Boycott the Xbox One

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Same here, definitely into retro consoles.

Bought a 7800 finally after wanting one for years, quite happy with it. Aside from the part where it grips the cartridges like a vice.

It just pushes me even further away from current consoles when I realize that the games on THERE can hold my attention, as well as provide me with enough challenge to keep my interest (easy games put me to sleep), but the games on today's consoles for the most part can do neither.


I will however continue to follow all Xbone related news, in case more hilarity happens.

I think that with this victory over MS we need to go one step further. Getting MS to fire Don Mattrick for that whole "don't have online then buy a 360" stupidity. Seriously how brain dead of a businessman do you have to be to not look at sales data and realize most people already have a 360 and the large chunk of people who want to buy XB1 already own a 360.

LOLOLOLOL Microsoft.
They changed their entire policy on internet connection and used games.

"Since unveiling our plans for Xbox One, my team and I have heard directly from many of you, read your comments and listened to your feedback," Microsoft's Don Mattrick wrote. "I would like to take the opportunity today to thank you for your assistance in helping us to reshape the future of Xbox One. You told us how much you loved the flexibility you have today with games delivered on disc. The ability to lend, share, and resell these games at your discretion is of incredible importance to you. Also important to you is the freedom to play offline, for any length of time, anywhere in the world."

"We listened to our consumers" ROFL.

There has been hate on Xbox's new features for months. A week after E3 PS4 pre-orders massively outnumbered that of X1. That's when they decide to change their policy. The only reason they did is because they realized consumers wouldn't buy their piece of crap.

Yup, and it's bloody hilarious.

I think "LOLOLOLOLOL" really does sum up the whole thing rather nicely

Even more hilarious though (and kind of pathetic) that people essentially had to SHRIEK this stuff at them for a couple of weeks for them to even remotely grasp it.... I mean, it should be obvious to anyone with more than half a braincell, right....?

I've been getting into playing Blockout for the Sega Genesis, and it's a really addicting 3D Tetris Game. It was developed by California Dreams. I sucked at it and didn't like it at first, but once I got the hang of the controls and what each of the three buttons does, it got addicting. I use the Three Button game Pad with it. I went out to dinner with my parents for my father's birthday, and i was still thinking about patterns in the game. It seems more addicting than the Nintendo Tetris for the NES, but that maybe because 2D Tetris is so simple, as everything is flat. Blockout makes you think more as it's 3D and not 2D.

The xBox One fiasco is getting more interesting by the minute. They could conceivably offer support for the games from the original xBox, as both use the same CPU instruction Set, or at least a compatible instruction set. Buying games could get interesting, as the original xBox is also referred to as the xBox 1. I wouldn't be surprised if somebody modifies the Kinect, by Installing a two pole switch or a couple of single pole switches on the Microphone or Microphone Circuit and the internal power connection for the Camera, so it can't be remotely turned on, as there would be no power to them with the switch off, kind of like how the old game consoles were, with the power switch that cut off all power. An Atari 7800 might have that kind of switch, as that is how non-remote control power switches were wired back then.

It might have a death grip, because it might have been little used, or had a replacement connector installed. I think the 7800 can also play most of the Atari 2600 library, which would be an example of backwards compatiblity.

A major issue for me AS an owner of a 360, the price just seems out of line for what you get.. sony have undercut them.. i love halo but reach sucked, halo wars sucked.. i also cant see many people going xbox for one single game, for me the main games i play are fifa and halo.. if as i suspect less people buy xbox 1 then i will find it hard getting matched on fifa...
Also another issue is being unable to play 360 games on it... i mean its gonna launch with what 16 games? i complete games in 12-24 hours.. i wont buy one till atleast a year in.. by which i expect sony will have won the console war.

I agree. One of the main things that Sony and Nintendo have had over Microsoft since the Xbox-PS2-Gamecube era is their exclusive games.