**XBOX ONE** Official Thread

MadFruit said:
Well this is a pain in the arse, as I was gonna be getting some Turtle Beach headphones to keep the missus happy:..
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I'm sure he will be fine if you just distract him with some Gok on TV.

I do see your point though you would have thought they would have had stuff like this sorted already. Then again they do just seem to be making stuff up as they go along. I'm sure if we all whinged they hadn't thrown in a 50 inch plasma and made loads of youtube videos MS would cave and throw one in ;)
 
Davey_Pitch said:
You might not get a choice. The Forza bundle was limited and sold out in most places very quickly. As the initial free game was Fifa, anyone with a pre-order had to contact their retailer and specifically switch over to the Forza bundle. As you obviously haven't done that, you might be stuck with Fifa if Tesco have no stock of the Forza bundle available.
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ShopTo has Forza5 bundles in stock today.
http://www.shopto.net/sss/xboxone/X...edition-console-forza-5-12-month-subscription
 
Unless I'm reading this wrong, it looks like every game on Xbox One will have dedicated servers. Can't really complain at that!

So, why did we build Xbox Live Compute? When we were planning the next generation of Xbox Live, we spent a lot of time talking with game creators about ways to make games better. We realized that there was an incredible opportunity to bring together the resources and global scale of Windows Azure, with the game services of Xbox Live to build a cloud computing platform that was uniquely focused on gaming and game creators. Our intent was to enable developers to take advantage of server resources in their games without having to deal with the challenges that come with building, managing and running servers at scale. So, we chose to provide cloud features that allow the game creators to push the limits of their gameplay experiences and apply the bulk of their investments to game creation, rather than server and operational resources. In fact, we even give them the cloud computing power for FREE so they can more easily transition to building games on Xbox One for the cloud.
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Full article here - http://news.xbox.com/2013/10/xbox-one-cloud
 
Lack of dedicated servers and xbox lag has been the biggest thing this generation to ruin MP gaming for me. The xbox has turned me from a player who only played MP on pc's to a single player gamer. I just cannot stand to play games where I had better connections in 2001.

So many games I would have loved in MP, like crysis 2 and Call Of juarez if it wasn't for horrific lag. Dedicated servers if done well might tip the balance for me into MP gaming again. I'd love the opportunity to play games as I used to, one or two really good MP games per year instead of 50 single player games.
 
Davey_Pitch said:
Unless I'm reading this wrong, it looks like every game on Xbox One will have dedicated servers. Can't really complain at that!

"o, why did we build Xbox Live Compute? When we were planning the next generation of Xbox Live, we spent a lot of time talking with game creators about ways to make games better. We realized that there was an incredible opportunity to bring together the resources and global scale of Windows Azure, with the game services of Xbox Live to build a cloud computing platform that was uniquely focused on gaming and game creators. Our intent was to enable developers to take advantage of server resources in their games without having to deal with the challenges that come with building, managing and running servers at scale. So, we chose to provide cloud features that allow the game creators to push the limits of their gameplay experiences and apply the bulk of their investments to game creation, rather than server and operational resources. In fact, we even give them the cloud computing power for FREE so they can more easily transition to building games on Xbox One for the cloud."

Full article here - http://news.xbox.com/2013/10/xbox-one-cloud
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hmmmmm not sure how I feel about this tbh, my only experience of Cloud servers is as described below:

Cloud Servers are making it difficult to keep on enjoying GTA ONLINE, loss of game save data is a real PITA.
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18538080&page=91
Only so many times you are happy to start the whole thing over again esp when a good few hours in.


I do hope this isn't going to become a common issue :(
 
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Soulja said:
GRAW + Dedicated servers would have = :D
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I think back to how much I must have loved that game to put up with getting 6 of us in a lobby. Start the game and 1 or 2 players would drop dead because the host couldn't hold 6 players.

Or the game type where 6 of us would try to kill all the enemy and if you died you became a spectator for the rest of the round! As if anyone these days has the patience for that :D

Die, mash respawn.
 
dannyjo22 said:
Or the game type where 6 of us would try to kill all the enemy and if you died you became a spectator for the rest of the round! As if anyone these days has the patience for that :D
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That was always my favourite. I don't think anything has come close to that for me on Live.
 
Davey_Pitch said:
You might not get a choice. The Forza bundle was limited and sold out in most places very quickly. As the initial free game was Fifa, anyone with a pre-order had to contact their retailer and specifically switch over to the Forza bundle. As you obviously haven't done that, you might be stuck with Fifa if Tesco have no stock of the Forza bundle available.
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Poped in tesco today and the nice gilr behind the counter took one look at my ticket and said i could have the forza bundle as i was 3rd listed on the pre order page and they have not had very many as it is .
 
Red and White said:
Can we have a poll to see what games people are getting at launch? Really don't know what to get now watch dogs has been delayed.
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I'm getting everything! Well, not quite. CoD: Ghosts, BF4, Dead Rising 3 and Forza (bundled). I had a pre order in for Watch Dogs too but I imagine I'll get something else on the day now, maybe Ryse.
 
Wyrdo said:
I'm getting everything! Well, not quite. CoD: Ghosts, BF4, Dead Rising 3 and Forza (bundled). I had a pre order in for Watch Dogs too but I imagine I'll get something else on the day now, maybe Ryse.
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Is that all? :p

I'm getting....

Fifa 14 (free)
Dead Rising 3 Day One Edition
Forza 5 Limited Edition
Battlefield 4
Lego Marvel Super Heroes
Ryse: Son of Rome
NBA 2K14
Extra controller

Thankfully I have a £194 Game giftcard which will pay for a few of the games :)
 
I'm getting

Fifa (free)
Forza Day One Edition
Kinect Sports Rivals Day One Edition
Dead Rising Day One Edition
Lego Marvel
Extra Controller
Some kind of dual dock / charge device
 
Davey_Pitch said:
Is that all? :p
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Probably not, that's what I have ordered for now :p I'm sure on the night all the shiney shiney will cause me to spend more money!

Oh, I'm getting a play and charge kit too. I'll also probably try and buy a FIFA code off someone as I opted for the Forza bundle but have recently got into getting angry at FIFA so I'll probably play that too.
 
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