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Xbox Originator: "Stupid, Stupid Xbox!!"
Freshly Exhumed writes "You can't begrudge Nat Brown for claiming some pride in the birth of Microsoft's game console: 'I was a founder of the original xBox project at Microsoft and gave it its name. Almost 14 years after the painful, pointless, and idiotic internal cage-match to get it started and funded, the hard selling of a compelling and lucrative living-room product to Bill (and then Steve as he began to take over), a product that consumers would want and love and demand, I am actually still thrilled to see how far it has come...' But in his recent ILIKE.CODE blog post he is driven to lament that '...as usual, Microsoft has jumped its own shark and is out stomping through the weeds planning and talking about far-flung future strategies in interactive television and original programming partnerships with big dying media companies when their core product, their home town is on fire, their soldiers, their developers, are tired and deserting, and their supply-lines are broken.' Nat goes on to detail a list of Microsoft's past and present strategic Xbox blunders, while tossing some barbs towards Nintendo's and Sony's game console strategies."
It's the interface. It sucks. I bought a machine to game on, not one to sell me other crap. Two years ago when they changed to pre metro I boxed up the x-box and games and gave it to my nephews.
X-Box is doomed. Simply because it's not about gaming, but all about sales.
_ _ _ Go for the eyes Boo! GO FOR THE EYES!
He'll try to convince them to can this stupid idea of linking all game purchases with a single xbox live account, and getting rid of the stupid "always-on" DRM requirement.
... wait, what?
Daily Microsoft bitch-fest in 5...4...3...2...1... GO!
-1 overrated isn't the same thing as "I disagree".
Didn't think i would ever say this...but have to admit Bill gates leaving MS was NOT the best thing to happen to MS. Srsly though ballmer is just pushing the MS car down the cliff.
The marketing department are morons.
They send me emails asking me to buy some game that I already own and play.
They don't send me emails asking me to buy the new DLC for a game I do play.
The appstore model of shitty games selling at a couple of bucks works for developers and apple because there are 400 million ios devices sold to date. With only 70 million xbox 360's this model would fail miserably.
Who's got two thumbs and can head a multi-million dollar project?
Oh look, it's another retired general bitching about how much better things were when he led the army. File this one under W for 'Wozniak'.
To each his own. For me, if I bought a gaming console, it would be primarily because I can play games on it. Movies, songs, anything else would perhaps be a benefit, but if they take away from the games too much, I rather do without.
This is why I bought a kindle instead of a similarly priced tablet. The kindle is for reading books on, and does this very well, with a nice screen and a pretty good buttong positioning. It doesn't do much else but the batery lasts a long time so its great. If I bought a tablet, I could have played extra games on it, watched movies and so on. But the screen would, in nearly every case, be not as useful to me (the reading on the kindle is so much better than any other screen, in my opinion), nor would I like to have to charge my device too often.
Some devices people buy to do everything they can on, some they buy for one specific task. It probably is up to the user to decide when he wants a dedicated or an all round device.
I personally can't imagine myself buying a gaming console to do anything other than games. If I want to do a lot more, I would attach a computer to my television. Not a console.
The number 1 issue I have with MS and Xbox is that even after paying around $60 a year for their service I still get bombarded with advertisements covering upwards of HALF my f*cking screen!!! Where the hell is the money going if it's not going towards paying to have a clean, ad-free service?
If there is a more obvious piece of astroturf anywhere I'd love to see it. But the bit about loving what you can do with the Xbox you don't actually own is almost as classic as mentioning Smart Glass and capitalizing it.
That was XBOX's prime. Anyone know why he named it XBOX? I thought the reason was this: "Hey Bob, you know how Linux puts X on stuff? Let's do that and make people associate that X with our product and Microsoft."
Few things make you seem as ignorant as when you insist on typing "X-Box" instead of "Xbox". I'm the biggest fucking grammar Nazi on the planet, but "Xbox" is a fixed string as it's a trademark. It doesn't matter if it "should" be "X-Box" or "X-box" or whatever -- it's *a fact* that it's "Xbox".
Console model: Buy a new game for 60 in USA or 100 in the rest of the world. Like it? Good. Don't like it? Bugger it!
Mobile: Test a game. Like it? Buy it or remove ads. Don't like it? Try another 1000s of games. Or use your mobile for what is made for: Phone, sms, social media.
