One XBox to rule them a... oh, screw it

On 05/21/2013 at 04:44 PM by Elkovsky

(Note that the following blog will probably be a bit more rambly/ranty and less well thought-out than my NES reviews tend to be, so bear with me as I vomit my immediate thoughts onto the internet with limited editing. Also, I might be wrong on some of the facts I'm citing, so feel free to (constructively) point out any outright misinformation contained herein.)

I've been reading a bit about XBox One's unveiling, and I've come to a conclusion: I still don't give a crap. The mandatory install situation seems like a bad idea for the used game market (and therefore collectors like myself), and it's not like hard drive capacities are infinite, especially when dealing with large games. There's this move in technology towards cloud-based everything, and I don't exactly like the idea of needing to be always connected to play single-player games. Granted, what I've read doesn't indicate this is going to be the case across the board, but if a developer decides to have some server somewhere shoulder some of the processing burden, what does that mean for the handful of

leeradical42

05/21/2013 at 05:10 PM

Being that im all for used games and offline play and the fact that i collect games as well and could really give a ratts ass for all the other crap they have on the console besides gaming and if this is infact the direction they are moving then you better stock up on physical games cause it looks to me everything is going to go digital.

Cary Woodham

05/21/2013 at 07:11 PM

I just got home from work so I haven't read anything about the new Xbox announcements. As soon as it has enough fun games that I want to play, then I'll really be interested.

Super Step Contributing Writer

05/21/2013 at 10:15 PM

I still kind of give a crap, but I really doubt I'll get one. I'll see what they put out at E3, but according to a UK something-or-other rep-guy I saw was the title of an IGN article in the sidebar of their coverage on this, it needs to always be connected to Kinect. No thanks.

Temperance

05/22/2013 at 02:52 PM

What happened to the rest of this? Actually, this reminds me of some of the old glitches on 1up where it would just eat the second half of a blog.

Anyway, to comment on what I can see, Microsoft seems to be intent to do everything in its power to make this system unappealing. Between tying games to a single unit and requiring you to check in once a day through the Internet, I just can't be bothered with any of this. Console gaming is finally slipping into the routine that pushed me away from PC gaming. Every company wants to know what you're doing with their game, and I don't care to put up with that attitude anymore.

PixlBit