@Figments @ICE_PREDATOR None of those require "always on". And what is this "being to to continue trading in and purchasing used games"? lmao. That's something made harder by always on.
@Vegamyster He says they aren't doing anything DRM wise to inhibit the used game market. Or give publishers the ability to do so. All that means is you can sell/trade your game like before. There is absolutely DRM on the system though. Just like Wii and Gamecube. Having to have the original disk in the drive so it can verify its a purchased game is DRM.
@Vegamyster @Ashmodai69 The Wii U most certainly has DRM. Maybe you meant online check (no that isn't the same thing. DRM is copy protection, and the Wii has it).
@houshidar @cryofax @BelaidKL There are some amazing PC exclusives too, like Starcraft 2, STALKER, Deus Ex, System Shock 2. Yeah some of those are older, but PC has eternal backwards compatibility. Hell I played some Star Trek 25th Anniversary the other day. Was a blast heh.
@Gamerhomer Yeah he probably was speaking a bit symbolically. I took his statement quite literally though. For sure console stuff will look even better than it does now once they get in the groove of programming for them in a couple years.
@BelaidKL I like consoles too. Just saying it's not hard to imagine what games will look like on them in two years. On a side note, it doesn't cost a fortune to update your PC. There's a little more initial outlay (less than you might think though) and it'll run everything for many years. You CAN spend a couple hundred bucks every couple years to update this or that (GPU, memory, hard drive) but honestly it isn't a fortune, and it's not required at all. I have several PCs and ones I haven't updated since the last console launch still run everything fine.
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