Your movie theaters suck, then. I go to quite a few different ones in my city and very rarely experience that at all (except in kids movies with young kids). Last problem movie I had was Chronicle and that was because of the theater and the teens, but even that was only for a short period at the start.

Wanna make it worse?

This reminds me how much I sucked at 19. Playing games all of the time instead of doing something meaningful to set myself up for later. Youth truly is wasted on the young ...

He collects different Ferraris.

How you read that and interpreted it as him saying that stuff is "more important" is not only puzzling, it's disturbing.

Since when did the writers of My Name is Earl start doing game commercials???

The distinct lack of vision is more on the on the reactionary gaming community and media, as they are the reason MS was forced to scale back their plans for the immediate future.

They may allow all of that for digital only releases, but it would've been cool to do all things with retail releases too. And, to be honest, I think it would've impacted costs more quickly than now. Now, the battle between discs and digital downloads (i.e. retail stores vs. game publishers) will be a lot more drawn…

Ok, I was thinking about about writing a blog post about this, but I don't know if it'd be worth the time or effort. Here's the thing: Microsoft was not ready to talk about ANY of this until later. That's clear. The whole reason this started was because people leaked information that there would be used game…

Don't be so facetious. The DRM allowed the checks and balances needed to enable the cool features so people couldn't take advantage of them beyond what publishers were going to allow. So that's that.

I think what disappoints me more than anything is the repeated cynicism I keep reading from gamers (media included) when it comes to future technology. All I've seen about next gen is disbelief about it instead of excitement. It's like the death of console gaming being a self-fulfilling prophecy or something, and…

And I don't think it's a stretch at all to believe strongly that some of the most vocal protesters were MS-haters that were just using F.U.D. to stir up the emotion driven mob-mentality that we saw all over the place. But, hey, they got what they wanted ...

There were those of us that knew there had to be an upside and wished the media (and thusly gamers) would focus on finding out what those were. We got called DRM-apologist by the typical mob-mentality driven crowd on game sites. Yeah ...

Ah yes, a sign of the entitled: wants to have cake and eat it too.

My cousin lives 1500 miles from me. I can't just go give him the disc. It was an awesome, original feature and it's gone because of entitled whiners and Sony trolls.

There is no halfway. You don't get to have your cake and eat it too.

Well there you go, another blow for progress and innovation. Many will see this as a victory for gamers, but it's not. It's a victory for mob mentality and ignorance bullying, mostly driven by those that had no intention of EVER purchasing an Xbox console. The family share feature could've been something special. …

Nah, so-called gamers have done it. Turned this into Democrats vs. Republicans. It's still supposed to be about the games, it's just impossible to find places where people want to talk about just that. Shame ...

Those what if scenarios are ridiculous. If you'd apply that same rationale to driving you'd never leave your home.

That's utterly ridiculous to think that would happen. I honestly can't believe people are spreading and believing ridiculous F.U.D. like this. Microsoft is not evil. Neither is Sony or Nintendo. That will NOT happen. In fact when asked that question, Major Nelson responded like it was the most ridiculous thing…