(All comments based after the E3 Microsoft and Sony conferences)
Originally Posted by
LABARINTH
My concerns with the Xbox One primarily revolve around two things. The first is buying used games. If used games cost as much as new games than that is crap. I should be able to purchase a game and then sell it if I am done with it. I expect to make back some of my money. I don't know that I agree that the developers should make any money off of used games because they already got paid once but I don't think I would care about a $5 activation fee. Say I bought a game for $50 and played it for 2 months. I could then turn around and sell it for $30. The person who buys it then has to pay $5 for activation. They get the game for cheaper and I got to play the game for 2 months and only spent $20. This seems fair to me. Anything more than a cheap activation fee is crap.
Apple is operating in the gaming space now. To the public, their games can't be shared and that's okay. Again, I get what Microsoft is doing ... only because Apple is just printing money at this point.
The biggest factor here is game price. A new console game is $60. A new app game is $1 to $10. If Microsoft were to go all digital and slash their pricing model ... the idea of sharing titles / used games just goes away.
Originally Posted by
LABARINTH
I am concerned that they are veering away from a gaming platform and spending too much time on TV and Video. No matter how good the TV and video features are I am not going to buy a new Xbox unless the games are substantially better. It seems to me that the gaming aspect is the more technically complicated to develop anyway. Any high end gaming device should be able to play HD movies. I like these features on my current Xbox and don't think they need to be improved much. If they are going to put out a subpar gaming machine and try to market it as a mediacenter I really doubt I will purchase it.
It can play games just fine. Microsoft will have games. They'll have killer graphics. They'll have Halo, Gears of War, etc ... but, as of right now ... they have nothing to show. I'm sure they're behind the development of all games.