Only things Microsoft have brought to gaming is unreliable hardware, lazy developers who port everything & new ways to milk gamers of their money.
It's an insult that the developer/publisher would release and market this, the TV advert actually makes it look very good... and to think they want to block the used market, that will just give them the green light to release more mediocre rubbish like this.
I'll be interested to see what the EU courts say if they try.
Nothing to do with the following benefits then?
- Games sell for £35-40 rather than £20.
- Can rob console users blind with DLC, often 'content' cut out of the game.
- Less headaches with compatiblity and support.
No of course not, it's just piracy to blame which doesn't exist on consoles... /sarcasm.
You'll be able to buy a PS3 for years to come even after PS4 is out so why is BC necessary? probably not the case for 360 but that's **** Microsoft for you.
Backwards compatibility will add unnecessary cost and waste time that could be better spent on improving the PS4 experience.
Microsoft did side with HD-DVD they just had no confidence in the format, if they had shipped 360 with a built in HD-DVD drive it may well have faired better against Bluray.
Even if it had still failed Xbox 360 would have still benefitted from the larger storage medium, the only reason Microsoft didn't integrate a HD-DVD drive was for cost reasons, Sony no doubt made a loss early on by integrating Bluray but Microsoft's only concern is profit and a cheap DVD drive sui...
PS3 outsold Xbox 360 a long time ago if you take repeat purchases due to shocking reliability into consideration.
Throughout the Xbox 360's life cycle I've owned 3 myself due to hardwares failures and I'd consider myself a casual gamer.
Rockstar Games is a British business operating in the US (probably for tax reasons), it's owned by Take Two (a publisher) who are American, that's as far as America's claim to it goes.
Rockstar North (in Scotland) who have made every single GTA game is and always been British, those who run Rockstar are British.
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Because GTA is a British game and we couldn't give a toss about US.
At current prices killing the second hand market will only increase copyright infringement, most games are not worth more than a tenner which is why the second hand market is so popular to begin with.
Games priced at £10 would increase sales (less risk), reduce piracy and also kill off the second hand market to a large extent... but why cut prices when you can just invent more and more draconian measures to control people.
Xbox Live has been about extorting as much money as possible since day one, the trouble is people are addicted to the service and they aren't going to change a successful business.
You have simply fallen for industry propaganda.
Like caseh says you purchase the medium and the (mythical) license to go with, the so called license is just something they have invented so they can prevent second hand sales.
EULA's don't take precedent over consumer law and an industry based on duplication/piracy should not be able to stop people selling a grossly overpriced product on when they have done with it.
The EU probably wouldn't allow this anyway as it's a breach of consumer rights, they'll probably get away with it in the US though as big business has your government over a barrel.
The second hand market exists in every market imaginable, if the gaming industry is being hurt by it then start making games with longevity that people will want to keep (like Gran Turismo/Skyrim) rather than dishing out minor sequels year after year and dropping support so quickly.
A game with only 5 hours of gameplay is not worth the £40 they usually ask.
I don't care as long as they don't cut corners in build quality like they did with 360, it took years before reliability was no longer a major issue.
I applaud Valve, if anything this new console will do wonders for Linux gaming.
N64 was released 2-3 years later than Playstation and it was not much better graphically, in fact as I recall most of its games were a bit blurry and had lots of fog to hide pop-up.
Why all the arguing over hardware specification? Nintendo have never relied on high tech graphics to sell shallow games like many 3rd party 360/PS3 developers, Wii has graphics like a PS2 but still outsold the 'next generation' competition.
Can't we just be happy that Nintendo are finally releasing a console that embraces the HDTV era?
There aren't many British games developers but Rockstar North are ****ing gods.
This is the sort of thing people should expect from an industry hell bent on blocking the second hand market, it'll only get worse if they succeed.