**XBOX ONE** Official Thread
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is it too early to talk about XBOX TWO?
Not sure how people are getting worried about the gaming side of things, its jsut as powerful looking as the PS4, and from how it looks set up the gaming side is taking up one half of the console, still offering the top games with better graphics etc its clear gaming is still the centre point of it, seems they talked more about the gaming than they did about any of the TV stuff etc, which still looks pretty damn amazing.
And we knew from the start this would be an overview on what the new machine would do as a whole, with them holding back to focus on gaming for E3.
And we knew from the start this would be an overview on what the new machine would do as a whole, with them holding back to focus on gaming for E3.
If people keep saying it then maybe they're right.
Surprised how low some of those games are. C&C in particular
Yea cause every single console made to this day was in anyway different, how dare they make things to make money from a consumer market.
So much wrong in one post... What is it with the Sony Defence Force and FUD around here today?
-It's no more of a TV machine first than the current 360 and PS4 are with Netflix, Love Film, SkyGo, music, photos, IE etc now, it's just taken those services to next gen as well. People seem to keep conveniently forgetting the current consoles do all this stuff as well and no one says they're not gaming machines.
-It's already been specifically said in dozens of posts that it does allow used games and trading. They also clarified that anyone will be able to play the game on the xbox even if they have different accounts (i.e. a family with different accounts and one Xbox under the TV) and you'll be able to take your game elsewhere and install and play it it as long as you log in with your account.
-Kinect. You don't have to use it but it seems to have the potential to work quite nicely for a bunch of stuff outside of dance games.
-It's a black box - if that is the deciding criteria then of course that's your choice
-Games. they showed Forza 5, COD: Ghosts, Quantum Break, Fifa 14, NFL, NBA, UFC and promised 15 new Xbox exclusives in the first year of release including 8 new IPs, and separately announced Battlefield 4, Watchdogs, Assassins Creed IV: Black flag, as well as all EA DLC to be on Xbox first. This was in conjunction with saying that the main gaming announcements will be at E3 in two weeks...
*sigh*
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Actually I might aswell reiterate a point I made in the other thread before it got closed, the way the XO OS works is that there are hard resource partitions between games and everything else (everything that can be snapped in basically), so even if you arent interested in the TV/Apps side the amount of resources dedicated to gaming has already been reduced 
Puts into perspective that idea that just because it does other things, games wont suffer, I cant see that not happening if theyve segregated resources as such. And thats on top of the apparent lower performance compared to the PS4.
Ive found the reveal poorly dealt with, its left up loads of questions which MS people have either ignored or avoided (or just made even more confusing) when directly asked and as soon as you comment on games you get the referral back to E3. No doubt we will get the full picture then, but having an event on a few weeks before it just hasnt worked for me in working out what the X1 is capable of and left quite a few people with a negative opinion on it as we head into E3.
ps3ud0
Puts into perspective that idea that just because it does other things, games wont suffer, I cant see that not happening if theyve segregated resources as such. And thats on top of the apparent lower performance compared to the PS4.
Ive found the reveal poorly dealt with, its left up loads of questions which MS people have either ignored or avoided (or just made even more confusing) when directly asked and as soon as you comment on games you get the referral back to E3. No doubt we will get the full picture then, but having an event on a few weeks before it just hasnt worked for me in working out what the X1 is capable of and left quite a few people with a negative opinion on it as we head into E3.
ps3ud0
GAME are struggling to market the Xbox One: 'Loaded with memory, built in Blu-ray player and a great lineup of games'
Sounds like an advert for an old 386 PC when it says 'loaded with memory'. I see the Xbox One as a more sociable Xbox 360... not what I want.
Sounds like an advert for an old 386 PC when it says 'loaded with memory'. I see the Xbox One as a more sociable Xbox 360... not what I want.
They're not, it's just wishfull thinking from Sony
Soldato
well the Xbox360 was marketed as a games machine with media capabilities.
The XboxOne® "so far" looks to be marketed as a media device with game
capabilities. this is very important.
