If true, Microsoft wouldn't be doing this on their own, this has to be coming from third parties as well, which means Sony too
Gemüsepizza;47373517 said:...and like I already said, the platform where, in order to experience nextgen graphics, you have to buy a PC which costs at least 2x times of what those new consoles will cost.
Forgive me for my ignorance, but how does one go about selling one's digital games?
No second hand games?
Disgusting if true.
fuck dat.
I'll laugh if Sony does the same...
Then cry.
Key advantage for PC / Steam, along with no charge for online services and gifting. I'm spending my console money on PC upgrades until the dust settles on this one, lets see how the experience pans out over the next year.Because PC games are twice as cheap as console games. For start.
Key advantage for PC / Steam, along with no charge for online services and gifting. I'm spending my console money on PC upgrades until the dust settles on this one, lets see how the experience pans out over the next year.
And if you think Sony aren't going down this route you're sadly mistaken......
most of you can't see the forest for the trees. it's fine to protest, but declaring that people wouldn't buy a console like this seems very short sighted. and the always online thing is already everywhere. when you play a game or open numerous apps on your iPhone, for example, it connects to the internet for a moment to retrieve your information. there's no disconnecting or any other hassle. and remember WiiConnect24 or whatever it was called? that didn't seem to bother anyone.
Sounds reasonable.Ha ha ha, imagine if through the Xbox store for movies and video, that Kinect always on and reporting can see 2 people sitting on the couch waiting for Transformers 8 to begin.
"TWO ADMISSIONS REQUIRED".
well said my friendG R O A N. *roll eyes*
I'm sick of this attitude. Why do game devs think they're God sent and second-hand free? I buy a car, I can resell it, I buy a house, I can resell it, I buy [insert anything], I can resell it. But not ga mes? WTF? First sale doctrine applies here my friend, whether you like it or not. And if European Commission is right, resale of digital games is on it's way, too.
So call Gamestop and other folks who live off your work by selling $55 used games next to $60 new in the first week of sale and stop trying to screw the consumer over.
Oh, and I don't even buy second hand games but I fully support the option.
I wonder if the unique realities of the Japanese market would be enough to make them think twice about something like this. Especially because preventing used sales would disproportionately affect the kind of audience who buys a Sony console; they're the kind to buy a game day one and sell it back a few days later.
Yeah: PC gaming is vile as well. Awful. SICKENING.
I say this as somebody in the industry who gives a shit about his livelihood and future ability to work on games: I'm fine with this.
I know the title is in the article I just think that its ludicrous that online would be required every second. my Internet is decent but I still get dropped from Live pretty frequently. I'm just wondering if the author incorrectly assumed "requires Internet to function" (could be to activate games, etc. Like Steam) to mean constantly online.
The levels of security that will be implemented in the next gen consoles will eclipse last gen protections by a huge factor... "Hacking" them to play current games will likely be so expensive and so difficult that very, very few people - if any at all - will be able to or bother... They can't practically crack the Vita or 3DS yet, and the next gen consoles will be far more secure than either of those systems.And you think that pirates won't find a way to get around it with simulating an online connection and find a way to unlock the games? if these are the measures they're taking for fighting the piracy good luck with it, they're gonna need it.
Yeah because Nintendo did it too right?
Yeah because Nintendo did it too right?
Where is Nintendo's third party support for 2013?
I think I'm going PC only next-generation.
That.... sounds so irrelevant and was not even needed to be put in.Next Xbox games will be manufactured on 50GB-capacity Blu-ray discs, Microsoft having conceded defeat to Sony following its ill-fated backing of the HD-DVD format.
I'm very very curious about the API thing.
How abstract are they? More than 360?
It could point at some interesting scenarios down the line that they're keeping the door open to.
LOL what.there's possibility that MS will take internet connection in households for granted.
I mean, you actually need a TV to use a gaming console and people don't get up in arms for that requirement.
If this is true, they have to lower the price of games because of no resell value.
It's like... they just want to sell this in he US and A.
More money I will keep, which is a no problem for me. I can't wait to see them trying to sell in Japan and Europe (all countries aside UK) man it's going to be fun!
I'll laugh if Sony does the same...
Then cry.
Where's its always been?
With its competitors.