bippitty

Then why can I not unplug the Kinect. Obviously, it's not actually needed.

But, hey, we can all totally trust Microsoft. Microsoft would never screw us. Nothing ever gets hacked. Nobody ever lies. The government is never spying on us.

So I'll just leave it plugged in 24/7 and trust.

Drexl

While I agree that many games will be on the PC, I think it's just that we're in a multiplatform world now, not due to Windows 8.

The only thing that's unified is the Metro component, which is WinRT in mobile devices. I doubt that developers will produce "hardcore" games for that environment as it would limit their audience to those with Windows 8 (which hasn't been received very well so far), and they wouldn't run well on mobile devices anyway. The vast majority of PC gamers are still on Windows 7 or earlier, so they should produce games for the desktop component for some time. Heck, many new games still support DirectX 9 (and thus XP), and it's been 6 years since Vista launched with DirectX 10.

pinata242

Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that I expect Halo 5 to run on a smartphone, I only meant that the X1 will be more like a Win8-PC than ever before, so it makes sense. I merely mentioned the tablet and mobile as a stream-of-consciousness L&F unification.

K&AJones

I look it this way...prior to all this latest news of spying and data mining Xbox One was being touted more along the lines of "All-In-One" console...to extend possibilites of communicating, keep in touch, and entertainment besides gaming. All this generated some...wow...that sounds cool...from the public.

But that was then, and now with some latest reports some are concerned and worried. Take look at this report from the Huffington Post back on Febuary 2011 about Tech Giants Meet With Obama

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/0..._n_824358.html

The fact that the major tech giants of Google, Twitter, Facebook, Yahoo, Amazon and MS are big supporters of Obama and now all this spying and data mining has come to light especially MS ties to NSA. And how convenient that Kinect is now included in every Xbox One and have a connection once every 24hrs. If it's no big deal, you can have it off or what ever then why not optional package of buying a Xbox One with or without Kinect?

chuckd21

Terrorists do seem to play a lot of video games.

Music

Yep, especially FPS games, like COD and MoH....

Matthew Chmiel

People play MoH?

Raul3

bippitty

They do seem to be collecting data on everyone. "But we only look at the stuff we get about terrorists. We collect your data, but we never look at it. We double-dog-pinkie-swear."

And even if we could trust our government not to misuse our data...they haven't seemed to be able to protect highly classified weapon secrets from being stolen right and left. Why would we assume that they can protect this stuff?

dsa_shea

Wait until the government asks, actually tries to strong arm you into filling out the American Community Survey. The amount of data they would garner from this next gen console is miniscule compared to what this survey wants you to divulge.

bippitty

The American Community Survey sucks, but doesn't seem to be Microsoft's fault.

The fact of a camera/microphone sitting in my bedroom 24/7 is simply spooky. The way things are set up here, getting to the plugs every day would be a hardship. Easier, by far, to never buy the damn thing. And Microsoft can't charge me with a crime for refusing.

MoviePage

chuckd21

Bullshit. That thing has lots of inputs. I've seen 'em.

pinata242

Ah, comedic dyslexia. A classic.

MoviePage

Terrible slogan, but it's no more or less disastrous than anything else in this long, slow facepalm parade.

chuckd21

Facepalm one.

dsa_shea

Zero Dark One

discostu1337

I'm just hoping for a price and release date tomorrow so I can go pre-order it. Apparently Gamestop was informed to prepare for "staying open late Monday or early on Tuesday" for something. I'm guessing system pre-orders? There's no way they will pull an Apple and drop the system this week...with 0 games.

Matthew Chmiel

dsa_shea

Do they really expect people to come in late to pre-order? LMAO! I guess it is possible but it is also a huge waste of time.

discostu1337

Yeah the staying open late thing seems dumb, but opening an hour early on Tuesday seems plausible...I know I would go do it.

pinata242

At the risk of sounding stupid, you guys realize "input one" refers to your tv/receiver, right? The point is that the Xbox does everything so everything goes into "input one".

chuckd21

It's for the new Sega console.

Anubis2005X

At the risk of sounding stupid myself, I did not realize that.

Then again my receiver has custom named inputs, so my inputs are simply called whatever the source itself is.

MoviePage

Some alternative slogan ideas: