I feel that gaming consoles have lost perspective of what they are. They are gaming consoles. I feel that the Xbox One has tried to make itself an all in one entertainment system instead of focusing on what people use it for - games. If I want to watch TV, I'll watch TV. I don't need my Xbox to do that. I can easily take my TV remote, change it to component 1 or HDMI 1, and watch it from there.
I think that Xbox One crosses the line from convenience to plain laziness. Honestly, if you're too lazy to put down your controller and pick up your TV remote to watch TV, then you have some problems.
I believe that gaming consoles need to focus on two things: 1. improving their specs so that they can play higher quality games and 2. finding ways to bring friends closer together through video games. Gamers have the most fun when they're playing exciting games with their friends. That's what consoles should be about.
I appreciate the way Microsoft has gone out of its way to try to bring television to my Xbox, but I don't need it. I already have cable and a nice LED television. And quite honestly, the time spent trying to incorporate that into the system could have been spent on making the gaming experience better because that's what's going to make a console desirable.
I'm glad to be giving Gaben Newell my money over Bill Gates any day. Have fun with all those thousands of dollars of 360 hardware you bought, you can't use any of it on Xbox One.
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Except the controller is wireless, and the TV is sort of a given. Besides, some people may have a TV setup where they don't have a good place to put a kinect.
They're gonna have to make room. If you buy something that you don't have room for, that's your problem.
I'm trying to say that they need to make gaming their MAIN focus, and everything else a side feature. If watching TV requires a paid cable subscription as well as the cable box then I don't see why you shouldn't just use the cable box instead.
Gaming is their main focus. I'd love for you to prove to me that it isn't, because with the 15 titles in development, the matchmaking while playing a different game feature, and having a side bar to watch tv/netflix/skype while you game, they must be just abandoning gamers, right?
You have to have Internet connection to play games offline.
Internet connection. To play games. OFFLINE.
Microsoft, EA, and Ubisoft are working hard to inconvenience paying, loyal customers and not stop piracy / sharing in the slightest.
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My opinion on the new Xbox is that... Nintendo and Sony have this gen well under wraps and Microsoft should probably drop out of the hardware sector while they're ahead. This whole situation just further proves that Microsoft doesn't understand what their consumers expect and even need out of their products, as if Windows 8 and GFWL weren't already proof enough of that.
Speaking of next gen consoles, I really wanna see Minecraft on the Wii U, the tablet controller is PERFECT for it.
They're gonna have to make room. If you buy something that you don't have room for, that's your problem.
They would buy the PS4 instead. Less sales for Microsoft=Microsoft not getting as many high-quality games due to publishers and developers going with PS4 instead=Everyone unhappy. Other than Sony and PS4 customers and unaffected Wii U and PC gamers.
Gaming is their main focus. I'd love for you to prove to me that it isn't, because with the 15 titles in development, the matchmaking while playing a different game feature, and having a side bar to watch tv/netflix/skype while you game, they must be just abandoning gamers, right?
Look at the reveal trailer. I'm pretty sure they will end up spending more time of it talking about stuff OTHER than the games/specs/that kind of stuff than about the games/specs/that kind of stuff.
They would buy the PS4 instead. Less sales for Microsoft=Microsoft not getting as many high-quality games due to publishers and developers going with PS4 instead=Everyone unhappy. Other than Sony and PS4 customers and unaffected Wii U and PC gamers.
Do you seriously think that people are going to go with the PS4 just because they have to do a little rearranging? If there is anyone that does that, the number is very small.
Look at the reveal trailer. I'm pretty sure they will end up spending more time of it talking about stuff OTHER than the games/specs/that kind of stuff than about the games/specs/that kind of stuff.
E3, E3, E3. The thing is that we already know it will play games. We already know that it has much more powerful hardware, and that it will bring a bunch of new stuff in gaming. They focused their launch on what the Xbox does in addition to gaming. It's just a different marketing scheme, and it really only seems like a problem to hardcore gamers that don't spend their time thinking, which is a pretty small amount.
The Xbox One will be a huge waste of money and there will be no reason to buy it.
It really isn't much of an upgrade unless you loved being watched by a billion dollar corporation through a small little device...
