And I hate to jump on the "paranoid fucktard"
wagon train, but this article:
http://games.slashdot.org/story/13/06/07/1229246/microsoft-confirms-xbox-ones-phone-home-requirement-game-resale-rules
Quite well summarizes why I'll never actually be comfortable
in the same room with an XBox One. Always-on requirement + active listening +
PRISM (the government program for pulling user records from most major
technology companies + restrictions on publicizing it) = fuuuuuck that.
But there's a comment somewhere down in the feed that really
summarizes this well: This console will have neither a used nor rental game
market. Enabling it to "allow publishers" to enable people reselling
their games means most won't. The rental and used game market for the XBox One
won't exist.
That’s not even touching the bullshit Sony’s pulled with
removing backwards compatibility, removing Linux enablement, hidden rootkits,
and other utter crap.
Fuckit. If I hadn’t already jumped on the “back to computers
as a gaming console” bandwagon, this’d convince me I had to by the next
generation.
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