Xbox One

OMG YOU CAN WATCH TV WITH IT I NEVER WOULD HAVE THOUGHT OF WATCHING TV

Xbox One Reveal 2013 Highlights - YouTube

IT'S A WATER COOLER TOO?

I personally think it looks ugly, and Microsoft are shooting themselves in the foot regarding used games, which will become more prevalent in 6-7 years time, and the always-on Kinect.

Yeah, pretty much lol'd the whole time.

I also think it's a very bad move for them, especially preventing use of old games and adding a fee for pre-owned ones.

It's going to cost around 400-550€ here, which is very much for a console. People will probably either turn to PS or PC gaming.
Also, all the features it's marketed with are completely useless in Finland anyway.
Probably going to skip this one until it's on sale or something.

They are basically taking Steams model and selling you a console. The problems with this are obvious: no backwards compatibility, they kill the used game market, and they're focusing on a TV centric entertainment model that doesn't or won't exist well before they cycle in the next system.
Granted Microsoft need a new system. Not that the 360 isn't still kicking there just isn't much room for improvement or exploration with the system. I think Sony could just sit on the PS3 though. I don't think anyone has pushed it to it's limits yet.
I honestly switched to Microsoft and got a 360 because all my friends had one and I was moving away. The One has shown me the error of my ways and I'm running back to Sony and my PC for sure.

C0FFINCASE wrote:

They are basically taking Steams model and selling you a console. The problems with this are obvious: no backwards compatibility, they kill the used game market, and they're focusing on a TV centric entertainment model that doesn't or won't exist well before they cycle in the next system.
Granted Microsoft need a new system. Not that the 360 isn't still kicking there just isn't much room for improvement or exploration with the system. I think Sony could just sit on the PS3 though. I don't think anyone has pushed it to it's limits yet.
I honestly switched to Microsoft and got a 360 because all my friends had one and I was moving away. The One has shown me the error of my ways and I'm running back to Sony and my PC for sure.

Have you seen the PS4 reveal? (Or teaser rather) I am kind of happy with what they showed. It was enough to get me hyped for it. I felt that Microsoft rushed getting their complete reveal out, even though they pushed it back a month.

The Xbox features are fine features, though nothing people wanted to hear about. My complaint with it is that you have to pay for Xbox Live for features that other consoles, even last gen, offer for free.

I'm guessing they're aiming entertainment center. No telling how it will play out. They may lose the "hardcore" market and try to pull in part of the Nintendo casual market.

Sounds pretty accurate.

If it's cheap enough, casual gamers will eat that shit up. And not like Bejeweled casual, but social modern games -- the Halos and Call of Duties.

A lot of gamers will wait to buy a used copy of a game, and since they have yet to tell us how used games can actually be reused many people would rather buy a PS4.

I thought they have said. You pay a licensing fee of some sort, which allows the game -- previously tied to your console -- to be played on their console instead.

I'd rather buy PS4, even Wii U looks better than Xbox One :'|

it is sad i had high hopes for this console if the fix the problems I may buy it

half life 3

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minora_kitty wrote:

half life 3

xbox one exclusive

Newell does not understand "3". So nrries there.

GAMEchief wrote:

The Xbox features are fine features, though nothing people wanted to hear about. My complaint with it is that you have to pay for Xbox Live for features that other consoles, even last gen, offer for free.

I'm guessing they're aiming entertainment center. No telling how it will play out. They may lose the "hardcore" market and try to pull in part of the Nintendo casual market.

That's what I don't get.
They have a market, they are controlling it,and they've made the choice to more ore less abandon it. I don't think they've realized what they're doing or that they've miscalculated who their market is. I'm betting the last few years of system sales are to casual gamers that "play" COD or Halo and want to watch Netflix but don't have a "smart" TV. Thus Microsoft is developed a product to appeal to them, but is ignoring the group that established the console as a force, or at least assuming nothing they do will ostracize them.
Marketing 101 is to establish your niche, defend your position in the market, and expand when you can. Microsoft is literally dropping the first two in favor of the last step. Sony pushed to far with Blueray last time, I think Microsoft will push too far with all these lame features.
But Game is right, if they can get it on the market at half of what the PS4 costs then it's the winning console. The wise thing to do I think, would be to be 50-100 cheaper on the console than Sony and then try to get the price of games down. Even if games are only $5 cheaper you'd effectively capture every non-hardcore market.


Also they did explain the licensing fee, it's you by the game again.It will probably be a tad cheaper since you don't have to pay for the disk and packaging. Not more than $10 off.

You probably shouldn't lecture Microsoft in marketing, though.

The Wii was a predicted flop too, but Nintendo raked that cash in.

I've always been a playstaion girl, my nephew is the xbox. But from the little I've seen neither consoles look that great. and if the wii had better games I might look into those but they don't have anything that looks good to me. :/