MABB v6.6.6

that was actually kind of entertaining to watch.





but seriously. just buy a fucking gaming computer.



I'll never understand the love people give for consoles.

found this earlier and it sums up everything



"Console war has changed. It's no longer about platforms, titles, or genres. It's an endless series of proxy battles fought with DRM and profile control. Console war - and its consumption of money - has become a well-oiled machine. Console war has changed. ID-tagged consoles run ID-tagged software, use ID-tagged accounts. DRM inside their software enhance and regulate their abilities. Streaming control. Information control. Connection control. Battlefield control. Everything is monitored and kept under control. Console war has changed. The age of piracy has become the age of control...All in the name of averting catastrophe from secondhand sales and piracy. And he who controls the console...controls purchases. Console war has changed. When the games are under total control...gaming becomes routine."



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consoles are great for a lot of reasons i won't get into, but holy fuck at xbone



microsoft have totally lost the plot



i watched the reveal live and i am going to link this video because it is actually a faithful recap of the entire hour



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all I can say is if ever there was a time for sony to corner the market with their next console - this would be it.



I'm not a console fan at all but jesus after watching that and reading up on this a little bit - anybody that buys the new xbox is a damn fool and should be mocked.



the always on camera/mic creeps me the fuck out....

yeah, MS is basically handing the entire generation to sony on a silver platter. hopefully they recognize the opening and actually seize it, but i can't yet rule out the possibility that they're also going to go down a lot of similar roads in terms of eliminating resale rights and online DRM.



in related news, gamestop's share price got hammered after the announcement, and started to drop again today after reports began to circulate that microsoft will be capturing almost all of the profits on xbone resales done through retailers. i'm loving this shit, this is by far the most entertaining console reveal/fallout ever

pc gaming is great if you can afford to build a gaming pc, but fuck steam

xbone

fuck steam? fuck you!

ey fuck you too, pal!



back on topic: the hilarity refuses to cease!



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fucking achievements for watching tv

...wow

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fucking achievements for watching tv [/quote]



fucking

LOL

I'm a PC gaming fanboy, but I see no reason whatsoever that people need to be mutually exclusive to either side.



gaming in general

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fucking achievements for watching tv [/quote]



fucking [/quote]

You've got to be fucking kidding me.

i wish there were a good centralized roundup of all the blunders microsoft have been making over the last month. and it just doesn't stop! every singe day since E3 some exec or another is talking to the press saying something dumb and alienating. i'm pretty convinced that this is the worst debut for a platform ever, eclipsing even sony's own disastrous E3 in 2006, or the saturn's surprise launch way back in '95.

:singe:



It's a lot like Romney's campaign and most of the GOP during -- just one misspeaking and screw up after another.

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Call it the Xbox 180.



Microsoft confirmed on Wednesday that it will be removing the requirement that the Xbox One, the computer maker's first gaming console in 8 years, must be connected to the Internet once per day after a tremendous uproar from gamers who claimed this and other restrictions on how used games would be shared and sold were unfair.



The "always-on" requirement drew the ire of gamers everywhere earlier this month when Microsoft announced how the new console would work at an event in Los Angeles. At the time, Microsoft also said that Xbox One, going on sale this fall, would restrict how used games were loaned and resold and not be region-free, meaning games bought in one country may not work on systems in another. The announcement managed to temporarily crash the Xbox website.



"Since unveiling our plans for Xbox One, my team and I have heard directly from many of you, read your comments and listened to your feedback," wrote Don Mattrick, president of Microsoft's Interactive Entertainment Business in a post titled "Your Feedback Matters - Update On Xbox One". "So, today I am announcing the following changes to Xbox One and how you can play, share, lend, and resell your games exactly as you do today on Xbox 360."



In the post, Microsoft confirmed that the once-a-day Internet connection requirement will be dropped, meaning all games will work without connectivity after an initial setup. This will surely be welcome news to many gamers who have poor Internet, no Internet at all or frequently travel. One such group was members of the armed forces, with naval aviator Jay Johnson writing in the Army Times that the Xbox One was a "a sin against all service members," who often don't have good Internet connectivity overseas.



While Microsoft had originally laid down an ambiguous framework for used games -- they could only be shared with month-long Xbox friends and only resold or bought at "participating retailers" -- the company backtracked on this issue, too. Microsoft's update plainly states: "There will be no limitations to using and sharing games, it will work just as it does today on Xbox 360."



The stunning about-face by Microsoft will have many gamers who left the system for dead -- including recent Xbox defectors -- rethinking things. During Sony's E3 press event for the PlayStation 4, the announcement that gamers could share used games and play the system without connecting to the Internet were huge selling points that separated the system from the searing criticism of Xbox One's rigid functionality. Earlier this week an Amazon poll asking gamers console preference saw the PlayStation 4 trouncing the Xbox One by nearly 20,000 votes before being taken down.



Since the disastrous fallout from their E3 presser, Microsoft executives spent weeks defending the Xbox One. "We're trying to do something pretty big in terms of moving the industry forward for console gaming into the digital world," Microsoft Xbox Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer Yusuf Mehdi told CNN. "We believe the digital world is the future, and we believe digital is better."



The Xbox One will be available in November for $499.

fuck them in general

[quote name="Skinoperable"]still not buying one[/quote]

i think this is pure bullshit.



there seems to be a lot of speculation about why they've decided to do this. some are saying that it was a marketing strategy the entire time so they could be like "look how well we listen and how much we appreciate our customers opinions!". and others say it was their stocks that made them change (see the ps3 vs xbox one poll on amazon).



but the simple fact they started the xbox one off with all this bullshit shows how out of touch they are. also, think of the programmers that are going to be forced to undo all these changes, it's probably going to be rushed.



again, fuck them.

why is this important

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