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You mean the ones you paid full price for like a sucker?

27 minutes ago on Xbox One confusion: Microsoft leaves used games and 'always-online' requirement unclear

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What’s giving you the idea the fee will be “small”?

28 minutes ago on Xbox One confusion: Microsoft leaves used games and 'always-online' requirement unclear 1 recommend

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Anyone living in a major metropolitan city literally is bathed in Wi-Fi hotspots

Yeah, not everyone lives in a major metropolitan city. In fact, most of us don’t. For example, even around New York City, the city itself has 8 million residents but the metro area has 40 million people. 32 million of those people are not “bathed in Wi-Fi hotspots”. Most of them don’t even have LTE. I didn’t think we’d need to be stating something that obvious. And this is the biggest metro area in the country.

And when was the last time you actively, intentionally disconnected your laptop, PC, smartphone, Xbox 360, PS3 or other digital drive, from the internet

Whether or not you do it “intentionally” doesn’t alter the fact that your stuff won’t work without that connection, according to what MS is saying. My internet, just outside NYC, goes down several times per week. You know how I normally pass the time when that happens? I usually play games.

30 minutes ago on Xbox One confusion: Microsoft leaves used games and 'always-online' requirement unclear

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He said it was a strategy, he didn’t say it was a good strategy.

I agree with that. It’s easy to see MS’s thinking here. The problem is that it’s stinkin’ thinkin’.

35 minutes ago on Xbox One confusion: Microsoft leaves used games and 'always-online' requirement unclear

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The first two comments are kind of stupid – it’s a US event held for the US unveiling of the console. What kind of stuff did they expect MS to show to US gamers, a bunch of AKB48 clips and dating simulations? The Japanese will have their own event.

39 minutes ago on Xbox One confusion: Microsoft leaves used games and 'always-online' requirement unclear 1 recommend

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My guess is that all the confusion (which Sony seems to be suffering from too, btw) is actually because they’re confused. I don’t think they’re trying to be evasive, I think they legitimately don’t know the answers. A lot of these quotes are coming from either a) executives, or b) random employees writing on the Xbox twitter account. I don’t know why anyone would expect either of those groups of people to understand the technical requirements and capability of the system at this stage. They should if they’re planning to talk about them, but in my experience, executives at any company are pretty far out of the loop when it comes to stuff like that.

44 minutes ago on Xbox One confusion: Microsoft leaves used games and 'always-online' requirement unclear

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But they let you buy new games at the used game price. That’s the point, and that’s how Steam gets around this problem.

The only reason why games are worth $60 is that everybody knows you can resell them for $30. But if somebody needs to pay a fee to use a used game, they’re not going to pay $30 to buy the game too. So games basically become impossible to resell, which means they’re not worth $60, they’re worth $30.

This is why this policy’s going to be self-defeating in the end, because they’re just going to sell fewer games. People don’t have unlimited money, most people have a finite budget for things like games and used sales get added into that budget.

So MS is either going to have to start heavily discounting games right from the start like Steam does, or they’re going to have to change this policy.

about 1 hour ago on Xbox One confusion: Microsoft leaves used games and 'always-online' requirement unclear 1 reply

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This isn’t MS bashing. This is honest reporting of what MS is saying. You want a positive MS article, tell MS to give us some positive news.

You want MS bashing, here’s some MS bashing: http://kotaku.com/that-xbox-one-reveal-sure-was-a-disaster-huh-509192266

about 1 hour ago on Xbox One confusion: Microsoft leaves used games and 'always-online' requirement unclear

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So is “Xbone” what we’re calling the system now? I kinda like it.

about 1 hour ago on Xbox One confusion: Microsoft leaves used games and 'always-online' requirement unclear 1 recommend

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All I want to do is press a button to turn on my system, sit down and play a game.

Which game console should I buy to do that?