I am one of those people. If I tried to use a kinect in my room I'd break my ankles on my coffee table, my wrists on the frame of my cabin bed and my skull on the bed itself. Even with rearranging the furnature I would not be able to manufacture the space to make it possible to use the thing, my room is simply too small.
Microsoft seem to think that all their customers live in multi-room mansions with acres of floorspace. Unfortunately, the real world is a little bit different...
Obviously not everyone will be able to flail around with the space they have, but there's no reason to believe that anything beyond simple hand motions will be necessary, if even those are necessary. I was talking about finding a place to put the thing. Shouldn't be that hard if you know how to organize.
Like to see you try and "Organize" my room for enough space to use the bloody thing.
Another question springs to mind if anyone knows: Do you have to be seen by the kinect when you turn it on for the Xbox to work, or will it just have to be there for it to turn on?
There's no reason to believe that you would have to be seen by the kinect.
It's not like it's a huge upgrade to anything. And then there is the necessesary Kinnect stuff...
Not a huge improvement? Well, first off, the hardware is miles ahead of the 360 and PS3. This alone is a huge improvement. The way the games are able to be stored and played off of the hard drive without the disk is big. The fact that a single game can be shared between 10 people is revolutionary. The cloud services, if implemented correctly, could single handedly put the Xbox One in the lead of the PS4 by a lot.
Not a huge improvement? Well, first off, the hardware is miles ahead of the 360 and PS3. This alone is a huge improvement. The way the games are able to be stored and played off of the hard drive without the disk is big. The fact that a single game can be shared between 10 people is revolutionary. The cloud services, if implemented correctly, could single handedly put the Xbox One in the lead of the PS4 by a lot.
Please, tell me that that isn't a huge upgrade.
Having a different opinion, and liking a console, automatically makes me a fanboy? Stop being a PS4/PC/whatever fanboy then.
10 people IN THE SAME FAMILY. Who would be in the same house anyway and could share a disc.
I think that Xbox One crosses the line from convenience to plain laziness. Honestly, if you're too lazy to put down your controller and pick up your TV remote to watch TV, then you have some problems.
I believe that gaming consoles need to focus on two things: 1. improving their specs so that they can play higher quality games and 2. finding ways to bring friends closer together through video games. Gamers have the most fun when they're playing exciting games with their friends. That's what consoles should be about.
I appreciate the way Microsoft has gone out of its way to try to bring television to my Xbox, but I don't need it. I already have cable and a nice LED television. And quite honestly, the time spent trying to incorporate that into the system could have been spent on making the gaming experience better because that's what's going to make a console desirable.
--Neil deGrasse Tyson
Gaming is their main focus. I'd love for you to prove to me that it isn't, because with the 15 titles in development, the matchmaking while playing a different game feature, and having a side bar to watch tv/netflix/skype while you game, they must be just abandoning gamers, right?
Internet connection. To play games. OFFLINE.
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Microsoft, EA, and Ubisoft are working hard to inconvenience paying, loyal customers and not stop piracy / sharing in the slightest.
Anyways @ the thread:
My opinion on the new Xbox is that... Nintendo and Sony have this gen well under wraps and Microsoft should probably drop out of the hardware sector while they're ahead. This whole situation just further proves that Microsoft doesn't understand what their consumers expect and even need out of their products, as if Windows 8 and GFWL weren't already proof enough of that.
Speaking of next gen consoles, I really wanna see Minecraft on the Wii U, the tablet controller is PERFECT for it.
E3, E3, E3. The thing is that we already know it will play games. We already know that it has much more powerful hardware, and that it will bring a bunch of new stuff in gaming. They focused their launch on what the Xbox does in addition to gaming. It's just a different marketing scheme, and it really only seems like a problem to hardcore gamers that don't spend their time thinking, which is a pretty small amount.
It really isn't much of an upgrade unless you loved being watched by a billion dollar corporation through a small little device...
So don't assume.
Dude, stop trying to defend the xbox one. Just stop being a fanboy.
Please, tell me that that isn't a huge upgrade.
Having a different opinion, and liking a console, automatically makes me a fanboy? Stop being a PS4/PC/whatever fanboy then.
10 people IN THE SAME FAMILY. Who would be in the same house anyway and could share a disc.
You can with up to 4 actually via splitscreen or games where the players are on the same screen such as castle crashers.