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Greetings fellow gamers, the gameplay you're pretty much seeing is just me playing kill
confirmed and I think I get like joint first or whatever in terms of KDR but the score
per minute was just so much higher for me because I got like 3 Orbital VSATs or whatever...anyway
With less than week to go until Ghosts and not long until the second next gen console
comes out (because unfortunately the Wii-U does actually count as a next gen console)
and it seems from forums, polls and whatnot the PlayStation 4 is going to be the more
"popular" console but it's amazing how many people equate that to being the "better" console
when that is just not true.
Microsoft really have shot themselves in the foot when they announced the specs and features
of the consoles such as DRM and the "always on" policy because regardless of whether they
reversed their policy on that or not, the damage had been done, stocks had fallen, public
perception had been shifted and it had become known as the console that doesn't let you
share games and this was enough to give the PlayStation 4 which in my opinion isn't that
spectacular of a console an enormous lead.
But why is this? I'm not an expert by any means but I blame it on one thing, the fact
that the general public as a whole like "choice", I say choice but perhaps I should change that
to 'illusion of choice'. The Xbox One originally did have online checks every 24 hours meaning
you needed to have a solid connection when it made the check otherwise you would be locked
out of the console.
Now you could probably say that this made people feel like they didn't have a choice
and always needed to be online but the worse thing about this was that you couldn't play
games offline either which meant you either played with a working internet connection
or nothing, there was no bringing the console round to a friend's house or a hotel or wherever
you wanted to play it that didn't have an internet connection for more than 24 hours
which pretty much limited the places you could play it. What people don't seem to realise
is that has been changed and that it only needs an online check once and only once and
that is when you buy the console for the first time and that is fair enough, it may not be
ideal for people that do not have an internet connection but in this day and age in the
countries that the Xbox One is being launched in, the majority do have access to some sort
of connection.
That was probably the biggest problem people had or maybe it was the DRM. Put simply it
meant you couldn't share games but you bought the game installed it on your profile, but
you could go round a friend's with the disc and log in and play on your own profile no
problems but if your friend wanted to continue playing the game after you left they would
need to pay a fee or some sort to unlock it on their profile or something along those
lines.
Sounds complicated doesn't it? Not only that but people did not like the perceived lack
of choice when it came to second hand games. Pre-owned games were now rendered pointless
and going around to your friend's house with games were also pointless.
For those who slated Microsoft for that, what you need to realise that this model or a similar
version would have had its benefits and that would have been cheaper games (which may have
made up for the non-sharing aspect probably).
Just look at Steam, now I don't use Steam all that often but as far as I'm aware of
you can't share games on there either but whenever they do a sale, geez the prices drop
to ridiculous prices. I'm walking into GAME and that and I'm seeing the likes of Tomb
Raider and Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 at some high price like 15-20 pounds and I think I'm
not touching that (mainly because I've got the game already) but on Steam I'm seeing
them drop down to 10 pounds or something ridiculous like that.
I'm not saying that all games would be cheap but there were more chances of getting dirt
cheap A star games for low prices, in fact it probably would have been even lower to
encourage more people to buy it seeing as you couldn't trade it in or anything like
that, but as it stands now because of the backlash we gamers are now stuck paying 50
pounds for games that are rehashes or sequels like Black Ops...no not Black Ops, Ghosts
and Battlefield 4 when possibly who knows we would have gotten it for cheaper.
Perhaps this wasn't their intention as if they were going to make the games cheap they
would have focused on that on their E3 presentation but like I said I'm not an expert. I mean
I know I wouldn't have thought that claiming that Kinect is required and it always needing
to be on would have been a great idea for a highly anticipated console but hey what
do I know.
To be honest with you, Microsoft should have stuck with their vision of the Xbox One if
it was really...if it was going to be something that was really radical, they should have
stuck with their vision of it but as it stands now they have a console that doesn't really
have a distinguishing feature about it. Sure there may be some improvements like it finally
has a Blu-Ray player (even though it wasn't really their fault for backing HD-DVD), it
has Titanfall (though for how long is the next question) but the original design just
felt so restrictive and that's the part that sticks in people's minds.
So just to sum up my feelings on this, people really don't like feeling of being out of
control and having no choice, their disastrous presentation mixed with other factors really
bite Microsoft in the backside and let's not get started on the price because as I said
if they had stuck with a sort of Steam model and cheaper games, then the higher price point
would have been forgiven but as it stands you're paying 80 plus pounds more for something
that is almost identical to the PS4...for now. When Titanfall, Left 4 Dead 3 and all
those other exclusive Xbox One games come out...then it's a different story.
Anyway thank you for watching this video, I hope you enjoyed it, take care