Nick Spacek

@DerickDBrown

Does the Kinect power supply just power it over USB? Cuz if so, I hope people will be smart enough to realize you can get much cheaper USB power supplies elsewhere... even just have your own plug onto a 5V/whatever amp supply!

@Arminasil

What a jerk move on their part. You'd think they'd just let folks into the beta, since it's probably just a few. Way to gain some extra good will from the community Microsoft.

That actually doesn't sound like a whole lot. What costs are included in that?

In fact, from the article the number is "hundreds of millions of dollars", which sounds like a more accurate number to get the cost down to $150. The $30,000 prototype was probably really crappy. :)

Does anyone else think the Xbox management has gone downhill since the end of the Xbox 1 era?

@krautmaster It doesn't work because they don't want it to, unfortunately. There's no technological reason why it couldn't.

This game keeps putting me in mind of Perfect Dark Zero, maybe just because of the art style. But Brink will definitely lose points for me if they don't nail the controls (aiming particularly).

I would gladly share my age with you Joystiq if I didn't have to verify it every time through an annoying interface to watch videos.

@Jerk Face

I'm very surprised this happened. Isn't the bigger deal the fact that they basically stole something from the Marketplace (assuming they weren't able to actually add all the MS point required for the purchase, maybe they were).

Not to mention it required a code (presumably the same sort of dealie as when you get some special offer code that unlocks Marketplace content). I guess we've known for a while that some content could be download over normal HTTP (I think) if you knew the specific URL, but I would have thought there'd be some security or that the content would be encrypted with SSL or something.

@Cleric I really don't see how they can go wrong, regardless of the IP, if they take what they learned with Fallout 3 and run with it. That game had great pacing, told the story well, had a fairly rich background for the world, and decent combat.

I'm pretty excited! Was just wondering the other day when we'd start hearing about the next ES.

@satbir The stupid thing is how hard they worked to prevent "piracy" this time, but all they really prevented was homebrew, and piracy is probably just as rampant this time around as it was with the Xbox. The DVD drive hacks are harder than the soft mods but still are pretty affordable.

*sigh* I hope the next gen will have a more open application infrastructure now that "app stores" are popular with phones; then again, knowing Microsoft they probably won't be very open (XNA is not open).