| Xenostar said:
Yes and if you watched the video, he did say for him at least all the changes were for the better, doesnt change the fact they lied multiple times, and in case of DRM and Kinect also demanded that these desicsion could not be reveresed, before reversing them and the main point of his video NOT apologising. Yes things are better, but they lied and they didnt apologise. thats the point of the video and its all true. |
I am still confused on the lying part. The whole lying part was concerning Kinect and the DRM. MS stated that Kinect was integral to the X1 and nothing was wrong about that part. Once they understood that the current design was not going to sell, they had to CHANGE the system. MS even stated they had to remove a lot of stuff from the OS because of this change. Do people understand this very point. The system was designed to use Kinect just like your controller. It was an integral part of the system. Once MS decided to remove that tight integration it cost them a lot of time and resources, set them back months where developers were crying about not having a dev unit and the OS was incomplete. Its very simple MS had to make a choice. Remove X1 dependance on Kinect or risk losing even more sales because people are scared about the whole NSA stuff not to mention the people who did not want the device.
As for the DRM, it was all dependant on one thing, Retail game disk. Here was the problem MS had with trying to do a all digital system and also include retail games. If a person bought a disk from gamestop, installed it on their X1 they could immediately bring the disk back to gamestop and sell it for another game or get the used game price and still play the game since it would not be required in the X1 once it is installed and registered to you. How exactly do MS stop such abuse. The only way would be to enforce some type of DRM that checked to see if you still owned the license for the game. Now the big question is how often should the check be. 3 days, 5 days, 7 days. In that time frame, anyone could get the game, install it then had it to their friends and all of them could be playing the game at ounce and they could have taken the game back to gamestop all at the same time. This was the big flaw in MS plan because it was dependant on the 24 hour DRM to insure that abuse of the system did not happen. I am sure MS could have come up with a more palable solution but the reaction was so strong that they never got off the ground.
The parts that I thought was great was the ability to Sell, Trade, Gift your digital games. Currently we still do not have this ability but gamers seem to be ok with this form of DRM. Having 10 people on your family list that you could share games with was also pretty decent as well. There was a lot of upside to what MS tried to do but because they did not have everything worked out on release, their message was muddly. Only bits and pieces of the full details were scattered so people took what they knew and what others told them and ran with it. Its evident that Sony caught MS by surprised because a lot of the infrastructure needed to do what they were attempting was not in place. I personally would love to see how the system would have fleshed out and maybe MS will release a all digital console for just that purpose. Maybe there can be a decent solution to retail and digital that everyone can agree on.
As to the video, the main reason why its fanboy dribble is that at the end he comes out and say. Oh I torched X1 with a whole bunch of opinionated bile but the device isn't bad. How many post have you seen people say, "I am not a fanboy" but then the rest of their text is exactly that. I am not even calling this guy a fanboy but his tactics are the same.