I have an xbox360 ( actualy had 8 coz they all blew up ).
people need to stop accusing people of trolling who arnt.
trolling doesnt mean posting a different view to you
That's a good point I have quite a few I've never played or installed and never will....
I'm a PC gamer but the PC feels dead to me these days. Yeah it's still got the RTS games and a few other genres that just work better on PC but other than that you might get a port of the big games if you are lucky.
Just seems less and less games coming out for PC every year. And if a PC version does get announced/released it's a surprise or a relief.
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Gone are the days of just a `games Console' and just putting a game in and playing it. There's now way to much emphasis on multimedia which most people are not going to use anyway.
I can understand they want it to be the central point in the living room but it's not for me.
The space needed for the console + the Kinect will be quite large.
I can understand they want it to be the central point in the living room but it's not for me.
The space needed for the console + the Kinect will be quite large.
Soldato
I've no problem with them some money from second hand games but it seems like they want to keep making the same amount of money every time the game is sold on. That is just sheer greediness on their part.
It sounds like if you buy a game second hand - at say £20 - then the publishers will then ask you to pay another £20-30 on top to play it
Why would anybody buy a game second hand if that was the case? By the sounds of it MS may allow you to sell on your ownership of the game when you sell it,but who knows what that will cost?
Caporegime
BF4 looked nice... well the PC version anyway
It will still do gaming, just like the 360 does at the moment and it will be quick to get into games. There is just a load more stuff as well.
The space needed for the console will not be quite large at all.
Soldato
I still cant/dont believe they will still charge you retail prices as the fee if you buy a game second hand. Seems a silly idea as it negates the point of selling your old games as theyll be effectively worthless...
ps3ud0
That's my whole problem with it. The "fee" should just be a small amount(£10 or so) not the full retail cost. No other industry does this.
That's odd - I'm finding the opposite. Virtually everything I want to play on the consoles is also released on the PC these days - which I play on my tv with a pad, just looking and running better
In addition to that I'm finding there are more PC exclusives worth playing than on the 360 and PS3 combined. The Steam sales and GMG deals mean a lot of decent games can be picked up for under a tenner too. If I wasn't general gaming fan and didn't just want new gadgets to play around with, i'd find it hard to justify picking up a Xbox1 and PS4 (the WiiU is essential for the next MArio and Zelda games!)
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Well I've read a bit about the Xbox one launch etc, and here's how it should have read
Can do all of the following
Play your old Xbox 360 games
Install and run your games from the HDD (original Disk needed to launch)
Play pre owned games (no DRM)
Has blu ray player Check!
has kinect but is optional
has Illumiroom (what happend to that...?)
Online connection not always required... esspeciallly for solo play I mean come on!
And can do all the other Multimedia gumph they are plugging which may or may not be cool who knows?
but what we have is a control freak of a company wanting to make sure you own nothing but the hardware and they own the 'Intillectual' rights to everything. and you can be sure it will be geared towards the American Market when it comes to the TV and media functions and I'll bet Sky will be the only option in the UK.
Having said that the Xbox 360 has evolved over 10 years and is an impressive piece of kit, I own 3 of them but only one get's gamed on,their main use is media center extenders.
Can do all of the following
Play your old Xbox 360 games
Install and run your games from the HDD (original Disk needed to launch)
Play pre owned games (no DRM)
Has blu ray player Check!
has kinect but is optional
has Illumiroom (what happend to that...?)
Online connection not always required... esspeciallly for solo play I mean come on!
And can do all the other Multimedia gumph they are plugging which may or may not be cool who knows?
but what we have is a control freak of a company wanting to make sure you own nothing but the hardware and they own the 'Intillectual' rights to everything. and you can be sure it will be geared towards the American Market when it comes to the TV and media functions and I'll bet Sky will be the only option in the UK.
Having said that the Xbox 360 has evolved over 10 years and is an impressive piece of kit, I own 3 of them but only one get's gamed on,their main use is media center extenders.