Microsoft Xbox Reveal Event - May 21, 2013

[Tap In]

E3 for the games was always the plan for today

 

[Nisaaru]

50+ year old house mom on stage presenting a game console just feels WRONG.

 

[loekf]

How many transistors in Kinect 2?

ToF sensor (= QVGA ? QCIF ??) for depth, 2 x 1080p sensors, some (D)RAM, some processing... , mic-array

2 x 2 x 3 M + 4 x ~1 M ND2 gates = ~20 M transistors ?

 

[BRiT]

Xbox One launching world-wide later this year.

The next part showing many games and exclusives at E3.

 

[blakjedi]

what happened to eric whats his name from IBM presenting?

 

[tuna]

"later this year"

weak!

 

[L. Scofield]

Complete garbage. MS is done.

 

[Cjail]

50+ year old house mom on stage presenting a game console just feels WRONG.

Priceless.

 

[jonabbey]

From the Wired piece:

Allow me a few sentences of total geek-out on this: A new 500-GB hard drive was designed in-house, likewise a custom-built Blu-ray–capable optical drive. A single 40-nanometer chip contains both the CPU and GPU rather than the two dedicated 90-nm chips needed in the 360. In fact, a custom SOC (system on a chip) module made by AMD contains the CPU/GPU chip, the memory, the controller logic, the DRAM, and the audio processors, and connects directly to the heat sink via a phase-change interface material. Whew.

DRAM on die?

Edit: Never mind, it's "in a module".

 

[Bagel seed]

40nm soc

A single 40-nanometer chip contains both the CPU and GPU rather than the two dedicated 90-nm chips needed in the 360. In fact, a custom SOC (system on a chip) module made by AMD contains the CPU/GPU chip, the memory, the controller logic, the DRAM, and the audio processors, and connects directly to the heat sink via a phase-change interface material. Whew.

 

[Rangers]

so much whining by the haters. overall it was a pretty good to great show. only lacking gameplay footage in a big way.

clearly they were holding a lot for e3.

and up now, ghosts....

 

[Tap In]

2013 worldwide launch.

yes Europe matters... have to hear the plans for how they do tv there


CoD timed exclusive.... WOW EDIT: DLC just like 360

 

[BRiT]

Now they're showing COD: Ghosts.

"Just like on XB360, all DLC for COD will launch exclusively first on XBone".

 

[loekf]

"later this year"

weak!

In other words, we'll listen to what Sony says and will launch +/- 1 week.

In other words, Sony still has the initative ? Bad move Microsoft, you could given a pre-emptive strike by saying that you'll launch
end of November... when is Black Friday again ?

 

[Tap In]

so much whining by the haters. overall it was a pretty good to great show. only lacking gameplay footage in a big way.

clearly they were holding a lot for e3.

and up now, ghosts....

exactly, feigning as if they really cared or want it to be good

 

[Ruskie]

40nm soc

huh that explains it.

 

[bkilian]

Are Call of Duty fans called Dutyheads?

 

[jonabbey]

That Wired piece is pretty extensive. Sounds like they went completely away from the structured light solution in Kinect 1.

 

[GrimThorne]

so much whining by the haters. overall it was a pretty good to great show. only lacking gameplay footage in a big way.

clearly they were holding a lot for e3.

and up now, ghosts....

A little more TV talk then I would have cared for but not a bad reveal over all. It looks like some folks here were expecting a full game conference but we knew that wasn't going to happen.

 

[AstoundingHolmes]

She was better than Cammy Dunaway at Nintendo's conference.