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But both of them still use the Xbox Live marketplace. 360/XBone, it's still your Live account and your Live accounts value.

If they were phasing out Xbox Live and making a new separate system called "Xbox One Live" and the two accounts were separate, it'd be an issue of Old vs New. Right now the points you have be it old MS Points or new dollar value in your wallet, doesn't make a difference, it's all on Xbox Live. The money would have to be spent on Live, it wouldn't be going anywhere. Instead they decide that regardless of whether or not you pick up an Xbox One or stick with your 360, your previous Xbox Live account balance will reset to zero after that one year, regardless if you spent money on those points previously or not. They aren't forcing you to choose one generation or the next...



I think it was just a convenient time for them to change from a point to dollar system. XBox Live could have easily used Points and Dollars for the distant future, points were just viewed negatively by the user base as a whole, mainly due to the 800 points = 10 dollars thing.


Edited, Jun 12th 2013 4:18pm by TirithRR

/facepalm

Seriously what other anti-consumer things can they do ? At this point it seems like they are TRYING to lose sales.

Cons:
Cant play used
Has to check in over net once a day or doesnt work
Cant be played in non-sanction countries
Cant change the HDD with a better cheaper one
Can't borrow or Loan games to friends
Kinect is always watching you
Pay wall for entertainment software? (Netflix hulu etc)
Costs 100 more then the PS4

Pros: It plays games?


Edited, Jun 12th 2013 3:55pm by BeanX

I'm assuming they felt piracy and related issues are so great they will come out ahead on the $$$ side?

Not exactly an elegant solution to the problem.

Honestly I feel bad for Rare and other Xbox Exclusive companies they are the ones going to be hurt the most since the install base will be crap til MS pulls their head out and makes changes.

Being Microsoft?

http://i.imgur.com/tvXzEGE.png

As a typical US consumer, whether or not my console will work in S. Africa ranks about 10,000 places below "Needs internet" which doesn't rank especially high itself.

I'm sure someone out there has some compelling reason why this would be very important to him. That's fine and I fully endorse him buying a console that works in S. Africa. Most people aren't that guy.

Well, no one cares about Africans. But what about Asian markets. And it looks like Portugal is left out of the European market as well.

My understanding is that the Xbox360 did rather poorly in Asian markets. I'm guessing they're not a priority for MS.

The military uses modified Xbox controllers due, in part, to how familiar a large portion of the military is to the Xbox 360.

Nonsense. Does everyone need to ensure global coverage or access or else they're being ****** Microsoft isn't signing people up for the military and has nothing to do with someone's choice to "fight for our freedom".


Which doesn't mean they're a large part of MS's overall audience. According to lolWiki, 25.4 million Xbox's were sold in the US as of March 2011. There's 1.4 million people in the entire active United States Armed Services. If every one of those people owned an Xbox, they would still make up only 5% of Xbox 360's total sales. Obviously the number is far less than that; both more Xbox 360's have sold since March 2011 and far fewer than 100% of the US Armed Forces own them. I'd be surprised if the real number broke 1% of Xbox 360's going to active service members.

I'm not saying that Microsoft wouldn't like to have them. But Microsoft obviously isn't going to change their model on account of perhaps 1% of their US market.

Few people not directly affected will know, even fewer will care.