Early Kinect Games Kill Buyers' Access To Xbox Live

Posted by Soulskill on Friday October 29, 2010 @11:57AM from the enjoy-those-support-calls dept.

Stoobalou writes "Microsoft's Kinect motion controller isn't due to ship until November 4th, but one retailer has jumped the gun, leaving a number of gamers with a bit of a quandary. The un-named distributor has sent what Microsoft describes as 'a very small number' of Kinect systems to lucky buyers who might not consider themselves quite so lucky if they try to use the device and its bundled games. Installing the games will require a firmware upgrade, which is nothing out of the ordinary, but in this case the upgrade hasn't yet been released. Attempting to install the non-existent update seems to fool the console into thinking you are trying to play a pirated game and locks the user out of Microsoft's Xbox Live on-line service."

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Just another reason by 0123456 · 2010-10-29 12:00 · Score: 5, Insightful

Not to buy locked down hardware or software, particularly if it requires the permission of a remote server in order to be allowed to function.
1. Re:Just another reason by MoonBuggy · 2010-10-29 12:42 · Score: 5, Informative
  
  Although the summary and linked article blame DRM (and I'm not one to defend that restrictive crap), the original joystiq article implies that it's just grabbing an incomplete update which doesn't have proper Xbox Live support yet. Nothing to do with DRM or copyright, simply that MS haven't set up a final version of the new firmware yet because they thought they had another few days to do so.