@rawsavon If you - as a business - want to include a game in day one console edition, it must be ready a lot sooner (it must be ready in the factory where the console is assembled and packed) - the disc must be manufactured, printed, the inlay and manual/vouchers/leaflets need to be printed, everything put into the game case and the game case must be put into the box with console.
So you need like a couple of months to do everything (lock and verify data + release the game + manufacture and console + transport + warehouses + distribution...). Which is basically now. :-)
@cubachino I know that this is again about a "choice" but I would never go back to plaing from the game disc - the texture and objects popping, long loading screens... And I am talking about DVDs, which is like 5-10 times less data.
Moreover, with USB 3.0 External drives, there is no need to worry about free space, you will be always able to buy whatever size fits you most.
@DVONvX In comparison with calling somebody an "idiot", my "jokes" are quite modest, you should admit. ;-)
But there is no point to discuss any further. You obviously see the Kinect as a "spying" and "unnecessary" thing, I - on the contrary - can see its benefits and added value. For me the Xbox is not only a gaming machine. Voice commands are great, I also like my whole family is/will be able to use it very easily and play Kinect games with 6-year-olds.
@soolar79 @wizaard88 Sorry, I'm not from the US. Maybe that's why I managed to keep my mind clear and not rush into conclusions so fast. ;-)
It's just that the whole console wars and fear of "spying" amuses me. Everybody is on Facebook, Twitter, Gamespot, shares everything, all the companies are bound with law and MUST give your info when authorities ask for it, yet when MS does it, you complain...
So, according to the comments: MS gives us games (I'm intentionally avoiding the term "free", because it is not free) but it is somehow and for some reason bad for PS fanboys. That tells me something about certain people... ;-)
@armyown Didn't you unintentionally switch the consoles/sides in your comment? ;-) I mean in most of the cases it it the other way around here on Gamespot...
Jesus Christ! Online gaming on Xbox is for Gold members only. I thought we'd been through this discussion thousands of times. Yet there is still a good occasion to pull it out.
Yes, everybody is pissed about it (to use the Ouya CEO's words), everybody complains about it, yet everybody pays for it, but is it really necessary to talk about it again and again (and again)? It is simply the way it has been for years and it is not changing.
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