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disolitude on 26 May 2013
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kitler53 said:
disolitude said:
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Yeah but Xbox 360 and PS3 didn't make sense in 2005-2006. People were saying "we don't have HDTV's. How are we supposed to enjoy these HD consoles to the full extent?". Same goes for always on now...

Lots of benefits come with always on including seamles game patches, cloud computing, instant game save load and game library access regardless of console and location. Many more... DRM is something that if done right, may cause an incovinience or two when internet is down, but in the long run it should protect the game developers and publishers, and allow gamers to fully enoy their retail bought games and sell/trade them when they are done.


that's a bit apple to oranges for me.  other than the menus in bioshock having too small of a font ps360 fully support SDTVs.  according to what has been reported xbone can only "play blu-rays and probably some game modes" without internet.

i agree, there are tons of benefits.  but like the ps3's blu-ray being too soon and costing sony billions..  this could be MSs big mistake.  well, probably not as be and at least MS has a far more stable source of income to rely on so they'll obviously be fine.  but this could cost them none-the-less.

I guess the definition of games working vs being enjoyable and played as they are meant to can be argued here. I played Dead rising on xbox 360 on a 32 inch SD TV while I was at my friends cottage for a week. It wasn't nearly as fun as it was on my HDTv at home.

We don't know yet for sure since we don't know what will be available without internet, but similar situation may be applied about next gen games and internet.

You will deffinetly not have as much fun without internet, but this may come with reduced content available and not lack of visual stimulation in the SD vs HD debate last gen. People buckled down and bought HGTV's throughout last gen... so wouldn't it be fair to say that it may time to buckle down and get high speed internet durring this gen?