Xbox One

[FlareKnight]

Regardless of what is true and isn't true this is a mess.

[kyp275]

My guess is that MS is scurrying around figuring out just exactly what they need to backpedal on, because the only other explanation is that they're so incompetent their execs had no idea what their new system does.

[Chaos2Frozen]

Probably backpedal on Everything

"Everything we said during and after the reveal is a lie!"

[amasposu]

YouTube

https://youtu.be/KbWgUO-Rqcw

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[KleenexGhost]

Earlier today, I saw that Random Curiosity had an article about glorious trainwrecks. Funny how I start and end the day reading about glorious trainwrecks.

Seriously, they got the balls to try and sell a console, oh I'm sorry, sell a "multimedia source" like this. I'm just waiting for the backpedaling to begin. I know that some people will buy this thing, but they can't expect anyone with a brain to buy this, no matter how much they try to sexy it up with marketing lingo.

Edit: The backpedaling has already begun, now it's just gonna kick into overdrive.

[SOGESNAKE]

[kenjiharima]

Sony's stocks are up.

http://ps4daily.com/2013/05/sony-sto...-announcement/

[KleenexGhost]

This came out earlier today before they announced the fee.

[JagdPanther]

Originally Posted by Clarami

Let's see how the Online Warrior reacts to this conference! Loved the ending of the vid!

YouTube

https://youtu.be/SVuDYvEe12Y

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The ending was AWESOME.

Seriously, where ARE the games?

One of my friends remarked today that the Xbox reveal was "Christmas for nerds" and he was so pumped after he heard what the One was capable of.

I told him no thanks, PS4 for me, plz. His reply was that, "I used to think the same way, but today, what this thing can do, its unreal." I had to counter with the fact that he and I are both gamers and, logically, we should care about... games. SONY learned from their mistakes with the PS3, I think. When the architecture of the PS3 was unveiled, many of us were just in awe. Cell sounded so ridiculously awesome. But... we all later found out that Cell wasn't that great for the people who really mattered most, the game developers who give us the games we all want. It sounds, to me, like SONY took that to heart and really changed how they dealt with developers with respect to designing the critical parts of the PS4. And while early rumors were that PS4 was going to be an entertainment mega-station, after the reveal, we now know that PS4 is, to its core, a gaming system. Anything that is beyond that is really just a nice extra. Yeah, there will be the Netflix and social media stuff, but the focus of the PS4 reveal was that SONY wants to deliver the ultimate gaming experience. While gaming has exploded over the last several years thanks to things like smartphones and iPads, those new gamers, by and large, aren't like the hardcore gamers who live on their PCs, PS3s, and 360s. The PS4 sounds like it will appeal, to some extent, to the broader gaming community, but the hardcore gamers are going to love the PS4 and will be the ones who really win out in the end.

I sure hope that that is what SONY really means, because I am a total SONY whore and apologist and it would look really bad if I were wrong...

Is that a good thing or a bad thing?

Laughably good... for SONY.

[KleenexGhost]

To Microsoft:

[JagdPanther]

Okay, how about this... IF Microsoft is serious that they will require one to pay a fee to play a pre-owned game... what is the possibility that SONY looks at Microsoft and says:


SONY Executive #1: Wow, they had some big balls to do that...

SONY Executive #2: How dumb can they be?"

*crickets*

SONY Executive #1: Hey... if they can get away with that, so can we.



That's my fear right now. However small of a chance it is, it was a thought that popped into my head. Let MS take the heat for such a horrible decision and then quietly join the party...

[FlareKnight]

Originally Posted by KleenexGhost

This came out earlier today before they announced the fee.

I just love how he finds out half way through and is just like "WTF?" There are no words when you find something out like that.

Should be fun watching Microsoft backpeddal after realizing gamers don't want this. The shock .

[Terrestrial Dream]

I was wondering "what kind of idiotic video game journalists are clapping at this crap"?

[defki]

http://www.polygon.com/2013/5/21/435...r-offline-play

Reports of Xbox One's online requirements and used-game fees are no more than "potential scenarios" and not concrete details, Microsoft told Polygon via email.

"While Phil [Harrison] discussed many potential scenarios around games on Xbox One, today we have only confirmed that we designed Xbox One to enable our customers to trade in and resell games at retail," Microsoft told Polygon.

"There have been reports of a specific time period — those were discussions of potential scenarios, but we have not confirmed any details today, nor will we be," Microsoft said.

lol damage control in full force. Scenarios sure....

[KleenexGhost]

Originally Posted by Terrestrial Dream

I was wondering "what kind of idiotic video game journalists are clapping at this crap"?

Gotta hand it to Sessler and Gerstmann, they were will to point that out.

And JagdPanther is right. If Microsoft has any success with this, then what's to say that Sony won't try it either? Next-Gen console cycle has me worried.

[JagdPanther]

Originally Posted by Vigo

http://www.polygon.com/2013/5/21/435...r-offline-play



lol damage control in full force. Scenarios sure....

"We're designing Xbox One to be your all-in-one entertainment system that is connected to the cloud and always ready," the post reads. "We are also designing it so you can play games and watch Blu-ray movies and live TV if you lose your connection."

This still implies that GAMES will need an Internet connection.

[Slayerx]

Originally Posted by Xagzan

And lo! I said one of the only things that could now probably make me interested in buying this was Banjo, and....welllll, maybe? Who knows?

I am NOT optimistic. Namely because ever since perfect dark zero and Nuts and bolts, Rare basically devolved into a company that prioritizes kinect games... even if they TRY to bring back one of their old properties, I feel like it will most likely turn out to be a failure... though i would put my money on Killer instinct or Perfect dark... MS feels like the lack the imagination to bring back Banjo or Conker.

[Urzu 7]

Another fail from XBox None.

http://www.vg247.com/2013/05/21/xbox...parate-device/


Live TV doesn't work out of the box with XBox None. You need a separate device.

[KleenexGhost]

As much as I would like a new Killer Instinct, I don't know how well it would work in this day and age and how much of a market it would attract. Plus the fact that how well would a console exclusive fighting game sell nowadays? There are alternatives for people that don't have an Xbox or that choose not to buy an Xbox. Combine that with the bad word of mouth surrounding the Xbox One and raises a little cause for concern.

[Terrestrial Dream]

Honestly, I do not like the direction this industry is taking. Game developments are getting more expensive, developers stopped focusing on creative aspect, like game play, and started to focus on other useless junks gamers don't want.