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I really like the TV pass-through and Kinect control, as long as it works well. "Xbox on" and so forth.
They just need to get back on message. Let the games speak for themselves and focus more on the box's unique features. Kinect will no doubt feature heavily in their XBone advertising.
They just need to get back on message. Let the games speak for themselves and focus more on the box's unique features. Kinect will no doubt feature heavily in their XBone advertising.
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The new Kinect was a huge selling point for me. Moreover it makes it easier for me to "sell" the idea to my wife as she is big time into TV and likes the occasional music or quiz type game.
The core gamers are living in a bubble.
l (and many others) will gladly pay $100 more than I did for X360 at launch (8 years ago!) for a console with 50 x the hard drive space, new Kinect, better controller, 10 x the graphics performance and memory for gaming. The TV functions are a bonus.
It's great value.
The core gamers are living in a bubble.
l (and many others) will gladly pay $100 more than I did for X360 at launch (8 years ago!) for a console with 50 x the hard drive space, new Kinect, better controller, 10 x the graphics performance and memory for gaming. The TV functions are a bonus.
It's great value.
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But it is the price with Surface that has cost them nearly $2 billion and made no impact on the tablet market. They have a device that is similar, if not better specification wise, to the competition. Promising Windows compatibility and more. But the price has killed it. Even with a $1 billion marketing budget.
It's the equivalent product in a different market. And since multi-platform games don't look or perform significantly better what's to make a purchaser spend the extra money on XBone when they can get the PS4 and two games for the same price?
im relly concerned about the Kinect. If its not damn near perfect in voice/word recognition much more than visual recognition then it'll be MS' waterloo... not to be dramatic but after a very rough Windows 8 launch, Windows Phone 8 launch and Xbox One reveal... the launch of Xbox one has to be damn near perfect.
It has to become so natural to use that when you cant use it, you miss it. If that makes sense. If MS cannot do that with Kinect it will die quickly regardless of the games...
It has to become so natural to use that when you cant use it, you miss it. If that makes sense. If MS cannot do that with Kinect it will die quickly regardless of the games...
i'm a bit higher on voice recognition (thus, kinect in general) after using google voice search on my sgs3 a couple times the other day. it worked really well.
it's ideal for when i feel a sudden need to google something while driving. even in my very noisy truck the accuracy is amazingly good.
i had some sort of idea that voice recognition was basically a gimmick, siri seemed to have been a fad from what i knew basically, but my recent experience changed my mind a bit for now.
i still have this nagging idea sometimes that if voice recognition is 90% of what's cool about kinect, there's something wrong there, because you could do that with much cheaper hardware.
it's ideal for when i feel a sudden need to google something while driving. even in my very noisy truck the accuracy is amazingly good.
i had some sort of idea that voice recognition was basically a gimmick, siri seemed to have been a fad from what i knew basically, but my recent experience changed my mind a bit for now.
i still have this nagging idea sometimes that if voice recognition is 90% of what's cool about kinect, there's something wrong there, because you could do that with much cheaper hardware.
I do care about the games I play. That's because I'm a gamer buying a console to play games on, I'm not in the market for a overpriced set top box nor am I swayed by gimmicks unless they add true value to the games I play. I also live in Europe which means that 50% of what MS got a excited about won't be working anywhere around launch anyway.
The biggest hold that MS have over core gamers is the amount of time, effort, and cash that gamers have already invested in Live. And the length of this generation has resulted in some high investment.
I don't really see the point of Kinnect other than the gimmick value, it's just another Holodeck experiment waiting to fail. I see more convergence with mobile devices than I do with another input device on a monolithic entertainment device.
I'll miss playing Halo and eventually once the XB is at a realistic price I'll buy into for that. But it's all about the games for me. The only TV I ever watch is streamed catchup or sometimes PlayTV. There is nothing I would be interested in adding to that experience, especially if the device I using for that is going to be using demographic data gathered by itself to poison that media with additional tailor made adverts!
So, yeah I am a gamer. I buy a console for the games. Period.
I would expect the voice aspect of Kinect to work pretty well, I use it frequently to compose text messages with my Nexus 4 and it usually does a good job. It even will use capital letters where appropriate at times which is really impressive.
I have owned/used a Kinect at times on the current gen (in fact I have one unopened in the closet, heh).
Dont know if I had a faulty unit or what but it seemed really bad at picking up my voice. Felt like I had to yell at it if it worked at all.
i witnessed my friend doing the whole process of texting somebody with siri. like "Siri, text so and so". Then speaking out the whole message. Dunno if Android has a similar thing. Kids these days
Dont know if I had a faulty unit or what but it seemed really bad at picking up my voice. Felt like I had to yell at it if it worked at all.
i witnessed my friend doing the whole process of texting somebody with siri. like "Siri, text so and so". Then speaking out the whole message. Dunno if Android has a similar thing. Kids these days
Except buying a xb1 is synonymous to buying an ipad 2 after owning an ipad 1, not buying a tab from a manufacturer with relatively no presence in the space.
MS does have good experience in this area, Windows ages ago, Sync in cars, Kinect V1 (which my wife won't go without to be honest for voice), and TellMe on WP7 (before Siri even if I remember right, just never ever advertised - and it works really well).
I look at Kinect has a bonus, for me it is for voice commands, but I get this really cool motion controller for the kids and they love it. So I guess that is my justification, the kids! lol
For me, the new Kinect is probably what will get me to buy an Xbone. The fact that it's standard equipment hopefully will mean more devs spend the effort to use it in unique ways, which can trigger a paradigm shift in game interaction. If it works out, it will benefit all gamers.
If MS decides to make it an optional peripheral, then I doubt I'll get the bone. I'll just stick to PC gaming.
If MS decides to make it an optional peripheral, then I doubt I'll get the bone. I'll just stick to PC gaming.
There's also user recognition in any lighting. That could make the system more family friendly than 360, just by loading profiles and preferences on sight or handing over the controler.
If you cared that much about spec then you'd be a PC owner, which are already several times more powerful than all of these. For that reason, for me, any perceived spec difference between the platforms is so minor relative to the processing capabilities I already have in my PC that facet isn't even something to consider, hence its the other factors that fit into my lifestyle are far more important.
Why did you quote me for that tirade? I own a PC with a GTX670, I'm good thanks.
150m ps2s were sold. Only 70m ps3s have been sold.
Why would everyone have a ps4 ?
It lacks launch games , it lacks next gen features . Its like buying a blackberry when you could buy an iphone or android device.
I'm seriously wondering why some people buy consoles. I thought the point is playing games and not playing around with some user interface. I would even guess my time spent in the dashboard doesn't even reach 1/1000 compared to my time spend on games.
You sound like you miss your NES. The world moved on from the 80s.
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