Microsoft reverses it's Xbone DRM policies.

[Caddchef]

Xbox One just dropped eight territories from it's day one release list, if you live in Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Netherlands, Norway, Russia, Sweden, or Switzerland and have preordered one, sorry you'll have to wait until 2014 like Japan (lul yeah i know only kidding, it'll never launch in Japan if Microsoft has any sense).

Actually no, I read this article a while back that was all about the xbox fanboys over in Japan. No really, these guys seem really dedicated to the damn thing.

Sorry my friend, i was just a having a bit of a joke when i said they wouldn't launch it in Japan, they will and it'll fail worse than the 360 did.

 

[TastyWoodenBadge]

Xbox One just dropped eight territories from it's day one release list, if you live in Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Netherlands, Norway, Russia, Sweden, or Switzerland and have preordered one, sorry you'll have to wait until 2014 like Japan (lul yeah i know only kidding, it'll never launch in Japan if Microsoft has any sense).

Actually no, I read this article a while back that was all about the xbox fanboys over in Japan. No really, these guys seem really dedicated to the damn thing.

The Xbox has Japanese fans, since when?

 

[random_pickle]

The Xbox has Japanese fans, since when?

I read it in the September 2013 issue of Xbox magazine. There's few, but they exist. Here's some quotes:

So who says Japan doesn't adore the Xbox? Well, the sales charts do-- 360 comes in last every single week, even against old consoles like the Wii and PSP, and has sold a meager 1.7 million units in a country with a population of 127.5 million. But ignore that, because the Japanese gamers who love Xbox really love Xbox. We know, because we found some.

"I bought the original Xbox because I wanted to play Jet Set Radio Future," says Susumu Hamada, explaining his first introduction to the weird and exotic (in Japan, anyway) world of Xbox. "It was worth buying the whole system just for that one game! And I remember buying a series called World Collection that included games from the West, like this jet-ski racer with realistic wave effects". (He's referring to Activision's 2003 game Wakeboarding Unleashed featuring Shaun Murray.)

"I don't like Sony hardware much, and Nintendo systems never attract third-party developers anymore", explains Satoshi. XBLA has such a great selection -- that's one of the best things about Xbox. I like Limbo and Trials HD, and there are lots of 8-bit style games, like Castle Crashers and Scott Pilgrim."

 

[BALLZ-BROKEN]

Microsoft's Steve Ballmer To Retire Within 12 Months, Stock Surges

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-...-ballmer-retire-within-12-months-stock-surges

 

[José Mourinho]

So.... there's going to be Killer Instinct for the X-Box One, and you have to pay $4.99 for each additional character.

http://news.xbox.com/2013/08/gamescom-ki

 

[exball]

So.... there's going to be Killer Instinct for the X-Box One, and you have to pay $4.99 for each additional character.

http://news.xbox.com/2013/08/gamescom-ki

 

[Anchuent Christory]

To be fair, it's free-to-play. So you download the game for free and you get one or two characters and full online functionality with the option to get more characters for a price. Personally, I don't think a fighting game suits the F2P model, but that's just me.

 

[José Mourinho]

Nah, the game's only free-to-play if you have an X-Box Live GOLD account, which ironically you have to pay for it. Not to mention that there's going to be a Season 2 DLC for it.

In other news, want to pay $60 for an unfinished game? Well, Forza Motorsport 5 is the game.

“…when you first boot up the game, we’re going to ask you to log in. And when you log in you’re going to get the Drivatars and you’re also going to get a whole bunch of content: tracks and cars. Our production schedule is such that we are putting them in as late as possible and that means making them free as downloadable content on Day One.”

About the downloadable content:

“…that is required content to play the game. We basically have designed the game to work with all that content no matter how late is coming in, in order to make the biggest game possible.”

“You do have to connect the game in order to get the latest Drivatars, because we need as many people training them as possible. And so rather than having just a launch-day set that was created by us, every day that people race is going to make the Drivatar set that much more accurate, that much more diverse, that much more interesting”