It still doesn't really fix anything. If you want to play it, you need to buy a new tv if you're got an sdtv without hdmi.
GJ saying such a negative is "irrational" and "trivial" with the assumption that most families can just shell out 200 more bones just for a tv so little billie can play his xbox in his own room. I still stand by my original point: xbox one is classist.
Separate xbox units? I know you're in your 40's, but you couldn't be more out of touch. Typically college kids bring their tvs from far away and put their valuables in storage over summer months while school is out. I did it, everyone I knew did it, and everyone will continue doing it. You bring your system on plane or via car, in a thing called a suitcase. When you get to your dorm, you get a tv - maybe. Some aren't that lucky due to parents. If they bring their tv from home, that means a tv back home is missing. Someone will have to replace it when they get back. In either case, assuming the family doesn't have a tv with hdmi in capability for little Billy, they're going to be buying two hdmi capable televisions on top of the price of the xbox. It is highly anti-consumer, with the expectation that everyone buy new shit just to use their new fucking system, and has the money to do all of this. And fuck you for even suggesting such a counter argument is "irrational" or "trivial".
I didn't call your argument irrational or trivial, so quit putting words in my mouth. I ask you for an explanation about the scenario you incoherently posited, and you start with the insults. Stop waving your cuntflaps at me, Himumu. I wasn't name-calling (except for a mandatory jab at Texas) until now, but seeing as you've started making personal attacks...
The question of multiple xboxes is valid, as it's part of the late-gen modifications MS made to the 360 OS, being able to keep cloud storage saves and have an account on multiple consoles, what the fucking fuckity fuck did you think those were for? I may be out of touch, but I can at least think my way out of a wet paper bag, unlike you.
When MS bet on HDTV last gen, it seemed preemptive and ill-fated; it turns out they were correct. My suspicion is that, in this continued era of cheap HDTVs, a mandatory HDMI-capable TV is not actually going to turn anyone off unless they see it as some kind of personal attack, a classist jab; and for those, they can always grab one of these:
http://www.amazon.com/ViewHD-Universal-Composite-Converter-Standard/dp/B0080KN18KIn summary: go fuck yourself.
Maybe with monitors and under 19", has there been any "living room size" (20" or above?) under $200 HDMI/HDTV's? I haven't really been following that market but anything released since like 2006 or 2007 has had at least one HDMI input so all the bitching about the HDMI requirement is just bizarre to me.
I was in the USA last year, shopped for a new TV; Walmart had crappy one for about 10-15% less than Best Buy's actual name-brands. I purchased a 32" Toshiba for $300, though there were smaller ones for as low as $180. I believe they were 20-24" but can't recall.
