http://www.techdirt.com/ Easily digestible tech news.... http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c461 Fri, 24 May 2013 20:45:46 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c461 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c460 Fri, 24 May 2013 20:45:46 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c460 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/12283223188/petition-asks-obama-to-support-treaty-blind-rather-than-siding-with-hollywood.shtml#c211 Fri, 24 May 2013 20:41:01 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/12283223188/petition-asks-obama-to-support-treaty-blind-rather-than-siding-with-hollywood.shtml#c211
http://www.mpaa.org/about/contact

Why not contact them and ask them why they hate blind people so much?]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c436 Fri, 24 May 2013 20:39:45 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c436
if you do choose to buy it you have chosen to buy it under their terms of sale, like everything you buy.

They have every right to manufacture and sell whatever they feel will make the most profit, and sell lots of units.

They are not putting products on the market to cater for pirates or people "lending games", if they want to sell products that do not support old games, that is their right, but at least it exists and if you want to use what you get, then buy it, if you don't, don't buy it.

But bitching about it being "not exactly what you want it to be" is just puerile blather.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c413 Fri, 24 May 2013 20:34:29 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c413
PC gaming is where im headed]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c391 Fri, 24 May 2013 20:33:14 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c391 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c380 Fri, 24 May 2013 20:30:58 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c380 "Aren't we constantly told that uncertainty is four letter word in economics and business?"

yes, that is quite stupid, when you consider that uncertainty is the DRIVING FORCE for the economy and business.

But Tim thinks he can give advice to the most successful software company mankind has ever seen, it's not perfect but I am sure they know a lot more about business and markets that Tim will EVER know.

It's really simple, if you don't like their products or the company DONT BUY THEIR PRODUCTS !!!!

Clear many people do like them, and happily purchase their products and services.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c375 Fri, 24 May 2013 20:27:29 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c375
Do yourself a favor, start buying up used consoles and games at yard sales (this is what I do), that way you'll forever be able to play the retro games you loved, and tell these companies to fuck off when they release newer, more restrictive consoles and games every generation.

I invest in "new" used games every month or so for a few dollars and it keeps my kids satisfied.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c357 Fri, 24 May 2013 20:27:26 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c357
(If it's displaying different for you, both of our names are showing up as 'Nick' and it even highlighted your post as one I wrote.)]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c350 Fri, 24 May 2013 20:18:14 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c350
The switch to AMD from Nvidia GPU had little to do with compatibility - it was the switch from a PowerPC CPU to x86-64 that really causes the problem here.

Not to mention, performance will be substantially better, both CPU and GPU - you clearly don't understand how it works. It will be almost on part with PS4, which also uses AMD APU, but with a slightly better graphics processor and faster GDDR5 RAM - but the XBox One employs a larger cache, along with cheaper DDR3 RAM giving it a different set of advantages over the PS4. Ultimately, they should be very equal machines with the same underlying architecture.

XBox 360 will be a POS by comparison...]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c342 Fri, 24 May 2013 20:17:27 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c342 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c325 Fri, 24 May 2013 20:15:51 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c325
I mean, think about the generation after the next one when they sort out all their online woes, will they decide that used game sales need to be hammered into the dirt as well?]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c288 Fri, 24 May 2013 20:13:52 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c288
Here's all you need to know

-It will spy on you
-You won't be able to make it stop
-You won't be able to play used games
-You won't be able to lend games out
-You won't be able to disconnect it from the internet for too long
-You won't be able to swap internal hard drives
-You won't be able to play 360 games

But ignore all that, Look at the monkey! Look at the silly monkey!

PS:TELEVISION TELEVISION TELEVISION THIS IS THE ULTIMATE ADVANCEMENT IN TELEVISION TELEVISION IT CAN CHANGE CHANNELS AND WATCH SPORTS ON THIS TELEVISION THAT YOU NEED A TELEVISION TO USE THINK OF ALL THE TELEVISION AND AMERICAN HAND-EGG YOU CAN WATCH FOOBAWWWWWWWWW]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/16293423122/think-doj-spying-reporters-was-unprecedented-think-again.shtml#c31 Fri, 24 May 2013 20:12:23 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/16293423122/think-doj-spying-reporters-was-unprecedented-think-again.shtml#c31 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c278 Fri, 24 May 2013 20:12:10 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c278
That being said, Microsoft totally sold me a PS4 with that mess of a reveal.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c262 Fri, 24 May 2013 20:12:10 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c262
That being said, Microsoft totally sold me a PS4 with that mess of a reveal.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c254 Fri, 24 May 2013 20:02:46 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c254
They are bowing to the publishers who - for the last 20 years - only in the last 3 years suddenly find used game sales an unsustainable business. How about, if you make a game that is worth keeping for more than the 5 hours you make the game last, people will KEEP the game longer than 5 hours? Instead, they are trying their damndest to kill the used game market like they did in the PC market (RIP used PC games).

Then the non-upgradable hard drive, which was a feature the freaking PS2 had. It'd be a SHAME if people didn't buy your arbitrarily overpriced "official" high speed add-on USB drives, wouldn't it? Just like with the 360, which you stupidly decided to make as a baseline have NO hard-drive, so developers had to develop expecting one not to be installed.

And now we have the Kinect. An always-on, always watching and listening camera and microphone with the same company which has patents for figuring out the number of people in a room and charging an account based on the number of viewers. It can't possibly go bad. Must make it mandatory. Nobody could possibly NOT want to participate in motion controls or voice activation, huh.

And while we're at it, why are we so insistent on so much control over the devices WE purchase? Why do you insist on having the product phone home every damned day? You are treating every customer as if they are a dirty pirate in order to stop the 1% who actually are (console security was pretty good last generation, most didn't bother), and it won't even stop them! Instead, since the infrastructure in our country is still a joke, what with near monopolies in many cities, it is possible to not have internet. What's worse, you can not have internet after having NOT turned on your console on for 3 days. Maybe you just got back from vacation. Turn it on, no internet. Well, since you didn't phone home for 2 days, you must be a DIRTY PIRATE, NO VIDEO GAMES FOR YOU!

Console about to check in, and you disconnect it to take to your brother's LAN party across town? Don't bother to hook it up to his internet, just LANing them together is hard enough? well TOUGH YOU DIRTY PIRATE! NO HALO FOR YOU! DON'T YOU KNOW THAT SUDDENLY HAVING TO NEED MORE PORTS ON A ROUTER IS PROOF THAT YOU ARE A PIRATE?

*sighs* And the sad part about all of this? Is that my mother is actually interested in this. All she heard was a local news channel report about it talking about the cool gestures and hand waving about controlling your TV and cable box. Which I guess is EXACTLY who Microsoft cares about now. Not us gamers, but our mothers and fathers.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c251 Fri, 24 May 2013 19:57:54 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c251 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c232 Fri, 24 May 2013 19:56:56 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c232 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c227 Fri, 24 May 2013 19:56:44 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c227 I've got nearly every system from Pong to Wii, but I'm done now. I will never run out of games to play though!]]>