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Google bluffed, and got called on it.

about 8 hours ago on Microsoft and Google working together on new YouTube Windows Phone app 3 recommends

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No worries, we’ll all still be here when you decide to come back to Earth. Take your time.

about 8 hours ago on Microsoft and Google working together on new YouTube Windows Phone app 2 recommends

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No, Bing video is not Microsoft’s answer to youtube, it’s just a search interface for video similar to image search.

about 8 hours ago on Microsoft and Google working together on new YouTube Windows Phone app 3 recommends

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Disagree. It wasn’t earth-shattering, but it was plenty good enough to leave me eager for season 2. Go back and watch it again, now that you know the characters.

about 8 hours ago on On The Verge is coming back 1 reply

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This isn’t terrible but it still requires you to literally be always online. Why not just set it up so that you can play the game either online, without the disc, or offline, with the disc inserted?

If I give or sell you my game, you can install it and play. If you are offline you will need to put the disc in to play, but the moment you go online, the digital license will transfer to you and I will no longer be able to play it.

Yes, this presents the potential issue of two people playing one game, if one is always online and the other is always offline, but I wouldn’t give someone my game disc and take them at their word that they would never go online. The moment they broke their promise I would be out of a game, so that kind of trickery is not worth the risk.

1 day ago on An interesting approach for used games on the XBOX ONE...

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Otherwise you might have trouble distinguishing opinion from fact?

1 day ago on Lenovo avoids the PC decline once again as HP and others slump 1 reply 3 recommends

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I’m not taking that at face value.

2 days ago on The Xbox One will always be listening to you, in your own home (update) 1 reply

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Come on, do you really think the camera will be operating when the Xbox is in standby?

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

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Firefly, I like your comments most of the time but you’re seriously off base on this thread.

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

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Yes, but all that quality television is on 7 or 8 channels. But of course you need to pay $50+ so they can shove a glut of hundreds of other crap channels down your throat.

3 days ago on Live TV on the Xbox One: Microsoft learns nothing from Google TV's mistakes 1 reply

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Block the microphone too. Stick a cotton ball in front of the mike and wrap some duct tape around the whole thing. If it’s necessary. Which again, I highly doubt the device won’t function without kinect.

3 days ago on The Xbox One will always be listening to you, in your own home (update)

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That’s not what I meant, I meant that I doubt the box won’t function without the Kinect on.

3 days ago on The Xbox One will always be listening to you, in your own home (update) 1 reply

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Nowhere in the presentation did they say it required the Kinect to function. This is officially the newest scaremongering tech rumor on the Verge and yet it doesn’t pass the smell test because it defies common sense. Surely you can operate the Xbox with just the controller the way you always have.

3 days ago on The Xbox One will always be listening to you, in your own home (update)

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There’s no way this is true, I’ll eat my hat.

3 days ago on The Xbox One will always be listening to you, in your own home (update)

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Forgive me for not taking everything in Verge articles at face value, but I highly doubt it. What possible explanation could be given for requiring the kinect to even use the device? It’s not like there isn’t still a controller.

If for some reason that statement is true (and I would be astonished if it were), put something in front of the camera to block its view. A bit of a ghetto workaround, but problem solved.

3 days ago on The Xbox One will always be listening to you, in your own home (update) 1 reply

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I doubt that.

3 days ago on The Xbox One will always be listening to you, in your own home (update) 1 reply

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In fact, the new console needs the Kinect to operate at all — it’s not an optional add-on like with the Xbox 360

Without a direct quote I call BS. As if you will be unable to navigate the system with the controller just as you have always done.

3 days ago on The Xbox One will always be listening to you, in your own home (update)

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Folks, folks, I have an easy solution to this problem.

When a game is installed on a system, if the system is online the system will check for prior registration and if found, will deactivate the prior registration. Either way, the online system will let you play the game without the disc inserted. However if offline, the system will still let you play provided the physical disc is inserted. Once online the system will automatically do the previously mentioned registration check/deactivation of prior registration.

Sure, this would potentially allow two players to be sharing one game, if one of them is online every time they want to play, and the other is never online at all. But how often will this situation happen that it will cause anyone lost money? I certainly would not buy a game that I want to own and sell the disc discounted to someone who promises they will never go online, cause if they do even once, I’m deregistered and can no longer play it. It’s just too big a risk.

3 days ago on Xbox One doesn't need always-on internet connection, supports used games (update)

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Basically, everyone is speculating just as before. What little new information we have is not really enough to determine how game licensing will work.

3 days ago on Xbox One doesn't need always-on internet connection, supports used games (update) 1 reply 1 recommend

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Yeah, there’s no way. Maybe he meant to say that games could estimate your heart rate based on your motion and your body size, which is plausible but not likely to be very accurate.

3 days ago on Every Xbox One comes with a next-generation Kinect 1 reply 1 recommend

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You’ve never seen a Surface?

3 days ago on Xbox One: our first look at the new console, controller, and Kinect 2 recommends

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…and now we know that you only say console gaming will die is because your favorite company is not a player in this market.

3 days ago on Xbox One: our first look at the new console, controller, and Kinect 3 recommends

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If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. The 360 controller is the most comfortable and ergonomic one I’ve ever used.

3 days ago on This is the new Xbox One controller 1 reply 3 recommends