[BloodEagle]

I've often wished Steam had that feature.  There are a few games in my library that I neither want nor have ever really played.  Some feature that pro-rate's a refund based on play time - if you've never played, you get 75% back, which diminishes to 0% by the time you have 3 hours in or something like that.

Unlikely to ever happen, but we can dream.

The problem with that is with who foots the bill.  I sincerely doubt Valve could get any of the big producers / developers to agree to some form of buy-back policy.

[The E]

Ah, but here's a strategy that might work. Assume a 70/30 split between store and publisher. Allow users to trade in a game license for 20% of current price. Assuming this is the same price as it was bought at, the store still makes 10% absolute profit, and given that it's traded in for store credit, not actual money, you can be pretty sure that the rest of the money will go to the store eventually.

EDIT: If you combine this with Steam-style regular deep discounts, you keep customers happy, even the segment who want to play the games, but who can't afford them at full price.

[BloodEagle]

B-b-but that would encourage people to rush through games quickly so they could offload them before the price drops! 

[Lorric]

The Onion's going in on the XBOX One now:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUE-cTsaK6g&list=UUfAOh2t5DpxVrgS9NQKjC7A&index=1

[BloodEagle]

The only funny part of that was the snipe they took at The Weather Channel. 

[Lorric]

The only funny part of that was the snipe they took at The Weather Channel. 

I've got to admit I didn't find it funny, but I wonder if it's sort of they've (Microsoft) done all this stuff that no one wants them to do so the joke is the X-Box is telling us what to do, what to play, what to watch, but Microsoft already did that anyway deciding all this stuff for us when we don't want it, they're telling us what to do.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

The Onion's going in on the XBOX One now:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUE-cTsaK6g&list=UUfAOh2t5DpxVrgS9NQKjC7A&index=1

I like how they reused footage from the conference and added their own voice actors on top of it.

[yuezhi]

Holy sh*t, the kinect reads heartbeats through skin pigmentation.

This is reminding me of the scare over kinect vs. black people

[FlamingCobra]

You know what would be really fun on the Xbox One with its built in Kinect and voice recognition? A Snatcher remake.

[antsa]

Im more kida of a Playstation guy, because in childhood first console i ever played was Playstation, and without PC and freespace my childhood would be whole lot a different (not a good thing). But i will watch this so called console wars on the sidesteps. 

[deathfun]

Holy sh*t, the kinect reads heartbeats through skin pigmentation.

This is reminding me of the scare over kinect vs. black people

I wonder if it'll detect life from gingers...
/badjoke

[An4ximandros]

This is gold. Made my night.

[Eishtmo]

The discussion is now over.



Thank you for playing, do not pass go, do not collect $200, do not bash it any more, it has reached the peak.

[NGTM-1R]

Unfortunately, there are still places to go after that, one of which involves the blinding obvious addition of vulgarity.

[BloodEagle]

I'm pretty sure they'll be able to surprise us (in the bad way) at E3.

[An4ximandros]

 I wonder how the Xbox -359 exclusives showcase will be.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Well, E3's in two weeks, and Nintendo's not having a press conference this year. Perfect make-or-break scenario.

[666maslo666]

The new Kinect looks better than expected. Pair it with the Oculus Rift and it will be glorious.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

[13:50]   <mura>   the rumor mill is working hard, rumor has it, the xbone is having yield issues cuz of eSRAM in the chip, imminent performance cuts
[14:01]   <Doko`>   whats eSRAM?
[14:01]   <dsockwell>   enhanced synchronous RAM
[14:01]   <dsockwell>   it's called cache on processors
[14:02]   <Zacam>   It's ram that is basically shared between the CPU portion of the SOC and the GPU/APU unit, so that texture management doesn't have to flip the materials or textures between two states, but can allow it to be operated on by each discrete unit as necessary.
[14:03]   <dsockwell>   maybe it is embedded
[14:03]   <Zacam>   No, it's enhanced due to the dual-access state it can perform.
[14:04]   <Zacam>   Embedded is what it is in terms of being in the soc, but not all memory in a soc in enhanced to being available to multiple discreet units without needing to be shifted.

Thoughts?

[The E]

It's a rumour off of NeoGAF. I wouldn't put too much stock in it.

That being said, the xbone SoC is a much more complex thing than the PS4 SoC (Because of the aforementioned eSRAM), and so it is rather likely that the production yields are not as high. Whether or not this has the implications the rumour mill speaks of remains to be seen.