See above. If you are going to fake it, which they all do. Don't bang on about how snappy your system is when in real life it's no where near snappy yet. If the dev team can't get that running faster by E3 they are going to be torn apart by the press.
**XBOX ONE** Official Thread
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Microsoft are apparently trying to make a deal with Sky to sell Xb1 at a reduced price with Sky Subscriptions.
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/microsoft-courting-sky-to-sell-xbox-one-as-set-top-box/0116692
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/microsoft-courting-sky-to-sell-xbox-one-as-set-top-box/0116692
LOL, I can picture the conversations on the Sky sales line..
Cust - "So why do I need a sky box, if your supplying the Xbox One - All in one device?"
Rep - "Well, its because, erm, you still need the Sky box to get sky. The Xbox One can't get Sky on its own..."
Cust - "Erm Ok, so why do I need the Xbox One - All in one device for Sky then?"
It would have to be like these mobile phone contracts where you get a "free" tablet etc. At the moment the 1tb Skybox is more useful to people on sky. I can't see how it could be substadised enough to work well. On the other hand you have people like myself who is likely to buy a XO at some time during its life cycle and also has Sky. So if a deal is to be made it might help get one under my tv quicker. It would be a good move with no real negatives for MS.
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History re-run. If true and they down-clock to dismiss manufacturing issues that puts the console at 900Gigaflops, making the PS4 50% more powerful.
That would surely go along way to telling the difference in quality between multi platform games
That would surely go along way to telling the difference in quality between multi platform games
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But like you say, you have an existing Sky contract. The Xbox One subsidised contract might only apply to new customers initially. You know what Sky and Virgin are like for screwing over existing customers.
Yeah I know what you mean there lol. But with a few phone calls and maybe a month without Sky I think I'd get some kind of deal out of them. I have tv and fibre with them so they tend to send deals through the post when you call their bluff. Guess we will see, I think it's more a case of MS getting boxes under people's tv's then making the profit on services and games. No real negatives for them with a deal like this, every little helps.
Where will you plug the telephone line in to the Xbone?Will it then be a dog and Xbone?
lol
Apparently it's running on the Source engine. Using an engine from 2004(?) on next gen consoles just seems...wrong to me?
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Why? Source engine still looks great.
It's got to cater for the 360 as well. Source runs beautifully on that platform.
It looks ok, but it's still missing so many features and effects that newer engines have.
We will see this a lot I think this year, all the new next-genish engines won't be used as games will be released on 2 gens at once, so they will stick with the older engines for one more year. Maximise the target audiance.
Console exclusive, still coming to PC, not sure how though as it it uses the infine power of the cloud.
Console exclusive, still coming to PC, not sure how though as it it uses the infine power of the cloud.
Plot twist ... PCs can now have internet connections. No reason they cannot access "the cloud".