Xbox One has been confirmed for release later this year.
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oops i forgot about call of duty ghost.
its supposed to be one of the first games for xbox one.
its coming out november so the xbox one is coming out on the same day or a week earlier.
i wont probably get my xbox one till april or may next year.
by then there should be more games for it and a bigger community.
The people at Wired seem to like the X1. This was a pretty good read: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/05/xbox-one/
I'll probably only get the new Xbox once Halo 5 is released to it. Or maybe when Destiny is released. I'm still thinking about it though.
RT @Kotaku: Xbox One's Kinect can be turned off, says Microsoft, noting privacy concerns. http://bit.ly/1auQTK1
Wanted to get people's thoughts on this:
It seems like the Xbox One obviously wants to cater to every kind of console owner where as the PS4 is specifically targeting "hardcore" gamers and independent developers.
Idk about you all but if you look at the industry and how expensive AAA games are to create, catering to hardcore console gamers just seems like an unsustainable business model. I'm not saying the PS4 will fail but it just seems more logical to go towards the path Microsoft is. This clearly infuriates a lot of gamers and I understand why. I'm sure E3 will clear a ton of things up.
I just understand why people hate that microsoft is going to all sorts of entertainment. Its not like anyone is forced to watch live TV or use skype on the Xbox.
Xbox One is overall better better than the PS4. However, I will not deny, the PS4 does look good, but doesnt seem to fit my tastes as much as the Xbox One does.
They aren't trying to cater to every kind of console owner, they're trying to cater to EVERYBODY. Period.
Let me make this clearer... My mother wants one. She apparently watched the live-event reveal thing on youtube. This was news to me because she hates my gaming habit. She hates video games completely and utterly. Now, she can't wait for the Xbox One to come out. Most of you are probably like "That's awesome." That's what I thought at first, but then I thought about it and Xbox isn't trying to cater to gamers anymore. They're trying to cater to anyone and everyone. When someone who vehemently detests video games wants a video game console, you know it stopped being a video game console a long time ago.
You can even tell they aren't catering to gamers anymore. No backwards compatibility? I'm pretty sure each console was built on backwards compatibility. I had a choice to make in 2000. Buy a PS2 or an Xbox. I was a kid, so I had to sell this to my parents. My best selling point was that with a PS2, I didn't have to start a video game library from scratch. I could just play Spyro and Tomb Raider. Eventually I got an Xbox, but really late into the game. I didn't know what Xbox Live was until 5 years later when H3 came out. Completely missed H2, I heard about the send off parties though. I digress. Point is, no backwards compatibility means that video game library you spent 10 years(give or take) working on is now out the window. This may not apply to some of you cause I know that a lot of gamers finish a game then sell it to GS 10 minutes later, but I'm proud to say that I collect all my games and I don't want to not be able to play them on the next console. That means saying good bye to Gears, H3, H4, and Reach, Mass Effect, and all my other favorites once my 360 craps out. This leads to my favorite thing about the so-called "Xbox One"... the hypocrisy. I know one of you people is going to be all like "B-b-but Gray, why don't you just play your 360 since there's no backwards compatibility?" Why little sheep? Because this is the all in one experience! All-in-One everybody! Say goodbye to all your obsolete tech. We're gonna take it off your entertainment center! Say goodbye to your cablebox, your dvd player, your blu ray player, your cd player, your laptop, your desktop, gone all gone! Whoo! Wait a minute... what's that? That last entertainment device... the one in the corner with all the green cases on top of it? Yeah, that one with the black and the circle thing... oh shit. Guys, I figured out what we forgot to put in the all-in-one experience. It's the last device we marketed to the gamers. What kind of bullshit is that? Seriously. They chucked telecommunications and a blu-ray player into this thing, but they couldn't add the last piece of technology they made? Not even using their fabled "Cloud" bullshit. I just think that's impressively stupid. Maybe it's just me.
Then there's DRM. No more used games. 3/4 of my game collection is used. Who would go into a store with $60 and buy one game when he/she could buy six or seven? Fucking no one. Oh, and no sharing games. The best form of advertisement is word of mouth. Someone lends someone else a game, someone else likes that game, someone else goes and buys that game. Maybe it's also just me. My friend lent me Darksiders, The Darkness, and The Darkness II. When the time came to give them back, I didn't like it, so I went and bought them.
Next up, always online. Confirmed. I don't care what you say, you're gonna need an online connection for it. They say "Oh, you can play it offline." If you have it update connected to the internet every 24 hours. That's PR spin no matter how you look at it. People in college dorms or rural areas have trouble maintaining a steady connection. Just saying.
So yes, if you were to ask me whether or not I think the Xbox One is even being marketed to gamers, I'd say no.
Now they're just making a glorified computer. "Oh, you need a cable box? We have that. Internet you say? You would like to access the internet? Well, don't reach for the laptop that's right in front of you, let us do it instead." It's barely for gamers. They're building a living room PC. Those of you with PC's already, stick with it. The only real reason any one is going to buy the new Xbox is Halo.
I feel bad for saying this, but I truly hope that the Xbox One fails just so Microsoft will be taught a lesson about fucking with our shit. Of course it's not cause every 5th grader in a parka will get their parents to buy them one.
Anyways, TL;DR Microsoft sucks.
P.S. I spent like 20 minutes composing this, so if you didn't read it, &$%@ you.
Update for Bazonga. It's the principle of the thing. They're taking something that should be a video game console and twisting it 'til it includes everything else one can possibly think of. Maybe I'm just gatekeeping our subculture, but I think a video game console should be for video games. It's actually kind of funny. I was playing my PS2 a little while back and when I turned it on and put in the game, the game just started and for half a second I was like "Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, where's the main men- oh yeah." I forgot consoles used to not have main menus. I sort of feel like we as gamers have forgotten ourselves or something. Again, probably just me.
And on which console will be better, I think they'll be the same. They're both using AMD tech. I'd love to be AMD right now. They're triple dealing to all sides. Every Xbox, Playstation and Wii that comes out, they're getting a cut of. They're on top of the world right now.
I would reply to your post, Revan (Gray), but you clearly have already counted your chickens before they hatched.
In a non-metaphorical way, wait until E3 to hate something you don't know everything about.
TL;DR: Calm down.