Lol, gee thanks.
I picked up a copy of halo 3 off eBay for £3 a few months back and creed 2 was even cheaper if I remember right. Hardly a gesture of thanks more like a buy your gold subs now jump on the awesome bandwagon that is Xbox marketing!!
**XBOX ONE** Official Thread
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Lol, gee thanks.
I picked up a copy of halo 3 off eBay for £3 a few months back and creed 2 was even cheaper if I remember right. Hardly a gesture of thanks more like a buy your gold subs now jump on the awesome bandwagon that is Xbox marketing!!
Caporegime
Articles like that are ******* stupid. What do people actually expect? Next gen is just about getting more power so we can push the boundary on, we can make bigger and better looking games. That article sounds like it has been written by a former gamer who doesn't like gaming any more, just move on.
So Next gen is just about bigger and better looking games? Here I was thinking it was about pushing the creative boundaries to create games like none before. I'm thinking things like when FEZ came out, there's wasn't any other game like it. Also like Little Big Planet.
As you don't seem to be getting a straight answer from anyone else, here you go:
You can trade in your games at authorised retailers. Publishers may decide to charge a fee (to the retailer or the customer) for this service (so basically no more online passes as they can charge this way instead if they wish).
You can also gift your game to a friend. That friend must have been on your Xbox Live friends list for more than 30 days. A game can only be gifted once (your friend cannot gift the game to someone else afterwards, though he/she can trade it in).
If your machine is offline for more than 24 hours, your games won't work until you log back in to Live. The console needs to 'check-in' to verify that you still own the games (i.e. you haven't traded them in or gifted them).
You can play your Xbox One game on any Xbox One console in the world, provided you are signed on to your Xbox One account. If you don't have the disk, you can download the game from the store.
You can install games to your Xbox One's HDD and play disk-free (essentially what most of the above is in place to allow - you can't have disk-free play without DRM).
Currently there isn't a solution in place for renting games or lending them out to friends. This might happen in time for launch, or it might not.
There will be a solution in place at launch to allow families to share games uninhibited across multiple Xbox One consoles. Details on this system haven't yet been announced.
So, advantages and disadvantages versus the current system (and the one the PS4 uses):
Advantages
- Disks no longer needed
- Can play anywhere, anytime - games can be downloaded to any console and will come complete with your saves, allowing you to pick up where you left off
- Instant switching between games and other disk-based media (e.g. Blu-Ray, DVD, CD).
- Trade-ins via authorised resellers only
- Selling on forums like this can only be done using the 'Gifting' system (with the restrictions that brings)
- The console needs a reliable internet connection - if your internet goes down for more than 24 hours, you can't play your games
- There's currently no system in place for renting games (e.g. from Lovefilm, Blockbuster etc.)
- You cannot (currently) lend a game to a friend. You can play together on your friend's Xbox One, but he/she can't play on his/her own without buying the game.
To me personally, it doesn't matter so much. I don't rent games, I have no issues with using authorised resellers for trade-ins and swapping games with friends is a rarity. It's only the 24 hour check-in requirement that bothers me. The thing that's turning me off the Xbox One isn't the DRM, it's the price. Given how many of these games are coming to PC as well, it's difficult to justify spending £430 on a new Xbox. With pre-E3 rumours of Fable IV, Banjo Kazooie and Beyond Good and Evil 2, I'm a little disappointed in the games line-up too. Lots of 1st/3rd person shooters and action games with little else.
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Soldato
So what you're saying is you swallowed the bait, but not the hook?
Then as the writer of the article you clearly do not understand the games industry. PC is the place for pushing boundaries and experimenting, consoles are for making billions of $.
MS cannot push consoles on games like FEZ, fez has shipped ~200,000 on XBox?
Undoubtedly there will be games liked FEZ on the ONE but the drooling hordes of coddicts aren't going to get excited about games like that at a console launch.
Nat that Fez is a particularly good game in the first place...
Soldato
Rules Rules Rules
As I said a couple of weeks back - popping round you mates and logging in there to show him the latest game might involve a 15-20Gb download first. Cloud stuff is good but when the source material size is >10Gb not exactly as handy as they make it out to be
If you are often going round to mates with games to play then surely you would be buying games on disc?
People jumping boat but read this..
http://en.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/1g47n4/sony_and_microsoft_e3_summary/
Seems $50 a month for online gaming is well a bit high for me.
http://en.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/1g47n4/sony_and_microsoft_e3_summary/
Seems $50 a month for online gaming is well a bit high for me.
50 dollars a month!? lol what?
You mean a year right? (If your talking about the PS4)
It's cheaper on the PS4 then the Xbox1..
Depends on the speed of your mate's internet connection, surely? I wouldn't do it on my 1.5Mbps countryside internet connection, but high-speed internet is becoming ever more common. On the fastest household connections, we'd be looking at a 20-30 minute wait for most games. That will only get faster year on year.
It might only appeal to a niche (40Mbps+) crowd at the moment, but even so it is still a boon that the option is there. The advantages and disadvantages that I listed apply differently to different people's needs.
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A year, and its more then worth considering the free games you get.
Soldato
I agree with that but at the same time it's a shame it has to be this way. I think PC gaming is still strong but not as strong as it once was. It's a shame that in the majority of cases console games have a heavy influence on what PC gamers are going to get
I'm sick of these ports.Everything that was shown in relation to games on these Next gen consoles doesn't wow me (apart from Destiny).
I agree with that but at the same time it's a shame it has to be this way. I think PC gaming is still strong but not as strong as it once was. It's a shame that in the majority of cases console games have a heavy influence on what PC gamers are going to get
Everything that was shown in relation to games on these Next gen consoles doesn't wow me (apart from Destiny).
PC will be in a stronger position then ever with this generation of consoles imo. Both PS4 and Xbox1 are essentially just PC's which means the decision to port to PC is a much easier one (It's stupid not too).
Ports should also be much better with far less work as a result. Also as Microsoft and Sony fight tooth and nail for exclusives the PC just wings in under the radar and gets some of them for free.
Titanfall exclusive for Xbox1! (and PC)
PC will be in a stronger position then ever with this generation of consoles imo. Both PS4 and Xbox1 are essentially just PC's which means the decision to port to PC is a much easier one (It's stupid not too).
Ports should also be much better with far less work as a result. Also as Microsoft and Sony fight tooth and nail for exclusives the PC just wings in under the radar and gets some of them for free.
Titanfall exclusive for Xbox1! (and PC)
Sounds good to me
Is the architecture of the Xbox One similar to that of PCs?Sounds good to me
Yes. Ps4 Xbox1 and PC all use x86 architecture under the hood.