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**XBOX ONE** Official Thread
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No doubt people will change their tune about the games situation in a couple of weeks when we actually see the games. I'm on the fence. I don't like the Playstation controller, but I'm open to the idea of buying one if the gaming line-up looks substantially better. The Xbox One seems a little too geared to the US market to be honest, with partnerships with US cable providers, ESPN and the NFL. Without similar partnerships in place in the UK, today's announcements are less exciting.
Now you can buy a game for your kids and have to pay for each of them to play it
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surely only a fool would have thought any next gen system would have PC rivaling graphics?
This has been done to death time and time and time again. How can anyone make a £400-£500 console to rival a PC costing £1,000+ whilst keeping it cool, quiet and stable.
It's kinda not what console gaming is about...........and make no mistake, the xbox one is far from a games console.
This has been done to death time and time and time again. How can anyone make a £400-£500 console to rival a PC costing £1,000+ whilst keeping it cool, quiet and stable.
It's kinda not what console gaming is about...........and make no mistake, the xbox one is far from a games console.
They'll easily match or beat PC's at 1080p for a while to come. There's a lot to be said for having direct access to the hardware and not going through layers of Windows and Direct X.
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And therein lies the problem.
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PlayStation FUD brigade reporting in sir... FunnyNow you can buy a game for your kids and have to pay for each of them to play it
Peter Rubin for Wired had the chance to play with the Xbox One a few weeks ago as an exclusive scoop. He mentions Azure in his article:
"Perhaps most intriguing, however, is that Xbox One gives game developers the ability to access Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing platform. That leads to a few obvious and immediate applications: All your downloaded and installed games and achievements are synced to the cloud and can be accessed and played without interruption on any Xbox One you sign in to; stable, dedicated servers for every multiplayer game rather than the notoriously fragile practice of hosting matches on one participant’s console; even multiplayer matches that can grow to 64, even 128 participants, rather than the usual limit of 16 or 32.
But other possibilities also come to mind. If developers are able to offload significant chunks of processing power to the cloud—conceivably even fundamental game mechanics like physics engines or collision-detection systems—that frees them to use local processing for even more intensive processes. In other words, the possibilities are limited only by the imaginations of thousands of game programmers. “It’s not like on day one, everyone will have figured out how to take advantage of that power,” Whitten says. “It’s just one of those stakes we’re placing.”"
Very interesting. I'm surprised it wasn't talked about more today. Maybe being saved for Build 2013? It's fairly techy stuff with some interesting possibilities across platforms, so possibly more appropriate there.
So limit the millions of people who don't have the internet/won't pay for Xbox Live? Sounds pretty unfair to me.
What's your view on the XBOX One ability to offload compute to massive cloud compute resources. They reported increasing dedicated servers from something like 15,000 on current live services to 300,000 servers to allow developers to use cloud compute power.
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People forget that games console are dead in the water, this isn't the 80's or 90's anymore, you can buy games on your phones and tablets, they are cheap as chips (cheaper than chips at my chippie! 69p for a game?!) and time passes by just the same.
People want an "entertainment system", they want to watch movies, surf and do more than just games. The PS3 and 360 already does that, this is now just more of it. It has been going that way for the last decade so you shouldn't be shocked really, it should be expected.
What you want to be concerned about is that, apart from all that, what are the games like? But that question no one can answer until it is released for a while. So moaning ab out all the features right now is rather pointless. Lets just see how the whole thing unfold.
People want an "entertainment system", they want to watch movies, surf and do more than just games. The PS3 and 360 already does that, this is now just more of it. It has been going that way for the last decade so you shouldn't be shocked really, it should be expected.
What you want to be concerned about is that, apart from all that, what are the games like? But that question no one can answer until it is released for a while. So moaning ab out all the features right now is rather pointless. Lets just see how the whole thing unfold.
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what I really want to know is how will it interface with Sky TV?
If I say WATCH SKY SPORTS F1.....how does it change the channel
If I say WATCH SKY SPORTS F1.....how does it change the channel
It's a next gen console, are there really millions of people that will buy it and not have access to the internet? Who knows, perhaps it could be as simple as adding an "ultra high" graphics, physics and realism setting for people that have internet access?
Voice recognition the same as Bing on 360 does now?
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AMD just linked an article on their FB.
It's a 40nm APU?
It's a 40nm APU?
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No I mean how does it actually change channel
In my opinion, there is so much drivel and rubbish on the TV that I watch it less and less. I now play games and watch other people playing games and listen to the radio more than TV. I probably see one hour a week of TV!