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Raansu said:
Pretty sure that article is fake...For those who don't know, its called satire.
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Yeah. Follow the links, and you'll come to this one, which is a bit more reasonable (though, still not a good look for MS) ...

http://www.theverge.com/2013/6/14/4429218/xbox-one-may-not-work-in-unsupported-countries


Japan, one of the world's biggest gaming markets, is not on the list of 21 regions Microsoft says will get the Xbox One this year. Although Microsoft has struggled to make an impact in the country, the Xbox 360 did gain a small following among hardcore Japanese gamers, who would be the most inclined to take special measures to play the system ahead of a local release. With Asian countries unlikely to see the Xbox One until late 2014, gamers in the region may face a long wait with no recourse.
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Codemaster92163

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The PC isn't the quintessential gaming system. I own all 3 systems at the moment (PS3, Xbox 360, and a fairly powerful PC) and while the PC may have a lot of nice things about it, the inability to just lie on your bed/couch and not have to worry about how you're sitting can be a pretty nice thing. Every system has something nice about it xD just depends on what you want to do at any given time.
 
akhi216

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Codemaster92163 said:
The PC isn't the quintessential gaming system. I own all 3 systems at the moment (PS3, Xbox 360, and a fairly powerful PC) and while the PC may have a lot of nice things about it, the inability to just lie on your bed/couch and not have to worry about how you're sitting can be a pretty nice thing. Every system has something nice about it xD just depends on what you want to do at any given time.
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I agree, I was particularly giving the Xbox One/PC equation to denote the vastly similar DRM policies and restrictions on used/lending/trading games as a joke (which the Xbox One pretty much is). M$ has forgotten the main reasons why gamers buy consoles.
 
Raansu

Raansu

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Codemaster92163 said:
The PC isn't the quintessential gaming system. I own all 3 systems at the moment (PS3, Xbox 360, and a fairly powerful PC) and while the PC may have a lot of nice things about it, the inability to just lie on your bed/couch and not have to worry about how you're sitting can be a pretty nice thing. Every system has something nice about it xD just depends on what you want to do at any given time.
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Whatchu talking about? I play PC games from my couch all the time.
 
Codemaster92163

Codemaster92163

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So you're saying you can lie on your couch and your mouse works perfectly and your keyboard doesn't slide? Or do you just mean "sit" at your couch. I'm referring to just lying down.
 
ScattereDreams

ScattereDreams

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Latest from AngryJoe, he got a interview with Major Nelson


So Major Nelson said it himself. If publishers don't want their games to be DRM on the XB1 or if publishers/developers choose to allow consumers to resell/give away their games to whoever MS will work with them to allow that to happen. Will they live to this, or will it be a lie? But will developers listen to their fans and deny DRM for their games on XB1 is the question
 
d3v

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Some stuff.
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So the price point may partly be due to the having to production problems with the the onboard eSRAM.
 
Raansu

Raansu

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lol that's hilarious. So in order to save production cost they go with slower memory (and slower clock speed to stop over heating) and use esram to function in unison to help compensate for slower ram but the difficulties in production actually made it cost more in the long run...lmao So now they have inferior hardware and spending more to produce it and have hardware in a next gen cycle be out of date within 2 years. Should of stuck with gddr5 MS lol.
 
d3v

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Raansu said:
lol that's hilarious. So in order to save production cost they go with slower memory (and slower clock speed to stop over heating) and use esram to function in unison to help compensate for slower ram but the difficulties in production actually made it cost more in the long run...lmao So now they have inferior hardware and spending more to produce it and have hardware in a next gen cycle be out of date within 2 years. Should of stuck with gddr5 MS lol.
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In fairness, GDDR5 was fairly expensive back in 2012 compared to now. Sony just had the foresight to bank on it getting cheaper as time went by.
 
Raansu

Raansu

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d3v said:
In fairness, GDDR5 was fairly expensive back in 2012 compared to now. Sony just had the foresight to bank on it getting cheaper as time went by.
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It's pretty common for hardware to get cheaper over time. I don't think MS didn't have to foresight to see that. I just think they believed their method would ultimately save them money on production, and if they didn't run into issues with heating and running the esram with the gddr it probably would have saved them money. You would just think that their engineers would of seen these problems sooner and risked the gddr5 instead.
 
d3v

d3v

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Raansu said:
It's pretty common for hardware to get cheaper over time. I don't think MS didn't have to foresight to see that. I just think they believed their method would ultimately save them money on production, and if they didn't run into issues with heating and running the esram with the gddr it probably would have saved them money. You would just think that their engineers would of seen these problems sooner and risked the gddr5 instead.
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Most likely they were thinking that GDDR5 was to graphics focused for a system that focuses more on just video and multimedia.
 
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