Sony's E3: My Impressions

I can honestly say that I have never watched a more boring E3 conference than Sony's.  It started about 17 minutes late, the presenters had the charisma of wet paint, it was too long, and it really dragged.  It was nice when Assassin's Creed 4 froze multiple times.  To be honest, I quit watching it at about the 1 hour 20 minute mark, because I couldn't take it anymore (I got to the Elder Scrolls online part).

Microsoft's E3: The Xbox One: My Impressions

Well, that was probably the most crushingly disappointing E3 conference I have ever seen.  Don't get me wrong, the games they showed were mostly OK.  What killed this conference for me was about 30 seconds.

$499 at launch (or $499 in many other currencies).  There is only one way I would purchase one now (winning the lottery).  I would have pre-ordered one at $399.  I don't see a price drop happening until 2015 at the earliest either.  I guess that suggests that Sony's machine is probably in the same ballpark (have competing consoles ever got together and fixed launch prices?)   

For the first time in a while, maybe i'll watch the Sony conference. 

Pre-E3 2013: Will i Go Next Gen?

So, I have been thinking about this a little more lately.  I was not planning on going "next gen" (Xbox One, PS4).  But lately I have been more and more tempted (especially since I just got $140 for trading in some games at Gamestop, and will probably trade in some more before then).  I still have to come up with a way to get an additional $150-250 funding for it. 

There are currently 3 options:

Xbox One: My View of a Good "Used Games" Policy

Well, the Xbox One launch/DRM details has kind of met with negative response.  The misguided "consumer rights" people are out in force. No, you don't own anything (except maybe the video game hardware - and then you are licensing the software running it), you are just licensing it.  People seem to grasp that concept with Steam and iOS/Android.  The Xbox One is actually going to be an online system more like those (I wouldn't be surprised to see the disk version of some games phased out after 3-5 years, digital only). 

Sure some of the stuff is more on the obtuse side (I think 24 hours is a little too frequent to check, though I kind of doubt it would completely "brick" a game, regardless of what they might say).

This post really isn't about DRM, it is about my idea for a "used game" system on the Xbox One.  That's right, I said on the Xbox One (it should get its own digital used game store, all downloadable).  It is a bit of a misnomer because it would more likely be just digital copies of games. I don't know if this kind of thing is actually possible, but here goes....