Great great news on the no anti used and no always online for games fronts...as they should be

Your thread was based on an article dated 2012/11/21, this is 2013/04/10 and this also says that the small 360 can play 360 games.

I called that the stingray was this exact set-top box, and I also predicted it would not have a hard-drive.

The only thing that was wrong was the no-playing games, but 99$ and no games is virtually the same as 149$ that plays games. Stay mad.

That's how analysis is done, son.

Please be true.

Just a rumour at this point, but most of this seems plausible... Anyone with a shred of sense wouldn't have completely written off the Nextbox without waiting to hear from Microsoft. I'll continue to wait until their actual announcement...

If true though, The 360 b/c add-on for the Durango reminds me way too much of the DVD add-on for the original Xbox, and is a pretty shameless example of the nickel and dime'ing currently going on in the industry. Put a 360 disc into the Durango unit, and it asks to make sure the separate add-on is attached before it will play? Need some more clarification on that point. Makes it sound like the Durango has backwards capability out of the box, but they just restrict it... *shakes head*.

Curious as to why...because no backwards compatibility?

I am not your son, keep watching your tone. And perhaps read again "149$ or lower" - we don't know the price yet and it's of course easily changed by MS. Actually, all the rumors saying always on and no used games was stingray, after all. Doesn't affect NextBox. Good.

Because it would mean the gaming industry isn't becoming quite so anti-consumer as to make us play all our games online just yet.

This is why negative rumors can have a very positive effect when the nextbox announcement happens.