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[PA Comic] Friday, June 21, 2013 - Negotiations
Geth
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No mother, your TV isn't watching you because you don't own the evil device yet nor will you ever.
Yes its a pain in the arse that you have to buy it in the first place but its been blown way out of proportion.
Last I heard the Kinect has to be plugged in for the XB1 to operate.
Privacy by Design: How Xbox One and the New Kinect Sensor Put You in Control
Now granted they could be full of shit but then you're just accusing Microsoft of straight up lying and nothing I could ever say will convince you otherwise
Just wanted to be double sure. It's been a crazy couple weeks.
Microsoft's issue recently has been confusing messaging, and not handling the panic of consumers particularly well.
A: I get free games for it from PS+
B: The badass WiiU-like offscreen play feature with PS4.
Microsoft telling indies "Fuck you!" while Sony is saying "Hey, develop your games on our systems you sexy beasts." to them is also kind of a big deal.
No MS's problem is that the XBO makes no sense and MS's PR strategy is to berate you for not seeing their brilliance.
(Please do not gift. My game bank is already full.)
I'm going to wait until both are out.
Then wait 12-18 months and re-asses. I've got a decent gaming pc and my xbox 360 is still going.
Hell next year if anything I'll buy one of those new xbox 360 slims if my current one dies.
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The "We Are Watching You Act" introduced by Mass Dem. Michael Capuano isn't just geared at Kinect. He was quoted as also saying that cable companies are interested in putting cameras in cable boxes / DVRs to send you targeted commercials. A quick Google search suggests that this idea for cameras in cable boxes has been tossed around for a few years now. I have no idea if there's actually any push to do such a thing, but your mom could have been describing that and not Kinect.
Link: http://www.adweek.com/news/technology/cameras-your-cable-box-150374
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Instead they seem to have completely bottled it at the first sign of trouble and walked back every single "idea". WHat gives?
I can only surmise that the people in charge of the original decisions were some sort of neocon cabal that temporarily took over in a bloody coup, only to be taken down by some internal Microsoft SWAT team. Either that or people were REALLY high.
I find it hard to believe that MS didn't have a series of back up plans in response to how E3 went.
However I'm assuming what they announced was more plan "its this or we lose to the PS4" than Plan B
First sign of trouble? Perhaps you have not heard the ballad of Adam Orth?
(Please do not gift. My game bank is already full.)
I was going to continue to play games on Microsoft Windows on my PC and laugh at console users.
Still seems like a good plan although there's somewhat less to laugh about now.
That's what I was going to do anyway. Early adopters are paying to beta test.
Early adopters are a brave bunch. I wouldn't do it but I'm glad someone is willing to take the chance.
Panel 4, his mouth continues to expand, folding outward over his body. he turns inside out, revealing the pulsing eye of the Kinect.
the PS2 was a rock solid piece of electronics, but it was also fairly simple next to even a PS3 or X360.
increased complexity + points of failure (like internet connectivity) = more potential day one problems.
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I'm just sad that in all likelihood none of these consoles will die a painful death like the Dreamcast from which I will then proceed to hoover up choice choice morsels from its corpse like the house work conscious vulture I am. That was a good time not a single game purchased for more than 50% retail and frankly if I spent more than £10 on a new game I felt ripped off.
I made a game, it has penguins in it. It's pay what you like on Gumroad.
Currently Ebaying Nothing at all but I might do in the future.
Well, I wouldn't go as far as to call us heroes, but if you insist...
Just keep posting about your experiences with your chosen console. The forums are a better source of information when buying games/electronics then a lot of websites I've seen
Shrug, I went through more PS2s (2 fats, 2 slims) than any other console I've owned short of the DS Lite (which died physical deaths, not fault related ones). All consumer electronics are complicated and you should wait if you're smart.
I am dumb.
I'm not gonna validate her political ranting. Ignorance is bliss.
Just swap out "Mandatory" for "Optional". That's all they needed to do to fix their mistake! That was all it would have taken! If you wanted the cloud gaming and sharing and all that, you could have it! If you didn't want it, you didn't get access to any of it, but you could play just like a regular XBox. That's all that was needed.
Now the XBox is as silly and unremarkable as the PS4.
In the race for gamer attention, the Wii decided to arrive early, plop itself in the middle of the track, hide it's face behind a giant screen and forget to bring games to cover itself with. The PS4 decided it'd walk the whole track. The XBone immediately sprinted off the track, into the stands, out the doors to the stadium, then realized it was getting too far away from it's competition and promptly ran back onto the track and stole the starting pistol and shot itself in the foot.
It really is a truly "special" console season we have coming up here.
I'm never buying another Xbox again, unless everything changes radically and all the games I like suddenly become Xbox exclusives. Which is not likely at all, considering I like Nintendo and Sony games.
I got out of the console game a long time ago, but XBO really feels like it was a "design by committee" box. And they're having all of the pitfalls and problems that come with that.
Also, poor Gabe, he really just needs to kill his twitter account.
PC gaming appears to continue being far ahead of console gaming for at least another generation now (so...10+ years I'd guess). Sure, I'm sure the PS 4 would have had better initial sales (credible rumor has it that preorders were already in a 3:2 split favoring Sony), but I absolutely guarantee that as console only gamers that haven't really experienced an all digital experience that PC gamers have for years now grew comfortable at the first real revolution in game distribution and sharing since...well, I suppose since Steam became the de-facto PC gaming front years ago, a momentum to buy into the XBone would have built while gamers started to actually seriously question why Sony continues to think the internet is too futuristic to harness fully would have occurred. Now both consoles appear to be little more than slightly better PS 3s and 360s. Yay.
*sigh*
Don't get me wrong. I'm always a PC gamer first. But there are always a few games on each console that I want to play bad enough that I buy the consoles each generation. Even though I think the PS 4 is hopelessly stuck in the past, I'm sure I'll buy it, because I'm sure there will be PS 4 exclusives that excite me. That said, I really hope MS figures out licensing and DRM issues so they can offer the luddie version of the XBone for those terrified of the internet and the digital age, and a fully functional XBone for the rest of us that have embraced the digital world already in every single other form of entertainment we enjoy (tv, movies, smartphone apps, etc).
Also, guys, I hope this latest blow up with the transgenders and take-umbrage-at-everything crybabies doesn't cause you guys to shrink into even safer, sterile figures. It's already distressing at watching the change from how outrageous you guys were pre-Pax to where you are today. I'm not sure I can take more of it. Keep fighting the good fight against our incredibly over-sensitive, overly PC society that is magnified a thousandfold on the internet via passive aggressive woe-is-me posturing.
Your original statement is still correct, though: Kinect is required (even if you can pause it sometimes).
I wouldn't go so far as to call MS full of shit. But I will say this much:
They claim the Xbone is only listening for the phrase "Xbox On" while you have it off. But, in order for it to hear that phrase, it is listening to everything that you say around it. I'm not sure that I trust MS, or any company for that matter, with that level of access to my personal life. Especially with a device that has the ability to record, and the ability to be remotely activated. Not with all of the NSA garbage going on right now. But that's just my take on the entire thing.
yes, but since it no longer has to be online, it can't randomly transmit data anyway.
edit: wait, what's this about there being a game about female masturbation (re: the news post)?