"Relax. It's just your hard-earned money. You should try selling shoddy phones for a living. Then you wouldn't stress so much about a few hundred bucks."

I had initially been impressed with the augmented reality demo where the camera is used and the two Move controllers become swords. Seemed very responsive. Then I realized that only two objects were being rendered.

To be clear, Microsoft doesn't require a gold account for patches. Also, content doesn't go away.

@retrac: Nope. They don't charge for patches. Free Silver account gets automatic patch notices and downloads. Demos don't require a gold account either.

@Standish: no

"Insanely sharp", eh? Is this a blog or an ad campaign?

@IceMetalPunk: Let's assume it DOES hurt your body. At what point do you feel adults should have the right to do with their own bodies as they will? At age fifty? Sixty? Who owns YOUR body?

Everybody copies Apple. They invented the computer and the phone and the commercial.