Remember this day everyone, this is not Sony fans fighting with Microsoft fans, this is gamers standing against a very greedy disease going through the industry .
@BelaidKL @6orange6 agreed, the next 2 months are going to be interesting. We need to see just how much of the dev kits restrictions make it into the final product.
6 thousand comments, 99.99% negative towards microsofts new business strategy, I sure hope senior people there are finally taking notice of public mood toward DRM, locked on connections and the fact that what passes for Internet at Redmond is not what passes for the Internet globally. The thing to bear in mind here is, for this console to be out at Christmas, the components are already being produced prior to final assembly. Right now I have real money says some MS hardware engineers are trying to figure out how to backtrack on the company's vision from 3 months ago.
@bmart970 well if they are, the iPad gets even more gaming customers. If you want to stop second hand sales, dont charge $70 a for the title. Try 70 pennies, like Apple and Android.
what you and the makers of games like Sim City fail to appreciate, is the difference between everything being connected to the internet, and everything being connected to the same *part* of the internet. It is setting up a DDOS of your own making. Heed the warnings from these past few months.
If you are cash strapped enough to ram ads down paying customers throats, are you truly going to invest in enough servers to offset the pain you may well inflict on gamers?
You are also denying your customers choice, to choose to game if their connection breaks, unlike your arch rivals Apple, who's always online iPad, which incidentally is destroying you in tech sales, happily lets you use the device if your connection goes away.
Your insulting comments about people who do not live in the leafy suburbs of Seattle and SF are not going to give your career any long term prospects either,
if you take his comments and replace the words 360 with xbox, and ps4 with ps3, he could have been talking about 2005. In 2005 all of the above was on the nail. But in 2013, the soaking of consumers for cash at every opportunity is taking centre stage in buying decisions, and this guy hasn't even got that glaring fact on his radar.
@raven449 no, the most important point in the article is this........
"when you think about Windows, even Windows for most people is tied to about 2GB of addressable memory space. This really opens up beyond what most PCs can do, because most PCs are running a 32-bit version of Windows."
What he is saying is there is still an insane amount of PC games being released that use chunks of legacy 32 bit code to get things done, and in doing so, the whole game is stuck being only able to address 2gb of ram. The PS4 can access 8gb. To match that, new PC games will need 100% pure 64 bit code, and not many have, despite what PC gamers say.
oh let's take a wild guess as to the delay shall we?
They make an online only console that cant play used games. As it is online only, MS will take more notice of the online community than any other, that is their projected customer base. Online community hates every leaked detail about the console. MS reads the feedback and scrambles about like headless chickens to change key elements before the reveal.
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