OMG I'm not able to play in a stress test beta because the beta is stressed!

It's going to recognize your IP once you redeem the code and get the app. This is why the offer's good for U.S. users only. So, yes, the bad news is that you can't watch the Jacksonville Jaguars if you live there. The good news is you can't watch the Jacksonville Jaguars if you live there, too. The bad news is you…

Personally Id love to see if Stephen has the balls to flatly call out Anita on the logical fallacies she presents as opposed to simply calling out instances in the medium where Anita is wrong.

Ha! I just spent a couple hundred words at least railing against the article's ridiculously navel-gazing Brooklynite point-of-view when I could have just said:

Not at all a well reasoned critique. Absolutely terrible article.

She notes that this is a device for a "fictional privileged nation where everyone owns a giant television..." that she "can't imagine who reasonably would care — except for the most high-end, most traditional niche "adult gamer" fan who does not…

I prefer batteries in my controller vs charging... Its so much nicer to just pop in 2 more rechargeable AAs, then realize that I have to charge the controller again.

Can't wait for all the people who spend hours each day commenting on Kotaku to tell us their sob stories about how they're unable to connect their Xbox (if it had wifi) to the internet once a day.

I'm hoping that what you described will still work. You go to a friend's house with a game, cloud transfer your profile to his box (like you can already do pretty easily with the Xbox 360), and then play the game with no hassle. If you CAN'T do that, then yeah, we have problems with this new system.

How is that any different than computer games that required 1 time authorization codes? I don't get the uproar - this has been the standard practice for PC gaming for years.

This is exactly how Games on Demand games and XBLA games work right now. How is this a surprise?

This is the goal they have been working for since the creation of the original Xbox: one device that sits in the living room and handles all your multmedia needs.