thranx said:
Nem said:
Pretty funny that the vocal minority seemed to be in the majority when the cheers happened on the Sony press conference. This idea that progress comes at the cost of the rights of the consumer needs to go away.
What microsoft presented us with is not, nor will be the innovation or the future. It needs to be tweaked and you need to give the consumer a choice and not force it down their throats. It just wouldnt ever happen in the form microsoft was trying to do it.
Nothing was lost here. On the contrary. We're now on the right track.
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take a look at the steam thread about the same thing. it would have been a great thing for people, just like steam has been great for consumers of PC games. Its too bad there is no innovation this gen from sony or nintendo. Just more of the same. No new inputs, no new groundbreaking anything. what is there to be excited for? Suped up versions of previous consoles? thats what PC are for. I feel the industry is shooting itself in the foot right now. Hopeful;ly the wii u succeeds at least.
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You dont understand. Steam practices low prices, microsoft would never do that.
This might've worked with PSN cause Sony is very dynamic with the prices and sales, but on Xbox live it would be near theft.
People forget that the situation on the PC is quite different. PC was rampant with piracy. The consoles arent because there are many ways to prevent it like the system updates mandatory for Shop view and multiplayer. This means that you cant mod your console or you will lose several benefits. This wasnt the case on the PC, so the only option was steam with DRm but low prices. The low prices are paramount to the acceptance of digital content. Microsoft will never adopt that model.
Also, there is no innovation in that. What a silly thing to say. We can have our digital copies on our consoles today and we dont need DRM for them. What kind of benefit was microsoft adding to that? None, they were making it more restrictive.