This seems like a ridiculous question, but I feel like at this point, it isn’t.

about 16 hours ago on Xbox One vs. PlayStation 4: the next console war pits living room against cloud 1 reply

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Read some of the earlier comments in the thread about CableCard.

about 16 hours ago on Live TV on the Xbox One: Microsoft learns nothing from Google TV's mistakes 1 recommend

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I plugged in my CC, called my cable company to activate, done. Never thought about it again.

What’s so hard about this?

about 16 hours ago on Live TV on the Xbox One: Microsoft learns nothing from Google TV's mistakes 1 reply 1 recommend

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Cool, let’s design an entire game and entertainment system around you.

about 16 hours ago on Live TV on the Xbox One: Microsoft learns nothing from Google TV's mistakes 1 reply 5 recommends

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Because they’re mandated to by law, and they do it, as millions of people using CC devices will attest.

This is not new technology. MS is way, way behind the curve here.

about 16 hours ago on Live TV on the Xbox One: Microsoft learns nothing from Google TV's mistakes 4 replies 2 recommends

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Jesus Christ, have you ever heard of CableCARD? Has Microsoft? Has The Verge or its readers?

How do you people think TiVo works?

about 16 hours ago on Live TV on the Xbox One: Microsoft learns nothing from Google TV's mistakes 3 replies 2 recommends

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Ok, again – why are you assuming people who use this need to “live online”? You’re sounding a lot like EA before the SimCity debacle here. A lot of us just want to play some games and watch some TV. Why do we need to “live online” for that? And why shouldn’t we expect privacy when doing those things?

about 21 hours ago on The Xbox One will always be listening to you, in your own home (update) 6 recommends

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My goodness, you’re making me nostalgic for my childhood, before I’d heard of things like “hackers”, “government surveillance” and “lying corporations that lie all the time”.

about 21 hours ago on The Xbox One will always be listening to you, in your own home (update) 2 recommends

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Bad argument. Nobody needs anything other than food and water and a way to keep the external temperature in a range that won’t kill you. So let’s all just go back to being cavemen and nobody will have anything to complain about, right?

Fact is we live in the modern world. I don’t see why manufacturers should be able to get away with saying “look, we’re going to give you all this awesome stuff… as long as you sell your soul.” No, nobody needs to buy an Xbox One. But nobody needs to stay quiet about why they won’t buy one either.

about 21 hours ago on The Xbox One will always be listening to you, in your own home (update) 2 replies 4 recommends

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Most people don’t use their receiver every time they watch TV.

That said, I’d bet this is how they’re using the IR blaster thing. The channel switching in the demo was too quick to be being done through an IR blaster. I have a feeling the IR blaster will be for your receiver.

Honestly, though, this is not going to be any better than any universal remote. I’ve tried a million of them and there are always various functions they can’t do, or don’t do well. I’ve tried learning remotes too; I forget where I’ve mapped stuff, the layout isn’t right, or whatever, and I end up using my original remotes half the time anyway. You know that’s going to happen with this Xbox.

about 22 hours ago on Xbox One: our first look at the new console, controller, and Kinect

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It looks like the Media Center guide from like 5 years ago, with the Windows 8 font.

I can understand how people running older cable boxes might think anything looks better, but there are a lot of boxes out there now (from both cable cos. and third party manufacturers) that have better guides than this. The guide is definitely not a selling point of this thing for me.

What would be a selling point would be not having to switch inputs all the time and use three different remotes, but it looks like it’s missing a bunch of the DVR functionality that I’ve come to take for granted, and it stores stuff in the cloud. So even if I buy one, I will almost definitely still use a second box for my DVR and live TV watching… which kinda defeats the purpose.

about 22 hours ago on Xbox One: our first look at the new console, controller, and Kinect

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Moe: Am I really that ugly?
Carl: Moe, it’s all relative. Is Lenny really that dumb? Is Barney that drunk? Is Homer that lazy, bald, and fat?
Moe: Oh, my God, it’s worse than I thought!

