"Xbox One is net als Steam"

De Xbox One is volgens een anonieme Microsoft-ingeneur "hetzelfde als Steam, maar dan in consolse-vorm". Dat zei de man, waarvan we uiteraard niet weten of hij echt voor Microsoft werkt, op Pastebin. In een lang relaas rechtvaardigt hij het bekritiseerde DRM-beleid.

Ik heb hieronder een paar interessante stukjes neergezet. Lees de complete versie hier.

“The DRM is really really similar to steam… You can login anywhere and play your games, anyone in your house can play with the family xbox. The only diff is steam you have to sign in before playing, and Xbox does it automatically at night for you (once per 24 hours). It’s a long tail strategy, just like steam. Steam had it’s growing pains at the beginning with all it’s drm shit as well. [...] For digital downloads steam had no real competition at the time, they were competing against boxed sales. At the time people were pretty irate about steam, (on 4chan too…) It was only once they had a digital marketplace with DRM that was locked down to prevent sharing that they could do super discounted shit.”

“The goal is to move to digital downloads, but Gamestop, Walmart, Target, Amazon are KIND OF FUCKING ENTRENCHED in the industry. They have a lot of power, and the shift has to be gradual. Long term goal is steam for consoles. [...] If you always want to stay with what you have, then keep current consoles, or a PS4. We’re TRYING to move the industry forwards towards digital distribution… it’sa bumpy road..”

"New service using Azure for cloud compute. Allows developers to not use clients for hosting multiplayer servers, or other tasks that do not require per frame calcuations. It's pretty sweet. Honestly, if you care about anything other then pure games AT ALL. Xbox 1 > PS4. If all you do is play games, and nothing else, PS4."

"It's not worth my time to prove it, or risk my Job. I work in Studio A, 40th ave in Redmond, Wa. The thai place in the studio cafeteria has double punch wednesdays. Go ahead and call them and verify if you want."

Ik heb niet gebeld om te bevestigen of ze inderdaad double punch serveren op woensdagen. Jullie mogen zelf bepalen of dit echt is. Zijn jullie het eens met zijn verhaal?