http://www.techdirt.com/ Easily digestible tech news.... http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c683 Fri, 24 May 2013 23:11:08 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c683 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c660 Fri, 24 May 2013 23:07:18 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c660

Here's the GODDMNED scoop ace...the reason why most of these games on the previous generation were so successful is that people could trade in their games, that they have finished, for others to enjoy. When you take away the ability to do that through a cost prohibitive fee, you are basically killing your own success. Not only does word not spread so quickly about how awesome the game is, but the used game market makes it more affordable to enjoy games.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c635 Fri, 24 May 2013 22:54:04 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c635 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c612 Fri, 24 May 2013 22:47:26 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c612
So what are people not attracted to in a console?

1. Requirement of always online to play single player...Nintedon't
2. Activation fees for games you already paid $60 for...Nintendon't
3. Paying a monthly fee for services only related to the console and your online gameplay...Nintendon't.
4. Does not allow you to play games you owned from the previous generation...Nintendon't

Sony and M$ are currently doing exactly what Nintendon't.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c591 Fri, 24 May 2013 22:33:35 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c591 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c584 Fri, 24 May 2013 22:28:44 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c584
In console gaming, for games...developers develop the game around the specific GPU architecture and thus strictly for what ever GPU is being used The CPU's Architecture is basically designed for the OS.

Case in point, Halo and Halo 2 for XBox were specifically meant for use with nVidia GPU chipsets in mind...you can play both on the XBox 360 no problem. The XBox used an X86 CPU from Intel...The XBox360 uses the IBM PowerPC 950 architecture.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c581 Fri, 24 May 2013 22:22:14 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c581
The XBox One is a very very bad thing because of the 8GB of GDDR3 RAM...which is much slower and far less efficient than the WiiU's use of esRAM...XBox One only reserves 3GB for gaming...that's including software and graphics in that 3GB space...given the average game will likely use 2GB of RAM just to run the software from the hard disk, that's 1GB for graphics. This means that not only is it running off of Graphics RAM technology from roughly 4 or 5 years ago, it's also means that in order to keep the efficiency and smooth gameplay, they have to keep the games natively at 720p .. The left over 5 GB of GDDR3 RAM is strictly for you to run the OS.]]> 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#c215 Fri, 24 May 2013 19:53:26 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c215
It does not help you one bit OOTB that you are as redundant as you accuse Timothy Geigner of being.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c161 Fri, 24 May 2013 19:35:07 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c161 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c143 Fri, 24 May 2013 19:34:11 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c143
You can upgrade your old PS3 with a 1TB SATA 3.0 hard drive for about a tenth of the price...and keep your data after you get a PS4...and you can also hack it to the point of emulating SNES games.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c119 Fri, 24 May 2013 19:29:08 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c119
Not just arrogant and crazy....but very similar to the "updates" to the Windows platform that led to Windows 8...Steve Balmer (please excuse the spelling of that name)is trying to fix what isn't broke. Instead of upgrading the hardware and interface, he chaged the hardware, kept the interface...and kept it incompatible with the previous generation regardless of the fact that the thing still shares the same performance level as the xBox360. Meanwhile over at Nintendo...we still have a system that plays our Wii and VC games...both of which in 1080p mode.... All WiiU games thus far have been natively rendered at 1080p....

As for the second part of your comment....You're right... :-)I don't see Nintendo getting all huffed up about used game sales...do you??]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/16293423122/think-doj-spying-reporters-was-unprecedented-think-again.shtml#c21 Fri, 24 May 2013 19:17:38 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/16293423122/think-doj-spying-reporters-was-unprecedented-think-again.shtml#c21 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c25 Fri, 24 May 2013 19:04:59 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130524/06445123204/xbox-one-release-tons-questions-very-few-answers.shtml#c25 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/03160923172/chinese-hacks-google-database-surveillance-targets-highlight-how-dumb-technology-backdoors-are.shtml#c212 Wed, 22 May 2013 20:00:46 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/03160923172/chinese-hacks-google-database-surveillance-targets-highlight-how-dumb-technology-backdoors-are.shtml#c212 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/03160923172/chinese-hacks-google-database-surveillance-targets-highlight-how-dumb-technology-backdoors-are.shtml#c197 Wed, 22 May 2013 19:58:06 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/03160923172/chinese-hacks-google-database-surveillance-targets-highlight-how-dumb-technology-backdoors-are.shtml#c197
Eric Schmidt was once quoted in basically stating that anyone working for Google has the ability and access to see users' emails without the use of users' passwords, and the reason people working there don't do it is because he'd know about it immediately and their policy is "don't be evil"...I mean seriously how delusional is that?]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090516/0820434902/dailydirt-commencement-speeches.shtml#c60 Wed, 22 May 2013 19:49:39 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090516/0820434902/dailydirt-commencement-speeches.shtml#c60
Spoken like a true Ohioan :-) Bill also carried this philosophy throughout C&H :-)]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/06034223155/quack-professor-releases-dumbest-violent-video-game-theory-ever.shtml#c541 Wed, 22 May 2013 13:20:42 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/06034223155/quack-professor-releases-dumbest-violent-video-game-theory-ever.shtml#c541
The violence stems from the detachment from reality and not knowing between what is real and what is not real. Watching violence doesn't affectively make one violent, but it does make us slightly less prone to sympathizing with victims of violence and abuse if we are exposed to it at an early age.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/18265123163/reporters-find-exposed-personal-data-via-google-threatened-with-cfaa-charges.shtml#c435 Wed, 22 May 2013 13:04:43 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130521/18265123163/reporters-find-exposed-personal-data-via-google-threatened-with-cfaa-charges.shtml#c435

Google apparently no longer uses its spider crawler to help show people the most relevancy possible when they search...Instead they do relevancy in the way most web advertisers do by what and how many things an individual clicks on and move those items up on said individual's search results based on how many times you click a link. They identify you via IP address and hold your search data for up to 9 months. Within the 9 months if you search on Google, they don't delete previous searches at all when the 9 month mark rolls around.

If Google's CEO has the power to internally check any user's e-mails without a password...imagine what these reporters who pointed out the security flaw could have done.]]>