Xbox One, thoughts?
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How would your neighbors even know where you shop anyway? THE SHAME OF BUYING A $2.50 BOX OF CEREAL FOR $1.25! THE SHAME!!!
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Yes, and that is the fallacy of people using Asian models to argue for high speed rail here. Unless population here explodes, extensive rails will never really catch on due to the fact that it will never really be an end to end service.
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I usually just don't feed him nor bite dude
When he "speaks" for Japan as a whole just take it with a grain of salt. I don't believe for a second they are all like him. it just can't be true
A lot of kids at my high school were ESL students from Japan, they were not like that at all. I still talk to quite a few of them. I did find some stereotypes to be true, Koreans LOVE spicy food. Thai people just love food, period.
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wtf is that supposed to be lol ^^^
i dont understand but im laughing so hard
LMAO wow, that has to be one of the funniest and saddest things Ive seen in a long time. Poor xbox dog lol, anyways... for those of you wondering, the main reason for all the restrictions around used games and being connected to the internet everyday is so ppl can play games saved to their hard drive instead of switching out the disks. When you insert a game for the first time, it will authenticate the game purchase with your Live account and install while you're playing (vs the 360 where u could only install from the dashboard and basically only made offline graphics load faster - u still had to put the CD in to play). Playing without the disk wouldn't be possible without a regular connection because people could just give the cd to their friends after installing, so if you want to sell the game u have to permanently unlink its code from your account before the buyer can register it again.
Sounds fine until u realize what Microsoft is really after... why bother purchasing a disk if u aren't gonna use it? Wouldn't it make more sense to just download the game and install that way... and if that's the case, why drive to best buy or gamestop when u can just download directly from the xbox marketplace? Microsoft is a great example of a company clinging to a closed-source, subscription based business model while their competitors embrace actual consumer trends. Microsoft doesn't give a crap about Sony or they wouldn't be selling the same exact hardware for $100 more. Same thing goes for 6-18yr old ''hard-core gamers'' who would be just as content playing Plants vs Zombies or Angry Birds after school. Exclusive titles are a thing of the past, and both devs and retailers are gonna be favoring the ps4 like crazy next year.
What Microsoft is really taking aim at with ''next-gen'' entertainment is Google and Samsung with their smart TVs. Think about it, the 360 dashboard was all setup to be a hub for things like Bing/IE, Netflix, hulu... and then wham, Android hits the scene in 2009 and within a few years Smart TVs are blowing xbox's interface out of the water in terms of modern entertainment (not to mention upcoming open-source Android gaming consoles or Apple TV).
All Microsoft cares about is maintaining relevance after failing miserably in the smartphone/tablet market while losing win7 PC users in droves to iOS and Chrome. Unfortunately for them, the xbox one is basically a mid grade desktop with a built-in bluray player that will look like a joke next to android powered consoles in 5 years (let alone the 10yr lifespan some ppl are claiming to justify the $499 price tag - before $50 in tax and $120 on two new games). Even if the xbox one was better than ps4 in just one way, what parent is going to spend $100 more on it for Christmas when the ps4 already costs probably twice as much as they would typically spend? Most people with a 360 secretly wish they had a ps3 anyways, so buying their kids a ps4 will be a win win situation. I only use my 360 elite (bought used 2yrs ago for $100 and still only have 10gb of the 120gb hdd filled) to play call of duty, and even tho it just developed the open tray issue I seriously doubt I'll be dropping over half a grand on a new xbox or ps4 anytime soon.
Meanwhile, first-gen Android consoles like the Mojo and Ouya are also being released later this year for $99 with free games, wifi, expandable memory, quad-core processors, and you can even use your own bluetooth controller (oh and you can also play any classic game imaginable thru emulators for nintento, sega, gba, ps1, ps2, and I'm sure xbox and ps3 soon enough). Considering new phones are coming out with 6 and even 8 cores, I wouldnt be surprised if the next version of the mojo has even more processing capability than sony or microsoft. If so, those cheap AMDs and huge xbox licensing fees arent going to look very attractive to devs for long, so Microsoft is betting on securing a lead early on (through the gaming market) to slow down the transition to actual smart TVs... in which they have no real hope of competing against Google since their business model revolves around freemium services and advertising revenue instead of nickle and diming people thru subscriptions and planned obsolescence. End rant.
Everyone is saying how you can't play used games or sell or buy used games? That's appears not the case anymore but there will be an activation fee along with buying a used game so it'll just be more expensive. And for the price, $499 isn't a lot. It's more then the 360 when it was release but that added many things to it, blu-ray, kinect, and just the fact that the console specs are much more powerful then the 360 and that comes with a price. I think it's gonna be worth it though. Plus PS doesn't have halo and I grew up play that game, that's the deal breaker right there.
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And who do you think is running 343? Former bungie employees. Destiny looks pretty awesome though.
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