{"id":2710,"date":"2013-06-20T20:59:41","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T00:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2710"},"modified":"2013-06-20T20:59:41","modified_gmt":"2013-06-21T00:59:41","slug":"its-a-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2710","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s a PC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">B<\/span>y now you<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?attachment_id=2708\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2708\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/ibmpcjr-150x99.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"99\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-2708\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/ibmpcjr-150x99.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/ibmpcjr-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/ibmpcjr-1024x680.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/ibmpcjr.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a> have already seen and heard all about the next generation of gaming consoles, the PS4 and the Xbox One, which were both demoed at the last E3. Microsoft&#8217;s Xbox was panned by many reviewers and tech journalist, mainly because of the DRM and Microsoft&#8217;s intended online distribution strategy that would have evaporated the <em>used<\/em>\/rental games market. Sony promised to allow people to share their (old game) disks which they announced thru some funny video.\n<\/p>\n<p>Just two days ago, Microsoft reversed its position on pre-owned games (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2013-06-20-after-xbox-one-uturn-preowned-is-back-on-the-table-but-at-what-cost\">Eurogamer on this<\/a>), a move that was praised by many internet youtube army. However, despite the fact that used-games shops breathed a sigh of relief, I think that both Sony and Microsoft just have set a precedent and that in the near future both will discourage the release of games on disks: printing and publishing disks is and will be always more expensive than digitally distributing games. Valve&#8217;s Steam has obviously proven that.\n<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never been in the market of getting a console and personally, once again I think I&#8217;ll pass on this generation of gaming consoles. After all, these next generation of consoles are just dedicated PCs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By now you have already seen and heard all about the next generation of gaming consoles, the PS4 and the Xbox One, which were both demoed at the last E3. Microsoft&#8217;s Xbox was panned by many reviewers and tech journalist, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2710\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[240,556,555],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2710"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}