News & Rumors: Xbox One (codename Durango)

[Deleted member 11852]

Yeah, that has massive potential. I actually loved Perfect Dark Zero, I don't care what anyone else says about that game.

I don't believe hardly anybody (if anybody at all) is left over from those days. The core team who churned out hit after hit left Rare and formed Free Radical who died and became Crytek UK.

Rare's senior programmer is Ranulf Doswell, who has been there since August 2013. It's just a name. The old programmers and creative team left years back.

 

[Deleted member 86764]

I don't believe hardly anybody (if anybody at all) is left over from those days. The core team who churned out hit after hit left Rare and formed Free Radical who died and became Crytek UK.

Rare's senior programmer is Ranulf Doswell, who has been there since August 2013. It's just a name. The old programmers and creative team left years back.

Probably true.

If they've got a lot of staff, time and Microsoft's monetary backing; the potential is still there.

 

[Deleted member 11852]

If they've got a lot of staff, time and Microsoft's monetary backing; the potential is still there.

Eurogamer reported in May that around 16 people had been laid off following poor Kinect Sports Rivals sales and Microsoft's change in direction regarding Kinect. The article reports Kinect Sports Rivals was a 150 man project so even allowing for layoffs, it's not by any stretch a small studio.

 

[shredenvain]

I dont see how anything said in the last page of this thread has anything relevant to do with the threads topic. All the sales talk is about last gen consoles and the rest seems to be nothing but complaining about Xbox One problems that never really existed in the first place because they were corrected before launch. (People need to get over the past)

 

[Dave Baumann]

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2...yer-other-updates-roll-out-to-preview-members
http://forums.xbox.com/xbox_early_a...view_forums/wave_7_1409/f/5050/t/1812339.aspx

September dashboard preview is rolling out at the moment. Seems to a some confusion whether the media player is actually present or not, but I'll see if I can get the update tonight.

 

[BRiT]

I really wish I was part of the preview program now. Grrr.

 

[Cyan]

I really wish I was part of the preview program now. Grrr.

I've signed for it, but I never got a reply. I could be eligible in the future, maybe.

https://twitter.com/majornelson/status/499504646545997824




Try that.

Tommy McClain

 

[Dave Baumann]

I really wish I was part of the preview program now. Grrr.

Submitted an invite for you.

 

[Scott_Arm]

Submitted an invite for you.

Special mod privilege.

 

[Cyan]

Special mod privilege.

I think no one invited me but I got a message from Xbox Live and I joined.

Still, I think I never actually got to be part of that, but I am up to be eligible.

Still, it's been like a month without touching the X360 and X1, I lost a friend there :/ and I refused to sign in into Xbox Live for a while.

I will... soon, hopefully. Sigh, I missed the free with Gold motocross game, now that I think of it.

 

[AzBat]

Sigh, I missed the free with Gold motocross game, now that I think of it.

You should still be able to get it, but I would act quick.

Tommy McClain

 

[RancidLunchmeat]

Just saw this article back from January (thanks Azbat), and it has forever boggled my mind that 1v100 was cancelled and that they spent so much money, time and focus trying to make the One an entertainment system yet didn't realize the best way to that was to bring back the game show concept.

All those millions spent on making TV shows and trying to be Netflix or deals with the NFL to grab fantasy football players would have been much better spent on production and licensing costs associated with a scheduled and live game show production like 1v100.

Check out the comments below the article. Except for one jackoff who keeps arguing about button mashing the X button, every comment is overwhelmingly positive about their experiences with 1v100. In fact, I don't think I've ever heard anybody say anything very negative about 1v100 except for maybe the bit of the game that wasn't part of the live broadcast. (Which I found lame myself)

http://www.polygon.com/2014/1/27/5350684/microsoft-something-like-1-vs-100-coming-to-xbox-one

People talk about "what MS should do next?" and "if game play is king, what kind of new experiences should these consoles offer?", etc.. The answer to both is right here. 1v100 really was a "Next Gen" level experience for the 360, unique and groundbreaking. It's a shame that it's gone. At least there is a glimmer of hope here that a successor might make its way to the Xb0x.

 

[Shifty Geezer]

I'd assume that it wasn't popular enough to justify its existence. I can't see why it wouldn't be maintained/progressed if MS had the viewer/user stats to show it was popular/profitable.

 

[Silent_Buddha]

I'd assume that it wasn't popular enough to justify its existence. I can't see why it wouldn't be maintained/progressed if MS had the viewer/user stats to show it was popular/profitable.

They had a hard time finding a way to monetize the show. Most game shows rely on advertising to support them. That's hard to get the same level of involvement from advertisers on a console show.

Regards,
SB

 

[Shifty Geezer]

What were the viewing figures like?

 

[function]

Probably 101 per game.

 

[RancidLunchmeat]

They had a hard time finding a way to monetize the show. Most game shows rely on advertising to support them. That's hard to get the same level of involvement from advertisers on a console show.

But most game shows give away tangible prizes, and 1v100 was only giving away MS points which were imaginary.

However, there is the on-going cost of having live talent and I'd imagine there's increased production costs due to the nature of hosting live "event" games.

I'm saying that if MS is going to toss money at something they can't directly measure the success of (such as the NFL deal or original TV programming that may or may not influence purchasing decisions), they would be better suited tossing that money towards the thing that gave them unprecedented praise in the press and among players and set Guinness World Records for the number of simultaneous participants.

Probably 101 per game.

You are such a tool.

http://www.examiner.com/article/chris-cashman-explains-why-1-vs-100-was-canceled

 

[Silent_Buddha]

Interesting, I hadn't even known at the time that Microsoft was paying another company licensing fees for the show.

Regards,
SB

 

[function]

You are such a tool.

http://www.examiner.com/article/chris-cashman-explains-why-1-vs-100-was-canceled

A tool has a use.

Unlike, it appears, 100 vs 1.

 

[Shifty Geezer]

http://www.examiner.com/article/chris-cashman-explains-why-1-vs-100-was-canceled

"Not totally sure but I remember seeing 40,000 or so on the screen in front of me. "
There we go, then. By comparison, the BBC's cheap and nasty game-show Pointless had a viewing figure in the millions. Even Channel 4's slow Countdown managed in excess of 1 million viewers.

Original UK TV 1 v 100 viewing figures - High, nearly 7 million. Low, above 3 million. Although it did accompany the national lottery draw.