PS4 vs XBO?

by Flynn J Taggart, Monday, May 27, 2013, 23:56 (3979 days ago) @ uberfoop

If you're MS, why bother with the internet requirement and the kinect requirement, but then allow people to make those things useless by blinding the camera? Or are they just counting on the fact that most people won't bother to do it?

That was Schooly's point from the "at least one recognizable face..." post: they could require that at least one person be in view to try to get people to not play camera tricks, and then apply DRM if too many people are in view.

Not that I agree that Microsoft is likely to do that. As you suggest, it could be... unattractive to consumers.

Seems like the next gen Kinect spying stuff could be bypassed if you just covered it up (and made sure it was a soundproof cover also), unless of course they designed it so you couldn't do that for some reason.