JJ Buggz98,455 (56,471)

Yea. Me too. The only improvements are entertainment and I don't even have cable. Not to mention the 360 games I haven't even played yet. No backwards compatibility is a

Huge mistake in my opinion

There are more reasons to be fair:

1) Early adopters always pay more for the shittiest iteration of the console

2) The first set of games are usually pretty shit (look at launch title 360 games lol)

3) After a few years, it is clear which console has the games which interest me the most.

4) I only bought my xbox360 about 20months ago, VERY late adopter but don't regret that

Same here. Unlike past consoles which were on their last leg when the next gen systems were released, the current generation has a ridiculous amount of game life left.

It'll be a long while before I get the One. Not til prices become a bit more reasonable and they fix the inevitable defects. Red ring of death, anyone?

I don't think ill wait that long for the next console but good chance I won't pick up my console of choice (ps4 at the moment) till early-mid 2014

Bought my wii u day one and regret it, barely use it after the first few weeks.

A first day buy makes no sense anyway. Just the same rule like "never play on patchday" for mmos. If it isn't testet broadly yet, don't even touch it.

tech, it's just remote storage and computing =P

Haha, right you are, but that is the general term we use to describe all forms of it. Whether we are talking about SkyDrive, icloud, or any others.

That and remote storage and co outing is a god damn mouth full lol.

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The seculation is really overwhelming. I really like how the ppl are pulling their hair out because of rumors. Microsoft will not kick themselves out of business.

*speculation

This whole thing has been handled SO poorly. Microsoft may not *intend* to kick themselves out of business, but they sure aren't doing much, if any, damage control over

this whole fiasco. Their E3 conference is going to have to be mind blowing and face numbingly awesome after all of this stumbling.

I think the tomatoes may fly at E3... sorry but I bet not one person in the audience at the reveal is even a gamer... all business people ($).($)

Just give them time, don't you think there is a reason that all these rumors were leaked? I admit I was enraged too, but as I calmed downed, I realized, you don't stay in

business as long as MS without making good choices, I think the rumors were leaked so they could get reactions before they do it.

I understand what you're saying Grimace, and I'd go along with it if the launch were a year and a half out, fall 2014, but the fact of the matter is that if they intend

to launch later this year, there is simply no time to make many changes. In fact, at this point they are probably already manufacturing, or at least getting ready to do

so, which means *no* hardware revisions are coming. I hope it can all be fixed via firmware and software!

All it takes is a simple software update at launch to change everything. Gotta keep the faith.

Wahey free stuff.

I could be the (randomly) chosen one...

egrgarigwrfriefthat's a comment...

No thanks. I don't want it. (but I made a comment, so I could win it MUAHAHA!!)

I have them both, but I know a friend that would like them (I'd have to re-gift it then)

I've yet to play American Nightmare & my GTX275 is begging to be abused.

I'll take them:)

I will ask my GF to randomly choose a name in about 10 hours when she gets home from work lol

Yep, Japanese Office 2013 doesn't come with PowerPoint unless I buy business package. Contacted MS but they said UK/US versions are region locked and won't install.

Business package is ~$600USD here and I refuse to pay that for PowerPoint.

Worse still: on the phone with them now and they confirmed the most insane thing ever...

If my laptop connects to the Internet in another country post-install, it will lock itself. What. The. Fuck?!? Microsoft have lost the plot.

they dun goofed!

Try Google Docs, it has a Powerpoint alternative & its free.

It has loads of alternatives. Heres my BD Checklist that works in Excel: http://tinyurl.com/oue96ve

The one in google drive just isn't flexible enough unfortunately. It's a good stop-gap but MS's version is unfortunately what I need

Is there every a point when any of you are putting your foot down? It's just blind fanboyism to support this at this point, a few games doesn't excuse this.

We don't all live in NA. Some of us already buy games new every time and only have the "pay full price" option. It's what I am already used to...

But that's the thing, the whole argument justifying all of this is because it doesn't affect you. What about the millions that it does affect?

Buying the console supports bad business, even if the used game thing doesn't affect you it affects a substantial amount of gamers regardless.

Affects a load of people who have basically been getting a "free ride" while I have to pay full price (A greater full price than US)? Why should I be bothered by that?

Games are costing more and more to make. If people don't want to help fund them, you are going to create a system where NO originality is encouraged because everyone

needs to go with what works. I would rather Americans and Brits pay full whack and get better games...

Because it affects a lot of people, being poed because your getting jibbed about paying full price is nonsense, having us suffer and being happy about is wrong.

