02-11-2013, 05:00 PM | #1 |
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Project Durango (Microsoft's 3rd console)
I could've sworn we had a thread about the fan-dubbed "NextBox" for ages, but I couldn't seem to find it despite going back to Page 5. *shrug* If we do have one, feel free to merge this thread with it. Otherwise ... let's go ahead and discuss Microsoft's next video game console!
While Kotaku has become something of a laughing stock in gaming journalism, in this article here, which is currently making the rounds around the Internet, they claim to have quite a lot of insider information about the new console. Summarizing the biggest claims:
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This is the part that would freak me out if there was any chance at all of me buying a Durango:
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02-11-2013, 11:07 PM | #3 |
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Yeah, didn't want to bias too heavily in the OP post of the thread, but I quite agree. Seems companies are getting way, way too comfortable inching into every facet of our lives these days. Can you really trust Apple with your iPhone given it has a built-in microphone and pretty decent video camera? Can you really trust Microsoft with a Kinect that is able to tell different human beings apart in the household and insists on always being plugged in to a machine that is ostensibly always connected to the Internet? ('Cause seriously: who plays XBox games and doesn't also buy into XBox Live? .......... *sheepishly raises hand from back when he owned a working XBox*) Obviously, one has to wonder how silly we're being, but ... I dunno. It is a bit of a creeper Orwellian thing for them to do, and that does turn me off.
But the thing is, people act like you have to leave the camera facing you at all times and, afaik, you don't. All they ask is that it be plugged in. Not that it be plugged in and watching you. You can ...
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