Topic: The everything Xbox thread

Congratulations Microsoft. Now your Xbox One is in the ''remotely appealing'' range.

I'm probably still not going to get an Xbox One unless it gets an exclusive Twinbee game (since the 360 had all of the shmups last gen, and I recently played Twinbee Portable on my brother's PSP) but I'm glad Xbox 360 fans will be getting a real next generation Xbox instead of a glorified Roku.

so now that the DRM is no more, what are people going to complain about?

An exclusives library that rivals the Wii U's (same number of games, completely different genres for it), same DRM stance as Wii U (plus no region locking, and unlike PS4, no Publisher-dictated anti-used games DRM support either), etc.

Also, pirates and terrorist groups in south America that sell counterfeit games are seriously celebrating the news. One more gen they will have a steady income in.

It was pretty clever, make everyone hate your console so the competition feels overconfident and then make costumers believe you actually listen to their demands by removing all these things that made people hate the thing, you leave the competition confused and the costumers flattered and ready to buy your console.

Because it was all planned, right MS?

Repost from another forum

While I did hate the DRM, there are aspects of this that are going to keep us in the status quo instead of looking too the future.

-No more Quick Game switching unless you download all your game. (similar to PS4)
-No more game sharing with 10 people of your choice
-No more disc based purchased being counted as downloaded purchases like steam.

So while the DRM did suck for most of the audience, it did have tangabile benefits for a industry that will eventually go mostly digital in the first place. Microoft gambled with being the first to try and steamafiy the console space but made miss calculations (if there would be a internet check it should be a month like steam), fortunately the gamer consumers made their complaints heard and its going to be a better product for 90% of the market, however it does have some negatives that kills the adoption of digital content for gaming, whears were seeing other mediums growing due it.

So in conclusion a step back for the Industry, but a step forward for consumers which is a better thing in the long run

While I was boycotting the 24 hour DRM, I was going digital only this gen so it didn't effect me that much. Microsoft had it so every Physical copy you bought gave you a digital copy essentially tearing down the barrier of why digital isn't similar to steam on console (retails) with this move however justified t is we go back into the Digital vs Retail battle which shouldn't even exist in 2013.

That adam Orth bloke who got fired prior to the 21st century event seems to be having a public meltdown.

https://twitter.com/orth_adam

Great news. Still not going to buy one any time soon.

What a moving decision. You inspire me.

DGGames
no region locking, and unlike PS4?

erh you've made a mistake there as there is no region locking on the PS3, PS4, as far as i know the Wii U & Xbox One are region locked.

It good Microsoft has changed some of it's policys but for some the damage has already been done, 2 of my mates who where hardcore Xboxers are still going to buy a PS4. One of them said after this he'll never support Microsoft again, i don't mind as i can play online with them without having to leave my house now.

Xbox One is region free. Technically PS4 uses some DirectX code, thus he'd be supporting Microsoft by proxy anyway.

Good to hear. You can have a gold star!

No region locking is huge. They were set to not support Poland, which would have caused major backlash from CD Projekt Red fans (of which there are a decent amount..) and of course Polish people. lol

Now they can play The Witcher 3 with the rest of us.

@rayword45 XB one, as in XBoxone... Without x or the second o.

I like XONE, pronounced ZONE.

When did they announce online passes wouldn't be allowed?

I'm impressed that you apparently have this deep intelligence connection with South American video game-obsessed terrorist groups.

I think, ultimately, this is some sort of victory for gaming in general. There has been such a vocal pushback against DRM that things really do seem to be changing. Nintendo has, obviously, remained pretty the way things have always been, but we just saw Sony reject it at E3 and now even Microsoft is backing away. On the PC front, sites like GOG.com that sell PC games free of DRM are becoming more popular, and there are even rumors that Steam is working on a way to allow you to lend your games to friends and such. All in all, I don't view any of this as a bad thing. Of course, ALL of this is subject to change at any moment, but for the time being, regardless of how you feel about Microsoft, I think this is nice.

I still don't like the Kinect. I also don't don't like how clouded the interface will be with adverts (judging off of how it is for the 360), also £429.

I can probably get over the Kinect in time, I hated motion controls at first but after using Motion Plus controllers and the PS Move, they've significantly grown on me. Kinect could do the same.

The £429 price tag will drop eventually, so that won't be an issue.

However, the adverts on the dashboard are not something I will easily swallow (again). With each subsequent update the 360 received, the amount of ad space on the dashboard increased.
When I'm already paying a premium for service (XBL), I shouldn't have adverts crammed down my throat every time I boot up the console.

All that said, the games are what sell a console to me. If the Xbone has some really great exclusive, I will likely buy one. Just like I did with the 360, PS3, Wii U, PS2, GC, N64, Dreamcast, PS1, SNES, Megadrive and NES before it.
Right now, I'm not seeing much on either side of the fence (Xbone/PS4) that screams "BUY ME!".

This is excellent news. I'm glad to see that Microsoft saw how wildly unpopular its decisions were before it was too late. Now to decide if I'm going to preorder....

I'm still gonna wait it out a bit and see. If something like this could happen, who knows what might happen in the nearly six months between now and release?

Microsoft should listen to, Lateef "we the people"