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Xbox One
Megatron:
I can't see too many non sequels doing all that great if they go this used game/DRM route. I personally think about Mass Effect. My favorite game series. Ever. However, I sure as hell didn't buy it in 2007 (a 24 year old with no money) without playing it first. Once I rented it, I was hooked and have spent hundreds of dollars on the franchise since. If the only way to play the game was spend $60 outright, i doubt I'd have played it until it went dirt cheap. hence those hundreds of dollars would have gone somewhere else. And I can't be alone, so those hundreds (across thousands of gamers) could very well turn to millions.
scarmullet:
Ok, I have this hypothesis. What if Microsoft made the Xbox One to fail. They know gamers won't stand for their douche buggery. What if...Microsoft is banking on the Xbox one to fail, just to reintroduce the Xbox 360 as the "Xbox Classic" as a budget system?
I know its crazy, but Coke did it and it worked.
FritzWhite:
--- Quote from: scarmullet on June 09, 2013, 09:28:42 PM ---Ok, I have this hypothesis. What if Microsoft made the Xbox One to fail. They know gamers won't stand for their douche buggery. What if...Microsoft is banking on the Xbox one to fail, just to reintroduce the Xbox 360 as the "Xbox Classic" as a budget system?
I know its crazy, but Coke did it and it worked.
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Coke and consoles are totally different. I don't think they would invest all of this money into a new system, marketing for the new system, and ruin their reputation so they can sell more 360s. People aren't going to fall back to 360 because the XboxOne is bad, they're going to run to Sony, Nintendo, and PC. The reason they're doing what they're doing is greed. Always online and DRM gives them massive control over anyone that buys into this platform. They are making sure they get their cut of the pie every time someone wants to play an XboxOne game by controlling trading, resell, and rental.
ShaggyB:
--- Quote from: scarmullet on June 09, 2013, 03:55:56 PM ---Blu-ray isn't Sony's invention per-se. It was invented by a group of companies called the Blu-ray Disc association which comprises of 19 companies including Apple, Dell, Hitachi, Intel, Sony and Sharp. The association gets the money, and that money is dived up between the 19 companies...so if Sony made money on every Xbox One sold, it would be very small.
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also sony was involved in the DVD as well. So its no different than the small share they got off dvd players and regular xbox / xbox360
akumaizer:
So yesterday I was thinking about this in a way that's more personal to me. My long time girlfriend's brother has Down Syndrome. He is roughly 30 years old and the absolute sweetest guy I've ever known. He loves video games probably more than anything else. Since I've known him he's gone from playing Wii all the time to the 360 a couple years ago. He has a Game Informer subscription and though he can't read loves looking through the ads every month. So he always knows when a new game comes out and points it out to his mom. He plays all sorts of games, but will definitely want anything that involved Batman or James Bond. Even without reading, his ability to figure out games constantly blows my mind. His parents are getting older and not particularly tech savvy. They absolutely do not want him online in any way and I agree with that. They want him to able to pop a game in and play it. Simple. Eventually we'll be in a situation where the new Batman game (or whatever) he sees an ad for will only be available on this next generation of systems. So yesterday I was reading through this thread and thought of him. I talked to my girlfriend and explained all of these thoughts and concerns about the Xbox One. She instantly said, "Well he's not going to have that. No way." I certainly hope that for his sake, the PS4 is what I hope it will be from a standpoint of being the opposite of all of this Xbox One nonsense. I'd be glad to recommend it to his parents if it is and then hopefully everything will be fine. I suppose that this situation is not dissimilar from a parent who has a very young child who wants the new system. Being an "all one one media system" that over-complicates just playing games may just leave these people behind. I am concerned about the long term future of him being able to enjoy what he loves and that's sad.