Xbox thread

[tnf]

We have obviously touched a nerve here. I don't spend much time searching around for PC games that aren't on consoles, so I wouldn't know. The knock on the consoles was that their performance was lacking, and I see the number of cutting edge titles that really push the PC to its limits going down each year - that's all I was saying.

I guess the bigger question is why does anyone care if people prefer to use consoles or PCs for games?

[xer0s]

lol, you're trying to rationalize with these PC extremists...

[U4EA]

Watch out console pleb, you don't want to cross the PC Gamer Master Race.

[losCHUNK]

Got that nerve so good that he's a dribbling mess of agony. The console market mainly consists of CoD, CoD and fucking CoD, they're like daily mail readers. Too stupid to know any better.

[MKJ]

It'd be better if they had dropped the number completly, iPad style.

Anyway, this thing right now is terrible. Writeup by kotaku.com:
http://kotaku.com/that-xbox-one-reveal- ... -509192266

One of the commenters aptly calls it a US only device

[Don Carlos]

Xbox One is the laziest, stupidest fucking name for anything ever. Who'd have thought the boardroom idiots obsessed with rebooting everything would get as far as the consoles themselves. Lol?

Really? No worse than the PS4 and The New iPad, surely?
Well the nextbox is actually quite underwhelming so far; we need more game news.

[DTS]

From MKJ's link:

[ http://kotaku.com/that-xbox-one-reveal- ... -509192266 ]

Mandatory Kinect usage is also a little disturbing. The camera is listening out for you even when it's "off" (it's never really off), and while Microsoft has issued a statement saying it has "strong privacy protections" in place, people are still rightly concerned that a machine -connected to the internet and featuring a camera which is always listening - might be a problem.

[Transient]

Xbox One is the laziest, stupidest fucking name for anything ever. Who'd have thought the boardroom idiots obsessed with rebooting everything would get as far as the consoles themselves. Lol?

More like boredroom, amirite? lololol

[MKJ]

> keeps on bringing up PC's graphical superiority
> 'There are plenty of PC games that aren't shiny graphical whizzbang new.'

please pick one or the other.

[Mat Linnett]

Fuck me, this looks atrocious.
Plenty of idiots will still buy this crock of shite mind you. After all, there's plenty of Stockholm dumbfucks out there happy to pay for Xbox Live.

[MKJ]

Why? Who are you, Bioware?

just the argument police

[GONNAFISTYA]

i'll use it no more than two hours a week for gaming if that.

i'm buying it for the entertainment system side.

[Eraser]

I wonder, is a game tied to an XBox Live account or to a physical console? If it's the first, then does that mean a household with multiple XBL accounts needs to buy the game multiple times? If the latter, what happends if I want to take my game with me and play it with a friend on his console? or if my own xbox breaks down?

[Don Carlos]

http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22623010

Nothing released about that so far but they are good questions sir!!

[MKJ]

I wonder, is a game tied to an XBox Live account or to a physical console? If it's the first, then does that mean a household with multiple XBL accounts needs to buy the game multiple times? If the latter, what happends if I want to take my game with me and play it with a friend on his console? or if my own xbox breaks down?

to your account + console. other profiles on your console (mac address perhaps?) are able to play the games.
if you install it somewhere else, you are able to play it as long as you (the owner of the game) are logged in.
otherwise it needs a pass.

same as the current Live content scheme, but now with added fee for transferring.

[xer0s]

Can anyone explain how the TV guide will work? Does it access your TV provider no matter what service you have?

[bitWISE]

The guide itself is just data from the interwebs, maintained by region and provider. How it interfaces with your tuner is what I'd love to know too. The current speculation is that it will connect to your cable box via hdmi and an IR blaster if needed.

[Pauly]

After watching it I was this: Underwhelmed. Who really cares about flapping your hands around to open stuff. Is there where they think we want to go?

[scared?]

So anybody can walk in the room while you are playing a game and say"Xbox watch TV"?...

[xer0s]

lol, Geoff worries about his annoying rugrats interrupting his COD time...

[shaft]

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digit ... s-xbox-one

"PS4 graphics core has 50 per cent more raw power than the GPU in the new Microsoft console."

[xer0s]

Hmmm...that could be the deal breaker for me, if it holds true...

[shaft]

more clarification

[Don Carlos]

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-spec-analysis-xbox-one

"PS4 graphics core has 50 per cent more raw power than the GPU in the new Microsoft console."

That would be...truely shocking.

[xer0s]

That would be...truely shocking.