about 22 hours ago on Xbox One: our first look at the new console, controller, and Kinect 10 recommends

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Wah wah wah…

You Europeans and your fancy “time zones” and “internet TV” and “indifference towards the NFL” – it’s just bitch bitch bitch with you guys today.

about 22 hours ago on Xbox One: our first look at the new console, controller, and Kinect 14 recommends

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Yeah, but then 15 years later there will be an article on The Verge about how that never actually worked and it was all in your head.

about 22 hours ago on Xbox One: our first look at the new console, controller, and Kinect 1 reply 2 recommends

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Not sure why you put “works” in quotes – it works, no air quotes needed.

And I’m not sure you got the point. The point isn’t about you having all this choice of boxes to go out and buy. The point is that anyone can make a box. Whether or not many manufacturers right now are choosing to do that is not the issue; the issue is they could if they wanted to. The poster I was replying to seems to be under the impression that they can’t. Anyone can, whether it be Microsoft, Sony or your dog. The cable companies have no say in the matter.

I probably shouldn’t have even used the word satellite, since it wasn’t even mentioned in the post I was replying to.

about 22 hours ago on Microsoft brings live TV to Xbox One with voice navigation 1 reply

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There’s no reason cable/satellite operators need to be on board. In fact, there’s an FCC requirement that says the opposite. I don’t know how MS is really planning to do live TV, but plenty of third-party boxes/DVR’s already exist and they don’t need to be sanctioned by the cable companies. They pretty much all use CableCARD, but MS didn’t specifically say this system (or some version of it) doesn’t have that, they just didn’t mention it at all.

If they really want to get this into as many homes as possible, it is entirely possible they will make systems with different ports/features for different regions to get live TV working where it’s being sold.

about 23 hours ago on Microsoft brings live TV to Xbox One with voice navigation 2 replies

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They said “all your TV shows will be in the cloud” at one point. So yeah, sounds like it’s a cloud storage DVR, which makes it a no-go for me.

It also doesn’t seem to do as much as my TiVo – it has no suggestions tailored to my tastes that I saw, for example – so I don’t think I’ll be giving that up. For all the talk about the system being about “you”, all the features I’ve seen of the TV functionality seem to be about everybody else. All you can see is what’s “trending” with other people, and what’s popular. I don’t need to know that; I need to find stuff I would want to watch that I wouldn’t find otherwise. I don’t need to know that everybody else using their XB1 is watching “The Today Show” – how does that help me?

about 23 hours ago on Microsoft brings live TV to Xbox One with voice navigation

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This was easily the stupidest demo of the presentation (so far).

They may as well have demoed Night Trap 2.

Really should have left this out of the event.

about 23 hours ago on Xbox One-exclusive 'Quantum Break' aims to blend TV with gaming for a 'revolutionary entertainment experience' 1 recommend

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Every system has its own proprietary file system. It would not technically work.

I suppose it’s possible you could put the PS4 version on one side and the XB1 version on the other, but then that’s always been possible with various different disc-based systems using the same basic format. It never happens, though, for the legal reasons others have mentioned.

about 23 hours ago on Five years on from HD-DVD's failure, the Xbox One has a Blu-ray drive 3 recommends

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The thing I’m wondering is if that means you can still use your cable box to watch TV, just through the Xbox One (basically using the Xbox as an easy input switcher).

There are a lot of features that the XBO is missing that my TiVo has and that I would not want to give up.

about 23 hours ago on Five years on from HD-DVD's failure, the Xbox One has a Blu-ray drive 1 reply

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In the freakin’ cloud. They mentioned that in an offhand comment.

I want to have one box to rule everything in my living room, but as long as it’s relying on the cloud, this isn’t it. No way am I going to tolerate sitting down to watch Mad Men only to discover that Xbox Live is down.

about 23 hours ago on Xbox One: a next-gen console with a focus on interactive TV and apps 1 recommend