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Re:How the Xbox 360 knows if your hard-drive is genuine by danudey on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @03:43PM (#34523910)
And then they took this strategy into the XBox One generation: everyone gets a Kinect! For $100 more than the competition! And it's always listening, and you have to have it connected for the system to boot!

Piling onto that with "we're getting rid of game sharing or the resell market" and "our new console is going to be your entertainment hub, i.e. it's going to be jammed full of shit most gamers don't want!" and the launch was just... ugh.

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Re:How the Xbox 360 knows if your hard-drive is genuine by Jorengarenar on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @08:50PM (#34526783)
Xbox One premiere was a disaster since the design reveal. I saw it and was like "you must be kidding". Original X1 doesn't look like magnetowid - my magnetowid looks way better! Xbox One S is what X1 should have been since the very beginning.
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