All I ask for is free online gaming, I can careless if they want to charge for Xchat or Netflix and all that other shit.

Why not? Perhaps...Perhaps they pull a Bayonetta 2 with The Last of Us!

One can dream, you know.

EDIT: We should play Gears of War sometimes! =P

Halo and the possibility of Rare making something with Banjo in it are pretty much what I would need to purchase a console that blocks used games. But even then, I will be hesitant to buy the console if none of my friends buy it and its sales stink.

Wow some Xboxs users are actually accepting this horse shit! They are actually trying to rationalize it, but oh well they do pay for playing online after all, they already let Microsoft get away with that one just to play Halo.

I know. ¬¬ I was just day-dreamin'.

I like the original, but I started playing online at the third one and I'm pretty bad with the first Gear. Lancer's pretty usseless sometimes, and that's my main weapon of choice. Gotta catch Gnasher's trick.

Exactly this. 

It's a free market, people do have the choice to buy it or not, regardless of what you think personally.


I own every Halo game on console and Halo 1&2 on the PC, I love my Sci-Fi so that's all that it will take for me to pick up the new machine.

Besides, my PC is online 24/7 with several hundred Steam games, even though I can set Steam to offline mode, how often have I done that? Never? Damn right.
In-fact my Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 are always connected too, just for the updates, exclusives and multiplayer with my poor PC-less brother, which over time I've bought all his Xbox games anyway.

What I'm *really* on the fence about is the Playstation 4, my Playstation 3 was connected for the updates and to play Blu-rays, nothing else, seems like a waste upgrading that console just to play back movies, but it was the best bluray player money could buy "back in the day", even if Sony lost money out that transaction and never made it back.

A really good kinect. I like the current one, but completely aware and acknowledge that it should be refined(more sensitive), expanded (larger area, more people), and quicker. It does some amazing and fun things that I don't see anyone else doing. (Samsung is trying, but failing poorly - and another company trying.)

In the way the Wii was exciting and new, the Xbox 360 has taken the spotlight from Nintendo. Even simple things like Kinect Party (Happy Action Theatre) and I am Super on Kinect Fun Labs, add extra and innovated play to your console is just amazing ways. There isn't anything else like it anywhere else on a console.

In my opinion Microsoft and Oculus are the leaders and innovators in the future of gaming hardware.

I like Halo, my buddy and I play lots of Gears, Dance Central, and a few other exclusives. But so many of the 3rd parties are all multi plat it really doesn't matter as much which console you have other than that little magic exclusives.

If Sony could pull of the next big innovation, I would be most curious. But I haven't seen anything that is a 'must play' and will lure me in yet.

So you have the ability to play steam games offline??

I was actually thinking about this.

Halo and Gears... Even if I was a fan of these games they are from THE most saturated genres of the last many years. I would not run out of quality shooters.

And even if by some twist of fate Metal Gear Solid 5 and Dark Souls II were exclusives on the DRM Box, I would still have second thoughts about buying it.

My PC is always online as well but I have have bad experiences with Diablo 3 and I played the game recently so I'm very worried about a machine that would brick momentarily every now and then.