As a proactive, helpful citizen, I will accept the incredible, overwhelming burden of collecting all their games from them and ensuring they return to a place where no-one else (except me) will ever see them again. @___@
@charlyk88 Usually when things evolve, they get better. The Kinect has done absolutely zero to improve gaming on the Xbox 360, or to even provide a decent gaming experience that is not riddled with annoyances or inconsistencies.
@Kinguard73 Why must something always fall to the wayside in order for something else to succeed? You can have to successful things in existence at the same time you know, just in case you were wondering.
Also, consoles will not be able to replace PC's for many years to come, mostly because some jobs and utilities require the high-end processing power of a PC to run, something that consoles would not be able to match without becoming economically nonviable respective to their original target market. Believe me, if it was practical enough to use consoles as pseudo-PC's, it would have been done already, but that is not the case.
Lastly, I can understand that the ads on xbox live don't bother you and that they are easy enough to simply ignore, but I think what gets people is that they have to pay for a service that is already paying for itself through funding from advertising and thus, payment should be unnecessary. This sentiment is further amplified by the fact that the same services that Xbox users have to pay for are offered to other gamers for free on other platforms. To put it simply, microsoft, through the use of advertising on Xbox Live, has lost all excuses for charging their clients for their online service.
I don't know, lately it just feels like Microsoft has grown into the habit of shooting themselves in the foot with a rocket launcher. I've already noticed a big trend on sites and forums where people are supporting them less and less and where even so-called Xbox 360 "fanboys" are starting to question their decisions. They aren't creating a good image for themselves at this point and I have a feeling that unless they start making changes soon, these decisions now may adversely affect the popularity and performance of their next console going into the future.
It's so bad that even going through the comments below, I don't see a single commenter bothering to defend Microsoft (at most, saying they don't care). If your own fanboys aren't even defending you, then you know you have a serious problem.
Remember how people used to always go on about how PC gaming was dying? Well, it's still here to this day and I expect no less resilience from consoles.
"Biden will reportedly meet with representatives of both the entertainment and video game industries to specifically investigate the role of violent media--including films and video games--in mass shootings."
I actually don't mind this sentiment. If their goal is to research the role games play in violent shootings, chances are the findings of such research would disprove that violent games contribute to real world violence. It may finally get people to abandon that ship once and for all, so rather than seeing it as a bad thing, I say let them investigate so that they can finally get the RIGHT answers rather than just basing statements about video games leading to violence on nothing more than assumptions.
I'm not sure why anyone would be against it, unless they're worried that the answers found are not to their liking after all.
@JustArtificial Nvidia Grid is a separate announcement to their console (project shield) and does not in any way indicate how powerful the console is, just in case you or anyone else is confused.
I think the way this article is presented may be somewhat confusing to some readers. I think the "Nvidia Grid" part was a separate announcement to the console entirely. At least, that's how I am reading "the company also announced", which suggests that it is wholly unrelated to the console.
Some readers seem to think that the grid will be part of the console though, judging by comments.
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