Where poor old John is wrong is future tech only becomes "accepted" by consumers when it is delivered in a intuitive and well thought out manner. Technology riddled with restrictive DRM is not the way forward. People are right to reject poorly formulated licensing policies for software.
Carmack mentions iTunes, Amazon and Steam and yet none of those marketplaces is as restrictive and authoritarian on DRM as what the Xbox One was shaping up to be. If Xbox were serious about pushing the digital delivery route they should have presented a better system from day one.
Do I need to be connected to the internet 1 x per 24hrs to validate my iTunes or Steam digital purchases? No. So John... you're full of it. We'll accept fully digital as soon as Microsoft grows some balls and devises a less publisher focused system.
Validating devices themselves or validating software 1 x week online would have been easier to accept. Microsoft only have themselves to blame.
@deadpeasant Only when Google, Activision, Samsung, Microsoft, McDonalds, Twitter and Facebook join the party can you claim true unification of Satan's armies. Get it right.
@theend3r @damo320 That made zero sense. If you were talking about pollution or some important life concern yeah sure. But this is a geek pastime and you're trying to elevate its importance to justify your "need" to tell everyone Apple is overpriced and limited while tapping your "oh so clever" head. Get a life.
@theend3r Simple solution. Stop caring about crap that doesn't matter to you. How does what someone else does with their money effect you? Get a job as a cell phone salesman if you want to change the world one phone sale at a time.
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