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Originally posted by WULFENSTAR:
Not unusual for threading, but..

The new X-box, titled the Xbox-One (or XBone)has serious issues.

1. It MUST be connected to a high-speed internet, and will upload itself every 24 hours. If not, it shuts down, wipes its memory. Forget taking it overseas, or if your power goes out...

2. Games are non-transferable. Days of bringing over a disc to play at a friends house are over.

This is where is gets terrifying...

3. Its CAMERA and MICROPHONE must ALWAYS be on.


1984 wasn't meant to be a playbook, folks. Under this, or any administration, this is pretty scary stuff.

Discuss.

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Originally posted by Kwicko:
Looks like this will be yet another year I don't buy an XBox of any kind.


Not that Sony's all that much better about it, but they're insisting that their new PS4 *will* play used games, *won't* require a persistent internet connection, and doesn't have to have a camera hooked up to it at all times.


"In Soviet Russia, tee-vee watches YOU!"

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Originally posted by 1kiki:
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Seems they might be backing off on used games, game sharing, and connecting to the Internet, at least a little, but not so much on the eavesdropping, invasion of privacy and plain old spying aspects.

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Originally posted by BYTEMITE:

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Originally posted by Kwicko:
Looks like this will be yet another year I don't buy an XBox of any kind.


Not that Sony's all that much better about it, but they're insisting that their new PS4 *will* play used games, *won't* require a persistent internet connection, and doesn't have to have a camera hooked up to it at all times.


"In Soviet Russia, tee-vee watches YOU!"

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At first I was all like "Sony has completely redeemed themselves!" but then I heard that there probably will be DRM in their games because they left it up to the publishers to decide. Which is basically their policy for the PS3 too.

It's not building the freakin' spyware INTO their system like Microsoft idiocy, but Sony's still not all saintly like it initially sounded.

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Seems they might be backing off on used games, game sharing, and connecting to the Internet, at least a little, but not so much on the eavesdropping, invasion of privacy and plain old spying aspects.

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Yeah, basically. I posted a link to their X-Box One news updates above, I believe it goes into the details.

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Originally posted by Kwicko:
Also, I don't think for a moment that them pulling back means they're giving up on the idea entirely. I expect the same encroachment to come later, incrementally, so the frog doesn't know it's boiling.

And I pretty much expect Sony to do the same. They didn't really "win" this round; they just spun the PR better by letting MicroSquash go out first and shoot themselves in the foot, then stepping in and saying, in effect, "We're going to let you use a smaller gun to shoot yourself!"

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When the XBone and the PS4 were announced, I confess I was a bit surprised, and not really in a good way. My initial reaction was "Why?" Does anyone still need a console or a disk that they physically load? Why isn't gaming streaming like Netflix now, where you pay a low monthly fee and have basically unlimited access to your favorite games?

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Originally posted by FREMDFIRMA:

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Originally posted by Kwicko:
Also, I don't think for a moment that them pulling back means they're giving up on the idea entirely. I expect the same encroachment to come later, incrementally, so the frog doesn't know it's boiling.

And I pretty much expect Sony to do the same. They didn't really "win" this round; they just spun the PR better by letting MicroSquash go out first and shoot themselves in the foot, then stepping in and saying, in effect, "We're going to let you use a smaller gun to shoot yourself!"

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Exactly.
Which is why my cash stays in my pocket - I got a pretty non-negotiable notion of what "MINE" means, and when money changes hands, and I have a physical product in hand, that shit is "MINE", you do not get to tell me what I can and cannot do with it, EVER.

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Originally posted by 1kiki:
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...:o

*Thinks that abbreviation is clever*

*Geeks out about science for a while*

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Originally posted by Kwicko:
Oh, and World of Tanks is coming to the XBox.

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