I'm pretty lost trying to find the meaning of pretty much your entire reply. This IS my normal level of vitriol for Microsoft, not some peak because of the Xbox One. MS is generally a solid player in an industry when they are a distant third place. They'll throw a ton of money into something and we'll get the original…

Again, if the Xbox One has the future of gaming written all over it then I'll be leaving when that future gets here. A world where consumers have no rights, I'm just supposed to deal with some super hi tech camera that's useless for gaming but is great for selling my personal life to advertisers, I have to pay for…

This. Microsoft needs to get the hell out of this industry before they sink the whole thing with their shady business practices and complete lack of actual contribution to it. Literally, other than putting us a gen ahead online interaction wise, they've added nothing worthwhile to it but harmed it irreparably in the…

Yes, yes it is. What ISN'T "tolerating" it is white knighting across Kotaku telling everyone it's OK to f*** customers in a large company's quest for the almighty dollar and that we should accept it as a natural endpoint for the "future" of gaming. Microsoft's future for gaming is the wrong one, and there is a second…

Seriously, what's the salary at MS like? I don't care how much you love the Xbox, this is not a consumer defendable practice. At best, this is something we tolerate. It does the consumer ZERO good. And MS isn't the plucky underdog who's scraping by and needs this ad revenue to keep making games. 1) they're a company…

I used the last of us because it's a stellar single player game, the fact that it has multi-player proves my point, in that I haven't played it even a single time. I would have used Skyrim, but I'd rather play only CoD multi-player for the rest of my life than play a game coded by the hacks at Bethesda. How about…

Completely agreed. However, the only games I have played in the last 2 years that weren't Japanese, Sony/Nintendo exclusives or handheld only affairs all happened to be Assassins Creed games. I've actually evaluated buying a PC this year a ton of times but I don't have any time to play every game that comes out and…

I don't think you could have missed the point of my post anymore if you tried. First of all, I'm not 12. I don't buy anything because it's fancy looking or higher definition or any of that petty crap. I bought a WiiU because it will inevitably have a ton of A+ games that can't be gotten anywhere else. I don't own a…

For me, the WiiU version is now one to get! I have painfully few hours to play games a week anymore and when I do, I'd rather get a fresh new experience than the same 10 minute experience only marginally shifted one way or the other 1,000,000 times. Am I the only adult gamer who's basically just quit multi-player…

I completely forgot Titanfall was an EA game! Personally, EA making their titles exclusive to an inferior service is just the icing on the cake of reasons why Titanfall will go on my ignored list with every single other EA published games. Shady/anticompetitive business practices, driving great studios into the…

I just hope the next guy can pronounce the console's name as Xbox and not ExBaaaaaaawks. I almost couldn't stand watching their conferences because of Don Mattrick and the constipated guy who's always wearing two watches...

Exhibit A: Dr. Evil. Proof that, in fact, Microsoft is more than capable of being mind numbingly incompetent AND evil at the same time. This happened because its what always happens when MS stumbles into an industry they don't understand. They'll throw a ton of money at people and pray to God something sticks.

If I can't play CoD with the Wii Remote controls, I'm not playing it at all. Given those parameters, I'm pretty invested on the game coming out on WiiU. And this is coming from a proud PS4 pre order holding individual.

But it's not all about the games anymore, its a flagrant change in the way your rights are handled in this space. I'm not usually one to venture into slippery slope arguments, but if there's a single time its appropriate its when we're dealing with MS. Time and time again this corporation has proved that once they…

Oooh, goody goody! Another generation in which one manufacturer succeeds in a generation not by creating new and compelling content and services for their consumers but by moneyhatting the industry giants and robbing consumers on competing consoles from those experiences instead and charging their customers to use…

Anybody else figure out it was fake without watching the video as soon as Kotaku mentioned NFC in an iPhone? Apple would use proprietary Wi-Fi and Bluetooth if they had come along a little sooner. It'll be a cold day in hell before you see them use a standardized wireless technology of any kind...

While they released FIFA on the Wii, they were mostly also-ran versions with no advertising. EA missed out on the Wii, much like all the other publishers did, by not making any particular push to build a new market on the console. Not only are they seemingly doing the exact same thing on the Wii U, but they're failing…

Remember everyone, this isn't due to a market size or type issue, as EA will put these games on anything that will run them. This is EA with its panties in a bunch over a completely unrelated business move that no one's allowed to talk about. EA is praying that the Wii U doesn't take off because they will have…

He should have sucked it up and handed the keyboard to someone else to press the accept button for him. This sort of hypersensitivity is bad for any art medium, in addition to just being bad for society in general. I'm not even going to touch on the (most likely already mentioned) hypocrisy of this being offensive in…

Sony changed the way you looked at modern gaming by releasing... Two third party games from well established franchises? Yeah, sure...