False equivalence. Unlike a windows based PC, the Xbox One is a closed system with a limited life span. A game purchased today for PC could benefit from hardware upgrades in perpetuity.

Apparently you need to read the thread one more time yourself.

Let’s see the money.

Except it will be, and I know that because I read the article. Four years was all that the original Xbox got, and support for that dried up in the last year as resources shifted to development for the Xbox 360. That had backwards compatibility too, but if you didn’t upgrade you were SOL if you wanted any new software.

So why would anyone buy an Xbox One now, knowing that it was going to be obsolete in a year?

Same argument against Indiana Jones, who is a schoolteacher instead of a thief, and yet is still awesome. Would Raiders of the Lost Ark have been a better movie if Indiana Jones had been killed by a blow dart in the first five minutes of the film?

Apparently it’s not targeted at an audience who hates awesomeness.

You control like a clunky, gummy, unresponsive mess. :P

What do the two word bubbles under the statue say?

Still not the HD version that I’d wanted unfortunately.

Phantasy Star Online 2, I assume.

For a fraction of a second, I thought there was a HD version of the old Genesis game that I had somehow missed hearing about. Sigh.

Actually, I even liked that in its own way. I still prefer the original obviously, but it worked with the tone the trailer set.

Was I the only one that actually liked the trailer?

I would give my left testicle for a Star Wars: Rogue One / Mercenaries cross over. You hear me EA?! You shuttered Pandemic, but you can’t stop the love!

This isn’t even his final form!

On the internet, deadpan satire is usually less common than mouth-frothing zealotry. Mea Culpa.

Hardly a flop. It sold over a million units, and my friends and I played the hell out of both it and it’s three expansions. The servers were always packed, and 16v16 matches were awesome. I wish they’d do a full sequel to the game, minus the additional resource management and base building that Starhawk introduced.

Every time I see a trailer for a game like Elite Dangerous or EVE Valkyrie, I imagine what it would be like to have EA announce a full on reboot of the Wing Commander series. Can you imagine launching off the Tiger’s Claw again with modern graphics? Or.... in VR?

Ayn Rand said a lot of idealistic things that don’t hold up in practice.

What happens is that no one will innovate because after millions of dollars of R&D someone can come along and leech your good work and build it cheaper without having to pay for the development.