Morgoth

No but you should trust experts rather than the people who brought us into this mess into the first place.

Also never trust official numbers. "Recovery" my ass...

The more they borrow, the worse it will get.

Sony has been a sinking ship for over a decade now. And while gamers are gonna be happy about Sony presenting the PS4 as a gamers-first platform, let's remember that PS2-level numbers are going to be a fairy dream for Sony. Why? First, Sony is living in a stagnant mentality (like many of their Japanese cousins). They're not a leader anymore when it comes to technology (except professional film cameras maybe), services, infrastructure and even the quality of games. Yes they have more studios, but most of their IPs suck (Killzone, Uncharted etc. I mean c'm on) and they keep losing money due to mismanagement (FFXIII versus, Last Guardian etc). Second, MS consciencely chose not to aim for the most powerful machine out there. For starters, 8GB GDDR5 RAM cost around ~$145 on the markets (directly from the supplier for mass production), while 8GB DDR3 costs ~25$. Guess who will be able to have better price flexibility? Not to mention the Yen is very weak which in return is going to be bad for their own domestic market. Third, MS is thinking farther ahead in terms of services and infrastructure (cloud computing could develop into a big thing), and also spend more on R&D than Sony and Google combined. While this is no guarantee for XB1 to horribly fail, at the very least MS is better bolstered against shocks and also has a more diversified portfolio. If games fail, they always have their TV and interactive TV-stuffy, and vice versa. Sony only has those games. With the current economy and the low demand, people are definitely going to be more picky. Sony provides more quantity, but that's not what people necessarily want anymore. More more more buy more play more play everything is a game that MS chose not to play any longer.

What Francis thinks of Xbawks One.

Jumping from one sinking ship into another. Brilliant thinking, Sir.

Man you must be angry...

It probably requires a face-scan, yes.

That's so last decade man!

I'd be more worried about Kinect recording while I pick my nose. Will a MS strike team analyze my behaviour and send me a notification about how to improve my lifestyle?

What does actually happen if a GoG game needs a patch? Do I need to re-download the whole client again? Doesn't sound as convenient as Steam to me...

Not if it's published by MS and the IP owned by MS. Some exceptions have been made (Alan Wake, Fable 3, Mark of the Ninja), but most of the big IPs will stay Xbox exclusive.

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2013/05/21/microsoft-s-gaming-on-the-cloud.aspx Cloud computing that goes beyond storing your savegames in the cloud. If MS is smart and invests in this technology (which they in fact do), they probably won't need to launch another hardware after the Xbox One, as the One will just gain more power over Cloud.

I'll agree the future is going there, but my area isn't ready to go yet. And I've never used Steam - no point unless I can get a faster connection, which I can't without moving. If you are within an EU country then fibre optic ARUs (at least FTTC) ought to be layed out everywhere. The mandate was 30Gbit/s speed for everyone (?) till 2020.

For the goal MS has set itself, it makes sense to incrementally force alway-online features. People are gonna adapt eventually. I remember the huge outrage when Steam first launched almost a decade ago. Well, today everyone (minus some cranky backward loonies) love it and use it.

There we have it: http://www.computerandvideogames.com/407912/microsoft-confirms-pre-owned-fee-for-xbox-one/

It also had dirt under the fingernails and arm hair. That's NEXT GEN right there!

LOL.

http://kotaku.com/the-xbox-is-not-always-online-but-seems-to-block-used-509077987 No support of used games, apparently.

Only thing that sparked my interest was Remedy's Quantum Break. But I hope they're eventually gonna release it on PC too.

I'm also trying to make sense of their numbering scheme... XBOX > XBOX360 > XBOX One What comes next? XBOX ThreeSixty? #WTF!? XBOX One, as for "One box for all entertainment". Quite simple and intuitive, actually.

Yeah because it totally sucks on the PC.