DarthVolod said: Sorry the pictures are kind of off center... by a lot that is because I have a bunch of stuff in front of my shelf blocking it atm, and my phone camera sucks too. Microsoft's aggressive push of gold has put paywalls up over things that really don't need it ... like Netflix for example. It is silly to require gold for that when even my 3ds can stream it for free. While I still contend that the vast majority of people that will use DVR features will already have gold ... it is still kind of absurd, and I doubt it will encourage a single user to buy gold just for DVR usage alone. I like your analogy though. For me, the whale has made its way back to the sea between all the reversals, the positive news (indie friendly stance of Microsoft now, headset included, free games with gold ect.). It has not, however, fully made its way back out to open water. So long as Microsoft delivers on their promise of exclusive games and new franchises first year of Xbox One, it will have redeemed itself. It was a terrible E3, and no one can deny that. PS3 had a terrible E3 when it was announced as well, and they bounced back. Microsoft can do the same. |
You know I absolutely hope you're right, because there is this illusion a lot of people have that if Sony was gone from gaming or if Microsoft was gone from it, then the other platform would magically excel and get all the games and there would be no issues due to creating games for 2 sets of hardware.... This so isn't the case, in any market you need to have competition, without it whatever company is left over will stagnate and do nothing to impress their fans, they dont need to if the fans don't have an alternate option to choose from. I absolutely believe that if it wasn't for the imcoming PSP back when the GBA was just hitting it's stride we would only be looking at the middle of the DS's lifespan around now.
One damn annoying thing about having both systems tho is the incoming GTA ... I can't preorder it because I know as soon as I do there will be news that one version of it is far superior to the other and regardless of being a fan of MS or Sony I wanna play the best version of GTA5 that's around.... I'll prolly end up with both just to be sure heh.
I know you could now say that both E3s were kinda missing stuff btw, since outside of the crazy indie turn out the ps4 had there wasn't that many games but I really do feel if it wasn't for Tretton coming out and basically saying that ps4 supported gamers owning their own games there wouldn't have been any 180s on the DRM policies of the X1 and for that, as a game collector I'm eternally greatful to Sony.
Edit - Should be said that I have all of the games I've ever owned in my life... I still have my 2600 with it's games sat next to my 42" tv :D blocks so big they'll cut you! but still I love collecting them almost more than I do playing them! scary thought.
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