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6/13/2013 2:45:52 PM
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Microsoft defends Xbox One: 'Digital is better'
I'm reading the comments and I'm surprised I haven't seen a single person defending it yet.
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They're right in some ways. There are advantages to digital gaming, and there are disadvantages.
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7 RepliesEdited by Trollheim: 6/13/2013 3:08:28 PMOnce microsoft servers go down your games in the cloud are gone forever. No thanks. I intend to play MGSV decades from now much like how I can still to this day play SMB3.
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2 RepliesReally no point in defending it. Once you do, you have 30 geeks telling you your opinion is wrong. At least on facebook this happens.
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I just don't think consoles nor the internet is there quite yet. As much as you guys hate to believe high speed internet is still unavailable in many parts of America. Heck I live maybe 15 minutes out of the city and for 5 years the highest speed I could get was 1.1 meg down and 0.6 meg up. It was only 6 months ago Quest started supporting my area and now I have 12 megs down and 1 meg up and even that is not considered a very good connection by most standards.
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Of course it's better, it's cheaper, cleaner, easier... It's literally better in every way. Disks, and cartridges before them, were only used because you previously couldn't send things directly, now we can of course it's the logical step. Also the fact he says we'll get value for our purchase lends credence to my theory that you'll be able to direct-download games for cheaper than retail copies.
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I love collecting my video game boxes though.
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Edited by o0MrCheesy0o: 6/13/2013 4:05:39 PMI like the idea of an all digital gaming future. A disc is a physical medium for storing a digital idea. It's vulnerable - light, heat, and physical forces can all damage the contents. It's a restrictive medium too, and we had to use it in the past. It was the only good way of distributing and storing these digital goods, but we now have a better way: high-speed internet and high capacity hard disk drives. The disc has served us well, but old technology has to be retired one day.
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[quote]"We do want to support everyone in that system, beginning with the consumer.[/quote] HA ha ha hahahahahahhahaha
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4 RepliesPersonally, I do agree with Microsoft. I'm excited about being able to go fully to digital downloads. Steam has had this rocking for a decade or better, and I'm very much looking forward to having the same capabilities with my Xbox One. When I'm playing on PC, I love that if I want to switch the game I'm playing, all I have to do is close out of my current game and double-click the game I want in my Steam Library. It's easy, and very much hassle free. When I want to switch game son my Xbox or PS3, I have to get up, walk across the room, trade out discs in cases, etc. Now, that might sound lazy, but usually I'm in full relax-mode when i'm gaming. I don't like to get up when I'm in full gaming-thought-process. This switch by MS to a fully digital gaming experience if one wants it, is siimply going to streamline and make gaming much easier to access. I champion the cause.
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7 RepliesRemember if you have to defend yourself you an idiot. /internet logic
