If the 8th Generation were girlfriends (Google Plus Reupload 2013)

Originally posted August 8th 2013.

This was in response to this unboxing video made by XBOX.


Gamers, this is worth the read. And it also gives you a little idea into my thoughts of each company.

All I have to say is, how dare he call the kinect beautiful?
The kinect is pretty at best, like a 7/10 would still bang, sort of deal.
However, the kinect is super ugly on the inside. It's overly attached, puts meaning into every little thing you say, won't let you have any fun unless it's their, and watches you constantly, with the possibility of telling her parents every thing you do. I'm not to worried about her parents actually listening, but she still has everything else I just mentioned.
And worst of all, she isn't even the one you have a relationship with, it's her fraternal twin sister. And it's not like with the parents, kinect tells everything to XBOX and XBOX takes it all to heart.

Now XBOX was always an expensive girl. If you wanted to play with friends, she asked for shopping money. Then when she had a makeover, she wanted even more shopping money for the things she could do in addition to letting you play with friends. Now, in her 3rd make over, even more things that she boasts about costs shopping money. She was a fun bad girl that you had fun fighting aliens with back in high school, but nothing to build a relationship off of.

Now on the other hand, we have play station and Nintendo. We've known Nintendo the longest, and even though she went through many different phases, she's still a lovely girl. She's mostly over her fitness kick and realizes that not everyone likes jumping around and swinging their arms like crazy. Though she's might still hold many of the fitness tendencies, she decided to lay off bugging you and forcing you to do all sorts of crazy work outs in order to have a little fun. A nice girl, and some people are in a nice relationship, but others have friend zoned her saying "it was fun, but I want more, but I'll still hang with you when I'm with your fitness friends."

Now last we have the new girl next door, the playstation. Nintendo initially introduced you to her, but she started competing for your affections, and not to far after, they were bitter rivals. Nintendo always offered you a good time, but playstation could do many of the same things. After a make over montage and the adaption of a 2, she became super sexy while keeping all the things you loved about her before. She became a little demanding after her second make over, asking you to spend $600 for her beauty shop bill, but soon she found a cheaper shop and offered so many other features.

OK, enough console fan fiction for tonight.

XBOX Changes, XBOX ONE kinect free bundle and Gold is only needed for multiplayer

"I will never buy an XBOX ONE so long as I have to buy a Kinect." I don't know if I've ever said that here on this particular blog, but I know I've said it in the comment section on countless articles and videos about the XBOX ONE. This was not an idle threat, I hate the idea of being required to buy something I will never use and the potential will never be fully utilized except in maybe 1 game. Like before, not sure if I ever did my comparison of the Wii and the kinect on this particular blog, but I know I've said it whenever someone said "the technology in Kinect 2.0 is so much more advanced than the original kinect and it opens up the doors to so much." Yeah, the wii remote also had loads of potential, but all we got from that was 3 games that actually utilized the motion controls while the rest was shovelware or tacked on. The same exact thing was going to happen with the kinect. But back to me never buying xbox with kinect. I saw some amazing exclusives at E3. I saw some amazing exclusives on TV and in demo stations. I thought to myself "that sure looks like it'd be grand fun, to bad I'll never buy an XBOX ONE so long as kinect is a required purchase." Now praise the lord that the kinect is no longer mandatory. With that gone, I'm now considering the XBOX ONE as my next console.

On a less publicized note, Microsoft is now unlocking all the streaming media apps and other features from behind the XBOX Gold payment wall. Yeah, you heard right, you will not longer need XBOX Gold to use streaming apps like netflix, hulu plus, crackle, youtube, internet explorer, MLB, NFL, vevo, amazon instant video; the list goes on and on. What do I have to say to that, well thank-you for wising up Microsoft. Absolutely no other device, at least to my EXTENSIVE knowledge, required you to pay a payment wall to access services that are completely free elsewhere or only require you to pay the subscription for the single service. My PS3, all I have to do is pay my hulu plus subscription, buy the episodes or movies through Amazon instant video, or watch some commercials on Crackle. I don't need playstation plus to access these services. The same goes for the Wii, Wii U, Roku, any cell phone or tablet, apple TV, 3DS, PC, and EVERY OTHER DEVICE! When I heard that, I thought "hmm, looks like I'll be able to finally use my XBOX360 for something other than offline gaming." I only had gold for that 1 free month you get for creating an xbox live account. Never had it since. Never needed it. I don't like online multiplayer and they didn't have all the streaming apps I cared about before I got my PS3. Good on you Microsoft, you're giving us options. They're also reworking games with gold where you get free games for having gold, so now it's more like playstion plus, which is a plus. If I ever get the time to actually play videogames again, maybe, just maybe, I might want to get gold for the first time

Now for something that really irks me, when I read articles about people complaining about the kinect news. They're all sad that now we aren't forced to buy a kinect. The make it sound like Microsoft is completely dropping kinect support. News flash, it's still available, but now we don't have to buy it if we don't want to. "But without the known install base developers can't confidently develop for the kinect." Yeah and how well did that work with the Wii? All 3 of the games I played that actually utilized the motion controls were first party nintendo games. All the others were tacked on motion controls or shovelware. The same exact thing was going to happen to the kinect. And you know what, if a developer has an amazing idea for kinect integration or a kinect game, they're going to make it. Really, no developer is going to say "I have this amazing idea for a game that utilizes kinect and would be a system seller, and people would buy a kinect just to play this game, but I won't do it because there's not enough of an install base." If a serious developer went to Microsoft with that pitch, Microsoft would probably give them kinect royalties. But who am I kidding, no one is taking the kinect seriously except for Microsoft and a couple of crazy reporters and fanboys.

Well, that's enough rambling for this topic. This has been Happy Gamer signing off, and remember, you can't please all the people all the time, but you can please almost all of the people by removing crap.