A Microsoft turn around? The importance of games in gaming.

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walsufnir said:

Protendo said:
Microsoft not being to turn this around would be the best thing for the industry.

It'd send a clear message that DRM/Always Online/Requiring Gimmicks, are not the way to go. If they win, they will just try again. Let Microsoft eat humble pie. Thankfully, all Sony needs to do is a $100 price drop and they will win.

Yeah, because with Sony you don't have DRM, right? Seriously, in the current state where the consoles are in need of online connection for patches and updates operating a console without internet is close to no fun. But MS is the bad guy here, sure, and Sony the Angel sent from heaven.

Btw, Sony already is winning.

I can't believe how people easily forget what Microsoft tried to do and argue a completely different point.

True, having a console without internet is close to no fun, but MS tried to make its console non-functional without a daily internet connnection. Also, there are people (and a decent percentage I presume) that can actually have fun without internet at all. They buy a disc, play it and enjoy themselves. Sure, no updates and no online multiplayer, but unless the game is a crapfest without updates like AC: Unity (for example), they can still have a ton of fun.

Microsoft tried to block them from having fun completely without internet, to the extent that the physical disc would not work at all.

That is the difference --- nobody is arguing DRM, but physical disc DRM and treatment of all customers like potential criminals.