With Microsoft addressing concerns, leaving question unanswered and answering others in a profoundly stupid way i asked myself what should be different to make a console actually attractive.
I want to be able to use my console to play when i'm not at home. I'd carry it somewhere, plug it in and play.
I wouldn't mind much if i'd have to plug in another plug, like the RJ45 plug for internet access.
If the console wouldn't allow me to play any games when i'm somewhere without internet access i wouldn't buy that.
Internet access could be used for verification of the games to check if they're legit copies.
Now if publishers could eventually "free" their games of that requirement so that my hypothetical console would play them even if the internet can't be reached i'd be fine with that.
If i'm abroad and can't play the newest games because of lack of internet access i wouldn't mind too much if i could play some older games where the publishers patched the need for internet verification out. Later, there should be "classic" editions of those games (maybe like the platinum games on the original playstation) that are already patched to not need any internet verification.
Internet verification for copy protection services should be patched out after about six months to a year.
That way, if you're in a position where you can not access the internet you could still play games. They may be a year old but don't be a snob
I wouldn't care much about the kinect being always on. Pull the plug out of the wall, problem solved. Microsoft still didn't say anything about the security of the kinect. Is it possible to get a trojan that would have the kinect record me while i'm playing? That is, if it doesn't do that already...
Welp, microsoft can market that thing in whatever way they want to; if they attach it to something that i buy i will accessorize it with a black plastic panel.
If i wanted to have something like a kinect on the console that i'm building, i would do my very best to ensure potential customers that it is safe to use. I'd probably have a shutter on it with an actual little lever that you'd have to manually push open when you want to use the kinect camera.
About the "used games fee". I would be able to swallow that if microsoft told me that a big part of that actually goes to the developer of the used game. And if that fee was very cheap.
After all, if i'd borrow a game, i'd have to pay it twice. Once to glue it to my account and once when i'm done and transfer it back to the account of the person i borrowed the game from.
And another thing that got totally overlooked in the presentation of all the consoles: Will they explode?
The consoles last time around where laughably flimsy. Especially the first xbox 360. I do not trust a company that made the xbox 360 to make a console where everything works right and continues to do so for a few years.
With the new xbone, i expect some problems to come up: Even if the actual machine will endure the apparently daunting task of actually playing games on it, i'd be very surprised if there wont be a lot of people who can't do the internet verification despite having internet access. Or maybe the servers with which the xbone would communicate to verify games will crash or just wont work for some other reasons.
Again, microsoft said nothing about the security of those connections on the customer side or the server side.
The old software on my phone would have me bind all my social media accounts together. Because i need to have facebook on my phone apparently. Got a new OS on it rather quickly.
Would be awesome if i could do that with a new console. A man can dream...
If i where to build a console i would not bother with social media integration whatsoever.
I haven't heard anyone tell me that it'd be really nice if they could have their games automatically tweet the progress or something.
My console would have a dashboard with very little advertisements if any. You could download applications onto the console, a netflix app or, if you really want to, a facebook app.
That would be the extent of social media integration.
If i included something like a "share" button i'd call it the "record" button. You could record footage of the game you're playing onto the harddrive of the console. To be transferred to a computer where you can edit it or let it rot on that hd for all eternity for all i care.
I kinda like Gamerscores, Trophys and Achievements if only for the optional metagame.
All in all, i think any console manufacturer should be glad if they could hire me as an advisor because apparently i'm better then they could ever hope to be. Then again, that's not much of an effort really...
Captcha: "make it so"
I want to be able to use my console to play when i'm not at home. I'd carry it somewhere, plug it in and play.
I wouldn't mind much if i'd have to plug in another plug, like the RJ45 plug for internet access.
If the console wouldn't allow me to play any games when i'm somewhere without internet access i wouldn't buy that.
Internet access could be used for verification of the games to check if they're legit copies.
Now if publishers could eventually "free" their games of that requirement so that my hypothetical console would play them even if the internet can't be reached i'd be fine with that.
If i'm abroad and can't play the newest games because of lack of internet access i wouldn't mind too much if i could play some older games where the publishers patched the need for internet verification out. Later, there should be "classic" editions of those games (maybe like the platinum games on the original playstation) that are already patched to not need any internet verification.
Internet verification for copy protection services should be patched out after about six months to a year.
That way, if you're in a position where you can not access the internet you could still play games. They may be a year old but don't be a snob
I wouldn't care much about the kinect being always on. Pull the plug out of the wall, problem solved. Microsoft still didn't say anything about the security of the kinect. Is it possible to get a trojan that would have the kinect record me while i'm playing? That is, if it doesn't do that already...
Welp, microsoft can market that thing in whatever way they want to; if they attach it to something that i buy i will accessorize it with a black plastic panel.
If i wanted to have something like a kinect on the console that i'm building, i would do my very best to ensure potential customers that it is safe to use. I'd probably have a shutter on it with an actual little lever that you'd have to manually push open when you want to use the kinect camera.
About the "used games fee". I would be able to swallow that if microsoft told me that a big part of that actually goes to the developer of the used game. And if that fee was very cheap.
After all, if i'd borrow a game, i'd have to pay it twice. Once to glue it to my account and once when i'm done and transfer it back to the account of the person i borrowed the game from.
And another thing that got totally overlooked in the presentation of all the consoles: Will they explode?
The consoles last time around where laughably flimsy. Especially the first xbox 360. I do not trust a company that made the xbox 360 to make a console where everything works right and continues to do so for a few years.
With the new xbone, i expect some problems to come up: Even if the actual machine will endure the apparently daunting task of actually playing games on it, i'd be very surprised if there wont be a lot of people who can't do the internet verification despite having internet access. Or maybe the servers with which the xbone would communicate to verify games will crash or just wont work for some other reasons.
Again, microsoft said nothing about the security of those connections on the customer side or the server side.
The old software on my phone would have me bind all my social media accounts together. Because i need to have facebook on my phone apparently. Got a new OS on it rather quickly.
Would be awesome if i could do that with a new console. A man can dream...
If i where to build a console i would not bother with social media integration whatsoever.
I haven't heard anyone tell me that it'd be really nice if they could have their games automatically tweet the progress or something.
My console would have a dashboard with very little advertisements if any. You could download applications onto the console, a netflix app or, if you really want to, a facebook app.
That would be the extent of social media integration.
If i included something like a "share" button i'd call it the "record" button. You could record footage of the game you're playing onto the harddrive of the console. To be transferred to a computer where you can edit it or let it rot on that hd for all eternity for all i care.
I kinda like Gamerscores, Trophys and Achievements if only for the optional metagame.
All in all, i think any console manufacturer should be glad if they could hire me as an advisor because apparently i'm better then they could ever hope to be. Then again, that's not much of an effort really...
Captcha: "make it so"