Also all next consoles will stop 2nd hand games, will need internet always (like most ISP can support the extra traffic) and well despite Americans love them, several people are fed up of the "soldier in mission soldier" games. Not everybody has a party of friends for play to be a soldier squad (the foes can be zombies, nazis, terrorists, greek gods, etc. but the game is the same: Shoot, kill, recollect, repeat
And why this text box shows the input as I write an Asiatic (right to left) language?
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MS would have become irrelevant if not for the forthought of its hardware partners in the early twenty-oughts and yet those same innovators now stand closest to the brink. Fuck you Ballmer, we bought you your damn yacht. Grow a backbone if you expect us to stand behind you. At this point I wouldn't mind seeing you kicked to the curb.
xbox only works as an extender to your network if you're running all windows 7 machines (probably works on 8, never seen 8 in the wild though). last count i'm running 1 windows 7 box out of about 8 computers. i don't really care to pay for windows to install an OS i don't like just so it's compatible with gaming hardware that might be able to replace $50 bucks worth of raspberry pi equipment.
This is a joke. I am joking. Joke joke joke.
Now the real question is why are there so many people who suck?
I guess I'm just not into sucking.
While I am as much a grammer pedant as the next person (don't get me started on "X-Windows") it is interesting to note that Nat Brown, who "gave it its name", writes "xBox" througout except when talking directly about the product. Perhaps we are seeing the difference between the product as conceived by a visionary and the product as delivered by Marketing.
The new consoles from Sony and Microsoft are both incredibly improved PC designs. Because they dump every aspect of Intel, and use AND technology, bandwidth to the GPU and CPU engines is vastly higher than anything Intel provides with even its best motherboard chipsets. A high-end PC with a high-end discrete GPU is still vastly faster, of course, but with much clunkier engineering.
The new consoles, each having 8 true CPU cores, encourage proper multi-threaded execution in applications (an easy programming task for most types of AAA games). They each come with 8GB of main memory, allowing applications to build massive gaming worlds.
What neither have is massive amounts of GPU grunt to drive 'Crysis' like graphics at insane resolutions. Such GPU power is still too expensive and power hungry. The best next-gen console games will have similar visuals to the best games today on powerful PCs, but with much better textures, and vastly larger seemless gaming levels. The best next-gen console games will probably render at a resolution less than 1080, and upscale the image a little, to enable more complex scene rendering.
Best of all is the fact that the 8GB of memory means that games no longer have to be 'cheap' with state information (as in no proper save games), and can return to the glory days of PC gaming when a session could end at any point, and later the game could pick up exactly where the player left. The new console games will be unthinkably good, and port across to ordinary PCs with ease.
The fact that the new consoles are also very powerful generic PCs means all the other services promised and never really delivered on the PS3 and Xbox360 are now trivial to support on the new boxes. Even 4K decoding with the new codec standard will be simple given the power of the 8 CPU cores, so it won't matter that the video hardware doesn't support H265 yet. These new devices are truly game changers IF they sell as well as previous consoles, and given the games they will run, they are going to sell an awful lot better.
I have never found myself comfortable with any gaming consoles. My fingers have never been able to get the hang of the consoles. I think the future, the human race will be divided into 4 groups of evolved species with differing hand configurations - the consolers, the keyboarders, the swipers and the rest of the world. Let the games begin!
iPad? is that you?
Back when Xbox was released, I decided I would never get one (just because it's a microsoft product). Today, I have never played with Xbox... Actually I haven't even ever touched the controller.
And I'm doing fine!
lets talk about xbox anal playing a video.
stage 1) pick a video
stage 2) figure how you see the video on your own xbox.
stage 3) give up
stage 4) come back after a week to watch a diffrent video
stage 5) remember the problem and google it
stage 6) you need another computer(wtf?xbox is not computer?) to make it “streamable”.
stage 7) get hold of another comuter and push your brother claiming its for family good.
stage 8) stay in your room for pushing a brother, and think how this could be solved
stage 9) you get a feeling you can solve it
stage 10) get to the box next day, and understand you had no idea how complex it is
stage 11) blame the firewall, and it still doesnt work
stage 12) go find 3ed party software
stage 13) ok, install the software
stage 14) blame the firewall again
stage 15) you try to play the video again on media center.
stage 16) STOP CURSING AND FOCUSE , the xbox error 54735637 clearly say in google search , its a
codec problem
stage 17) try to install vlc
stage 18) yes, spending an evening googling to understand why ms doesnt support open source , to end
up in a distro wars, you dont get.
