Xbox One
un-Touch'd krew
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Reason number 435 why I never enter persoonal CC# into a service such as this. I can get a disposable CC to make any purchases online I may need without risking my info or banking details with insecure servers.
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You make a valid point. Can't you buy the PS+ card like you do for XBOX live, though? Then you're only entering a code. I have bought a few things from the PS store, though. :hs:
I totally forgot that happened.
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Better Than Canada!
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Better Than Canada!
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From: Baltimore, MD
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.
Second is the gaming capabilities of the Xbox One. 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.
The PS4 seems cool too. Although they are spending a ton of time developing the portable aspects of it. I don't care to play a game and then take it with me. If I have to stop playing and go somewhere I can't imagine being able to play on the go.
Second is the gaming capabilities of the Xbox One. 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.
The PS4 seems cool too. Although they are spending a ton of time developing the portable aspects of it. I don't care to play a game and then take it with me. If I have to stop playing and go somewhere I can't imagine being able to play on the go.
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