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EDGE: The next Xbox: Always online, no second-hand games, 50GB Blu-ray and new kinect
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Bel_Air_Jeff
Banned
can you imagine buying madden 2016, and not being able to trade it in or sell it when madden 2017 comes out?
or buying Call of Duty: modern warfare 9 and being stuck with a game that is broken and has unbalanced online play?
How would he be fired for breaking NDA, if what he was responding to was in fact bullshit?
Completely different situations.
Same can be said of people who obvious really want to believe that it's true.
Dreamgazer
Member
By some people's logic, WiiU will also be pressured by third parties into doing so.
Then handheld, then EVERYTHING.
Delusibeta
Banned
Evidently, you've never tried GMG's Capsule. :barf
Amazon's "must use our small downloader to download your game" isn't great either (although admittedly Gamersgate & GetGames use a similar system for their non-Steamworks games).
BruiserBear
Banned
It is different because a rumor that comes out 2 years prior to your new console releasing carries a lot less weight.
A rumor coming out week, or months prior to unveiling it, that is totally and completely false? You're going to want to shut down that negative talk immediately. If you don't that bad word of mouth is going to spread like wildfire, and even if it ends up not being true, you're still going to have people a year from now saying "Xbox doesn't let you play used games", etc.
This is a bad rumor, so if it wasn't true at all, you'd want everyone to know that ASAP. Waiting a few months to deny it isn't a good idea.
It's also possible, albeit unlikely, that Microsoft is still not 100% committed to this, and they in fact want to see how people online react to the news. So this could be a test bed for them, and maybe they change their mind soon. Either way the time for big decisions like this to be locked in is fast approaching. Neither company is going to make any big changes beyond March.
swordsman720
Banned
Screw Valve. I still don't believe this rumor. If this is true, MS will miss lots of sales, because not everyone does have a good Internet connection. One of my mate plays only off-line (xbox360)
-1 (for him if true)
MS + Sony will ban second games & must connect to internet =bad for the consumers
TheGreatMightyPoo
Banned
Holy shit you are mad.
Bel_Air_Jeff
Banned
MisterHero
Super Member
It'll be a winner if it can tell you if Gamestop is ripping you off
it was a joke
i also don't trust green men after choking on the green giant's canned vegetables as a kid.
i also activate all my gmg and amazon purchases on steam
bazonga
They'll be shit out of luck with 3rd parties in the event that Sony are also doing this.
I'm not seeing how this is a good thing for Nintendo.
Baconsammy
Banned
Microsoft hasn't even acknowledged there is a new console. It's not some developer's job to confirm or deny a rumor. That's Microsoft's job, and based on their response, the rumor doesn't bother them at all. They're sticking to their plan of saying nothing until release, it appears.
Exactly. Not having used game sales isn't going to make third parties hate Sony/Microsoft. It's going to make them embrace those companies tighter.
That certainly explains Nintendo dropping sales forecasts for it by over a million consoles over the next 2 months.
You are not even allowed to acknowledge the existence of the next Xbox.
No, I still think the larger Market as a whole won't care about PC.
Lets not overreact now ok?
I really haven't used GMG since it first started up as I haven't bought many games. What exactly does it do? From what I read it's just a downloading client and games can just be played outside of it without issue, which is not normally possible with steam
I honestly don't mind because I never buy used anyways. Besides, I'm switching to primarily a digital future with few physical releases used solely for display purposes. But video games are the worst to display because the layout designs often change anyway (they clash with not only each other but other systems physical releases as well).
Crazyorloco
Member
Soon copy machines and scanners are going to be banned. :-(
I want to see how Nintendo reacts if MS/Sony go this route.
I want to see how Nintendo reacts if MS/Sony go this route.
ReturnOfTheRAT
Member
As someone who doesn't read as much gaming rumors/news sites as the rest of the gaming forum, do you have examples of this?
Nintendo
Skiesofwonder
Walruses, camels, bears, rabbits, tigers and badgers.
Yeah, as in I have yet to see even one credible, conflicting source to these reports. At least the WiiU graphic reports were all over the place.
DeuceGamer
Member
How will 3rd parties pressure Wii U into doing so when, for the most part, they aren't really supporting the system to begin with? Also, if 3rd parties wanted to do it then technically they could do like Tecmo Koei with Ken's Rage 2 and only release it on the eShop, where no one can re-sale it. Granted, I'm sure MS/Sony will have similar options if 3rd parties choose to use it.
If thats the case, why has he commented on the article, twice?
Boss Man
Member
Yeah I know, it's hard to understand why something that doesn't effect you may effect other people.
I too, would love to have the second best-selling console launch period in history to be classified as a bomb.
Demoncarnotaur
Member
This really sounds awful between the lack of second hand games and the focus on casual gaming taking away from the power of the system. I knew casual gaming would be a focus, I was just hoping it wouldn't hurt core gaming.
I could live with this.
Which is SAD AS FUCK. It really is. Whatever.
& now is head to head to psvita selling. Be happy.
Dude, I wouldn't be able to donate my old games to poor kids anymore and that's fucking bullshit. Not to mention gifting to buddies/fam. Greedy fucks. The video game audience isn't the 20 million that buy day 1, it's the 180 million that buy when they can. Killing the second hand market is terrible business. The saddest part to me is that many gamers would support this trash.
Baconsammy
Banned
Isn't Digital Foundry part of Edge? And aren't they constantly being accused of having a Microsoft bias? If someone on the Internet tells you a media outlet is biased against a console, you can bet money that person is in love with the company that makes said console. Maybe that's Eurogamer. Hard to keep track of which sites are supposedly biased against which console.
YES... a likely scenario. You can use used games on PC. Brought darskiders 2 2nd hand. Alan wake etc.
If PS+ remains as awesome as it is now, no used games won't be as big of a deal.
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
Nintendo fans mad up in here.
Nintendo will be forced to do it too by publishers. If they refuse they get less (lol) 3rd party support than they have now.
Nintendo will be forced to do it too by publishers. If they refuse they get less (lol) 3rd party support than they have now.
Trogdor1123
Member
The publishers sure wouldnt unless they were taking a cut of Live and MS wouldnt allow that at all.
On a side note, anyone see Gamespots stock today... I wonder if it really is true then?
It really doesn't matter if the console isn't available to buy. If it isn't true, all that MS needs to do is say, "...The console will let you play used games" when they reveal the console and boom... tons of major sites will report on that fact and people will see that this current rumor isn't true.
8-9 months is a relatively short amount of time BUT, there's still a ton of concrete info that hasn't been said at all about the new consoles.
FunnyBunny
Member
I love this GIF and it makes me giggle every time I see it.
On topic; I approach the launch of a new console the same as I do a presidential election. The candidates, media and supporters are going to say all sorts of crazy you-know-what in the months leading up to election day. Some if it will be true and some of it won't. It is up to me not to overreact to every bit of information, rumor and report and take the facts as they come.
And lets be honest; we have few facts on either console in terms of power, ecosystem and games.
Skiesofwonder
Walruses, camels, bears, rabbits, tigers and badgers.
Please give me one valid reason (or source) to believe that Kotaku and Edge are making this up. Right now it seems much more likely to happen then not with two sources reporting on it and no outright denial from anyone else.
Bel_Air_Jeff
Banned
K
kittens
Unconfirmed Member
I really hope the PS4 doesn't pull the same bullshit.
Boss Man
Member
No it isn't. There neither was nor is hardly any interest surrounding the console. Didn't we just have a thread about Iwata speaking of its poor performance?
I don't know if you're being sarcastic or not though because almost every time someone on the Internet writes 'FACT.' it's either not a fact or meant to be a joke.