stage 19) the weakend is over, give up, go and buy a cheap chinse device to stream media, and
“unplug” that shit , so you can watch videos. aaah, if only you could plug 2 at a time.
stage 20) stop hitting the screen, its not its fault its too old to handle two connections without
static noise.
stage 21) offer xbox on ebay staying its a piece of shit
stage 22) removing from ebay “its a piece of shit”
stage 23) you forgot you cant transfer all your games from your old xbox, its only for “you” and
for your ‘users”
stage 24) explain the buyer that you cant sell your xbox.
stage 25) you hope the dog can destroy the box, even thow you spend hudnerd of dollars on a box that
cant play video cause a “programmer” deicded that.
stage 26) put xbox on a dark closet , not to be seen again for 2 decades, when its worth as antic.
Ok, these are the ACTUAL complaints in the article:
1) Microsoft has purposefully locked out small developers from contributing to XBox.
2) Cluttered interface that bombards the user with unnecessary and confusing pop-ups.
3) Apple may be able to get control of the console business if they open up their Apple Store ecosystem to Apple TV
Maybe it's time to remove the post from your butt.
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is the pinnacle of console gaming, on any platform - and it was particularly good on the Xbox.
its painful to read. at least its been modded funny.
I think the classic geek mistake is being made here... that just because it isn't right for them, it's not right for anyone.
That's not a geek mistake; it's a selfish turd mistake.
Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. -John Lennon
Oh look, it's another retired general bitching about how much better things were when he led the army. File this one under W for 'Wozniak'.
The Woz probably isn't the best comparison: In this rant, the guy who kicked off MS' Xbox strategy is complaining about how MS is fucking up Xbox strategy. In the case of Wozniak, Apple's original hardware-hacker-geek occasionally laments the fact that a company that bears almost no resemblance to the "Apple" of his era except the name now produces products that don't even pretend to be interested in the likes of him.
It's interesting to see the person who named it format the name - properly, I assume - as xBox, not XBox or Xbox. I rarely see it in the correct style, but it hasn't registered before, unlike the Mac/MAC or iPod/IPod/Ipod errors I see all too often.
If Slashdot were chemistry it would look like this:Cadaverine
From a media perspective, it's a pretty simple extender - in the same vein that DLNA is supposed to do most of this too. My issues:
1. I need to have a Windows machine on at all times I want to use the extender piece on the xbox because Windows Media Center has to be running to give the files to the machine.
2. Windows Media Center doesn't appear to convert a lot of things in my library to a format readable by the xbox; hence I never use the xbox as an extender.
I have had similar experiences on #2 for DLNA. Even trying to put together some of the applications (again, windows machine + transcoding is supposed to work here) DLNA just doesn't fit the bill. I have relegated myself to the fact that if I want to be able to play everything without messing around, a low-cost PC running media player classic is the way to go. Just built an i3 for my basement in fact because my old single core athlon couldn't decode anything higher than 720p without becoming a mess, even with hardware video decoding.
Karnal
You know, I saw a commercial for a Surface last night. It depicted a bunch of 20-something misanthropes at "work" doing something that could be likened to having epileptic seizures on a conference room table, tossing their tablets about as if they were frisbees and displaying facial expressions like my dog makes when it's trying to take a crap.
In the time since then, I still have no idea what Surface is, does, or how it would help my organization get anything done. All I remember are a bunch of idiots acting like idiots and not doing any work.
It's like they were *trying* to sell this device, whatever it is, to business, by appealing to the worse type of employee imaginable. That doesn't seem like much of a success strategy to me.
Seriously, watch a couple of these commercials and tell me that there is a clear message about how this thing is actually useful:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7UlE-o8DQQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tr3dFSzh1yU
Maybe I'm just old and unhip and still believe that going to work is for working.
It's the XBox360 that sucks, frankly.
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
No. I run the Plex media server on my Mac and it streams videos to my Xbox and my Roku just fine. And, I run Microsoft Smartglass on my iPhone to control my Xbox.
Bill Clinton: Pimp we can believe in. - The Shirt!!!
With shameless promotion like that, Microsoft might just send you an XBox, gratis, in exchange for a product endorsement!
