I don't think FE:A's DLC really counts as "needed" unless you want to safely build certain characters.

Hope they at least enjoyed a trip to Washington because what the hell. Could've at least let them in or something, I wonder if other international journalists had the same issues?

Sony's bigger in markets where used games are a bigger deal and Microsoft can do this partially because of their infrastructure. It actually sounds to me like doing this is too much of pain for all but really really big web/tech companies, and Sony's only got half of that covered.

And when you put a mirror behind Kinect and one in front, you're dividing by zero.

Explain Dreamcast.

Well, it's just a patent, but whereas Sony patents all sorts of crazy crap like controlling games with your brain, this is very much doable I imagine, and if they go too far would be one of the worst things they could possibly do especially if SOMEHOW the X1 caught on like wild fire.

OTOH I've seen it pointed out that maybe it'd allow in-theater movies to come out early on X1, so you keep it to something like that and it's not really too bad.

It's like the difficulty arguments, in a normal single player focused game it's great to have those options, but in something with live multiplayer and no weird asynchronous stuff like Dragon's Dogma things have to stay equal, so that means those who want an easy mode will just have to suck it up (or in the case of NG+ runs just restart with a new character.)

I doubt they fought ones a hundred times the size in giant battles though.

There's been sources saying the localization's been done and they're just kind of sitting on it. I think they plan to pull it out whenever the hell they figure out what to port it to and get simultaneous or near simultaneous international release.

It's the 80s everywhere.

There's something crucial people forget when they go "bu-bu-but Steam!": Steam is on an open platform, and the Xbox is a closed platform. The PC is practically the wild west in regards to how you can release stuff, and by proxy crack stuff, so it's understandable to try to find a reasonable middle ground in protecting your software and being customer friendly, before that was CD Keys but that's a joke now so it's something like Steam that isn't too intrusive and convoluted of a mess. The Xbox should be innately piracy proof and thus just about ANYTHING is overkill. If they seriously run with dialing home once a day and requiring all physical copies come with a blu-ray key and every game just being an install disc as if it were PC... fuck that, if you want use to go full digital make buying digital over physical more appealing, not this bizarre Frankenstein scheme you're cooking up. Especially as it actually makes you look more anti-consumer by taking what freedoms we had as a consumer and tunneling them only through GameStop or yourself.

The source is Phil fucking Harrison and I've seen this show up. If they're wrong then I would expect Microsoft is so dysfunctional as a corporation that you'd have to be weary of how the Xbox would be handled anyway (though it does sound plausible for some amazing communication gaffes given how they apparently handle development there...)

Requires a connection once a day apparently.

Yeah, ok, it's better to try to be neutral with console preferences but fuck that, I actually want this to tank harder than anything before.

Frankly if these account installs work exactly as we fear then I already don't give much of a damn about the console. PC will cover when I'm willing to deal with those kinds of restrictions, hell I have digital distribution PERIOD for that, I don't want shit on retail console games.