Xbox One’s Game Recording Features Restricted To Xbox Live Gold Members

[OdinHades]

Microsoft has one single problem: The consumer has a choice. There is a contender offering Netflix, Browsing Recording and all that stuff free of charge, on a console that is 100 $ cheaper. So if you have that option, why would you go for an Xbox One, if any of those features are of interest for you?

Sure, there are lots of people who will get live anyway, but those are not affected, just as PlayStation only gamers. But Microsoft really needs some selling points. They fucked up more than enough with Xbox One by now, putting features behind a paywall that are free on the competitor's platform won't do any good. And on top of that, it's 5 minutes with paywall vs 15 minutes for free. It really looks bad in comparison. It's like Microsoft thinks the Xbox will sell no matter what. But by now, I think they are in a really bad position.

I just checked at my local retailer yesterday and guess what: The PS4 is sold out completely.



See that empty spot just next to the Xbox One pre-order cards? Yeah, that's where the PS4 cards used to be. Nothing left there but still PLENTY of Xbox One. Sure, germany is Sony Land, but still, Microsoft really need to impress the consumer by now. They don't by clocking the GPU at 853 MHz. And news like that also won't help for sure. As the hardware is pretty much fixed, it's the services where Microsoft can still outshine the competition. so they really should go for that and not put features behind a paywall that are free basically everywhere else. I mean, paying a monthly fee just to use an internet browser? Seriously? Remember the outrage when Opera on Wii was sold for 5 bucks? And that was only a one time fee! It's beyond ridiculous if you ask me.

There are features that are completely fine paying for. But just putting everything into Gold just because "everybody has it anyways" isn't a very good argument. You won't convince anybody to got to Xbox instead of PlayStation that way. Things like that only make Sony look better. As a company, you don't want that to happen. Even if just some nerds on teh internetz read such news. It will spread.