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TheShape31 on 25 June 2012

The absolute worst, in no particular order...

-Region Locking
-Online Passes
-Paid DLC (for any game you paid for IN FULL at upwards of $60 (or more for collector's editions))
-$60 retail price tier for all new games, regardless of their budget, size, length, features, etc.
-DRM of any kind
-Being forced to pay to play X360 games online
-Console subscription plans (example: X360 at $99 w/ overpriced 2yr contract)
-Paying more to download a game than buy it at a retail outlet
-The lack of overall promotion of Indie games on any given platform (IMH the most creative games this gen)
-No new companies attempting to enter the console race

EDIT

-The utter lack of Free-To-Play gaming on consoles

EDIT

-3D gaming



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Significant_leap on 25 June 2012

"Console subscription plans (example: X360 at $99 w/ overpriced 2yr contract)"

this
if the nextbox goes that way, im not even considering the purchase..



Wagram on 25 June 2012

Motion Controls and 3D. I dislike all of it.



NintendoPie on 25 June 2012
Wagram said:
Motion Controls and 3D. I dislike all of it.

You also dislike the PSMove?!

Why?!



Significant_leap on 25 June 2012

i guess is like older people hating young people....you can accept whats going to replace you! :)



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Damnyouall on 25 June 2012
MDMAlliance said:
The region locking of the 3DS wasn't done for profits on games, it was done to make sure people don't evade the parental lock. Ratings of games differ from country to country. Buying a game from another country that would have been rated 18+ in the USA may be 13+ in Japan.

Hahahahahhahahahahha. Hahahahhah. Hahahhahahahhahahah. Haha. hahah. Hah. Hahhahahahahahahahahahah.
The Nintendo-brainwashing is strong with this one.
Funniest post in this thread. Here, have some more 

PS.
Game Boy, Atari Lynx, Game Gear, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, PSP, and Nintendo DS are all region-free. As is PS3 and the newly released PS Vita.



"Well certainly with the Xbox 360, we had some challenges at the launch. Once we identified that we took control of it. We wanted to do it right by our customers. Our customers are very important to us." -Larry "Major Nelson" Hryb (10/2013). Note: RRoD was fixed with the Jasper-revision 3 years after the launch of 360

"People don't pay attention to a lot of the details."-Yusuf Mehdi explaining why Xbone DRM scheme would succeed

"Fortunately we have a product for people who aren't able to get some form of connectivity; it's called Xbox 360,”-Don Mattrick

"The region locking of the 3DS wasn't done for profits on games"-MDMAlliance

MDMAlliance on 25 June 2012
Wagram said:
Motion Controls and 3D. I dislike all of it.


I see what you did there.  You pretty much said "I hate Wii and 3DS."



NintendoPie on 25 June 2012
Damnyouall said:

Hahahahahhahahahahha. Hahahahhah. Hahahhahahahhahahah. Haha. hahah. Hah. Hahhahahahahahahahahahah.
The Nintendo-brainwashing is strong with this one.
Funniest post in this thread. Here, have some more 

PS.
Game Boy, Atari Lynx, Game Gear, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, PSP, and Nintendo DS are all region-free. As is PS3 and the newly released PS Vita.

So you are saying Nintendo started to love money after they released their DS so then they made it Region Locked?



Damnyouall on 25 June 2012

They always loved money. That's why they invented region-locking back in the days of the NES. Until now they just weren't so greedy as to region-lock even their handheld systems. Or sell power supply units separately.



"Well certainly with the Xbox 360, we had some challenges at the launch. Once we identified that we took control of it. We wanted to do it right by our customers. Our customers are very important to us." -Larry "Major Nelson" Hryb (10/2013). Note: RRoD was fixed with the Jasper-revision 3 years after the launch of 360

"People don't pay attention to a lot of the details."-Yusuf Mehdi explaining why Xbone DRM scheme would succeed

"Fortunately we have a product for people who aren't able to get some form of connectivity; it's called Xbox 360,”-Don Mattrick

"The region locking of the 3DS wasn't done for profits on games"-MDMAlliance

NintendoPie on 25 June 2012
Damnyouall said:

They always loved money. That's why they invented region-locking back in the days of the NES. Until now they just weren't so greedy as to region-lock even their handheld systems. Or sell power supply units separately.

Selling those Power Units is a great idea to keep cost down!