The fee to play a borrowed/used game: $69.99.

That'd be like being happy that you don't have a family, and not giving two shits about finding out that someone's whole family was murdered.

Not really, they pay full price for the games that deserve it. If devs want our money look at games like Skyrim and Red Dead, full priced and hundreds of hours of gp

No edible, it is nothing like that at all and you are being silly.

As opposed to stuff like licensed games and many others that offer nothing new and minimal replayability. Those deserve to be at a reduced price.

I've never seen you banging on the MS doors demanding everyone else gets the same low prices as you. so you can't take the high and mighty on this

It's about cost = amount of playability. Being bitter solves nothing.

I'm worried that all this "monitoring" or whatever can f up my gaming experience. What if the game servers or my internet is down and it can't do the daily check?

Or what if i want to play, say, ME 4 ten years after it's release, but the servers are no longer available?

What i understand all the drm bs didn't work so well with Diablo 3 and the latest Simcity.

Jerk - if is cloud based, servers will always be up (same as steam basically)

At least that is how I read into things... 300,000 servers would suggest EVERYTHING goes cloud based which would be awesome

No more lag, because no more local-hosts with latency issues

Is equality a silly cause? I've never heard you make one valid argument about this being anything worthwhile, outside of false entitlement because you don't get the same

deals as everyone else. And how is wanting fair pricing silly? Should the cost of something equal the quality of it, or am i just a complete moron apparently?

I blame EA for my panicking, they just removed online passes so i'm pretty sure EA games have to be online. Plus all the server closures in the past.

Also the used game thing doesn't just affect places like gamestop and second hand stores, it also affects borrowing from a friend.

Ever wanted to borrow a game from a friend or knew someone who couldn't afford to buy a full priced game. Shit out of luck.

Take a step back and look at what you are writing... why does equality work only when it is in your favour? Second hand games affect companies who develop games, there

is zero dispute on that fact - developers and publishers get nothing from used game sales. It means that Tomb Raider can sell 4 million copies and still be a "failure"

as they are not making the returns based on the development costs.

It's not about equality being in my favor it's about it being as equal as possible, and i what was that remark about paying full price because you have to.

I'm aware of quite a few used game shops in japan if i'm not mistaken.... Of course it affects game companies but it affects the consumer even more.

So your saying a billion dollar corporation is more important then the consumer. I know a least a dozen people who only buy used because they can't afford full price.

Are you saying there shit out of luck? That's wrong, games need to be competitively priced at a rate that is both fair to the consumer and to the publisher/developer.

If a game is marketed properly and provides a good amount of content for the price gamers will buy it, there are failures but that's just the nature of the business.

Blocking used games are having a fee attached is wrong, even if they eliminate used games piracy will run rampant. That's the real problem.

That's what you're missing - this will smash piracy. If you've gotta connect periodically, your xbox will be blocked quickly if flashed.

Not really, piracy has been a thing for years. You say that now but hackers will figure it out, give them the benefit of the doubt.

Not to mention like i stated earlier it screws a lot of deserving gamers of games they may want to purchase but can't for financial reasons.

While I agree it is shit, that still isn't a good enough reason to ignore the fact games companies are losing money because of gamefly and gamestop etc.

THQ going bankrupt is a worrying sign.

But if this does happen gamefly and gamestop might go out of business, and even smaller used game stores would too.

Stupid ethical dilemmas! :/

Although to be fair i'd much rather EA or Activision go out of business then Gamefly or Gamestop...

I don't think the X-Bone looks that bad tbh... If its under my tv, it's not something I'm going to notice...

TV! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbWgUO-Rqcw

If Sony won't do something terribly wrong, they might get way bigger market share than MS would want to allow for the upcoming gen.

Game companies should earn my $$$... Not try and force me into spending what they want

This is just ridiculous. Is there anything new in that article? Everything I've seen has said yes to fees, but no details so speculation is wild. Microsoft's ambiguity is

making this worse for themselves. Can you link the Kotaku article? Days like this, it's a shitstorm of blurbs coming out, don't wanna wade through it all >__<

http://kotaku.com/you-will-be-able-to-trade-xbox-one-games-online-micros-509140825

Just read that article, it's such bullshit! I have 7 consoles and 4 people playing any given title, on any given console, at any given time. So now what?

..so, I'd be forced to activate the game on a silver account, just so whom ever wanted to play it, could do so, anywhere in my own house?! Ridiculous!

