I just like how this fool has the AUDACITY to even go and essentially say “If you like offline games, get a 360”.
What the fuck did M$ do to get them this supremely arrogant?
Lmao. Great answer MS “Don’t like our new shit? Then stick with the old outdated shit”
I’ll give M$ credit for one thing. For all their stupid shit, they have BALLS OF STEEL.
0:27 in a nut shell
MS came off as arrogant to me when they didn’t address the issues that the consumers have raised. They just straight up ignored it… didn’t even acknowledge it. As if their game line up would be enough to make people forget. I really hope they get put into their place.
They released Windows 8 and people actually bought it.
Supposedly…that interview was not supposed to air.
Don’t remind me… 
Actually, if I may… this is a realistic problem. It has happened over four times in the last 18 months where I live. The phone networks went down, but power was still up. It has gotten bad enough that multiple towns in the area I live are starting to consider ways to force the phone company (singular not plural, it’s a really messed up area I admit) to fix it. The kind of connection microsoft is demanding was enough to scare me off of purchasing their system.
I concede that in most locales the situation you’re speaking against is a bit of a stretch. But it’s not true in all areas, and I would be seriously affected by their current DRM plans.
And there have been instances where I’ve also been forced to go without Internet for 24+ hours without any power disruption.
when i moved to my current house, i couldn’t get comcast out for about 2 weeks. videogames got me through a rough time without internet, without TV, without pretty much anything entertainment with all my stuff in boxes. the scenario isn’t that unrealistic. video games shine at the times when they help distract from more serious problems.
Now now guys, there’s one good thing that M$ did for all of us. They made it easy for us to choose which console to buy!
Well fuck, I’m happy I upgraded to Windows 8 from Vista. 
This is not true. Back in 2011 I brought Sonic Generations for $10 during a Steam sale and the game was only a month old at the time. Last year Scribblenauts was $20 and that game was released for only a few weeks. They sold Terraria for half price when it was new.
Steam sells brand new shit at discount prices all the fucking time.
One of my best friends lives in a rural area. The internet there is AWFUL, and he is only gets a tiny bandwidth (if he wants to download games for PC, he has to take his PC in to the city to a friends place to download there). So he has already stated it is 100% impossible for him to get the next Xbox.
*Microsoft developed a bad case of “third gen arrogance”. Sega Saturn, Nintendo 64, Playstation 3 and now the XBone. It’s humorous to see EA back away from online passes because the reception was less than welcome from consumers. They saw that gamers weren’t bothering to bend over backwards and conforming to their methods to curtail the 2nd hand market. Hell even Ubisoft buckled and stopped using their always online drm because the PC gamers backlash. The XBone may have been designed with gamers in mind (it IS a games console) but it sure as hell wasn’t designed to be accommodating to gamers.
And I’m not even going attempt to TOUCH the conversation about how when the XBone stops being supported it’ll be utterly worthless since you wouldn’t be able to ping MS’s servers. Or how extended live maintenance, power outages, changing apartments/house or ISP infrastructure maintenance all make the console useless. Or about the boondoggle that sharing a console with roommates/kids/spouse will be with trying to play on independent accounts. Or If you live in middle America, Mexico, South American, Africa (etc) your internet stability is shit.
I get what MS is trying to do in the increasingly connected world we live in. But it’s just that “a increasingly connected” world, not a world where internet speed and stability is homogeneously saccharine. *
All very good points, which is why it is so frustrating that Microsoft will not speak about the issues. Instead they try to act like we are missing a point, we are wrong for not feeling the same way as them and we are the ones being unreasonable. It is like they have forgotten that it is them trying to sell something to us.
Unfortunately the box will still sell. I expect a tonne of them to be in peoples houses by christmas. I just hope it fails to meet expectations throughout, because it will sell units.
im actually more surprised about how there are retards out there that actually have an interrest in buying a xb1. just how fucking dumb do you have to be, fucking morons.
I don’t get why they are viewed as morons. I really don’t. If they like what hte 720 has - let them like it. Like I’ve been saying the things that alot of us clamor over are not issues for 99.9% of the gaming public…so if I always have a internet connection and don’t really try and do the used game thing - why would I get a PS4 instead? Especially, if I like the games M$ has? Me personally, I’m leaning towards the PS4, but nothing from the 720 stands out as a real issue for me - I don’t do much in the way of used games, I don’t have flaky internet (TWC), and I’d just turn the Kinect off. I mean shit right now the 720 is the only system with a fighting game lined up for it. Sure that will change, but this IS a fighting game website.
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