Microsoft has become that good looking girl you see on TV who ends up humiliated after a dodgy internet sex video.

Xbox One: Is there anything MS won't do?

A sticker, eh?

I suppose that takes the edge off the annual fee...

I must admit I get easily bored at times. If a game doesn't grab me, I will stop playing it - often not consciously, as happened with AC3, but sometimes because it just bores me (I'm looking at you, SupCom 2) to the point I snap and want to play something that makes me say "HELL, YES."

But that said, I can get addicted - An entire 24 hour playthrough of DX:HR in a matter of days followed by a 2nd go the same week? Yup. The bulk of Mass Effect 3 in just over a weekend? Aha. An almost annual compulsion to work through the mass effect series (frequently interrupted by the latest release)? Damn right.

It's this inconsistent approach that means I'll never play an MMO. I neither want to get sucked into it or just bimble through it making little progress.

Which reminds me, I should get back to the single player campaign of HotS. But only after completing/getting bored of Dishonoured (bought in the Steam sale).

It's really rather sad that the closed environment of a console is being used to shift the balance of power away from the consumer to the manufacturer.

Sony still seems to 'get' what players are willing to stomach paying for, while the PC operates in a free market economy (balanced out by its slightly higher entrance price point).

I don't see how MS can survive if people actually critically look at what they're being offered.

And I assume they've tested this on multiple units over a 10 year period?

It's a bold claim. I put my (Windows 8) laptop on standby regularly, but eventually I end up having to restart/power off because of the 'build up' of minor glitches.

Microsoft are going to end up with egg on their faces over this. Not because it will become a disaster (Well, probably), but because they've got nothing to back it up with.

As ever, the most irritating portion of the gaming community is the one which can't express itself without resorting to bad language and threats.

Perhaps switch age rating for some form of attention span or maturity rating?

I'm pretty sure many, many entertainment industries over the *centuries* have managed in the face of the 2nd hand industry.

Devs, you make your game and get your cut from initial sales like books, cars, DVDs, CDs and so on. Anything else is hubris of the highest order.

@Hurvl Well, I was implying that PC gamers probably won't be as beautiful as Swedes ;)

@DantheMan9856 Let's be fair, the GTA series just rehashes the same old theme - start as a low level criminal and work your way up to the top. Or have all your money stolen at the start of the game...for "variety."

Saints Row may be completely barking, but at least it tries to break out of its comfort zone in an era where most games are just new entries with the same gameplay in tired, long running series.

Console wars, eh? Does this make the PC the equivalent of Sweden? Neutral, big, full of ideals we aspire to with a reputation for beautiful people?

(OK, maybe scrap the last one)