Do developers really want to work on Kinect though? From a publisher point of view the amount of units one of those game can sell almost warrant not developing for it. It's kind of destined to be an added feature in games that either get better control from an in hand controller, or made in to a game that features…

The processing hardware is now inside the kinect I believe and I doubt microsoft splurged on making a FPGA as the main process (Those are completely reconfigurable) as the size needed to do the DSP work would be quite intense (hot as well) also thousands of dollars. But since it is a mass mfg device they likely…

So buy the coal now, it'll be a diamond later?

And the Kin, and the Zune, and the XP tablets

I don't want to pay and extra $100 USD for something that will function as advertised "eventually". It should work as it's supposed to when I buy it.

It was a joke. He described the thought process behind the original kinect and implied the result will be no different for kinect 2.0

That's certainly a nice sentiment to have. I've never thought of it that way. I guess I could see it for almost all of the steam sale stuff I buy. I bought Torch Light 2 for like 6 dollars and had more fun with that than I did Diablo 3.

No, Gabe saw what happened to Netscape after Microsoft bundled Internet explorer and got terrified Windows Store was going to nuke Steam. That's what he "didn't like". It'll have a silly number of downloads, and 90% of the users will be back to windows inside six months when they find out they need to use the rest of…

They port on anything that makes money. If STEAM OS has a good audience & people do buy things while only on SteamOS then yes, they will port for money.

I know, right? Someone holding down a steady job for a decade, alongside having a successful marriage and a family, is hardly roll-model behavior.

Because a Wall Street billionaire who routinely unemploys thousands of people to increase his profit share by .1% is a much better source of moral advice than a guy that enjoys his humble job.

It made over a billion dollar's worth. Any product that big, that popular, is going to have some awful stories of people going to awful lengths to get it.

The same thing's been happening in iPhone lines, and has been happening at Black Fridays for the last few years. People have less and less disposable income, but are desperate for their creature comforts because that's how they cope with the difficulties in their lives.

Same reason that people with iPods/Phones get robbed its a huge selling hot item right now and they want to sell it and get money because they know it will sell.

On a specific day, Every college athlete should just sign an autograph and sell it for $1. The NCAA would shit bricks.

I would rather have multiple services and distributors rather than multiple clients per se but Valve uses a client too instead of just a website so they are no better in my eyes, they add to the number of clients required to play games just like Origin and regardless of how good the service is the fact is they are not…

When they released EFLC on PC they put out a patch that finally resolved the performance issues. Took a long time.

'Next gen' version will probably be more of a port. For PC version, they'll have to update it a lot.