DrDel
1906
Can’t complain about this can you?
Xbox Live Gold: We are bringing the Xbox Live Gold membership from Xbox 360 to Xbox One starting at the same $5 per month for a one-year membership, and now anyone in your home can access many Xbox Live Gold benefits on your Xbox One at no additional cost. Your primary Xbox Live Gold membership also travels with you to any Xbox One system. Xbox Live Gold offers a premium interactive entertainment service on Xbox One that spans across games, TV shows, movies, music, sports and more.
source: http://news.xbox.com/2013/06/e3-marc-whitten
They have always jockeyed for keynote appearances of big games. What’s different in this rumor is they are paying third parties to literally refuse to acknowledge PS4 versions of multiplatform games exist, not just at the press conferences, but on the show floor.
DrDel
1908
If they are planning a looong transition, that’s all the more reason to wait. Let the bugs get sorted out (including the new ROD) and the price to drop before purchasing.
May my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth if I buy this new POS from Microsoft.
Yes I can.
Xbox Live Gold is still a ripoff when the competition currently offers Netflix/Hulu streaming and multiplayer at no additional cost on their system.
Canuck
1911
You mean can’t complain because it didn’t get any shittier? Also, what do they mean “starting at $5 per month”? Are there going to be more expensive plans?
It’s $5 a month if you pay by year. It’s $10 if you pay month to month.
Quaro
1913
I can’t believe they did the:
“We totally support Indy games! Look at our shining example of Minecraft! All you have to do is sell 10 million copies and we’ll be glad to have you.” thing again.
Paying for online connectivity in 2013 is downright unacceptable.
RickH
1915
It’s complete horse puckey. But I maintain that MS can’t make its Xbox business plan work without the XBL revenue. They simply have no choice if they don’t want to get shut down for lack of a decent operating margin.
That said, I’m astounded that they aren’t making any real effort to transition all of those paying XBL customers to the new platform. Instead, they are creating a jumping-off point.
I don’t get this. WHY do you have to pay for online connectivity for a console that is all about the online connectivity? What am I missing here?
Even better is that if you already own the Xbox 360 version, you have the privilege of paying for the game yet again to play it on the One.
Yet, really, what are the chances that the vast majority of people who buy consoles will find any of these (well-considered and I think quite real) negatives a barrier to buying this thing? I really don’t know; how much of Microsoft’s console business depends on people who are simply playing a handful of AAA franchises–for which they bought the console–and who really don’t look any deeper than that? And how many are like the crowd here, assessing the new consoles as part of a much more complex gaming ecosystem? The former will, it would seem, probably line up and pay whatever is asked so they can play the games they play (and they don’t play much else), no matter how much the cognoscenti howl.
Me, I got out of the console scene a long time ago. I buy the occasional 3DS game and some iOS for mobile stuff, but my PS2 and two Xbox 360s sit dusty and forlorn, and will likely remain that way.
What kinda PC can I get for that price? Is that a next gen PC price? I might bail this gen and wait for next next gen. I sense a PC revolution!
I’m serious though. The reason I bought an XBox 360 is because the people I knew had one. If no one bites on this thing I’ll skip it. PC gaming seems to be going through a renaissance due to Steam, cheaper PCs, Kickstarter, etc. All the big name devs are using it. Might consoles be dying this round?
I’ll be honest, the ability to buy used, older games for a fraction of the price was a huge incentive for me. If they are strangling the used games market just to be greedy, it tells me their model just doesn’t work.
Indie development may yet kill consoles.
Just let me use a damn controller for all my PC games, dammit!
DrDel
1921
Buy 1 Xbox One + 1 year membership ($600)
OR
Buy 1 Sony PS4 = $500 (I am assuming… we will find out in 2 hours)
OR
Buy a gaming PC + monitor = $3-4,000, purchase a new system ($2000) in 2-3 years when the hardware is outdated.
I don’t see the cost savings in buying a PC that will not play up to date games in 2-3 years but an Xbox and PS 4 will still play recent games for the next decade.
DrDel
1922
You can get the glorious Onyou Android thingy for that price! Enjoy it! (Assuming yours actually connects to the internets)
Quaro
1923
You can get a console crushing gaming PC for about $1200. A decent one for maybe $900. Either would play anything in the lifespan of the console.
If you are already have or are going to purchase a PC to use as a PC, the cost is really just the difference in cost you pay to get a nice video card with it.
That gaming PC price is wayyyyyyyyyy over the top DrDel…
>.>
BEST PCs you can build for $600 or $1200
I feel like I’m going to have to see where all these Kickstarter projects go. I mean that thing could really revolutionize game development completely. And it seems to be geared toward PC at the moment.
