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Better WiFi (or WiMax, etc) should allow this eventually.
There are deployments of WiMAX technology, but they've been on licensed spectrum owned by cellular carriers. In any case, if you plan to serve people from a home router, how many handoffs per minute would it take to serve a customer in a bus moving at 30 mph (50 km/h)?
Even the Wii provides a better experience in that regard, both for local multiplayer [...] But in general, why would you want to buy a locked out system
The Wii, the Wii U, and in fact every Nintendo console since the Nintendo Entertainment System has been "a locked out system". The lockout chip, combined with a developer approval policy that has exploited the correlation between experience and quality, has resulted in a measure of quality control on Nintendo's platforms. This quality control is arguably the only way the NES was able to pull the North American video game market out of the shovelware rut it was in from 1983 through 1985. As for why one would buy a console over a living room gaming PC in the first place, that's because major PC game developers have tended to pay little attention to local multiplayer, and major developers of local multiplayer games have tended to pay little attention to the PC platform.
I'm pretty sure none of the US Constitution applies, given this situation is not on American soil.
True, but Canadian law includes similar verbiage. See Your Rights Under Expropriation.
[To qualify as a publisher to earn XBLA release slots,] You have to ship some specific quantity of disks to retail.
If this is true, I wonder whether Microsoft put this rule in place to appease retailers that treat consoles as essentially loss leaders to get people in the door to buy higher-margin disc games.
According to the 2010 census, 17.7% of the population of the U.S. is rural.
I would imagine that video game console makers prefer customers with more discretionary income to buy more disc games and more download games. How much discretionary income do these rural dwellers have compared to urban dwellers?
Also if it becomes known that Google actively filters certain political content or skews search results intentionally to push a political agenda, they may end up losing their #1 spot as search engine really fast (especially if at the same time the competition, most notably Bing because that's the only one that I know wiith serious money behind it, finally gets their act together and provides a proper alternative).
Bing? Hardly. I'm betting more on DuckDuckGo powered by Yandex.
except this is the ISP's doing this and not the government...
They're doing it under government's orders. Please see my other comment.
however the PS4 or Wii U are my ONLY options in this next round of console purchasing
There are five. Ruling out Xbox One leaves four. How, may I ask, did you rule out Ouya and HTPC?
non-gaming parents who will be giving consoles for birthdays/Christmas
I know beggars can't be choosers, but by November, kids will have read about the limitations of the Xbox One. "Mommy, can I have a PS4? It's cheaper. Or better yet, a new computer that does homework and games."
failure to capitalise proper nouns
I'd assume that if a web site's name appears in lowercase in a web site's <title> element, it's acceptable to leave it uncapitalized. Besides, I thought "Down syndrome" had a capital D and a lowercase S. Muphry?
MS could always publish it for them. And every other game they find worthwhile.
In that case, if Microsoft wanted to retain developer goodwill, it could have defined clear rules for what kinds of game it would find worthwhile to publish.
Sometimes developers need upfront money while developing the game to pay salaries, bills, etc, especially if the game is larger than their last one.
And sometimes a developer has a complete game for Windows or Mac or Android or iOS, is paying "salaries, bills, etc" out of the revenue from that game, and is waiting for a developer license to bring it to one of the consoles. What role does a publisher fill in this situation except as a holder of "slots" on Microsoft's release schedule?
I'm more worried they'll go after the loli stuff.
If they went after Lowly Worm, that'd be Scarry.
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