Future of Xbox

[SOLDIER #819]

They may look like a bunch of geniuses that could do no wrong right now but the truth is, I'm sure they were exploring ways to pander to the Big Publishers, too. But Microsoft made the first move and Sony called them on it while holding their own hand close to their chest.

I'm sure there's a lot of juicy info from the Sony camp that hasn't been revealed because they deemed it more profitable to oppose Microsoft this time around instead of embracing the DRM Age only to receive the same backlash.

Yeah, and the Big Three are Big Publishers themselves. Controlling regional prices and how games are passed from one person to another is a prime concern to them. Sony has learned from past mistakes to be more subtle, but all three companies are en route toward the same place, wherever that may be. Assuming that Sony doesn't completely overhaul how PSN handles online play and matchmaking, we'll basically end up paying for downloadable PS4 games... as well as discounts on other online games, which people will no doubt want to take advantage of when since it's a mandatory $50 a year. So licensing out games online will inevitably become more prevalent (as opposed to "owning" them like you do with a hard copy, which is also on shaky ground due to untested publisher terms of purchase ).

Investors of Microsoft, Sony, etc. will keep the execs and their wacky ideas at bay (since they don't want their holdings to bomb), but companies as a whole still slowly push at and expand the boundaries of what we find acceptable. By next gen, most gamers may not even care that a console doesn't have an optical drive.

Just when I was jumping up n down at Microsoft leaving the industry to let Nintendo and Sony fight it out (and (continue) producing the best games on both sides) the slimy snakes just had to slither back in. ...

So (in my own lil nice way) I say no thank you to your BS lies and will be happily supporting Sony and Nintendo only, the 2 companies that truly do listen us gamers n have been there from the beginning.

[Crescent]

Just when I was jumping up n down at Microsoft leaving the industry to let Nintendo and Sony fight it out (and (continue) producing the best games on both sides) the slimy snakes just had to slither back in.

So (in my own lil nice way) I say no thank you to your BS lies and will be happily supporting Sony and Nintendo only, the 2 companies that truly do listen us gamers n have been there from the beginning.