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0 pointsparasubvert12y ago0 comments

Yeah, MS bought a couple of other companies after Kinect v1 which allowed them to do more with the Xbone.

The big downside for Xbox is as you say, the $59 Xbox Live Gold subscription. This rake is not likely something the new competing experiences like Amazon FireTV or AppleTV 4th gen will have, so they'll have to a have a LOT of perks to justify it. So far OneGuide, Skype and free Fitness demos seem a bit light (with Skype being the best justification of the lot).

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turnip197912y ago

I've had almost every system of the previous generations. I'm not planning on getting either the PS4 or the Xbone as long as they require the silly subscription for key content (e.g. if you want Titanfall [a multiplayer only game], you need to pay, Netflix??!!). I play casually so it really annoys me.

Given that I own over 30 games for the XBox 360, it is kind of interesting that M$FT is letting go of my business. Surely, I'm not the only one who got 1-2 XBox Live subscriptions in the past, used it for 3-4 gaming sessions and swore never to do that again. Oh well ... now that I have minescraft for the 360, I don't really need anything else ever again :-p

parasubvertOP12y ago

My wife pays for the XBL subscription, so I picked up Titanfall for us, which is quite fun. Perhaps not $69 one time + $59/year of fun. But we are okay with it for now as we get to use the same account on the older 360s as well. Still use AppleTV for most media consumption, but that could change over time.

One plus was that an Xbox only requires one regular $59 XBL subscription now, then any account get the benefits, they got rid of the the $99 family pack.

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turnip197912y ago

parasubvertOP12y ago

One plus was that an Xbox only requires one regular $59 XBL subscription now, then any account get the benefits, they got rid of the the $99 family pack.

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