The big news on buzz out loud this week was that Microsoft is disconnecting x-box gamers who are modding their console to play other pirated games. According to talk 600,000 gamers may have been affected but on geek.com I read that number is around 1 million. Modding doesn’t actually means piracy but Microsoft thinks that it may lead to piracy. There is lot of calmor out there whether Microsoft should do this or not? I think buying a product with certain terms and conditions a customer should abide by it and Microsoft has full right to ban those gamers on X-box live who are modding their hardware.
Another exiting news was that according to a UK gaming magazine Microsoft. NATAL is releasing on November 2010. It’s a controller free gaming technique based on motion sensor. It will sense the body motion without any device attached to your body or in your hands. Seems pretty cool! Microsoft has put this idea long back almost 5 years and still has one year to launch so people are not so sure about the launch of NATAL. I saw an advertisement video of NATAL on you tube feature and functions are very advanced for a gaming console like face and voice recognition. Let’s see what it brings out in November 2010.
December 3, 2009 at 11:20 pm |
If modding doesn’t lead directly to privacy I don’t see a problem. Once the users have paid for the Xbox it should be theirs to modify as they wish.
-Group 1