Nobody on the planet is interested in how the games and achievements on their windows phone can interact with their xbox.
i never claimed to have run the army. at best i was a grunt-turned-sergeant-awkwardly-promoted-to-captain who had the ears of the generals because i knew what we could build, who could build it, and i could describe it to everybody - i was boots on the ground. i'm just pointing out that i think the current strategy is wrong and will likely fail, not that i was running it better back in the day.
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The next Xbox should be 100% touchscreen! Demand everyone buy a brand new TV and then stand 2 feet from it. Then touch it without tipping it over. Just think how well it would do to combine kids' affinity for touching random things with their love of gaming! It'll be a hit!
I, like many others, have both XBox and PS3 in the house. Let's just say, I FUCKING HATE XBOX.
XBox - I have to pay monthly/annually to play games and shop online? That sucks.
XBox - Not to start a flame war, but Halo, the seeming be all and end all of XBox is one of the worst FPS I've ever played. Even BF3 pisses me off so much that I'd prefer to play the abandoned and destroyed TF2 on PS3 than those XBox crapfests and their fine niggerfaggot players. WTF? Mute ALL.
XBox - Can't play Blue-Ray discs, but they've got "lots" of juddering "HD" content that you can buy/rent on top of the money I wasted on XBox Live.
PS3 - Online gaming and store are free! As it should be.
PS3 - Doesn't play Halo, but that doesn;t hurt my feelings. All of the other craptacular EA games available on XBox are available to me on PS3.
PS3 - Plays Blue-Ray discs I get from Red Box for $1.50 per day rental. Way cheaper than online rentals, no download lag or juddering. In fact, it's the only way for me to take advantage of the 1080p televisions that I bought. ALL other non-Blue-Ray video sources are less than 1080p, cable, DVD, downloads, streams... I bought 1080p, I want high def video, not YouTube!
To be honest, I still pay for XBox Live and my son was a big fan, though most of his present gaming is PC based. But, I HATE the XBox.
I'm no longer as big a fan of the PS3, Sony's updates have really pissed me off. The PS3 doesn't get used as much as it use to and the amount of gaming on it is declining, but I still prefer it hands down to the XBox.
P.S. Sony got hacked and I lost a throw away account. My XBox account got compromised and I lost real money and time, trying to recover it.
XBox SUCKS!
I'd be thrilled, except that I still have at least $200 invested in PS3 Rock Band DLC alone.
-David
Nope, I had an xp media center and a vista system and both worked fine with it. Still works fine with windows 7 of course.
BTW, I have 4 windows systems out of the 20+ active computers(real computers, not counting dev boards or embedded systems) so don't go pulling the M$ fanboy card out and waving it around.
If he wanted to get another point across he shouldn't have wrote the article like an angry ex.
Don't complain about syntax, grammar, or spelling. There is no.hell like input on android.
gee I wish I could play this with my friend
That's why the Xbox 360 console has multiple USB ports for connecting wired controllers and a built-in receiver for pairing multiple wireless controllers. PCs can technically do that too, but it's not traditionally done. The selection of games that support multiplayer on one machine is consoles' big advantage over PCs.
Prototype 2 did it right; it loads your most recent save and starts playing it in the background under the menu. When you click 'continue,' the menu simply goes away and there you are.
Animal Crossing series does almost the same thing: its attract mode shows NPCs walking around in your campaign's town. But because it supports up to four characters in a campaign, it cuts away to the menu to select a character after you press Start.
maybe your linux box will have some awesome graphics to play games on
Yeah, like, Team Fortress 2, Counter strike Source, and MORE SHIT IS COMING.
Anything that isn't violent like the popular first-person shooters?
Open Firmware replaces BIOS and avoids legacy cruft, and doesn't seek to prevent people doing what they want with their computer.
Neither does UEFI.
UEFI is used in Windows RT devices with no ability to disable Secure Boot and no ability to enable custom mode.
Microsoft requires Secure Boot (with a disable option and custom mode) for x86 and x86-64 PCs that ship with Windows 8 and for motherboards that carry the Windows 8 certification mark, not necessarily all PCs that are upgraded from an older operating system to Windows 8.
Plus why should I pay $15 for a title on my xbox when I can get the same game cheaper on four other platforms for less?
Are these smartphone or tablet platforms? If so, then you probably didn't get a gamepad unless the platform was Android and the device was Xperia Play. Or are these console platforms? If so, then they lack anything like the $1, $3, and $5 games in the Indie Games section.
His main gripe seems to be around the 10,000$ fee to be able to develop xbox content.
