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We’ve had lots of pretty awesome rumours and speculation around the next generation consoles, but not all the rumours surrounding Microsoft’s next Xbox sound all that great. The latest from VG247 says that it’ll “require an always-on internet connection as an anti-piracy measure,” sounds a lot like a load of pain-in-the-arse, overbearing DRM to me.
On the bright side, rumours also say that it’ll come packing a Blu-ray drive, contrary to previous rumours, which must be music to GAME’s ears; a four or six-core processor with one core totally dedicated to a built-in Kinect, and two separate GPUs that’ll apparently function independently of each other.
Of course these rumours are just that, rumour, with VG247 citing “multiple sources”. But I wouldn’t put it past either Microsoft or Sony to enforce the kind of DRM that ties you into being online all the time to authenticate your game every time you want to play – a couple of PC games have been doing it for a while now, much to the ire of legal players. This kind of thing only ever impacts those who actually buy the game though; pirates always find a way to strip out the DRM. [VG247 via CVG]
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I guess i can see why Xbox would have that kind of DRM as a mate of mine plays 360 ROMs on his PC.
I think you mean he uses a xbox pad on his PC. There is no way of emulation of XB360 on a PC. Well not as yet, Anyway.
maybe i do, but i was sure he was playing 360 games, Arkham Asylum and Deadspace as i recall but i guess they could have been PC games though he was playing them off off cracked ISOs, i think.
Yep, They was.
The issue is what do you do when your internet goes down as mine does about once a month? Or if you want to take your box away with you, I travel a lot for work and have been known to take my box with me, but I’ll be dammed if I’m going to pay hotel internet rates.
They should try and work it so you can play for a few hours off line every month or something.
The entire concept is a farce. Yeah, there are a few people that go out of their way to do it but it’s not even close to the scale of movie/music piracy. When will companies realise that making legal use as easy as possible will be the best way to minimise piracy – I’ve stopped pirating music & movies since easy online renting/purchases came around and since the inception of things like spotify.
Chances are, if I have to go out of my way to connect to the internet every time I want to play a game, I’ll also go out of my way to pirate the games. If not, I won’t.
or once you authenticate the game on the web, it won’t ask for web connection again.
i agree my internet cuts off everyday
I hear the Xbox 720 will have little robots inside that pop out like Soundwave’s minions as piracy protection. The unit itself will also function like Soundwave and aid in your quest for energon.
An always-on net connection? Oh no how horrible, now XBOX owners will have to suffer the same woeful misery as the millions of Steam gamers out there. Oh wait, it’s a beautiful thing damnit, you shoulda learned that a decade ago.
… sorry if I’m missing something here; what’s so great about it?
Or am I being an idiot and missing the sarcasm?
Steam has an Offline Mode that allows you still play the single player component on most games. You do need to be online at least once though to activate the game.
But we have ‘offline mode’, by the sounds of things this wouldn’t =/
Say what you want about this – if it means I stop typing in a series of alphanumeric digits everytime I buy a brand new game in order to unlock content I’m entitled to – I’m all for it.
Interestingly… I’m going to go out on a limb and suggest that if this is possible, we could finally see full installs onto the hard disk so that you could be playing games without needing their respective discs?
Why is the Xbox always a generation behind? The 360 had Ps2 era DVD and the next Xbox will have PS3 storage.
If anything this tells me that Sony were spot on with the PS3 specs and without the Xbox holding everything back this gen would have been even better.
say WHAT? you do realise the 360 uses dual layer DVDs with a capacity of 9GB? I doubt the PS2 even used DVD.
Get your head out of Sony’s butthole and actually make credible points instead of trolling, badly.
Whoa there, Pot, Kettle.
The PS2 used DVD technology but that’s beside the point, being undeservedly aggressive, angry and rude is trolling too.
Calm dow, check your facts and play nicely.
The post is far from “aggressive, angry [or] rude”. It merely points towards Mister Munch’s homoerotic relationship with his PS3 – and I’m all for the gays and whatever. (y)
Trolling is making absurd, unsubstantiated points. I did neither. He did both. Go figure.
Microsoft supported HDDVD (which I thought was internal but I was wrong). Sony went with blu-ray. Blu-ray won.
I wouldn’t say that the PS3 was ahead. Given that the damn thing hasn’t been able to recognise anything I’ve tried to connect to it since I’ve got it. Nas server? What nas server? Camera what camera? 4 OD doesn’t work either.
All of those things work just fine.
Infact PS3 is the ONLY home console that is DLNA certified (according to dlna.org)
I think I need you to come round then and tell it to my PS3. Three years down the line and still not recognising my NAS.
Then you have a firewall or something else wrong. Is your NAS DLNA compliant, or is it one of these cheapo NAS boxes from China that thing UPnP and DLNA are the same thing?
You buy cheap, you get crap.
No, it’s a Thecus
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