http://www.techdirt.com/ Easily digestible tech news.... http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c2835 Sat, 25 May 2013 13:56:00 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c2835 I have a PS3, a 360, a pretty decent laptop and an Android. I play games on all of them.

I watced the release of XBone on my 360.
I am disgusted by the way Microsoft has seemingly tossed aside hardcore gamers to cater to an unknown demographic! hardcore gamer with a family, I don't watch much tv. I work, take care of my wife and kids, and after everyone is in bed, play multiplayer on Halo 4 or something else. I don't buynew games very often
because I have kids and $60.00 is alot to shell ofut for a plastic disk.
I am incensed at Microsoft's lack of disregard for the gaming community in whole by making the console as gamer infriendly as possible. Hardcore gamers could care less if they can switch between live tv, movie, to game and back again by voice command! They buy the console to play games! And until they make hand and body movement recognition lag free I don't think well be seeing any hardcore FPS, RPG, or sports titles sold that don't need a controller. This new console...(spit) isn't a console! It's a blu-ray player that allows you to switch to live tv while surfing the internet and takking to buddies on Skype ... that spies on you.
Don't we already have something like that?
Oh yeah! ... the PC!!!
Oh, but this one will do it 24/7 because it's always on!
Oh, sorry, I forgot... it'll play XB one games (which prices will be higher on because the software store you go to will have to cover the fees that Microsoft charges them for selling used games that they take in on trade from savvy consumers who don't want to pay full price.)
In the end, the one who gets hurt the most from corporate stupidity, is the corporation itself. Microsoft will lose a lot of customers if they follow through with this plan. And Sony would do well to pay attention to the bad hype that Xbox One is getting already and modify their plan accordingly for the PS4.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c2767 Sat, 25 May 2013 13:05:45 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c2767 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/00412423167/fair-use-me-not-thee.shtml#c325 Sat, 25 May 2013 13:04:34 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/00412423167/fair-use-me-not-thee.shtml#c325
An improper notice is one that DOES meet the formal form of words but where the party sending it perjures himself because he/she doesn't own the rights in question or the usage is not infringing.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c2763 Sat, 25 May 2013 13:01:25 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c2763
When I initially hooked up my SNES to the HDTV via s-video, it seemed a bit pixilated and blury compared to having it on a CRT so using a heavier gaming PC for the complex Algorithms (and due to ventilation purposes) involved in scaling the SNES image on an emulator.....it is easier to just use a standard desktop...or a Hacked PS3.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c2723 Sat, 25 May 2013 12:37:24 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c2723
http://i.imgur.com/jWxi3RY.jpg]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/17494123208/awesome-stuff-dealers-choice.shtml#c79 Sat, 25 May 2013 12:24:29 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/17494123208/awesome-stuff-dealers-choice.shtml#c79 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c2535 Sat, 25 May 2013 12:00:53 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c2535 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/17494123208/awesome-stuff-dealers-choice.shtml#c62 Sat, 25 May 2013 11:33:33 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/17494123208/awesome-stuff-dealers-choice.shtml#c62 only kind of poker anyone wants to play these days? I mean, it's a fun set of rules in some ways, and I get why it's the game of choice if you're a serious gambler/competitor... but it used to be that when friends were just playing poker for fun, they would mix it up a bit -- play some draw hands, some stud hands, throw in a house rule here and there, etc. Not to mention other card games. But now it just seems like everyone wants to pretend they are in the poker world series every time.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130513/01431623057/appeal-over-former-riaa-lobbyist-judge-allowing-prenda-to-get-info-over-1000-john-does-moves-forward.shtml#c566 Sat, 25 May 2013 11:24:08 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130513/01431623057/appeal-over-former-riaa-lobbyist-judge-allowing-prenda-to-get-info-over-1000-john-does-moves-forward.shtml#c566 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/16402423161/first-hand-account-judicial-smackdown-prenda-minnesota.shtml#c1654 Sat, 25 May 2013 11:08:36 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/16402423161/first-hand-account-judicial-smackdown-prenda-minnesota.shtml#c1654 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130318/17590622369/indie-film-distributor-spends-half-her-profits-sending-dmca-takedowns-is-it-worth-it.shtml#c2466 Sat, 25 May 2013 10:39:33 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130318/17590622369/indie-film-distributor-spends-half-her-profits-sending-dmca-takedowns-is-it-worth-it.shtml#c2466 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/17494123208/awesome-stuff-dealers-choice.shtml#c37 Sat, 25 May 2013 10:39:05 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/17494123208/awesome-stuff-dealers-choice.shtml#c37 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110311/01465413450/dailydirt-diy-soda-pop-whatever-you-call-carbonated-beverages.shtml#c119 Sat, 25 May 2013 10:34:27 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110311/01465413450/dailydirt-diy-soda-pop-whatever-you-call-carbonated-beverages.shtml#c119 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/12283223188/petition-asks-obama-to-support-treaty-blind-rather-than-siding-with-hollywood.shtml#c268 Sat, 25 May 2013 10:33:23 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/12283223188/petition-asks-obama-to-support-treaty-blind-rather-than-siding-with-hollywood.shtml#c268
Its easy to signup and sign. Follow the link to the White House.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/00583723201/if-you-thought-copyright-was-mess-earth-what-does-it-look-like-space.shtml#c333 Sat, 25 May 2013 10:30:07 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/00583723201/if-you-thought-copyright-was-mess-earth-what-does-it-look-like-space.shtml#c333
Big Brother is not the government, it's the Borg of the corporate legal industry. And the Thought Police don't care about political dissidence, only whether you have paid the proper license fee for those thoughts.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/17494123208/awesome-stuff-dealers-choice.shtml#c23 Sat, 25 May 2013 10:05:35 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/17494123208/awesome-stuff-dealers-choice.shtml#c23 tournament in a casino before. He'd played cash games at Tunica according to the Grantland piece.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c2268 Sat, 25 May 2013 09:53:25 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c2268 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c2219 Sat, 25 May 2013 09:43:45 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c2219
It's what GeoHot got in trouble for: He shared the method he used to put Other OS functionality back in the PS3 and Sony came down on him because they're a bunch of pricks. I'm amazed no one sued Sony for patching out advertised functionality of their system.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c2159 Sat, 25 May 2013 09:39:37 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c2159 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c2107 Sat, 25 May 2013 09:17:46 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c2107