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How is that competitive with MicroSD cards? Why didn't they just go with MicroSD in the first place?

The crazy price is probably a big hindrance to sales, and the games are just for kids. Parents would just buy a cheaper Wii with better kids games, and Mario/Zelda/Kirby/Donkey Kong are much more appealing (and fun for adults) than what they've got going on for Kinect.

@seaban Apples and oranges. TVs don't go out of print, and they can't be reproduced by just copying a file.

@Raffi256 That's all we need, for parents to get lazier and be even less involved with their kids than they are now...

I'm tired of the drastic interface changes. Can't they stick to one and just refine it?

I hope they mean more core Final Fantasy games and less fringe FF-based games. I'm not sure if more releases is better, though, that means less time given to working on each release. FF has lost overworld maps starting with FFX, what else are they going to strip out in order to make more frequent releases?

@seaban: Even if you buy stuff legally you can still have a problem. What about all those who bought PlaysForSure or Wal-Mart music and the DRM servers shut down so they can't authenticate their devices/music? They have no choice but to strip the DRM using "illegal" tools.

What if you have a scratched DVD? Supposedly DVD ripping software like DeCSS are illegal, so you can't make backups, and if they don't have that DVD on the market anymore, what are you going to do? And are you really going to pay full price for a copy of something you already have the license to use?

The 360 is prone to disc scratching, what would you do if a game you couldn't buy anymore got messed up, and wasn't offered on demand? How about a Saturn, Sega CD, or Turbo Duo game that cost a ton of money to replace on eBay?

Accidents happen, DRM servers are shut down, and companies go bankrupt and shut down their certificate servers, sell their copyrights off to pay their debts, and this makes licensing new versions and accessing old versions a hassle. Not all copyright content redistribution can be blamed on pirates. This is why some countries allow breaking DRM in order to access your legitimate content. Some don't know how to strip DRM and just download it instead.

Sure, there's a lot of people ripping off movies that are still in the theater, or music or games that just got released, but you can't close off every avenue and label everyone a pirate. The amount of DRMed content out there is growing, and there are still many barriers to format shifting and backing up of legitimate content. Alternate means to access that content will always be around as long as DRM is around.

It's funny that they think passing a law will stop people who ignore the law.

Why is Kinect required to scan items and characters for the library? It's not like you need to point the camera at the TV for it to work. They could have easily mapped this to the controller.

I want to own copies of my games, I don't want them on some server or in the cloud. There are so many licensing issues regarding getting older games on virtual console, PSN, and Live, because copyrights have been sold, companies have shut down, or developers just don't want to be bothered supporting old titles.

It's unrealistic for games in the cloud to be available forever, and I don't want good games that I paid for to disappear. This is why I won't ever be supporting cloud gaming, streaming gaming, or anything else of the sort.

I still have all my systems and games from the past, and some of my systems still support older games through backward compatibility. These games will never disappear and I'll always be able to play them, and I still do.