TheMightyEthan

Did X-Men Origins: Wolverine teach you nothing?

The part about them wanting to control the hardware makes sense, the rest seems like it's just details that could be worked out fairly easily. I'm no expert on cable systems, but it seems like connecting to the various networks could be handled in software and not drive up hardware costs. Anyway, regardless of how unrealistic it is, what I'm saying is that I can see a market for that box assuming it existed. What I cannot see is a market for this weird middleman they've created.

Assuming it's true that only 5% of players do it (which may be entirely false, I know), the reasoning makes sense.

Sony hasn't said anything to suggest that games are tied to accounts though, whereas MS has said that to play on a second account requires a fee. So as far as PS4 is concerned there's not really anything (other than old, vague rumors) to suggest that used games are a problem, while for Xbone there's a pretty big red flag atm.

I got the impression they wanted us to think it was in-engine, just not gameplay. Anyone who thought it was gameplay though is either a very small child, old person, or idiot.

Called it, the EA Sports videos were target renders, not running on the hardware.

I wanted to like it, but in the survival-horror sections the gameplay was just too awful for me to force myself through.

But based on the way they've explained it so far even the HDMI pass-through only works with cable boxes from companies MS has a partnership with, it doesn't support all providers. Given that, I fail to see why negotiating a deal to have the Xbox be the cable box would have been any harder.

I can't imagine this doing well in the states. It's a media box, but the people who will want to use all that amazing functionality they showed are not the ones who are going to drop $400 on another box to go under the TV. How do you convince Mr. Sports Fan to spend $400 on something that will make it slightly more convenient to play his fantasy football league while watching the game, when I guarantee anyone who could afford that already has a laptop or tablet next to them on the couch that they can do that from? I honestly just cannot believe there is a market for what they are trying to sell. The thing that especially blows my mind is that it doesn't even have the cable-box functionality built in. You still have to have the separate box, you're just supposed to run the HDMI through the Xbone on its way to the TV. That's retarded. If you were going to make this thing, MS, you needed to at least make it replace the cable box. Then you're selling it as an enhanced cable box with all these other nifty features too, and that I actually can see a market for. As is it's just a weird middleman. Anyway, why I came in here: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-spec-analysis-xbox-one An interesting Eurogamer article about the specs of the Xbone, especially the part explaining how they ended up so far behind Sony in the RAM department. *Edit* - It was what I expected, not what I hoped for. I'd say it's what I feared, worse than I expected, and much worse than I'd hoped.

I hoped (not expected) to see games at the forefront, outright denial of their ridiculous online requirements, and Kinect not being 100% required all the time. Hell, beyond hope, I even expected more discussion of games than there was, even though I knew going into it that TV/movies would be a big focus.

Nolan's involvement is the only reason I'm paying attention at all. Generally speaking Superman is a lame character.

Alleged box design:

Alleged box design:

How was First Class any more serious than X-Men/Spider-Man/Avengers?

I disconnected my Kinect quite some time ago not because of voice commands but because of hand gestures. My wife and I would be watching something on Netflix, and we'd be talking about whatever and gesturing with our hands and all of a sudden it would stop the movie and go back to the main menu, or switch to something in our favorites. Annoying as hell. Having Kinect be always required, not able to be disconnected, is a big incentive for me to NOT get this console (though I suppose you could always put some sort of cover over it, but you shouldn't have to). Account management and game transfer shouldn't be a problem if you console bricks itself, unless they took a huge step back in how their accounts work. XBL accounts are already set up so that you can go to any Xbox you want, sign in to your account, and download whatever content you own. There's nothing to suggest it won't work that way still (and the fact that they say you can take your disc over to a friend's and sign in to play it suggests that it will work that way). Now for my response to the presentation from someone who has always favored Xbox over Playstation: I don't give a shit about all this sports, live TV stuff. I don't even have cable TV (though I do have cable internet). I hate Kinect already for voice and gesture commands, why in God's name would I want it to be integral to the system and unable to be turned off? Where are the games? @FMW: I was incredibly disappointed by this presentation. I know this is the direction they've been headed in a while, but I'd hoped they would get themselves turned around. I definitely won't be getting either console for quite some time after release, but the PS4 is looking a lot more attractive for when I eventually do. There's not a single thing they showed that I care about that PS4 can't also do.

The best part of that story is that the girl in question was one of my roommates' girlfriends' (now wife's) younger sister.

For me personally my first thought was One as in "unity". It brings everything together into one seamless experience, and from that perspective the name makes perfect sense. Also, you people really love to jump to conclusions. From the Wired article Jack posted: It doesn't spell doom and gloom for rentals/used games just yet. Finally, there's this from Hottie's Edge article:

I don't think the name is worse than the Wii U. The Wii U was unclear as to what it was, but Xbox One is clearly something different than Xbox 360. It might be mildly confusing with the original Xbox ("Xbox 1"), but how often is that going to come up? Otherwise, yeah, pretty amazingly terrible presentation.

It was extremely disappointing, but if their claim of 15 exclusives next year, with 8 of those being new franchises, pans out over E3 I imagine that reaction might improve somewhat. But yeah, that was a highly anticlimactic way to introduce the new console.

Well Sony has already outright said that PS4 will support used games with no problem, so I'd be surprised if MS actually did anything like this. Even if they do, at least there's the PS4 to fall back on.

At this point I was hoping the entire paragraph was going to be in verse.

While not ideal, I personally can live with one-time-activation. Always-on I cannot live with.

I used to hate it, but then in law school they fucking drilled that shit into us as the only way to write "properly", so now I can't help myself, I have to do it. It doesn't bother me when others don't, though.

The question remains: how important is the fact that it's portable to its success? Obviously it's not enough by itself to be portable, but can a home console truly succeed in Japan anymore?