Microsoft Xbox Reveal Event - May 21, 2013
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dragonelite
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Xbox One Architecture Panel
http://majornelson.com/2013/05/21/xbox-one-architecture-panel/
Hardware looks...big. Like, American big. Huge square lump of plastic, remeniscent of the original xbox. No idea why it looks so huge, unless there's the mother of all heatsinks in there. Design-wise, it looks...adequate.
TV integration looks slick for sure, but you know, MS... I have a TV, for watching TV. Slick yes, but giving-a-shit-factor around 1/10. Also, good luck bringing seamless channel switching, localized content etc to upwards of 50 discrete Euro countries.
Sports games galore. A long segment about EA sports, then a car racing game. Again, giving-a-shit-factor, 1/10.
Another game, and IT'S A FMV GAME!!! Wow Remedy, the 1990s called and wanted their gameplay back!
More american football (sports) shit. Other than the US and maybe Canada I dunno, who really cares?
...More TV focus. Will there be ANYthing other than sports games and TV on XB1? Oh yeah. CoD Ghost. Looks good I think, but it's really hard to judge quality accurately on a streamed "HD" webcast, and even harder on a SD-rez webcast over 3G after lightning blasted your broadband internet connection to shit. CoD Ghost could be awesome on XB1, but I didn't hear one word about exclusivity? It's activision and they're dollar whores so it would cost MS hugely to buy total exclusivity, instead they got to reveal the game.
Joypad looks very bog standard, apart from what I interpret as triggers with motion feedback. Not sure what the point would be; you could possibly model the trigger force on various models of firearms for example (maybe that would explain what I interpret as a huge battery bulge on the underside of the pad, as proper force feedback would probably draw quite a bit of current.) Also: cue new screamings from rabid attention whores and ignorant media of shooter games being accurate killer simulators for teh kiddies... *gah*
I think force feedback triggers are about as useless as a touchpad and built-in speaker in a joypad, but hey... It's a shiny new gadget with a useless gimmick built into it (that may be mechanically fragile, we don't know yet), and I love shiny gadgets with gimmicks, so yeah I'll take one please. I think MS should have put more effort into designing force feedback into the STICKS instead, but that's just me.
TV integration looks slick for sure, but you know, MS... I have a TV, for watching TV. Slick yes, but giving-a-shit-factor around 1/10. Also, good luck bringing seamless channel switching, localized content etc to upwards of 50 discrete Euro countries.
Sports games galore. A long segment about EA sports, then a car racing game. Again, giving-a-shit-factor, 1/10.
Another game, and IT'S A FMV GAME!!! Wow Remedy, the 1990s called and wanted their gameplay back!
More american football (sports) shit. Other than the US and maybe Canada I dunno, who really cares?
...More TV focus. Will there be ANYthing other than sports games and TV on XB1?
Oh yeah. CoD Ghost. Looks good I think, but it's really hard to judge quality accurately on a streamed "HD" webcast, and even harder on a SD-rez webcast over 3G after lightning blasted your broadband internet connection to shit. CoD Ghost could be awesome on XB1, but I didn't hear one word about exclusivity? It's activision and they're dollar whores so it would cost MS hugely to buy total exclusivity, instead they got to reveal the game.Joypad looks very bog standard, apart from what I interpret as triggers with motion feedback. Not sure what the point would be; you could possibly model the trigger force on various models of firearms for example (maybe that would explain what I interpret as a huge battery bulge on the underside of the pad, as proper force feedback would probably draw quite a bit of current.) Also: cue new screamings from rabid attention whores and ignorant media of shooter games being accurate killer simulators for teh kiddies... *gah*
I think force feedback triggers are about as useless as a touchpad and built-in speaker in a joypad, but hey... It's a shiny new gadget with a useless gimmick built into it (that may be mechanically fragile, we don't know yet), and I love shiny gadgets with gimmicks, so yeah I'll take one please.
I think MS should have put more effort into designing force feedback into the STICKS instead, but that's just me.
loekf
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True in my world, it's called AV Receiver.
Here in Europe the trend is unencrypted channels for basic subscription so you can dump your STB and use the receiver in the TV itself or plug in a CI+ module with smartcard.
STB only makes sense for premium channels (but we're cheap ...) and DVR.
In case you missed something most of the case there's online.
those live TV interactive thing, nothing to do with OS like internet tv or something?
RenegadeRocks
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I was wondering if MS had paid the audience to cheer so much ! It was weird the way they were going bonkers.Whoops.. there goes the neighborhood
http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/21/4352314/xbox-one-hard-drive-game-installs
http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/21/4352314/xbox-one-hard-drive-game-installs
AstoundingHolmes
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Ouf, I guess Sony can feel at ease knowing they aren't the only one with an ugly controller this gen.
Well, they should have seen that coming. I don't care what demographics/consumers they're going after, but only gamers/tech nerds will be tuning in at this time to watch the damn thing.
Does normal TV matter at all anymore? I get it for sport events but here I even mostly watch NBA games on a pad/laptop. My big screen TV is only used for games or films. Political disinformation/news and the other fluff shows + ads are not part of my media experience anymore.
I'm sure it's going to be standard AV equipment size, at least nothing larger than that.
Going shopping with girlfriend > Xbox presentation.
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