I agree with the Microsoft problem. Collectors will still get legit kits, just the price will go down. And to the people that almost lose their jobs is that my fault? They go out of their way because those things used to cost much more then they do now. So in theory if you converted a retail to dev those people wouldn't need to risk it, and would have 0 chance of losing their job. Now I can see why the sellers are pissed but again thats just supply and demand. There will and is more of a demand now for hacked retails then there is for devs, just look at xbs. Either way, as is, the retails consoles do basically the same thing as a dev so I still see no need other then the cool factor, but we'll have to wait and see I guess.
Its not even so much connecting to XePnet, its the stupid shit that people would do with that information. But a while back M$ warned developers, hers the article "In a podcast released on February 12, 2007, a developer breached the PartnerNet NDA by commenting that he had found a playable version of Alien Hominid and an unplayable version of Ikaruga on PartnerNet. A few video game journalists, misconstruing the breach of the NDA as an invalidation of the NDA, immediately began reporting on other games being tested via PartnerNet, including a remake of Jetpac[1]. (Alien Hominid for the Xbox 360 was released on February 28 of that year, and Ikaruga was released over a year later on April 9, 2008. Jetpac was released for the Xbox 360 on March 28, 2007 as Jetpac Refuelled.) In the following days, Microsoft began reminding developers and journalists that they are in breach of NDA by sharing information about content available on PartnerNet, and has been asking websites to remove lists of games in development discovered on PartnerNet." http://daking240.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!4E7F2CA27C6366BE!316.entry?wa=wsignin1.0&sa=503200358 that's where somebody was showing everything on pnet, he didnt get in trouble, M$ just made him remove it, i just hope next time around the content glory of pnet will make it to the next generation.
How would that guy not know it's a breach of the NDA?! Did he think that as a developer he could go waltzing around leaking news to the public of other games on pnet? -Side note: Woah, we can edit here now?
