compared to the competition and offering yet another knee-jerk 180 in order to attempt recovery.
"If the problem is fixed, you cry about not having pie to go along with it."
What problem is fixed here exact...
@iamsuperman
"What is it without the Kinect "
Exactly what compelling reasons have m$ showed us to make Kinect 2.0 look like something gamers will not only make use of but become something that makes the bone a must-have?
For something so expensive to develop, so expensive to have included in the box, where are the revolutionary games that make it something people really need to own?
Changing TV channels and checkin...
They're going to run out of switches to flip.
http://goo.gl/0w4kZu
@VENOMACR "I personally don't mind the $500 price point, I think it's still a good value for your money. PS3 launched and it was just a gaming system and cost close to $700."
It was the cheapest bluray player on the planet and that was kind of a big deal at the time. ps3 was never "just a gaming system".
"So heres a system thats more powerful and comes with more then the PS3 for $200 less. "
That's al...
The thing is, this is really essential as the way ms are promoting their "all in one box for the living room" people are going to be sticking plenty of them in their cluttered entertainment centres and sitting their cable boxes on top and all kinds of crazy stuff, treating it more like just some other boxy piece of kit under the TV somewhere.
Personally I like to have my consoles out in the open, where I can get at them and swap carts and discs. With ms' push fo...
Hryb hits back at 180 talk:
http://bit.ly/14IvqOe
@ DARK WITNESS "personally I think it's the opposite. it's the people defending ms and the bullcrap it tried to pull off who are in the small group and the majority are in the other camp."
Truer words have never been spoken. Well, typed.
@deadpoolio "It's still pretty pathetic. It's like a crackhead offering to suck you off for a rock. "
I'm going to send you the bill for cleaning my monitor and keyboa...
@No_Limit "Maybe a lot Xbox owners had already decide to buy games digitally on the XB1"
straws - you're clutching at them.
It somehow doesn't look as sleek and stylish as the original reveal shots. I suppose that's the difference between super expensive prototypes and standard production fodder.
almost as obviously fake as that "knack preview" a week or 2 ago.
@IQ55 Since I created the graphic I linked to for a blog post I can confirm that I used current data form the very end of July, so it's less that 2 weeks old.
Yes, as you pointed out, there is an Xbox One in the chart in the 80s, but there is also one in the 30s (currently 32) that you seem to have missed - the day one edition.
I'm all for showing how well the ps4 is doing vs the xbox one in Amazon pre-orders, but not at the expense of all the facts ;...
@DayZ "With the toss up being UK which could go either way "
It's far from a toss up at Amazon:
http://s2.n4g.com/media/11/...
I've found with psn downloads that if a download seems to go slow at some point, pause and restart and it'll start flying again.
@Jokes
"-So again the Gold membership can be used by the home console owner whoever paid $60 for the Gold membership ANYWHERE ON ANY CONSOLE, the other gamertags created for family members on that console only have access to gold services(online) on that 1 home console."
OK, you keep clarifying that, but how about this, because this is the part I can't see clarified quite as clearly:
You have gold on your home machine and the ma...
There's still no FCC DoC is there? There's a lead time from that passing to ending up on shelves I'd have thought.
But meh, this rumour isn't true, it'd be 100x more damaging than the shambles that resulted in all the 180s put together.