Video Games

Want but can't afford, I guess I'd have to run them next to each other too, which would be annoying.

I'll be looking to get a next gen next year probably - the PS4 looks substantially better to me & will be cheaper so have a larger customer base.

Telling people to buy what their friends have got works when the generation is in full swing but from fresh it's kind of more up in the air but the general internet consensus as far as I can tell is PS4 at the moment.

Going out on a limb here but I think next gen aint going to catch on...
Are people really going to bin off massive back catalogues for slightly better graphics? I'm also thinking Steam Box/Apple TV/Something similar will change the things we need a console for.
In a couple of years time everyones consoles will be their phones and we simply stream them to the tv...

Steam could be sweet, I'll happily wait until they come out.

Xbone, but not for a while, since I've got GTA5 and Ghosts to enjoy on the 360, and with the house move and everything Mrs Glover would punch me in the bollocks 1000 times if I blew nearly 500 boys on a console

Also my telly wouldn't make the most of it's power. Might do a big upgrade next year when I'm a bit flusher (console + telly)

Mrs Glover sounds like a keeper, new console and bollock punching, win/win.

She's got really tiny fists though so it's more like a bollock stabbing

I don't get why it's so hard to add in some backwards compatibility.

They might want to keep selling 360s (after a price slash), although I consider that counter-intuitive as it'd cannibalise some of their One business

I don't get why it's so hard to add in some backwards compatibility.

Because they want you to buy more games.

Which is why the Xbox one removes the free market for second hand games.

Which is why the Xbox one removes the free market for second hand games.

It doesn't though.

was that yet another spectacular microsoft u-turn?

I think it's the same one.

start button on windows 8 was another

It doesn't though.

I may be a few months behind the times.

I may be a few months behind the times.

Sounds like it.

I know it's not a very cool point of view but I though their view of digital games platforms was better / more "next gen" than where they've ended up after the backlash.

Moving to a largely digital platform for Xbox One would have been more convenient for gamers and allowed for more powerful cloud features. Nobody complains about not being able to re-sell Steam games or games on their iPhone...!

I would much rather have had the ability to switch games on the fly and get rid of discs all together than have this hobbled system just to appease the odd person who buys used games.

I think that all this has done has slowed progress for both Microsoft and Sony in moving to a digital distribution model like Steam.

^This.
No physical media also means less production costs so could drive prices lower as per steam.

Steam heavily discounts the price of its games though doesn't it?

I think this is where Sony at least have gone wrong with digital distro - paying full RRP for a download just angers me & I can't imagine many people have done it. I did once when I was ill off work as I wanted The Last of Us and nowhere in my town sells games but other than then - no way! I ending up driving to Swindon for GTAV!

Not even GTAV is worth going to Swindon for.

I found it got me in the mood for a bit of wanton destruction!

Steam heavily discounts the price of its games though doesn't it?

It does.

But if you're talking about consoles, as long as I can get a digital download at the price amazon sells it for, I'd rather buy digital. I wouldn't have to worry about losing the disc or damaging it (or storing it!) and I'd never have to fiddle about changing discs all the time.

I'd rather have my game library saved in the cloud for access across consoles / continents than stored on circular bits of plastic.

Sony's opportunistic Everyman approach during the console announcements just played to the shortsighted online trolls and damaged digital game distribution.

I've found you can't even get amazon prices on the PS store. If we forget supermarket game prices because of their damaging discounts, the digital version of a game for the PS3 is usually at least 5/10 pounds more than the average retailer/amazon price because they at least apply a little discount.

Hopefully they'll move game sales to subscriptions rather than transactions the way they have TV/films & music. Sony (for example) already own a gaming company with this technology & already license the technologies for music/video. I'm sure microsoft have the same.

^This.
No physical media also means less production costs so could drive prices lower as per steam.

Physical production costs account for pennies on the overall price, even if you include distribution and storage.

I'd like to be able to digitally rent a game on the cheap (£5 a week or so) then if you rent it long enough to pay the full price at the time it's yours for keeps, or you can choose to pay off the remainder of the full price to keep it.at anytime. Paying £50 to download a full game you end up only putting a few hours into seems like a mega rip off.