Ok, just watched the confrence again, no headset demo. Care to explain?
And I don't hate the headset thing, just I don't care much for it in normal situations. There should still be a keyboard, cause if I wanna send senor Bond a message telling him I'm ready to kick his ass, I wanna type it out via keyboard, not on-screen keyboard. And Microsoft's idea of an 11vs.11 soccer game is great, cept that that many people talking is too much.
1 on 1 games, the headset is nice. But for others, I wouldn't want it. They still need a keyboard. Even signing up for Xbox Live will be a bitch. Ya, like typing my name and password with the on-screen keyboard sound like fun
My other concearns with Xbox Live are the security of the network, and developers not having control of servers. Like Sega, they won't have the oppertunity to keep patching the servers for PSO players. It would be much better to kinda have a mix, like Sega connects to their own servers, but your character is tracked via XBL account name. Kinda like D2, characters and account names are different. And then if companies wanted to use Microsoft's stuff, they can. You know, allow them to choose? Also allow them to choose whether they want to support the headset or not.
And Microsoft's military-grade security, uh huh. Uh huh, if they were actually that good, they would be using theiur technology on Windows, but that has more loopholes than any other product on the market. And Microsoft has gotten hacked before, they stole the code for Windows before, hehe.