X-Box One

[Guest Jayfunk]

The day they get rid of controllers is the day I stop playing games.

 

Agreed if i want to move about playing FIFA i would play football i would rather sit in my boxers with a beer in hand playing the might game

[Guest The Beltster]

Touch screen is alright for novelty games like Angry Birds and shit on the iPad, and it works great for classic point and click games, but I've never had fun ever once playing any Kinect crap. First off, I dont want to sweat and have a heart attack playing a game, so f*ck that.

 

Controllers will always be needed.

[Omega 354]

You'll never get rid of mouse/keyboard until you can start controlling everything using your mind. Every serious IT professional is going to be hanging on to Windows 7 just like they hung on XP in the hope that Microsoft release Windows 9 and make it more workstation friendly.

 

Touchscreen is exactly the same as 3d or motion controllers, it's a novelty. It's neither precise enough or user friendly enough to replace keyboard and mouse as the optimum way of controlling a computer. Can you imagine sitting in front of a monitor at work and having to to be typing out emails by pressing the screen? Yeah right...

 

There's probably ways you could drive your car without a steering wheel or pedals but until the alternative is actually better then it won't change. Windows 8 will be Vista all over again and then we'll get the release that allows users to choose between touchscreen defaults and traditional imports and everyone will be happy again.

[King 277]

Microsoft is unveiling it's new console in Seattle tomorrow folks, shit going down!!

[ViciousPrism 177]

New Xbox is called Xbox One. Has 8 cores. 500gb storage. Etc. Looks like an overblown Wii. Comes bundled with Kinect out of the box for "revolutionary functionality" blah blah, buzzwords. First half hour or so was for TV. No shit. TV. Also apparently the console will have it's own Game Recording technology (Hi Sony!) to share footage.

 

This feels cold. Sterile. Where's the hot?

[King 277]

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02569/xbox-one_2569256c.jpg

[Guest Anime Otaku]

Looks kinda ugly, hope they have a rethink or t lest the slim version looks better.

[ViciousPrism 177]

This is killing me. I hope Sony won't make the same mistakes as MS for their *reveal* (Or at least, hardware reveal)

[ViciousPrism 177]

Games are tied to user accounts. So they can play games without putting discs in, effectively killing the pre-owned market dead for Xbox 720. Secondary users will have to pay a fee to use the game after the first install.

 

http://t.co/O1l9G7sRR3

 

Well that just confirmed a purchase of PS4 for me.

[King 277]

Xbox 720

 

That just reeks of M$ bullshit!!

[dsrchris 190]

Surely we should change the thread name, now it's definitely Xbox One and all?

[Guest John Hancock]

Done.

[dsrchris 190]

So the preowned games thing appears to be a lot of conjecture at the moment, with a bunch of websites reporting you can't play games another player has installed, with others reporting you'll be able to pay an undisclosed fee or annual subscription to unlock previously installed games. Apparently Xbox are making some kind of announcement regarding it tomorrow, so anything released at the moment is just people grabbing the wrong end of a stick.

 

For the time being.

[ViciousPrism 177]

Regardless, Sony stock has gone up 9%. Suck it, fanboys. (Just kidding. Suck it, M$)

[dsrchris 190]

I'm actually quite looking forward to E3 this year now. At least that might have some game footage. :P

[Guest dpddave]

Do you have to be online to use it? I'm sure I read that somewhere (probably here).

[Guest ScottyB]

XBOX Won.

[Guest Jayfunk]

I wonder it nitendo will still be in the home console market as the WII U looked dated already

[Chris2K 176]

Just moronic from Microsoft. I'm sure these kind of questions will be answered in due time, but if a game gets tied to a specific X-Box Live Account then how does it work when two people live together with different X-Box accounts for the same X-Box, do they have to buy a copy of the game each?

 

You have to do something pretty spectacularly bad to have a big launch event for your new console and have your stock price fall the next day (down 0.66%), I just hope Sony don't announce something as stupid themselves in a few weeks.

[King 277]

A good read with all the info about the Xbox One and games etc....

 

http://www.itworld.com/personal-tech/357474/farewell-xbox-720-hello-xbox-one-microsoft-reveals-its-next-gen-home-entertainm