Except the difference is that the PS4 is shipping with one and the XB1 is, apparently, not. So you'll be using the XB1 headset if you shell out more cash for it, above and beyond the $500 you're dropping on the console itself. Barring that, you'll be using the Kinect for voice chat, which means you'll likely be…

I don't get why the inclusion of a headset with the PS4 would bother you. If you never play multiplayer, then you'll never use it. But for those who do, from time to time, take part in multiplayer, it will be a godsend. The big drawback with the PS3 for online multiplayer stuff was that it didn't ship with a headset,…

I hope that our lawmakers can eliminate any domestic drone program which may or may not exist, except as it pertains to this guy. Keep a fleet of drones at the ready to take this fucker out wherever he may show his head.

Sure, but the inputs and outputs didn't differ in every single country, and they would often get that granular with the management of regional controls. And the thing is, they do this region-locking in tons of different areas, not just those dealing with video output. The music industry has traditionally managed this…

Traditionally, the point behind region-locking (in pretty much any media industry) is to exert control over various aspects of a product's marketing, distribution, and pricing. It's a system that perhaps made sense in an age when there was no broad communications medium like the Internet to spread information about a…

If you're still selling physical discs, you're not going all-digital delivery. Those two things are mutually exclusive.

XB1 wasn't going to go fully digital. Anybody who believes that is an idiot.

Yeah, I had the same question. I'm not sure how Microsoft's latest actions and EA releasing a subscription-based sports series are mutually exclusive things. The argument seems to be that, as long as physical discs exist, this model for a sports game cannot happen. But the thing is, we were going to have discs in this…

I'm not seeing how XBox's decision to take back those problematic features makes it impossible for a company like EA to run a game, or series of games, on a digital delivery-based, subscription model. Is the XB1 not going to be able to connect to the internet at all or something? Will there be absolutely no digital…

I'm not lumping together South Korea and Japan. I'm lumping together a high percentage of stupid fucking foreigners who live in South Korea and Japan (and plenty of other countries, I'm sure).

Yep, this reeks of Bitter Foreigner Somewhere In Asia Syndrome. I've lived in South Korea for five years, and I'd say about 80% of foreigners I meet fall into this category. I'll never understand why they continue to stay in a place for which they appear to have such visceral disgust—even hatred—but I guess it's…

Just that they were a company that was trying to make a profit by pleasing its customer base...

So long as console manufacturers seek to use their systems to hook the "all-in-one entertainment" crowd, they're going to include optical drives of one sort or another. This was a huge selling point for the PS3, which basically won Sony the war over Blu-ray and HD-DVD. This is why Microsoft has included a Blu-ray…

So it's not exactly the same thing, then. It's interesting, though, how many people claim to have the publishers in mind when rooting for Microsoft's now-outdated policies. I'd like to know how the publishers would have benefited from this "family" sharing plan, which would almost certainly have been abused to hell…

Yeah, you really lost out on that family plan. Now you can, you know, share a fucking physical disc copy of the game with your entire family. If your response to this is that you can't be arsed to go out and buy a physical copy, or order one off the internet, then I feel sorry for you, and I pray for your soul. We…

I understand that it wasn't sold at launch. But upon its release, it sold extremely well. It was very, very successful from a sales standpoint. The developers just didn't show much interest in picking it up. I get that bundling it, and making its presence required for the box to operate, will let developers know that…

And that's great ... for you. As long as Microsoft is going to have an optical drive on the thing (and since they're billing it as an all-in-one entertainment solution for the living room, why wouldn't they?), they might as well at least give people the option. I don't understand why the entire world should have to go…

I haven't been convinced by any of the games on display thus far that developers even give a shit about having a built-in user base for Kinect. Microsoft should have been ready at their initial reveal, and certainly by E3 at the very least, to showcase just how awesome all of this Kinect stuff was going to be. But…

No, they weren't trying to go completely digital. There were going to be physical copies available, and Microsoft never stated that its intention for this generation was to kill off physical discs. Maybe that's part of the long-term game. That may well be the case. But the thing is, it's a decision that doesn't even…

We're talking about physical discs here. The only games I have loaded into Steam are digital downloads.