As the article says, to be fair, this issue is on a per-game/publisher basis, so we'll be seeing this shit on the PS4 as well. It's just that the X-bone has more of this bullshit out of the gate.

Which is, of course, just yet another reason why I'm glad to not bother with the "next gen" consoles any time even remotely soon.

"Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made." -- John Godfrey Saxe.

Personally speaking, I believe we can add video games to that as well. This has been my experience over the past decade or two, anyway.

"The Xbox One won’t function at all without a day-one patch Microsoft revealed."

*facepalm*

So, basically, if you buy a X-Bone (and you would be a fool to do so, in any case, even ignoring this issue), but don't have it connected to the Internet, you are pretty much, yes, boned.

(Found via owsf2000, because I don't visit Desucktoid at all these days on my own, unless I just happen to be linked there by someone else, as was the case here.)

Just goes to show that some people are very, very stupid. The only possible reason I personally would even pretend to want the X-bone to go back to using the asinine DRM would be to prove once ( Read more... )

Yeah, Microsoft still isn't the best.

So Microsoft decided to stop being retarded and backpedaled on most of the stupid bullshit that shouldn't have been there to begin with. Well, I guess that's good news ( Read more... )

Just yet another way in which Microsoft fails. It's almost comical at this point how badly they're doing right now.

I know next to nothing about this game.With that said, however, I'll make a comment on QTEs, or Quick Time Events. I don't have a problem with them, as long as they're done well. Usually, they're not done very well in a lot of games, but yeah. However, I find the notion of "fake QTEs" to be quite atrocious ( Read more... )

That title is rather misleading, based on the actual content of the article itself. What I got out of this article is that the PS4 will simply be doing pretty much the same thing the PS3 is already doing now as far as DRM is concerned, which is to just let the publishers do whatever they want, good or bad. I was not expecting otherwise, and ( Read more... )

Well, that just about does it. I'm pretty much going to go ahead and call it game over for Microsoft now. Sure, there will probably be a few Halo fanboys who will still buy a X-bone regardless, but aside from that, I'm thinking that this might very well be the last Microsoft console we see ( Read more... )