The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !
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i can foresee nextbox being upgraded to their midori os and being backwards compatible.
the appeal being that of a new mainstream lang (http://www.infoq.com/articles/Joe-Du...fe-Parallelism). old singularity os 's goals was safety over speed, but i still envision there being alot of speedups with static proven games,etc possibly running in ring 0.
then again, lack of cross compatibility and effort to make a new engine is another thing. maybe rust 1.0 will be out by then
the appeal being that of a new mainstream lang (http://www.infoq.com/articles/Joe-Du...fe-Parallelism). old singularity os 's goals was safety over speed, but i still envision there being alot of speedups with static proven games,etc possibly running in ring 0.
then again, lack of cross compatibility and effort to make a new engine is another thing. maybe rust 1.0 will be out by then
Nonsense, just look at things like forza - the hardcore racing simm'ers will buy the console to get it, no questions asked. Doesn't mean there's enough of them to make it a top 10 bestseller. Same with the assorted JRPGs Sean is talking about only moreso.
Perhaps you meant the number of people who buy systems to get them won't make a huge difference in the total console sales ? I'd agree with that ;p
http://kotaku.com/in-japan-some-of-t...oing-472611203
And this leads in to one reason that Always Online will always be a terrible, stupid idea. Some day the company behind it will just completely shut off the service supporting it and your hardware will be a useless brick and anything you bought for it will be unplayable.
Fuck anyone who lets Always Online ever come to pass.
And this leads in to one reason that Always Online will always be a terrible, stupid idea. Some day the company behind it will just completely shut off the service supporting it and your hardware will be a useless brick and anything you bought for it will be unplayable.
Fuck anyone who lets Always Online ever come to pass.
To be fair, there's more money, in last generation at least in winning the English speaking countries.
Sean, I personally agree. As someone who happily admits to the title of core gamer or hardcore gamer, doubly so.
For the beancounters of the world, what matters is number of customers. I'm sure Nintendo looked at the number of people using those online applications, saw it was near zero, and said, kill it. The same story is part of the reason why Sony cut PS2 compatibility from the later generations of PS3 - almost no one was using it.
There is a difference when you pay for a physical copy of something and retain it even if the next generation doesn't support it vs. buying an online copy of something and then having no access to it in any way shape or form at a later date.
fanaskin
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Bill Gates doesn't want you to own things in general, they want to "license" it to you. Like you're a criminal if you disrupt their ability to make a buck off you.
So if the nextbox is always on they could ban your account and turn your system into a brick right? and if you bought a bunch of games digitally like steam they could kill your entire library to boot?
So if the nextbox is always on they could ban your account and turn your system into a brick right? and if you bought a bunch of games digitally like steam they could kill your entire library to boot?
Tuco
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No Tuco, every single corporation and person with more than 5 zero's in their bank account personally hates you and the only reason they are in business is to personally take a huge steamy shit on your consumer rights.
smh...
smh...
Bill Gates is a saint compared to the vast majority of human beings who have ever and will ever live. He also has nothing to do with Microsoft anymore and hasn't for a long time, unfortunately.
Fan concept art of consoles is 99.9% terrible.
Fan concept art of consoles is 99.9% terrible.
Yet another reason why Always Online is stupid and should never even beconsidered:http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/a...in-issues.aspx
Xbox live has completely gone out for over a week before. Imagine that happening and not being able to play games because there's a connection issue on there end.
And remember when Sony was hacked and their service was down for like at least a month? Yeah. Thank god they're smart enough to not go with Always Online this time around.
Anyone who does this crap is going to be a massive target for cyber-attacks as well. I'm sure we'll see a lot of outages the first time anyone tries to implement this.
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Xbox live has completely gone out for over a week before. Imagine that happening and not being able to play games because there's a connection issue on there end.
And remember when Sony was hacked and their service was down for like at least a month? Yeah. Thank god they're smart enough to not go with Always Online this time around.
Anyone who does this crap is going to be a massive target for cyber-attacks as well. I'm sure we'll see a lot of outages the first time anyone tries to implement this.
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That just makes me hope they do get attacked, and the backlash from it makes them release a console that doesn't require it. Looks like I will be a PS4 only owner : /