While I get his point that they might be excluding many young innovative Indy game developers, they are also protecting themselves from the 99% that are not but would try to develop some crap anyway. This way you only get those people that are really serious about making a game. I mean for a start up business, 10,000$ for access to sell your product to HOW many users, is not a big deal. It is to make sure that only quality games are being submitted not halfassed ones.
It is the same reason why they have to prohibitive update fees. First one is free, and then they get progressively more expensive the more you do. Some have said this leads to developers giving up on code because they will never realize the profit from it. However the incentive is clear: STOP MAKING BUGGY CODE! Test your shit before you submit it, do not rush development and then submit some half assed, half finished dreck.
As for content, I think they are going generally in the right direction. However it shouldn't be xbox making deals with content creators, that is what players like Netflix and the like should do. Yes they could tone down the ads a bit. I get it, you are a business and want to sell me stuff. However chill out a bit ya? I dissagree about the them not capitalizing on kenict. I think they did they best they could. As a technology, it is not precise enough for serious gaming, but is great for fun party type games. The difficulty was that people interested in those kind of games bought a Nintendo. They did try to drop the price to compete with this, but then again building a catalog of that type of games takes a bit of time. If they could refine the control, I think that would be the future. Bottom line, when the next console comes out, it is likely going to cost like 500$, people interested in casual gaming do not want to spend 500$, it is that simple. So until you refine the control, and have the use for casual party games, do not expect huge sales, until of course your console prices drop to matching the low end, which is years and years away from initial release.
Anyway back to the fees. Microsoft is worth like 30 Billion or whatever. They do not make money off these fees (or that is not the purpose). It is an attempt to cultivate their garden of developers in that only the desired will continue, and the rest will wither and die.
Anyone know why he named it XBOX?
Because when you put your thumbs on a PlayStation controller, the right thumb covers buttons marked with an X and a square (that is, a box). Even 360 refers to a circle, which is also a PlayStation button.
For one thing, everything has to be rewritten line-by-line in C#. For another, only ten countries can buy XNA games. Finally, a letter to MVPs implies that XNA is likely to go unsupported soon.
Cliff Notes: IMHO the article is wrongyou can move on now.
I think the article is good advice for future developments maybe, but the current state of the Xbox isn’t nearly as bad as what the author makes it out to be.
The boot time to game is solely dependent on how many splash screen individual developers put in their game. Otherwise from XBox logo to game load is like what 10 seconds? I personally don't think that's unreasonable.
As to advertisig...It's relevant and I don't think it's overly intrusive...Yet...I don't mind that one advertising tile in the bottom right of every other screen. It doesn't affect my experience one way or the other. When they make me start click through an ad to get to my game, I'm throwing the thing out to craig’s list or e-bay.
As to XBox Live...again, in the grand scheme of things I think 100 bucks a year (family account w/ 4 accounts) isn't ridiculous. The matchmaking / audio is a class above anything on PS3 or Wii (WiiU). I find it’s worth it for that alone. Also, if you’re thrifty throughout the year you can find subscriptions for cheap (30 bucks / yr per account). Compare that to any of the ‘free to play’ games or a WoW account and you’re immediately in the same price range for a year. Finally, if you don’t want to pay, get XBox silver. You don’t get online play, but you’ll get through all the single player games fine.
Sir, I agree completely with you.
Kudos for the courage to speak open, I hope will shake their cozy view of the world.
That would be a valid complaint if this were live.com, but this is slashdot.org and the reader is assumed to know how to use google and possibly even how to log into their router.
Come on, that wasn't even really true a decade ago - and modern Slashdot it's asinine to assume that even 50% of the readers here configure routers at all.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
MS has a pretty good range of media services available, in fact I'd be hard pressed to find anywhere as good
No, you wouldn't actually. AppleTV has all those features (including things like Netflix, Hulu, HBO) with no monthly fee paid to Apple to make use of those features.
That and the AppleTV also supports airplay for small device mirroring.
And it plays media directly from an iTunes account which many, many people have now...
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Bad, wicked, naughty XBox.
Normally I think calls of posts being astroturf are way over-done on the internet, everyone uses that phrase anyone anyone simply says they like anything.
But I have to admit that post was waving more red flags than a Chinese military review...
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
"Almost 14 years after the painful, pointless, and idiotic internal cage-match"
did it involve chairs wwe style?
who did you have to beat with a chair to let them give you the chance to make xbox.
because I heard throwing chairs is how MS does business
..I find that practically every single comment in this article applies to the PS3 as well.
