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Not to mention the cost of buying a game. How much will the games cost? Stil $60?
500 + 60 + Live = 560+ ?  Dear Lord it's the PS3 Fat all over again.

I figure you get the cost of buying a game with any game console, so I didn't want to gripe about that, of course.

The important thing to remember is that "Exclusive" can just mean "timed exclusive."

Well I don't mind griping for you. Rent is too damned high!

I hope they fail too. It seems like everything I hear makes the Xbone sound worse and worse. Their polices are against the consumer. If this is the direction that gaming is headed in than I want no part of next gen.

I hope that they fail, so that the insomniac game goes multi-platform.  I hate that microsoft has an exclusive from Insomniac.

Eh, word is that a lot of developers and publishers are being paid to make things "look" exclusive to the Xbox One. I wouldn't be surprised if the Insomniac game is going to see release on five consoles and the PC or something like that. Maybe not five, but you get my picture. Exclusive to Xbox One might not have the meaning we think, it could just mean the timing is exclusive or some small portion of content is exclusive.

Edit: At the same time, I'm personally tired of all these games, like paid timed exclusives and that sort of thing. It doesn't help any aspect of the industry one bit, and it just annoys gamers. I'm getting to the point where I just don't want to deal with games where the developers or publishers take the approach of taking money to restrict their content on other platforms.

Price wise, it's the worst aspects of the PS3 and 360 combined. You'll not only be paying out the ass for the box itself like the PS3, but you also have to pay for Xbox Live to get the most out of the box. Sony and MS only did one or the other to balance things out--free PSN on one hand, lower price points for the 360.

Combined with all the DRM bullshit, I can't imagine how much more unappealing MS could make this system look at this point.

Since they did not announce anything that will ultimately sway me to buy an xbox one, I do somewhat hope that they fail miserably.  

Jason, are you saying that a video game console is going to cost you more than the price tag in the long run? OH MY GOD! WE NEED TO EXPOSE THIS SHOCKING REVELATION TO THE WORLD!

I'm saying that an Xbox Live Gold fee will likely be required to do much of anything with the console, which means if you want to play the games, you'll probably have to have the console and Live Gold in all but a few cases. That's what I'm saying.

There's no way that the XBO won't have a way for people to play their games without a Gold account. It'll be like the 360, with "added" features for Gold members. If you just want to play games on it you'll be able to just play games on it. 

I look forward to your exceedingly negative PB & Jason, now with 37% more snark and doom and gloom scenarios.

Except any cloud functionality will require Xbox Live Gold. So if a game is built to take advantage of the cloud computing Microsoft is touting, then without Gold, it either will not function, or it won't function as well as it would otherwise. Microsoft suggests developers have the option not to require cloud usage and/or have the games switch to a different graphical capability without the cloud, but they said it would be up to developers to do such a thing. Given what we know of developers like EA and sometimes Capcom, I hate to be a pessimist, but I'm sure many games just won't function (or will barely function) without an active connection thanks to all of this.

You yanks can't complain europe and Britain have it marginally worse, but i'm not buying it anyway so yay!

I'll say this; I don't want XBOne to fail, I want Microsoft to get a square punch in the face from the game buying masses and realize they need to completely reconsider this strategy. All this can be fixed with a software update. We can all show MS how we feel by where we direct our money

Makes me wonder if they learned anything from what happened with the PS3 lanuch. They better think twice if they think all the "extras" this new console offers will be enough to justify that kind of price tag.