Xbox One Backflip - Microsoft Ditches the DRM [Confirmed]

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Marcem:

--- Quote from: Harm94 on June 19, 2013, 05:41:37 PM ---Apparently that Xbox one at E3 was a PC.
http://www.cinemablend.com/games/Microsoft-Says-Windows-7-Nvidia-GTX-PCs-E3-Were-Xbox-One-Dev-Kits-56834.html

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--- Quote from: Marcem on June 16, 2013, 09:22:00 PM ---
I'll be the one to post this image, so we don't even have the stupid debate going here too.

This is one of the demo units for LocoCycle, it's a PC running Windows 7. Whoop-dee-doo. An unfinished game built to run on an x86 console running windows is running on just that type of pc. As for it running Windows 7, I doubt many game devs are running Windows 8, it just came out last year and upgrading is expensive and wouldn't provide much benefit for the hours of installing and the money spent on licenses. The game apparently wasn't ready to go on the actual hardware, so they faked it with a more powerful PC, same with a few other games. This happens sometimes (especially for E3), it works especially well for the Xbox. This most likely isn't an Xbox Devkit, it's probably the dev's own computer. They just put it on PC.

And before any of you guys say "Well if they do this all the time, why can't PCs run 360 games?" it's because this was a 360 devkit:

The 360 ran a powerpc processor, which uses code that is incompatible with current PCs (and windows as a whole), so why did Macs run it? They had powerpc processors, but the games most likely ran in a custom MS operating system so they could run DirectX.

Please don't turn this of all things into a complaint against the Xbox One, there are better things to complain about.

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Amerax:

--- Quote from: heedicalking on June 19, 2013, 07:02:29 PM ---i hate steam. i don't want to load all this extra stuff to play a god-damn game. i refuse to buy games that require "steamworks" or whatever the stuffty using steam as DRM thing is called.

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Its not like steam is very intrusive. Besides from having to launch it before you play a game (Which I have it set so it loads on startup), I can see absolutely no reason to not download it.

Also, is it really DRM? You dont have to be online to play your games...

ShadowsfeaR:

--- Quote from: swollow on June 19, 2013, 07:57:58 PM ---[img ]http://cdn.duelingbrown townogs.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Console-Confusion.jpg[/img]
so did all this stuff shown here get removed?

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Yes

Harm94:

--- Quote from: Marcem on June 19, 2013, 08:02:23 PM ---

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My point is that Microsoft is liar and their whole "xbox is better than the top gaming computer" argument is now out the window. If they want to show the true power of their console they could have used the real thing, instead they use a pc. Meanwhile the fanboys are going "Oooh, gud graphix. Xbox has better than PS4 and PC!".

--- Quote from: heedicalking on June 19, 2013, 07:02:29 PM ---i hate steam. i don't want to load all this extra stuff to play a god-damn game. i refuse to buy games that require "steamworks" or whatever the stuffty using steam as DRM thing is called.

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What about Origin? That is just as intrusive as Steam if not more. Plus with Steam and Origin you are just renting for life.

Kimon:
If the xbox allows you to carry arcade games from the xbox 360 over and allows multiplayer with xbox 360 i would probably buy it, if i had the money. Didn't really read all the details.

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