that dog is so dead.

nobody plays dreamcast anymore.

STEAM will not let you sell your games. They require an INTERNET CONNECTION to play them. You are not allowed lending your games. You cannot re-sell them. You do not even own a PHYSICAL copy of the game, so if anything should happen to Valve, you lose everything that isn't installed, and if you can't connect to their…

Nothing is eternal. But there's a difference between "not eternal" being once the medium has degraded to a point of illegibility, and whenever Microsoft realises the console is no longer profitable and pulls the plug on the servers.

If I'm not mistaken the PS3 was $600 and the 360 was $400.

I could hear the audible gasp from the press even over the livestream.

This is not confusing wording at all. A game cannot be given more than once, and they're not going to give you the ability to do that at launch because they're still trying to figure it out. Any "confusion" as to Microsoft's policies at this point is just the highly speculative hope that just maybe it's not really as…

my point is that you were saying that the games for the Xbox One would "stand the test of time" because they'll offer digital downloads, which is what people thought might happen with current gen Arcade games , and those Arcade games aren't coming over at all and aren't at all transferable.

yeah, they'll just move everything to the cloud! Digital Downloads! like the Arcade games we have now....oh, wait...

Obviously you've never served. Do yourself a favor and stfu.

Yeah, because Microsoft is going to produce a whole line of special Xbox Ones just for the military, which comprise less than 1 percent of the population. Yeah. No. you're going out of YOUR way to be Microsoft's bitch, Facts-be-damned.

I can see it now:

omg, I know, right? CastleMiner, Castleminer Z, Murder Miners, Total Miner: Forge, Avatar Farm Online, Block World, Miner Of Duty, Miner4Ever....it just doesn't END.

I don't think I can recall a time that expectations have been lower for Microsoft. At this point, all they have to do is show up and talk about at least a few games and they will have raised the bar for themselves.

Crytek is free to play now.

exactly. Somebody's gotta pay for cosmetology school. why not me?

no, unfortunately at this time, it looks like your going to have to spend the extra five dollars if you want to play online with your used game.

thank you, I thought I'd get at least halfway down the thread before I read the obligatory, nonsensical "Well, on PC...." post.

exactly, why the fuck did they just leave their trash in the desert when they could have just cleaned up after themselves.

okay, so the princess doesn't want to be rescued. So why am I playing?