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Yeah getting a copy on 360 until the One is released in 2 weeks (my birthday present to me)

nice one man. I've hadn't had much chance to do to much gaming wid new baby, GTR, work, wife, daughter and everything else but that's all good.

Will find time soon :)

Also when's ur birthday man???

nice one man. I've hadn't had much chance to do to much gaming wid new baby, GTR, work, wife, daughter and everything else but that's all good.

Will find time soon :)

Also when's ur birthday man???

14th of this month, Looking at doing a dinner and some drinks on the 16th if you have the time available.

no unfortunately not. They are going for the clean start approach

is because they are now using Blu-Ray disc. If you purchase the game in xbox store on 360 you can then pay $10 for the upgrade to ONE when it's out..

^This and they are trying to get away from backwards compat as it is not a forward thinking approach. They want to get to a digital distribution platform as that is where they can maximize profit and minimize costs. It is only a matter of time before all content is Digital Distribution only.

^This and they are trying to get away from backwards compat as it is not a forward thinking approach. They want to get to a digital distribution platform as that is where they can maximize profit and minimize costs. It is only a matter of time before all content is Digital Distribution only.

nailed it!

f**k digital distribution as the sole distribution channel right up the ass. Unless they can guarantee a way that the license will exist in perpetuity, the file will also be available for download for the same and it is freely transferable at MY discretion then digital only is a DANGEROUS game to be playing with consumer rights.

caveat - subscription services.

I will gladly pay for subscription services like netflix et al but refuse to buy content through iTunes. Want a reason why? Have a look at the iTunes EULA. It's f**ked. That movie you just bought? No you didn't - it's theirs, not yours. They can revoke your ability to view or download it at ANY time for ANY reason. Don't believe me? http://www.macrumors.com/2013/10/24/apple-pulls-some-disney-and-pixar-titles-from-itunes-store-and-itunes-in-the-cloud/

All digital rights EULA's are the same. Reality is that in a few years the production of physical media will become obsolete in most places. Find me a video shop that is still making a profit. People like the ease of digital distribution over having to drag their fat lazy asses out of the house to go buy something. I agree with your earlier statement about continuity of a purchased product and being able to utilize something you have paid for but in a disposable society not enough people care enough to hold the vendors responsible. EA have screwed thousands of People with Origin by deleting inactive accounts so they have to repurchase already owned content. I use steam for 90% of my online game purchases because they are all about continuity and customer satisfaction, M$ and Sony want your cash and don't car how they take it look at Sony's Online Pass system on the PS3 they are forever trying to cash in on resale of products.

Not enough people care? Did you see how f**king fast MS backpedaled on all the Xbone bullshit? Or how Sony decisively won the next gen console war with a 22 second video before the consoles even came out?

As for physical media dieing... 4K video anyone (although I dislike that for a whole stack of other reasons)? Even with the best compression codecs in development 4K video is like 100GB an hour. Very few people have either the bandwidth or the allocation to be able to deal with that more than once or twice a month. Physical media will be around for a LONG time to come.

Not enough people care? Did you see how f**king fast MS backpedaled on all the Xbone bullshit? Or how Sony decisively won the next gen console war with a 22 second video before the consoles even came out?

As for physical media dieing... 4K video anyone (although I dislike that for a whole stack of other reasons)? Even with the best compression codecs in development 4K video is like 100GB an hour. Very few people have either the bandwidth or the allocation to be able to deal with that more than once or twice a month. Physical media will be around for a LONG time to come.

I did see that and I wouldn't say sony have won just yet don't forget sony are the biggest DRM driver there is. 4k is not likely to be as widely used as 1080P is for exactly the reasons you just mentioned, Unless it is provided on a HDD we will not have media capable of storing it or playing it back @ a suitable rate (due to compression and spindle speed / laser read speed) If you were to do a poll on Music, TV shows, Movies and PC Games you would find that a majority of people primarily get their item of choice digitally. M$ f**ked up on the delivery and approach but the Idea had merit, setting up a digital library that can be shared between friends would of been bad ass. the always online shit was a joke.

Sony learnt their lesson with the PS3 and its poor performance stacked up against the 360. Nearly all of their DRM that isn't around copy protection is gone. They have openly and unambiguously stated as such in many different forums.

As for majority of people, that needs to be clarified. A Majority of people in the US perhaps, but licensing restrictions, poor content delivery options and the lack of widely available high-speed internet outside of major western cities still leaves a majority of the world with physical media as their primary source. I doubt China or India have the infrastructure in place to support digital only distribution and china's middle class is bigger than the entire US market.

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