**XBOX ONE** Official Thread

magick said:
No it just shows they have lost touch with there market. Windows 8 also proves this.

XBOX ONE conference was one of the worst conferences I have ever seen. You reveal gaming console and show 30 minutes of some idiot controlling tv by shouting at it or waiving his arms.
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What are you on?

They showed 3 AAA selling games. Do you not understand how many gamers play these? They make the crap that Sony announced look ridiculous.

For comparative purposes:

Fifa 13

4.5 million copies were sold worldwide in five days, with 7.4 millions units sold four weeks after its release, which makes the game the biggest videogame launch of 2012 and biggest sports videogame launch of all-time according to EA. FIFA 13 was also the first soccer game to appear as top 10 most sold videogames in United States in a year. As of May 2013 FIFA 13 has sold 14.5 million copies.
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Modern Warfare 3

The title grossed more than $775 million globally in its first five days of availability, exceeding the $650 million record set by 2010s Call of Duty: Black Ops and the $550 million one achieved by 2009's Modern Warfare 2. To be exact, it has beaten theatrical box office, book, and video game sales records for five-day worldwide sell-through in dollars.

Modern Warfare 3 went on to gross $1 billion throughout the world in 16 days of availability, beating Avatar's record of 19 days, according to Activision
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Forza 4

4m units sold worldwide.
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These are HUGE, massively popular franchises. It makes business sense to lead with them when announcing a new console.

Microsoft made the most sensible move they could do - Show a console that is perfectly well rounded, with a multitude of features that will appeal to a very broad market. Add in 3 of the most widely appreciated franchises of game and talk of NFL, the most popular sport in America, and immediately you have the attention of a vast proportion of the market. They've covered all the bases!

Compare that to Sony, who basically looked like nerds for the entire time, appealing to only the nerds of the world bleeting on about "I just want to play core games!". They're too focused to successfully capture enough of the market.
 
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pioneer2000 said:
What are you on?

They showed 3 AAA selling games. Do you not understand how many gamers play these? They make the crap that Sony announced look ridiculous.
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They showed them? I, like many others, couldn't watch more than 5 minutes of the xbox conference. I found all the gimmicky corporate marketing crap unbearable.
 
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Nismo said:
The conferences were themed totally differently. MS will do all their games bumf at E3, whereas I'm sure Sony will talk a lot more about the hardware.

Who knows, maybe it was good that MS got all of the media stuff out of the way first, as from now on it will just be concentrating on games.
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They had to do it at some stage sure but on a reveal night when the world was watching and dedicate most of the time to TV has to be a mistake. The majority of people watching would be gamers, people who are looking for a TV box would not be staying up at all hours to watch the reveal.

They could make the reveal as long or as short as they wanted, why not make its 30 mins longer and include some games etc to get people excited.

First impressions last, they've managed to disappoint a lot of people with the reveal and now have to win them back. Surely it would have been better to leave people thinking, wow that looks amazing and cant wait for E3..
 
magick said:
They showed them? I, like many others, couldn't watch more than 5 minutes of the xbox conference. I found all the gimmicky corporate marketing crap unbearable.
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So you're moaning that they showed nothing, because you turned it off before they showed anything.

I'm not trolling here, but are you 12 or retarded?
 
Compare it to the Sony conference where they showed (what to me) were boring indy games and Killzone (which does not interest me one bit).

They also showed Drive Club which has potential but I can't imagine it holding up against GT5/Forza 5.

In all honesty neither presentation set my world on fire. My main issue with the xbox one is how USA centric it was.
 
If MS said that games would cost £30 but you couldn't buy used games would you moan. I for one wouldn't.

MS are trying to make measures to stop copied games. In doing this the games will become cheaper as the makers wont need to charge silly money.

I rarely by used games anyway so this doesn't really affect me. I'm more annoyed about the headset issue but if an adapter is made I'd be happy to buy that.

Overall looking at the graphics shown for MW:Ghost it looks good. Not as good as PS4 but I wouldn't wanting it looking too real life as I like my games to feel like they aren't real and are fantasy.
 
I'm willing to bet that probably >50% of the people on here pirated most of their 360 games anyway.

I don't really blame Microsoft for clamping down once and for all on it!
 
pioneer2000 said:
Compare that to Sony, who basically looked like nerds for the entire time, appealing to only the nerds of the world bleeting on about "I just want to play core games!". They're too focused to successfully capture enough of the market.
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Uh huh. So when the 360 was all about games, and the PS3 was all about games, media, Blu-ray etc, I assume that the 360 wasn't "too focused to successfully capture enough of the market", am I right?

It's genuinely funny that you think this early on that the PS4 is destined to fail. You're not a market expert, and there's no indication whatsoever that either of them will fail, because the likelihood is, they won't.
 
BD10NNF said:
If MS said that games would cost £30 but you couldn't buy used games would you moan. I for one wouldn't.

MS are trying to make measures to stop copied games. In doing this the games will become cheaper as the makers wont need to charge silly money.
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If you believe game prices are going to come down you'r living in cloud cuckoo land.
 
pioneer2000 said:
I'm willing to bet that probably >50% of the people on here pirated most of their 360 games anyway.

I don't really blame Microsoft for clamping down once and for all on it!
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Why on earth would you think that, you obviously dont have much faith in the OcUK community. I'd like to think most would support the industry and developers.
 
TheVoice said:
Uh huh. So when the 360 was all about games, and the PS3 was all about games, media, Blu-ray etc, I assume that the 360 wasn't "too focused to successfully capture enough of the market", am I right?

It's genuinely funny that you think this early on that the PS4 is destined to fail. You're not a market expert, and there's no indication whatsoever that either of them will fail, because the likelihood is, they won't.
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I don't think the PS4 will fail. I just don't think the PS4 is better because they've piled everything into graphics.

It's odd as it was Sony with when they first unveiled PS3 that they wanted it to have hdmi in/out and multiple network ports etc, so it could act as a home entertainment hub. The roles have pretty much reversed.

Nowadays device convergence is the key to success. Just look at mobile devices vs dedicated handhelds. There likely won't be a next generation handheld console - people want their device to do more.
 
anticonscience said:
Compare it to the Sony conference where they showed (what to me) were boring indy games and Killzone (which does not interest me one bit).

They also showed Drive Club which has potential but I can't imagine it holding up against GT5/Forza 5.

In all honesty neither presentation set my world on fire. My main issue with the xbox one is how USA centric it was.
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both conferences were poor to be honest, think people are forgetting sonys wasn't great either.

Hope both Sony and Microsoft get it together at e3
 
pioneer2000 said:
I don't think the PS4 will fail. I just don't think the PS4 is better because they've piled everything into graphics.

It's odd as it was Sony with when they first unveiled PS3 that they wanted it to have hdmi in/out and multiple network ports etc, so it could act as a home entertainment hub. The roles have pretty much reversed.

Nowadays device convergence is the key to success. Just look at mobile devices vs dedicated handhelds. There likely won't be a next generation handheld console - people want their device to do more.
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you have a really strange view on things :D dedicated handheld devices are most definitely not on the out.. As outside of emulating old games, tablet and such gaming is still kinda poor. also, last time around the 360s gpu allowed for multiplats to have the edge. Why on earth now all of a sudden the better spec is the ps4, would you think that wouldn't benefit it in the same way. You seem awfully deluded.

And LOL at your piracy figures :D
 
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