3. Stick as many cameras and microphones as you want - I will be duct taping them shut because you just know someone will develop a hack to access it.

"An important thing to remember is that next-gen consoles will most likely not be backwards compatible," he said, discussing the transition of EA's anual sports games to the new platforms. "And if you [play] multiplayer on a game, you'll most likely not be able to play with someone on a different generation," he added.

Hinting at a potential late 2013 release for the new consoles, which EA is referring to as 'gen-four', Jorgensen went on to say, "If you're a FIFA player and, and the soccer season's starting in August, and all your friends are playing FIFA, you're going to want to be on the same box that they're on. So if they all go out and buy a gen-four box if it comes out at Christmas, then you'll most likely do it. If they all hold on and continue to play on third-generation, you'll probably not see that box purchase until after the soccer season's over."

GameStop Says 60% Of Surveyed Gamers Wouldn’t Buy A Console If It Blocks Used Games

http://www.vg247.com/2013/02/12/gamesto ... sed-games/

Biased , but I could believe it would have quite the impact on new game sales.

I may be an abberation, but I've never bought a second hand game in my life and I very rarely trade games in. As such, whether a console blocks second hand games is utterly irrelevant to me. I'm slightly bothered about the lack of backward compatibility, although I kind of did expect it not to happen.

Jon

They could always stick in an emulator chip to emulate the older console and it does not need to cost that much.

I think they'd struggle to get an entire Xbox 360 on a chip, at any price. If you could, then we'd have far more powerful cheap laptops than you can buy now. The Xbox is no slouch, even by today's standards.
Nintendo did it cheaply with the original NES but that really was rather simpler (a few thousand transistors compared the the 100 million in an Xbox). The hardware PS1 emulator on the original PS2 added a lot to the initial cost, and was removed from later versions.

I think they'd struggle to get an entire Xbox 360 on a chip, at any price. If you could, then we'd have far more powerful cheap laptops than you can buy now. The Xbox is no slouch, even by today's standards.

Nintendo did it cheaply with the original NES but that really was rather simpler (a few thousand transistors compared the the 100 million in an Xbox). The hardware PS1 emulator on the original PS2 added a lot to the initial cost, and was removed from later versions.

Most likely is they might be able to emulate fairly efficiently, but that depends on details of the hardware abstraction layer about which I know nothing.

I may be an abberation, but I've never bought a second hand game in my life and I very rarely trade games in. As such, whether a console blocks second hand games is utterly irrelevant to me. I'm slightly bothered about the lack of backward compatibility, although I kind of did expect it not to happen.

Jon