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Re: Xbox thread

Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 3:37 am
by 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?

Re: Xbox thread

Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 3:41 am
by xer0s
lol, you're trying to rationalize with these PC extremists...

Re: Xbox thread

Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 3:46 am
by U4EA
Watch out console pleb, you don't want to cross the PC Gamer Master Race.

Re: Xbox thread

Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 3:51 am
by 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.

Re: Xbox thread

Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 4:50 am
by 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

Re: Xbox thread

Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 6:27 am
by Don Carlos
Memphis wrote: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.

Re: Xbox thread

Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 7:18 am
by 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.
:!:

Re: Xbox thread

Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 7:32 am
by Transient
Memphis wrote: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

Re: Xbox thread

Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 7:39 am
by 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.

Re: Xbox thread

Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 8:51 am
by 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.

Re: Xbox thread

Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 9:32 am
by MKJ
Memphis wrote:Why? Who are you, Bioware?
just the argument police :)

Re: Xbox thread

Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 1:51 pm
by GONNAFISTYA
Doombrain wrote:i'll use it no more than two hours a week for gaming if that.

i'm buying it for the entertainment system side.

Re: Xbox thread

Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 2:19 pm
by 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?

Re: Xbox thread

Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 2:30 pm
by Don Carlos
http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22623010

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

Re: Xbox thread

Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 2:50 pm
by MKJ
Eraser wrote: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.

Re: Xbox thread

Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 3:13 pm
by xer0s
Can anyone explain how the TV guide will work? Does it access your TV provider no matter what service you have?

Re: Xbox thread

Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 3:55 pm
by 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.

Re: Xbox thread

Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 4:00 pm
by 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?

Re: Xbox thread

Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 4:15 pm
by scared?
So anybody can walk in the room while you are playing a game and say"Xbox watch TV"?...

Re: Xbox thread

Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 5:04 pm
by xer0s
lol, Geoff worries about his annoying rugrats interrupting his COD time...

Re: Xbox thread

Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 5:12 pm
by 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."

Re: Xbox thread

Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 5:14 pm
by xer0s
Hmmm...that could be the deal breaker for me, if it holds true...

Re: Xbox thread

Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 5:43 pm
by shaft
more clarification

Re: Xbox thread

Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 6:06 pm
by Don Carlos
shaft wrote: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.

Re: Xbox thread

Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 6:39 pm
by xer0s
Don Carlos wrote:
That would be...truely shocking.
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