But that's not what happened.

It was confirmed by the developers themselves that they were the only ones using a PC instead of a dev kit. It started from Jonathan Blow making assumptions about all of the Xbox One demos and he was quickly corrected.

It says more about the faith in Microsoft than anything else. Like, it's not the internet's fault that Microsoft have been so unclear that random text seems more trustworthy than Microsoft employees themselves.

Holy shit. The link to the tweets from Mike finally loaded for me.

But racial separations are cultural not biological, so that's a completely different thing. Also, you're lying, you don't feel black, you're just saying so to try and make a point that never actually comes up because your premise is flawed.

"Why does being a woman have to depend on some sort of scientific definition?"

No, he was absolutely wrong when he said that. It's explicitly exclusionary to label vagina havers as women, as it explicitly excludes women that don't have vaginas from women as a whole. The absolute opposite of what he said is true.

That's exactly it. They never communicated the benefits, and so it seems a lot like there never were any benefits to the system (aside from whatever Microsoft's motives were internally for having the system in the first place).

I don't understand. It sounds like you're saying that the online checks, and treating discs like they're downloads, is creating "one more choice".

Microsoft would not have "caved" to a bunch of people complaining online. When has a company ever given in to online backlash? More to the point, when has a company ever completely turned around the fundamental direction of their product because of complaints online?

But I am also switching from 360 to PS4, nobody has forgotten that their dollars are like votes. The problem is that everybody voted with their dollars, and Microsoft have seen that they were headed for a disaster because of it.

I think you have got your answer though. Microsoft wouldn't do such an extreme reversal of their entire system design unless they were certain it was going to be a flop.

Ok, this is really getting into an argument about what "forcing" means. I realise that if you don't like it, then you don't buy the console. That's why I was (and I think still am) making the switch from 360 to PS4 this generation. I get that nobody is "forced" to buy the console, and that's not what I was saying.

Exactly. You don't force change. People buy discs because they want to be able to share, sell, etc. If they wanted a digital copy they would have bought a digital copy.

Exactly. They have been dishonest, unclear, and have done nothing to indicate that their original design would have been good for gamers. They still haven't explained why their design was the way it was.They were so adamant that their original vision was the future of gaming, a great advancement. So why did they fail…

For those who are now complaining that the original policies were the best ones:

Microsoft had a reveal event and an E3 press conference to explain the advantages. They have nobody to blame but themselves for not communicating the positives of their console better. All it looked like is that there were no positives.

I wouldn't say I was defending MS just then, but even if I was, when have I ever defended them before?

As disastrous as the Xbox One's reveal has been for gamers, I think that's taking it a bit too far. The entire future of Microsoft's consumer entertainment business is in question? I don't think so.

Glad to help :)