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Yeah I guess that's what it is. But they're gonna be screwed if publishers walk because they don't get fair deals.

How / why would you develop a business strategy and put it into effect without discussing it with your business partners?

So something weird is going on. Take-Two's CEO, Strauss Zelnick, spoke about the used game sales thing on the XBone and it didn't sound good. He said that if MS is going to profit from used game sales, Take-Two should as well. It heavily implies that MS has not established any communication with video game publishers (probably aside from EA) about how this will work out. If it's true, that is monumentally fucked up that MS is snatching up all the money and none of it is going to the people who are actually making the games. It actually sounds criminal. Going from there Zelnick also said that the right way to address the used games 'problem' is to make games more worthwhile. http://www.gamespot.com//news/gta-parent-publisher-talks-next-gen-used-games-6409049

Oh man that's true. And the player list will be noting that certain players are getting obliterated or quitting and you're left wondering what the hell is going on.

Were you the guy who wrote that email a long time ago saying that you thought the opening lyrics were, "I don't love"?

It also changes the tone of the game, because you're not gonna be messaging people right away setting up an alliance based on location and setting up a strategy based on that. You've gotta bump around and actually make apologies if you want to avoid conflict.

I'm still coping with the fact that I might achieve my first ever 1st place victory in a game.

Dark Galaxy, where you can't see any of the galaxy beyond your view range. In Neptune's Pride 2, no one can hear you scream.

Man how do you come up through the 90s and not know the opening lyrics to Two Princes?

I need to get in playing with you guys now that I'm a little more in the mindset of the game and how to achieve victory. A chance to pull some Nick Breckon kind of deception has presented itself to me in a game I'm playing and I am taking it.

Gameinformer is a little specific about the sources of the same news. Which means this needs a massive grain of salt.

The argument that getting rid of used games will be beneficial to publishers and developers works on the assumption that Reaganomics works. There's absolutely no guarantee that the extra revenue won't just line the pockets of executives.

Jake I have some good news for you. Get ready to flip some pickles.

The original source article has updated to clarify that Microsoft is saying that all consoles this gen will sell a combined 1 billion units. Which is still absurd, but at least it isn't out-there-crazytown.

Just to get everyone up to speed, Microsoft is saying they're aiming for a billion units of the XBone to be sold in its lifetime. http://www.vg247.com/2013/05/24/xbox-one-microsoft-aims-for-1-billion-lifetime-sales-100-million-xbox-360-units/ What is the closest any console has gotten to this? As of March of 2012 the Playstation 2 sold 155,000,000 units and the Wii has sold 99,840,000 as of March of this year. Edit - Okay the original source article has updated to clarify that Microsoft is saying that all consoles this gen will sell a combined 1 billion units. Which is still absurd, but at least it isn't out-there-crazytown.

Ben Kuchera caught the douchebag bug. Aside from writing an article on the PA Report glamorizing / excusing the XBone, he made some really bad choice tweets.

Yeah it was discussed in this podcast episode. Still hilarious, I will never get enough of that.

That would look so unbelievably cool. It's too bad that every angle of the XBone seems to be corporate-friendly rather than consumer-friendly. You can't even use headsets you currently own with it - they're all incompatible.

Taking bets on poorly conceived ad run based on, "Remember the 5th of November."

I would actually direct people to Retsupurae's comments on that Nintendo thing (they have a podcast they host via YouTube in addition to their other content). They have pretty much the most accurate approach to the whole subject.

Nick Breckon is Adam Sandler:

I just started listening but I'm so pleased for two things. 1) Chris' genuine reactions to the XBone is great. 2) I'm not the only one who has been saying of the XBone that it looks like a VCR.

Man that's a lot to dedicate to an OS. It's probably the Kinect 2.0. I wonder what the RAM division is for the PS4, for comparison's sake. Even if they have 2GB for the OS they have a pretty big edge over MS in that regard.

Yeah my immediate impression of its design is that it's like a VCR.

The content you desire still exists. The difference is that it isn't the showcase. That's pretty much my point. It's just gaudy presentation that's fallen to the wayside. It may actually be a plus.