Down to the bizarre warning that every game provides a custom icon for that means "saving, don't turn off". To add insult to injury, on the PS3 you have to click through a warning about the saving icon before starting every game, every single time.
I don't own an X-Box
OK. But that makes this next statement rather odd.
I love that I can control the Xbox now with a Windows Phone, using Smart Glass.
Why would you love that you can now control something that you don't even have?
Out of modpoints but really liked a post? 1BDkF6TtmmeZ3yqXbz9yhdYVqRYnwFoXDj
... the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate. Could this guy possibly mix and otherwise abuse metaphors more?
Because I've used it at friends' homes who have an X-Box and a Windows Phone.
Can't I love something that I don't have?
-David
It is really simple to have the PS3 work with your Windows computers.
1. Go to your computer
2. Share files
3. Dance
4. ???
5. Profit...I mean done.
It is not hard at all. I've had it working since the PS3 came out and it has basically never broken. I've played literally all types of files, streaming from my PC, from audio to video, without a single problem.
Same thing on my 360 takes a whole extra bunch of hoops if I do it the way they want - shared through WMC. Luckily the shared folder thing works there too, but it is much more buried on the 360 than the PS3..at least last time I tried to do it.
Why are there ads on the console in the first place? My PS3 doesn't have any, my Wii U doesn't, my 3DS and Vita don't...
Perhaps it was my assumption that if you're not doing split-screen, you might as well game on a PC instead of an Xbox 360 console.
i stand corrected
This is a joke. I am joking. Joke joke joke.
Yeah mods, whatever, don't have time to even finish most games, let alone screw around with mods.
So how are budding developers supposed to get their start without mods?
thats great for the handful of games that have local multiplayer
This handful is larger on consoles than on PCs. There are entire local-multiplayer-centric genres that tend not to get ported to PC, such as party games and fighting games.
but unfortunately that feature has also been stripped
Every Call of Duty game that I've seen still supports split-screen on the Xbox 360. But you're right that I quit Animal Crossing when I discovered that despite the huge CPU power and resolution increase from the DS to Wii, City Folk didn't have split-screen.
Verizon's pop up ad won't go away over the text of this slashdot post, make it stop!
Tracy Johnson
Old fashioned text games hosted below:
http://empire.openmpe.com/
BT
I always thought the point of playing games like that with others was the bonding experience and which game you play, and on what system you play it, was kind of a secondary factor.
But you still have to get past the steps of 1. finding games to play and 2. setting up a system compatible with those games in the first place. The small selection of PC-compatible major-label local multiplayer games isn't quite compelling enough to get past step 1, let alone step 2.
It's not like I'm planning to lead a revolution in the gaming market, so I really only tend to focus on personal solutions.
I'm approaching this from the point of view of small video game developers. The article and other articles point out that the tools and approval fees to port even a completed Windows game to Xbox 360 can cost tens of thousands of dollars per year. A lot of small developers can't afford this entry barrier.
And if the head of household is unwilling to buy an Xbox, there's no gaming at all, so what's your point?
My point is that far more gamers are willing to buy an Xbox 360 and connect it to a TV than to buy a PC and connect it to a TV.
If you can point to anywhere where I claimed this was a free of cost solution
The presumed free of cost solution, from the gamer's side (not the developer's side), is to use the console that one presumably already bought sometime in the past seven years. But as the article points out, the console makers make it cost-prohibitive for a small developer to gain access to those gamers who already bought a console.
So he complains about how expensive everything is, and how Microsoft can veto your product.
Then he goes on about how there's this ghetto where it's cheap/free, but Microsoft doesn't promote anything.
Is Microsoft supposed to spend resources on projects that may or may not be any good? Or maybe make a more serious effort on someone who's...
made a more serious effort?
No dog in this hunt, can't code my way out of paper bag, and could care less about the Xbox (I'm a Steam on PC guy). But he seems off on that point.
Ouya would be ideal provided it catches on. Previous open systems, such as GP32, GP2X, GP2X Wiz, and Pandora, all failed to become popular in North America.
my PC is connected to my TV. I did it because I already had the PC and the TV and wanted a DVR that [obeys me]
So when you want to use the PC connected to the TV for web surfing or word processing or something similar, where do you put the mouse and keyboard when you use the PC connected to the TV? And how does the gaming or other use affect the DVR functionality?