X-Box One Discussion

[Vakarian]

I liked it, we haven't really seen all that much, the potential for developers is now increased because they can use more powerful  technology.

[scarhunter92]

Piece of shit conference. Nothing interesting.

[Razz]

Getting a PS4 as my first Next gen console is pretty much a given unless MS pulls a blinder at E3.

[scarhunter92]

http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=SNE

lel

[Cal427eb]

http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=SNE

lel

ahahahahahaha

[Nightlord]

There's one feature of Xbox One from which we can infer quite a few conclusions: You can install any game from the disc to the console's hard drive, and then play that game whenever you like without having to put the disc in.

Wired asked Microsoft if installation would be mandatory. "On the new Xbox, all game discs are installed to the HDD to play," the company responded in an emailed statement. Sounds mandatory to us.

What follows naturally from this is that each disc would have to be tied to a unique Xbox Live account, else you could take a single disc and pass it between everyone you know and copy the game over and over. Since this is clearly not going to happen, each disc must then only install for a single owner.

Microsoft did say that if a disc was used with a second account, that owner would be given the option to pay a fee and install the game from the disc, which would then mean that the new account would also own the game and could play it without the disc.

But what if a second person simply wanted to put the disc in and play the game without installing – and without paying extra? In other words, what happens to our traditional concept of a "used game"? This is a question for which Microsoft did not yet have an answer, and is surely something that game buyers (as well as renters and lenders) will want to know.

And what of the persistent rumors that Xbox One games will be "always online" – that is, that single-player games would require a constant online connection to function? As it turns out, those rumors were not unfounded, but the reality is not so draconian. Xbox One will give game developers the ability to create games that use Microsoft's Azure cloud computing service, which means that they might be able to offload certain computing tasks to the cloud rather than process them on the Xbox One hardware itself. This would necessitate the game requiring a connection.

Are developers forced to create games that have these online features, and are thus not playable offline? They are not, Xbox exec Whitten said to Wired — but "I hope they do." So the always-online future may come in incremental steps.

Guess gamestop is dead.

http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2013/05/xbox-one-analysis/

[KNIGHT]

[Cal427eb]

Sums it up nicely.

[Nightlord]

  Every time.

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/407910/xbox-one-not-compatible-with-xbox-360-games/

This was pretty much a dead cert anyway.

[Sexy Poot]

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/407912/microsoft-confirms-pre-owned-fee-for-xbox-one/

[Remonster]

I think I'll pass. The Controller looks kinda nice, and the console itself is ok. But I don't care about TV, Kinect, surfing the internet or whatever on my console. No used games is a big no thank you. I am planning on getting a PS4, but if they end up going the same route with used games I'll pass on that as well.

[Space Sweeper]

me and a friend, stricken with grief, and anger, recored a podcast barely a minute after the conference.

we just ended a second ago.

I rage.

[Cal427eb]

me and a friend, stricken with grief, and anger, recored a podcast barely a minute after the conference.

we just ended a second ago.

I rage.

Rage, rage against they dying of the light.

[Razz]

Needs Kinect to Function, Blocks used games...yeah you really don't want me to pick this thing up do you MS?

[Nightmare Asylum]

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/407912/microsoft-confirms-pre-owned-fee-for-xbox-one/

That's absolutely terrible.

I rage.

Yup...