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I can install my own OS on laptop, tablet, or phone. Or remove the microphone without anything breaking.
It's extremely difficult to remove the microphone from any of those things.
This takes care of the used games issue but it doesn't take care of: - $100 more expensive than PS4. - Kinect always included, always connected and always on. Cannot be removed, disabled or turned off. - Netflix behind Xbox Live Gold paywall, available for free on PS4. Plus other numerous functionality complaints such as it's supposed to be the way you watch TV but it isn't a DVR, you still need a separate DVR. And i…
... oh, and the old Xbox 360, I guess. That'll have to just use the composite input to the TV.
It doesn't matter they already showed me what kind of company they are over and over again. The fact that they would try this in the first place says something about them. After all these decades, nothing's changed about Microsoft. And don't even try to feed me that BS about "companies exist to make money". No. They. Do. Not. A company exists to create a solution to a problem or fulfill a need. In exchange for provid…
Yes they do.
> People don't start companies thinking "I'm going to start a company to make money" .
Yes they do.
You've clearly never met any business majors.
This takes care of the used games issue but it doesn't take care of: - $100 more expensive than PS4. - Kinect always included, always connected and always on. Cannot be removed, disabled or turned off. - Netflix behind Xbox Live Gold paywall, available for free on PS4. Plus other numerous functionality complaints such as it's supposed to be the way you watch TV but it isn't a DVR, you still need a separate DVR. And i…
Netflix has always been behind the Xbox gold paywall. Give them credit for addressing some of the more pressing issues. It was enough to sway me back after considering a PS4.
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Has Microsoft ever done anything like the removal of Linux from the PS3? That is what will stop me personally from buying another Sony console.
Has Microsoft ever given the possibility to install Linux on the XBox 360?
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The people complaining are only a fraction of their total customer base.
Pressure doesn't just mean vocal pressure. By now I assume they have preorder data from Amazon, etc. (For Amazon, the PS4 has been a top seller in the videogame category for most of the past week despite being split up into multiple bundles.)
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Personally, I don't care if the Kinect is always connected if the thing isn't online at all. Also a $100 Discount doesn't have any traction with me regarding all of the bad will they created from the decades of pushing highly proprietary technologies into the market. Their terrible practices for me hit a crescendo when they made my life miserable via in-laws putting Sony rootkit audio-cd's into their PC. Nope. Not ge…
Sony has certainly done some heinous things in the past, but so has Microsoft. So, pick your poison.
Personally I think Microsoft will have to drop the price of the xbox one to match the PS4. I think people will look at the Kinect and ask if it's really worth paying an extra $100 for. The answer will be a resounding no.
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How do I lend a game to my brother who lives on the other side of the U.S.? If you're going to make the argument that discs are "good enough" you sound a bit like people saying letters are "good enough" compared to e-mail. There are obvious advantages to digital content but it sounded like to get those advantages Microsoft decided it needed to add some "DRM-like" experiences. I'm not going to say it was the right tra…
The "family sharing" aspect of Xbox One has been compared to iTunes Home Sharing. If that's the case, you wouldn't have been able to share games with your brother anyway -- Home Sharing only works for systems that are on the same Wi-Fi network. I don't think Microsoft's original idea was as cool as you think it was.
[1] 'I could name a friend that lives 3,000 miles away as one of my "family members" Mehdi said.' http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/06/microsoft-defends-the-...
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Pressure doesn't just mean vocal pressure. By now I assume they have preorder data from Amazon, etc. (For Amazon, the PS4 has been a top seller in the videogame category for most of the past week despite being split up into multiple bundles.)
So has the Xbox One, although there's only one SKU so far.