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Are you suggesting Kotaku would go click-baiting?

I need to see what the terms and conditions for it are before I give it GoodThing™ status.

Hmmm, dunno. I'm dubious about it. Just seems like if you are sharing a game with 10 ("family") friends, you aren't going to get to play it much unless you bought the game. Can see it being fairly frustrating. Also... 10 seems like a lot of people to share with. Sony started out with a 5 device install limit for PSN games. They cut that down to 2. MS going the other way... well it seems odd. Especially if you can chop and change your 10 "family".

Found some more images on Google+. Yeah it plugs into the controller. As to PS Plus, if you lapse and rejoin you have access to all the content you activated before lapsing. So if you activate Uncharted 3, lapse, Uncharted 4 is available for a month and then you rejoin when Uncharted 5 is available you will have access to 3 and can download 5, but you don't get 4. Makes sense?

Depends on the other restrictions too. If you have to have been "friends" for 30 days before you can loan a game, then how long do you have to be family? Can you add and remove people at will? Or do you have to wait a certain amount of time before a removed person can be re-added? One of MS biggest problems is that they don't seem to know how all this works. You've got half a dozen people telling slightly different stories about what works and what doesn't. In my opinion, MS were going for a hardcore "only you can play your games" system, with retailer trade-ins. As Sony's soft approach became more apparent they've tried to backpedal and haven't been able to work out exactly what they will do, never mind how they will do it. Loaning games won't even be implemented at the launch of the console to my knowledge, further reinforcing my belief that this is a last minute scramble to fix a PR fuster cluck.

When they ran the trailer at the MS event the audio didn't work. Same as when they tried to run the BF4 single player thing. Except that no one cares about a not Panzer Dragoon game so everyone just remembers Patrick Soderlund going out the back to murder a MS audio guy and get the BF4 trailer working.

Stupid question, but that headset connects to the controller right?

It helps. But if you can't do it, and you keep retrying over and over (which is the natural reaction) then the whole system collapses. People were a bit peeved at having to download a bunch of updates for WiiU. It won't be great if they have to go through all this crap for Xbone.

Hehehe. I'm comfortable with my fanboysim.

Good work on not micing up the guy you are interviewing!

PS4 launch. Who the voted Xbone? I wish to shun him/her.

So like MGS2? With Tanker and Big Shell?

I only know that cos my housemate works for MS. He's been filling me in on the long-term strategy (including becoming a TV content provider, not just a pass through for your cable box). EDIT: It's a daft idea anyway, because Input one will always be my AV unit until a console is released that has 5.1 (or whatever) speaker connections and handles the signal from my cable box, aerial and PC inputs. Otherwise everything will continue to get passed through the AV unit which will go into HDMI 1 on my TV. The best a console can hope for is to be Input one on the AV unit, but it will likely go into whichever port is labelled "GAME".

When you select the Source or "Input" they want the Xbone to be in HDMI port 1 hence "Input one".

The enemy of my enemy?

All in one*. *Except for cable box, router, TV, and AV unit.

They had that tech demo with that Heavy Rain actress before Heavy Rain came out, so I'm just hopeful. Also, I'm confused what it has to do with Juno. It was a joke as the actress will always be known as Juno to me. And the Heavy Rain tech demo with the actress lead to Heavy Rain. The tech demo with Ellen Page lead to this upcoming game. I was also looking forward to an android sci-fi game but apparently they decided to go with superpowers and Willem DaFoe. I would love an Asimovian sci-fi game.

Haha, no offence taken. Wasn't sure if the term had the same double meaning in the US of Canada as it does here.

That just proves he has form.

You know how people say "Am I the only one that thinks... [Joffrey is a pretty cool guy]" and normally they are totally wrong because at least some other people think that way and there's at least three tumblrs to prove it? I think this might just be the exception to that rule. I can't imagine how anyone would think that you would copy a game from a disc and then upload that game to a hard drive... Most people complain about the size of games being prohibitive to download never mind being in Australia and attempting to upload gigs upon gigs of data. I mean, what do you think would happen with an Xbox LIVE purchase? You would download it from the XBL servers, and the upload it to your "Cloud"... Really? I just genuinely don't see how you could think this was a thing.

One of the things I'm most looking forward to with PS4 is being able to grind JRPGs and do fetch quests on the Vita while watching TV.

Rowan Atkinson would be my pick. A bit older, but a bit of world weary cynicism and wit would be a refreshing change.

@Atomsk88 You do know that a "Cloud" is not a thing? Like, there's not a 500GB hard drive plugged into a server in an MS office with "Atomsk88's Xbox One Cloud" scrawled on it. "The Cloud" is a concept. When they say "a copy of your game is stored on the Cloud" they mean that on the database that lists all the Xbone accounts and all the Xbone games there is a little tick in a little box that says you are allowed to access [X] game. So when you go to Xbox LIVE it will look at the list and say "Yes, you may download this game". You don't upload the 1s and 0s. That's just mental. EDIT: In other news, the MS payoff stuff will be like it always is with CoD where all adverts will talk about it "coming to Xbox" with no mention of PS. This will just expand to other titles. For example I wouldn't expect to see any PS4 branded FIFA adverts for a while. Though given that Sony is a big partner of FIFA... Well let's just say I have my reservations as to how wise a decision that is.

Crikey. Expensive business. I had no idea. Thanks for posting the details.

"Poofy" as in they balloon out, or "poofy" as in they make him look homosexual? I'm not too fussed if the writing etc is terrible, provided the combat, gear and levelling systems are good I'm happy. I like that they are getting progressively more open worldy.