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http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/13...u-for-the-mpaa
Oh hey look at this.
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The abstract describes a camera-based system that would monitor the number of viewers in a room and check to see if the number of occupants exceeded a certain threshold set by the content provider. If there are too many warm bodies present, the device owner would be prompted to purchase a license for a greater number of viewers.
Read this interview over at Eurgamer. This part made me lol:
This from the company that won't let you play a loaned game or even transfer your XBLA titles?Quote:
Eurogamer: I'm playing Chrono Trigger at the moment - a whole game that I have for my DS which I can play for years in the future. With computation being offloaded to the cloud, doesn't that erode the permanence of these new games?
Phil Harrison: Funnily enough, with the more computation that is done in the cloud, the easier it is to continue to support the product on multiple devices, on multiple screens, ad infinitum.
Eurogamer: Yes, but there aren't good examples of companies doing that. Even Games for Windows Live is now a bit creaky and awful to use. I was playing BioShock 2 the other day and that is not a fun process to do - you can't even save your game unless you go through all these hoops and download patches and it crashes all the time. That's a concern, surely?
Phil Harrison: I would point to other, more positive examples than that within the Microsoft ecosystem. Not perhaps an obvious one to your readers, but our investment in things like Office 365 - major corporations are empowering their users at the desktop with productivity tools like Powerpoint, Word etc entirely, 100 per cent from the cloud. So companies have made many hundreds of millions of dollars of investment in future infrastructure built on top of Microsoft platforms, so I am totally confident--
Eurogamer: That we'll be able to play Quantum Break still in 25 years?
Phil Harrison: I'm pretty confident that will be the case.
It was posted awhile back, man.Quote:
Originally Posted by YellerDog
http://www.the-nextlevel.com/tnl/thr...post1064821071
Carry on.
Where are all the "XBOX go home, you're drunk" memes?
The more I read about the One the more I hate it. There is an incredible amount of hate out there about this. How the hell does Microsoft think this is going to do well at launch? Those poor bastards working on PR at Microsoft must all be punching themselves in the face.
Because U.S. consumers will eat it up.Quote:
Originally Posted by EvilMog
Call of Duty, bro.
I like that I can plug in my old PS2 Logitech GT steering wheel with the PS3 and PC and it still works. I play Shift 2 Unleashed on the PC and the MS racing wheel doesn't even show up in the options screen.Quote:
Originally Posted by Joust Williams