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xJbownagex said: 2 - there was Nintendo bringing out the Wii Mini, which is essentially a rip-off and yet people were defending it and saying it was a "bargain." 3 - Sony forcing us to pay for online in order to play multiplayer on PS4. 4 - EA incorporating the online pass into titles and putting microtransactions into their games. Not to mention the DRM. 5 - We should be bashing Sony and Microsoft for having large failure rates on their consoles. 6 - We should bash Nintendo for releasing their console prematurely with little to no killer titles. |
I removed the subjects that I don't have enough info to talk about, but I will give my 2 cents about the rest. Personal opinion, of course:
1 - I don't see it as wrong. Kinect is a controller, as the Dualshock or XBox gamepad. If it is expensive and the console SKU will be priced higher, then it's a consumers choice if it is worthy or not the price.
2 - Force PS Plus to play online is something that I didn't liked, not even a bit. I got Plus anyway because I will play online on PS4 and because of the free games (of course!) and it looks like I will have to just deal with it to play online on PS4.
3 - That is totally crap bullshit from EA. But they aren't the only ones doing that, Sony, Rockstar and others do the same (just to point that EA isn't alone on this). Online passes don't affect me that mich because I only buy new games, but my point of view about DRM is that, even whent you don't want to do something that violates the rules, it will simply not work.
An example: original softwares, bought legally that simply have license issues and require me to contact their tech support and so on, while a pirated copy would just work (not defending it, just pointing what happens)
Microtransactions just remove the value of competitive online multiplayer because you can buy your way to the top. Always online DRM is a game over for me. It's the problems of my previous example several times worse. My point is: I don't grab pirate copies of games, but I won't buy games that create problems to the legal user to avoid the pirate ones, it's like being punished by paying for the game.
4 - Until now, the failure rates looks good, it's high end tech and it will have more issues compared to old one. Unless we get a new report about failure, the current info points to a much more smoother launch than previous generations. I will hold my purchase of a PS4 until July-November 2014, like I did with Vita.
5 - For me the problems isn't the lack of killer titles. When I buy a newly launched console I expect it to have only a few games and only 1 or 2 games of big franchises. You buy it because of the future promisses, it's a 5-7 year investment. For me, Wii U tried to focus on the 2 screens approach like it would change the world and it simply isn't a game changer. Even DS success isn't because of it, and that works much better when the 2 screens are close. My point is that Nintendo saw it as a killer feature, but nobody cared. Now they have 2 competitors that have a lot of horsepower, better features and online mode and aren't much more expensive.
