@fanirama @Seymour47 @tidus2325x You neglected to add the cost of internet. I don't care if you say it's disingenuous or worst case scenario. It IS a required cost. And, yes, it's possible that games will stay at $60, but according to basically all reports as well as past trends, the price will rise to $70. Hell, you can even take the cost of Xbox Live out of the equation, because we don't know if that will be a requirement. You still end up with a cost of $1140.
@Jacksonfaction @Seymour47 You laugh, but consider what some less scrupulous governements (i.e. China) would do if they had a chance to actually view the homes of their citizenry at all times.
Here is the other problem people are not really considering: Always on connection + integrated Kinect system = internet accessible view into any room with an Xbox for someone that can hack their way in.
@kik4444 Unfortunately for Microsoft, a lot of poorer people in the United States still have an Xbox 360 and may not have reliable internet. This will destroy them.
@Shielder7 @joshianup06 Agreed. This is unlikely to make any significant changes to the PC gaming market. Despite what people claim, you really can't compare the two. The markets just aren't that similar. What you will have is an absolute destruction of the Microsoft Gaming department. Sony will recover from what has to be considered a fairly disastrous console generation with the PS3 (by their standards) and return to being the top dog in consoles. The Wii U is already pretty much dead an buried at this point.
@tidus2325x As a PC gamer myself, I can safely say that you are down right ignorant. I play the majority of my PC games offline. I live in a well connected part of the country, but my internet still sucks. I don't have connection issues, my it's pretty darn slow. If I had to play everything I have online, it just wouldn't work. This all comes down to an infrastructural limitation.
How about a different example? Do you want an electric car? My guess is you probably don't. Why? Because charging stations for electric cars aren't everywhere the way gas stations are. If I lived in an area of the country with no charging stations it would be pretty pointless to get an electric car. The same goes for this next so-called gaming console. If I am in an area of the country (or world for that matter) that doesn't have very good internet, I have no reason to buy this console.
Here is the other inherent problem with this console; the cost. Here is what I would consider an average yearly cost for this machine. $500 for the standard model. $15/month for Xbox Live (total $180). MINIMUM $30/month for high speed internet (total $360). I would say a new game about every 3 months @ $70/game (total $280). All told, you have just paid $1320 to play 4 games on your Xbox for 1 year. How does that sound to you? Have you 'gotten with the program' yet?
And none of this even touches on the potential privacy disaster that is having a Kinect system viewing your living room at all times and accessible over the internet.
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