This is bull, so they are trying to put gamestop and gamefly out of business basically. "I can lend my friend a game, if they buy it"? what kind of crap is that?

If MS doesn't fix that shit, I am done. I but a lot of new games, but I buy a lot of used as well. Not to mention I have friends who have to game on a budget, which means

I won't have friends to play with anymore, also means my kids won't be able to play unless they use my Xbox, what is the point of having multiple boxes anymore?

Well, they said there will be a ay to trade them in, but GameFly will lose big on this.

I think this move is less about used games, and more about how gamefly has hurt the business. If you think about gamefly makes the used and new sector hurt pretty bad.

Will need to be for games; DVD size is just too small for uncompressed textures.

You make a fine point.

Anything below 2TB should have to be considered ridiculous for a blue-ray console. Hopefully 500GB is the new "arcade version"

Yeah that shit will fill up quick. It's gonna be like my current 60GB drive, you can have like 2 or 3 games installed in addition to all the arcade games lol

I remember the 360 starting with a 20GB hard drive on release for the premium edition. I'm sure they'll come with bigger sizes at much higher prices

Confirmed: Any external HDD will work via the USB3.0 connections

Won't that be a bottleneck? I don't remember the exact specs of USB3.0 though.

Although last I checked even a 1 tv external drive will run you almost a 100$....

tb sorry

I'd hate to have to have my pulse rate over 150 for 100 cumulative in-game hours just to get a 5GS achievement. Maybe if it was worth 50 points or something...

Gears of War: Fitness Kinect - Seriously 5.0

Are there any prices yet?

nothing official probably 399 US at the cheapest....

The new Xbox may not even be released in Japan.

Myrtille - seriously? I know you'll possibly have inside info on this by that is absolute BS if true.

Yeah, I mean all that stuff was cool, but it wasn't anything the gamers wanted to know. Hopefully E3 will provide more answers.

I don't know about Kinect required, but the new Kinect is now a standard piece of the package.

500Gig hdd and Kinect bundled with all systems I thought they said.

Apparently no always on confirmed on twitter.

...awww, c'mon now.... It's got a new Call of Duty. The best one ever

I feel your pain. Ugh. That was incredibly underwhelming. Microsoft is definitely following through with their Living Room Manifest Destiny philosophy they started with

the original Xbox, though. Hopefully E3 will reveal what we really want to know, but considering how much info they withheld I'm worried the news isn't great...

They did say 500Gig HDD, and Kinect is bundled. But where are the games? As disappointing as I expected. But at least you get another Forza, Ham. :D

could be neat but i'm not buying the new xbox just because of that.

Quantum Break looks like it could be cool.... Alan Wake + Fringe??

It'll be xbox video exclusive probably... same thing would cost you about 200 to watch every episode of Buffy

200*

FFS, Pounds... doesnt like the damn symbol.

Btw, "The Signal" no deaths achievement was easy... You had me worried Shimmering lol!

I guess its because I left it so damn long since finishing the game.... I always die in the boiler room.

Alan Wake was good, loved Fringe. Quantum Break HAS to be good

Featuring Alan Bishop!

Quantum your gonn be pissed after 5 minutes lol

We could play a game of 'Xbox bullshit bingo', featuring terms such as 'Kinect', 'innovative', 'exciting', 'revolutionary', 'backwards compatible', 'online only', etc. :D

A return to cartridges. You heard it here first.

Don't be silly Poopster, clearly cassette tapes a'la C64 are the future!

DRM protected, online only cassettes!

Yep, you need to leave your xbox connected for the 2hours required to load the games. And you're not allowed to leave the room during loading as Kinect will be watching!!

In other rumour news, there will be x-rated achievements linked to kinect catching you shaking hands with the one-eyed monster.

10 gs: Monkey Spanked. Masturbate for a combined 100 hours

5 gs: Epic Circle Jerk. Masturbate with full 8 player Xbox Live party.

2 girls 1 kinect?

You guys should stop giving the MS development department the wrong ideas.

http://postimg.org/image/4s917sykz/ I hope this works. :P XBox reveal bullshit bingo!

Haha, you used my 2 girls 1 kinect idea:-D

Well there is a streaming porn service coming (pun totally intended).

I'm glad I wasn't drinking. If I'd have drank every time they said "Kinected", I'd be too shitfaced to leave a comment. :D

Sometimes, I miss the simple joy of our old Commodore 64...although we only had the cassette deck with our VIC20. I suddenly feel older than I should...

Kinect: Let's Fap predicted to have the lowest ever TA ratio. Don't forget those handy screen wipes.