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[RussellXV]

I'll believe it when I see it. When is this announcement happening today? It's almost 1PM here.

 

[Nirolak]

CliffyB... the future of gaming...

I hope writes a giant article about why this decision was horrible.

 

[suddenlyissoon]

 

[brotherbean]

But didn't MS think that staying the course in the long run would prove to the consumers that their DRM decision is the right one?

This story just never ends, I can't imagine the PR positioning if this ends up being true.

I kind of thought the same thing. I'm in no way, shape or form on board with their stance on DRM, but when they backtrack it kind of makes it seems like they never really were either.

Either make the hard call and ride it all the way down, or be reasonable from the start and never experience the backlash in the first place.

 

[jtb]

how about you lower the price by around $200 first and ditch the mandatory kinect first

 

[Red Blaster]

salty b must be so disappointed

 

[Touch]

Well well well... how the mighty have Titanfallen.

 

[Danneee]

Wait, no region lock?

I call fake.

 

[Certinty]

I'll believe it once it's official.

Right now I'm not buying this.

 

[LabouredSubterfuge]

CliffyB... the future of gaming...

Yep, no more AAA games for anyone. Sorry guys, time to go home.

 

[Xenon]

Don't do it MS. Most of the people will just redirect their hate to Kinect.

 

[Proelite]

Obviously it is for the best but to see a large company backpedal so fast on something is real crazy.

It's worth of praise certainly. Large companies NEVER do this kind of backtrack.

 

[Windu]

woah. i hope they keep the digital game sharing if true. DRM never bothered me so if I lose features because of this...ugh.

 

[Fine Ham Abounds]

Ehm?

What is this shit?

Just having a little fun at this thread

 

[kaching]

MS: "April Fools! We got you guys good, right? Right???"

 

[gundamkyoukai]

Well if this happens it would really make things more interesting for certain .
It would also be one of the fastest 180s in history lol .

 

[ZeroCoin]

Really curious to see if they already have a revamped policy guideline ready to go, or if it's just a nebulous 'Sorry about, how about no drm and no always online?' statement.

 

[Clevinger]

Here's hoping Sony drops the multiplayer paywall after this

 

[PBY]

Wouldn't change anything for me, personally. MS doing this in the first place shouldn't be forgotten.

How does this make any sense.

 

[Azzurri]

So if this is true, who is now buying a Xbone?

 

[demolitio]

It's a good start if this is true but they already killed a lot of goodwill with me.

 

[Pineconn]

...We're still calling it Xbone, right?

 

[QuiteWhittle]

And this is suppose to happen today? 8 hours to go

 

[nateeasy]

 

[Hoho for breakfast]

Are they changing the name to Xbox 180?

Haha that's exactly what I said. I said if they release the Xbox 180 I'm all in. Please let this be true. It sounds almost too good to be so after this shit storm. We'll see.

 

[TheMink]

So much for Sony's advantage.




What happened on Fallon?

Yeah what happened?

 

[Dabanton]

I imagine the 'cloud' stands

You'll still need to be online to play games that use it.

 

[Stone Ocean]

So much for Sony's advantage.

$399 is still a big deal.

But really, I'd rather Sony have a real rival to go toe to toe with. This pushes both companies to providing better services - hell, this backpedalling would be the biggest example of that if true.

 

[ReBurn]

Are they changing the name to Xbox 180?

Haha

How does this make any sense.

It doesn't. Microsoft knows they screwed up. At least they are fixing it.

 

[Caelestis]

I still wouldn't buy it, but this would be certainly an interesting change of events.

 

[Booshka]

Amazing if true.

Nice homecoming story for Tricky as well, GB getting hammered right now.

 

[codhand]

[Watches Titanfall trailer]

 

[soulassssns]

Damnit I might have to reconsider the Xbone now... I was set on the ps4

I will purchase an Xbone at the Halo 5 launch.

 

[8bit]

But what about Kinect?

 

[sheamus]

lolz i love the console wars

 

[Moofers]

Well this is great news. I think regardless of your preference (Sony vs MS vs Nintendo) this is an awesome turn of events for gamers in general. I really hope it turns out to be true and that Sony put the fear into them back at E3. I'd like to play Halo 5 one day.

 

[UraMallas]

Just pre-ordered Xbone on Amazon.

 

[Rourkey]

Personally I thought the thoughts of local TV news showing disgruntled service men and women not being able to play Xbox was to scary to imagine

Sony left them hanging what could they do?

 

[gdt]

Hmmmm. None of their policies were gonna hinder me in any way shape or form. But no disc swapping and that kind of stuff was gonna kick ass. So umm.......good for everyone else, not so great for me.

 

[syko de4d]

Microsoft some days ago "PS4 isn't a threat" and the BEST!!

PS4 won't make us change "anything" with Xbox One

how funny, if this is true MS just lost many customers because of nothing.

 

[Headhunter]

MS can drop dead, if they do this stunt.

Why the fuck now?

 

[Ploid 3.0]

I'm guessing the "Unlimited power of the cloud" was mostly bullshit then?

Dedicated servers, cloud storage. Pretty much that.

 

[Gumbie]

My reaction after GB posted.

 

[Elios83]

Would be really good if true, but honestly they would need to change all their PR message altogether, creating an unprecedented mess.
The infinite power of the cloud would be gone and proved to be bs, their investements over their network totally wasted.
It's not that simple, also it's not clear how that would fit with their vision outside games.
So it's not so simple to make a 180 turnaround. Maybe they are planning to make some tweaks.

 

[TCRS]

oh snap, that's a game changer.

 

[la flama blanca]

If it has better games why not?

Dude, just shut up and enjoy this good news with us.

 

[hal9001]

Please don't delude yourself with false hope people. It's too late for Microsoft to change the system and besides they are adamant that their vision for the new xbox that is connected online is the way of the future.

 

[Theonik]

Seems too good to be true. But if it is.
+1 for consumers and I'm probably back to considering buying an X1.

 

[Corto]

WE FUCKING DID IT!

 

[DMeisterJ]

Oh wow.

Still $100 too expensive. The removal of the DRM/authentication means that I could see myself owning it for Titanfall at a reduced price.