Would you want PS4, WiiU, or Xboxone to own the living room?

[gtmtnbiker]

Microsoft has filed a patent to use Kinect to enforce licensing agreements on games and movies. The idea in the patent is if too many people are in your living room, more people than are on the movie license ... it will turn the movie off and explain you need to purchase an extended license.

I don't see how this would be enforceable. Just turn the kinect around to a blank wall.

The oXbox with XBMC still makes for a fantastic media center; better than the 360, and likely still better than the Xbone.

If you're only interested in 480p movies, it's ok. An HTPC is much better in all aspects.

[o.pwuaioc]

The oXbox with XBMC still makes for a fantastic media center; better than the 360, and likely still better than the Xbone.

If you're only interested in 480p movies, it's ok. An HTPC is much better in all aspects.

The Xbox can output 1080...Can it not for movies, too?

[DinnerX]

The oXbox with XBMC still makes for a fantastic media center; better than the 360, and likely still better than the Xbone.

If you're only interested in 480p movies, it's ok. An HTPC is much better in all aspects.

The Xbox can output 1080...Can it not for movies, too?

I doubt the oxbox has enough processing power to decode a 1080p movie at anything close to an acceptable speed unfortunately.

EDIT: I highly recommend XBMCbuntu for HTPC's. I'm using it, and it's been fairly impressive. No netflix instant streaming though, because netflix doesn't support Linux distributions, and that might bother some.

[MrEco]

Sony has had my money since 1997, so I am in for the PS4

Lol, pretty much same thing here.

[Cronozilla]

I don't see how this would be enforceable. Just turn the kinect around to a blank wall.

You could easily implement an algorithm that checks to see that someone is actually sitting there playing ... and if it can't tell anyone is there it doesn't allow the game to function. (Something a bit more sinister is ... it could lock games if the right person/people aren't present too. Though ... I don't think they'd stoop that low.)

I don't know if that's what they're doing, but it's a very simple thing to do, it wouldn't be remotely difficult to implement based on what they showed.

--

Speaking of HTPCs, with some of the new GPUs coming out ... I'd be interesting in seeing some living room boxes that could game in 4K. Be kinda cool.

[Xeogred]

Nothing better than a fat Kinect being shoved down our throats.


Yeah, easily one of the biggest reasons I'm already completely against the Xbox One. I could give a damn about motion/voice/vital-signs-monitored-for-some-reason commands and if it's mandatory, forget it.

[alexretro]

WII U all the way. No internet needed, no installs needed. (in the future it will be epic with exclusives) I play my WiiWare games on Wii a lot more than I play my xbox360 or ps3. WiiU will be hacked way easier for homebrew.

[Retrogamer0001]

Considering my enormous backlog and the shift away from RPGs in the current generation, I'll be sitting the next (and most likely last) generation out. However, if I had to choose a side, PS4 would be getting my bills.

[01toubib]

Not jumping into the new generation right off the bat even when the specs come out. Reliability was an issue for both Xbox 360 and (a little bit) for the original PS3's. When I buy a console I keep it forever. So, I'll wait for the bugs to be played out. Also Xbox One raises a lot of concerns for me, so if I were to lean one way PS4 would likely be my next console.