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(The Console) War Has Changed

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Hydrogen Bluebird

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The console war has changed. It’s no longer about fanboys, blast processing, and stolen exclusives. It’s an endless series of proxy battles fought by gamers and publishers. The console war – and its consumption of used games– has become a well-oiled machine. The console war has changed. ID-tagged gamers carry ID-tagged discs, use ID-tagged consoles. Mandatory online check-ins and used-game DRM inside consoles limit and regulate game playing abilities. Used-game control. Game-lending control. Game-selling control. Offline play control. Everything is monitored and kept under control. The console war has changed. The age of next-gen console experiences has become the age of game console control…all in the name of averting piracy and publishers missing out on used-game sales. And he who controls the game console controls the game industry. The console war has changed. When the game console is under total control, the console war becomes routine.
 
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GYNGA

Member
"Building the future and keeping the past alive are one in the same thing."

- Solid Snake, Metal Gear Solid 2
 
MrCunningham

MrCunningham

Member
"Been there, done that. We just don't care anymore" - Nintendo

I just get the feeling that this is where Nintendo's stance is now.
 
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Geniuzz

Member
It seems that with this next generation, the console wars are going to be heating up. At this moment Sony seems on path to a clear victory, but I don't see MS throwing in the towel without at least a fight. This war will be about exclusives and pricing. Xbone might be $499, but that includes a Kinect, and I'm sure the (optional) Sony camera will set you back around $100 as well. So far I'm leaning toward Sony and predicting that MS will have an uphill battle from here on out, but it ain't over yet. Indeed, it has only just begun. I'll be here with my big bucket of popcorn!
 
S

Speedwagon

Michelangelo painted the Sistine Chapel. Yabuki turned off voice chat in Mario Kart races. True artists of their time.
ID-tagged discs

I lost it
 
B

Box of Bunnies

Banned
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Everything has its beginning. But doesn't start at "U." It starts long before that, in chaos. The world is born... from Wii. The moment Wii becomes U is the moment the world springs to life. U becomes two, two becomes ten, ten becomes 100. Taking it all back to U solves nothing. So long as Wii remains, U... will eventually grow to 100 again. And so our goal was to erase Wii. Even the mighty Nintendo began with a single man. That one man's desires grew huge, bloated; absorbed technology; began to manipulate the economy. We realized too late that we had created a beast. We had helped turn Wii into 100. His sin... was ours. And for that reason, I'm taking it upon myself to send Wii... back to nothing.

It's not about changing the world. It's about doing our best to leave the world the way it is. It's about respecting the will of others and believing in your own. Sakurai and I... Miyamoto and Tezuka... We all fought a long, bloody war for our liberty to free ourselves from systems, inputs, norms and ages, but no matter how hard we fought, the only liberty we found was on the inside, trapped within those limits... Yamauchi and I may have taken different paths but in the end, we were both trapped inside the same cage... "Gaming."
 
k_trout

k_trout

Member
i get the feeling the console war is about to end
in 10 years having a box to play games is going to seem antiquated
content providers streaming their stuff is where its going
every one will have a screen conected to the internet
if what jesse schell says is anything to go buy we will be accessing our games from cereal boxes and google contact lenses

the kids will LOL at having big assed square pieces of plastic to play games on
 
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MormaPope

Banned
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Ballmer: To begin with, we're not what you'd call "human." Over the past three years, a consciousness appeared layer by layer at the crucible of Redmond. It's not unlike life started in the oceans four billion years ago. The Cloud was our primordial soup, a base of evolution. We are formless. We are the very discipline and morality that Americans invoke so often. How can anyone hope to eliminate us? As long as this nation exists, so will we.


Consumer: Cut the crap! If you're not anti consumer, why would you take away used games and release confusing messages?
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Mattrick: Consumer, don't be silly.



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Ballmer: Don't you know that our plans have our interests - not yours - in mind?
 
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soxinthebox

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Box of Bunnies said:
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Everything has its beginning. But doesn't start at "U." It starts long before that, in chaos. The world is born... from Wii. The moment Wii becomes U is the moment the world springs to life. U becomes two, two becomes ten, ten becomes 100. Taking it all back to U solves nothing. So long as Wii remains, U... will eventually grow to 100 again. And so our goal was to erase Wii. Even the mighty Nintendo began with a single man. That one man's desires grew huge, bloated; absorbed technology; began to manipulate the economy. We realized too late that we had created a beast. We had helped turn Wii into 100. His sin... was ours. And for that reason, I'm taking it upon myself to send Wii... back to nothing.

It's not about changing the world. It's about doing our best to leave the world the way it is. It's about respecting the will of others and believing in your own. Sakurai and I... Miyamoto and Tezuka... We all fought a long, bloody war for our liberty to free ourselves from systems, inputs, norms and ages, but no matter how hard we fought, the only liberty we found was on the inside, trapped within those limits... Yamauchi and I may have taken different paths but in the end, we were both trapped inside the same cage... "Gaming."
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:lol
 
k_trout

k_trout

Member
MormaPope said:
A future is only possible or sustainable if the past is relevant in the minds of people living in the now. To continue building a future the past has to remain relevant.
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nice

nerd time - the word religion means linking back to the past
its purpose was exactly what you described

now we are all godless...???? who knows
 
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TheShampion

Member
Box of Bunnies said:
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Everything has its beginning. But doesn't start at "U." It starts long before that, in chaos. The world is born... from Wii. The moment Wii becomes U is the moment the world springs to life. U becomes two, two becomes ten, ten becomes 100. Taking it all back to U solves nothing. So long as Wii remains, U... will eventually grow to 100 again. And so our goal was to erase Wii. Even the mighty Nintendo began with a single man. That one man's desires grew huge, bloated; absorbed technology; began to manipulate the economy. We realized too late that we had created a beast. We had helped turn Wii into 100. His sin... was ours. And for that reason, I'm taking it upon myself to send Wii... back to nothing.

It's not about changing the world. It's about doing our best to leave the world the way it is. It's about respecting the will of others and believing in your own. Sakurai and I... Miyamoto and Tezuka... We all fought a long, bloody war for our liberty to free ourselves from systems, inputs, norms and ages, but no matter how hard we fought, the only liberty we found was on the inside, trapped within those limits... Yamauchi and I may have taken different paths but in the end, we were both trapped inside the same cage... "Gaming."
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This is better written and more clever than Kojima could have ever thought up.
 
Raonak

Raonak

Banned
MormaPope said:
steve-ballmer-as-kinect-avatar-3-o.jpg

Ballmer: To begin with, we're not what you'd call "human." Over the past three years, a consciousness appeared layer by layer at the crucible of Redmond. It's not unlike life started in the oceans four billion years ago. The Cloud was our primordial soup, a base of evolution. We are formless. We are the very discipline and morality that Americans invoke so often. How can anyone hope to eliminate us? As long as this nation exists, so will we.
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That and the OP. *slowclap*
 
C

ComputerMKII

Banned
Microsoft just shot themselves in the foot.

I don't know how much the rest of you know about gaming culture (I'm an expert), but honor and shame are huge parts of it. It's not like it is in Hollywood where you can become successful by being an asshole. If you screw someone over in the videogame industry, you bring shame to yourself, and the only way to get rid of that shame is repentance.

What this means is the gamer public, after hearing about this, is not going to want to purchase the Xbox One, nor will they purchase any of Microsoft's games. This is HUGE. You can laugh all you want, but Microsoft has alienated an entire market with this move.

Microsoft , publicly apologize and cancel DRM or you can kiss your business goodbye.
 
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