@gray I don't think it's necessarily true that killing physical discs will render consoles irrelevant. Microsoft, Valve, EA, Sony, and Nintendo all have some form of online marketplace where they sell games. Tie each marketplace exclusively to their respective console and the concept of a console remains very much…
It is one of the more substantial rumors surrounding the next XBox. Supposedly the console won't run without an official Kinect hooked up to it. From a development standpoint, this makes perfect sense. Peripheral devices always get less support. As popular as the Kinect has been, it is still severely limited by the fact…