{"id":741,"date":"2013-06-20T10:57:31","date_gmt":"2013-06-20T14:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.legeekretrogaming.com\/geekblog\/?p=741"},"modified":"2019-06-27T10:56:45","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T14:56:45","slug":"microsoft-ditches-drm-weve-got-ourselves-a-horse-race-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.legeekretrogaming.com\/geekblog\/?p=741","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft ditches DRM, we&#8217;ve got ourselves a horse race again!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going to avoid repeating a variation of the 180 joke, and just say that I am glad that Microsoft decided to stay competitive with Sony.\u00a0 The digital future will come soon enough.\u00a0 Now we have ourselves a proper horse race between PS4 and Xbox One, with WiiU going its own way on the side.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be sitting this one out for a year or so, to see how the systems shape up.\u00a0 While it&#8217;s easy to get caught up in the hype of the new and shiny, new consoles historically have next to nothing to play on them for about a year, once the launch titles dry up.\u00a0 I&#8217;m still leaning towards Sony, but that&#8217;s due my preferences in games more than anything else.\u00a0 It&#8217;s back to being about the games, and that&#8217;s exactly how it should be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going to avoid repeating a variation of the 180 joke, and just say that I am glad that Microsoft decided to stay competitive with Sony.\u00a0 The digital future will come soon enough.\u00a0 Now we have ourselves a proper horse race between PS4 and Xbox One, with WiiU going its own way on the side. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.legeekretrogaming.com\/geekblog\/?p=741\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Microsoft ditches DRM, we&#8217;ve got ourselves a horse race again!<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10,12,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nintendo","category-playstation","category-xbox"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.legeekretrogaming.com\/geekblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/horserace.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Gkjg-bX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.legeekretrogaming.com\/geekblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.legeekretrogaming.com\/geekblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.legeekretrogaming.com\/geekblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.legeekretrogaming.com\/geekblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.legeekretrogaming.com\/geekblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=741"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.legeekretrogaming.com\/geekblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1561,"href":"http:\/\/www.legeekretrogaming.com\/geekblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions\/1561"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.legeekretrogaming.com\/geekblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.legeekretrogaming.com\/geekblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.legeekretrogaming.com\/geekblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.legeekretrogaming.com\/geekblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}