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Originally Posted by Den-O

At this point the specs are near identical. Which then makes this a choice based on policies and franchises. I love Halo to death, always have. But I'm not willing to pay $100 more to get the system it's exclusive to. I'll gladly take my Final Fantasy (which I know will be cross platform) and Metal Gear over here in PS4 land where I save $100 right off the bat.

Then we get to policies. Yes, Microsoft has back pedaled to where we are now making the two options even more similar. But let's be honest here. The technology that allows Microsoft to lock out used games will still be present in the final release of the XBOne. It's true that developers have the ability to lock their games as well but MS literally incorporated this into the system itself. This far into the process there's nothing they can do to remove it from the system. It'll just be dormant until they decide to sneak it into an update a year from now after they've taken people's money. Same thing can be said with the proposed way the Kinnect would monitor users while playing games.

Sure there is, it's just firmware. Any hardware can do it as long as it's coded to do so. That being said, there's nothing saying it can't be added later, either, to either console.

Again, I don't see this happening though. Microsoft thought they had a good idea to pander to the gaming studios, since clearly their efforts on Windows has amounted to nothing doing. In return, they realized that letting friends borrow or play a game isn't going to put anyone out of business and some money is better than no money at all, as this scenario shows.

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Originally Posted by Locke

I still can't fathom why anyone would pay these ludicrous prices for these things between the shady business practices and general lack of focus on the fucking games. Just get a gaming PC.

I missed this earlier.

While I agree completely, being a PC gamer myself, there are people out there that don't want to deal with PCs and their issues just to play a game. Driver updates, uninstalls, background processes in Windows, etc. and just want to pop in a disc and play. I can see both sides of the argument though.

I like messing with my PC. I don't like having to find solutions to problems, but I'm more than knowledgeable and patient enough to work around what ever arises. Not everyone is like that however.