Orth's response was that he and Manveer Heir are friends and they were going back and forth at each other for fun, joking with each other as it were. MS has also said that Orth is not a spokesperson for the company and his statements do not reflect blah blah blah. Personally I have no interest in online console gaming. I grew up in the 8 bit and 16 bit eras, where you had to have actual friends to play your games multiplayer. I think the real twist is going to be thus: the system will be "Always On" because it will not have physical media. No more discs -- you simply pay the $60 or however much people pay to rent their video games nowadays and it will be downloaded to your cloud space. So if you want to play the game you HAVE to be online. Also, PA weighs in on the "Always On" debate. Moderately NSFW for the last panel's dialogue: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2013/04/08
On Monday, April 8, 2013 5:30:33 PM UTC-4, cwpreston wrote: > http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/failblog/~3/AE3u9PwjYpo/7264745216 > > It's a terrible idea that's failed before. Rather than try to explain the > decision to customers, the new creative director blows them off and then > results to insults. Good move, Microsoft. Any chance I had of picking up > the next gen XBox just went down like the Hindenburg. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Unique Geek" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
