The XBox Thread - Page 66

On May 23 2013 00:55 Reborn58 wrote:


It's like if they announced that with legacy of the void you could also use your pc without alt-tabbing...instead you could speak to it or hand motion. And then people freaked out and said they aren't buying lotv and it sucks because they don't mind alt-tabbing and that the entire game must suck because they gave us the option to not alt-tab.

Quit crying, everyone. The system offers all this extra functionality and all you can do is complain that it somehow ruins the system. Grow up.

On May 23 2013 00:22 BaneKingPrime wrote:


you forgot to mention windows 8 RT and surface pro

On May 23 2013 00:55 Reborn58 wrote:


It's like if they announced that with legacy of the void you could also use your pc without alt-tabbing...instead you could speak to it or hand motion. And then people freaked out and said they aren't buying lotv and it sucks because they don't mind alt-tabbing and that the entire game must suck because they gave us the option to not alt-tab.

Quit crying, everyone. The system offers all this extra functionality and all you can do is complain that it somehow ruins the system. Grow up.

On May 23 2013 01:04 FFW_Rude wrote:


Because you already know with the US showing in US for US people that they will have nothing to offer to europe...

E3 is only three weeks away. That might be important - it might, in fact, be central to Microsoft's thinking. Perhaps the company thought that, with the annual gaming jamboree fast-approaching, it could bundle all of the excruciating corporate newspeak and market positioning nonsense into a brief one-hour press conference and then - with appropriate lip service and homage paid to the twin gods of broadcast TV and American sports - it could rapidly move on to an E3 focused almost exclusively on games, delighting the core audience so much that they'll utterly forget a coming-out party that seemed to imply a jumped-up cable box that merely plays games as an afterthought.

I sincerely hope that's the case - that Microsoft is keeping its powder dry for E3. It's an odd and probably deeply misguided communications strategy, since the firm completely held the specialist press' attention for the days surrounding its unveiling event and could have used that to set the tone for E3. Instead, whatever wonders it pulls out of the bag at E3 must now act first and foremost as damage control, a job made tougher by sharing the airwaves with what will no doubt be a massive charm offensive on Sony's part. Still, while such a muddled reveal isn't a great start, the firm did tease 15 exclusive launch window titles, eight of them new IPs - an E3 focused with laser precision on that line-up would cover up early stumbles nicely.

That assumes, of course, that Microsoft understands and accepts that what happened this week was a stumble. There's a more pessimistic interpretation, one to which core consumers have been quick to leap - that Microsoft genuinely believes in the way it positioned Xbox One (a daft name, but we got used to "Wii" so I suppose we've proved that daft names aren't much of a stumbling block). That here is a company which is so arrogantly confident in its dominance of the core gaming space that it believes it no longer has anything to prove - that it can take for granted the support of core gamers and early adopters, instead focusing its energies from the outset on television, movies, sports, music and, er, Skype.

If that sounds familiar, it's probably because - like me - you watched the Xbox One reveal with strong flashbacks to exactly the kind of hubris and arrogant assumption which dogged and ultimately crippled Sony's launch of the PlayStation 3. Rather than seeking to enrapture and engage the tens of millions of core gamers upon whose support a successful hardware launch might be built, Sony simply assumed that they would support PS3 no matter what - a line of reasoning which led to a ludicrous price point (they'll get second jobs to afford one, remember?) for a system openly intended as vehicle for the nascent Blu-ray movie standard and both designed and promoted as a home entertainment hub rather than a games device. Core gamers, in the end, demurred in large numbers, preferring Microsoft's upstart Xbox 360. There's always a choice, and having usurped Sony's market dominance only a few scant years ago, you'd think that Microsoft would recall that brand loyalty - quite rightly - doesn't run all that deep.

On May 23 2013 01:06 Jormundr wrote:

Not exactly a good comparison. Here, let me correct it for you.
It's like if they announced that legacy of the void would be hots + you can also use your pc without alt tabbing. you can like hand jazz and speak to it like a star trek computer. Keep in mind there's nothing new to the game, it's still HoTS, but now you can speak to your computer like a retard.

On May 23 2013 01:43 Dark_Chill wrote:


I really have no idea how that would work, but I'm guessing here's the thing about the xbox problems.
1) No price range. Without at least stating a range (even of 100$ or so), they leave too much speculation, and with all the features, people expect costs to be high.
2) Many of these features have nothing to do with games. They add other functions, but most of which are aimed to make it an all in one device, but game features were very few. Compare this to the Wii U, where most of the features were brought back to relate to games. Hell, the PS4 features were brought back to being about games.
3) We know barely anything about the games. PS4 we got a few glimpses, same for Wii U. We have no idea what exactly the Xbox is going to be doing for games, or how it will be advancing it. Angry Joe was right. If you don't have things ready, then don't have a reveal.
4) I still don't understand the name Xbox One. PS4 is self-explanatory, they explained what Wii U was. What does the One signify? That they won? It's all in One? It's number One? (keep in mind this is a much smaller detail, people will still call it Xbox).
5) No hints dropped. Just saying you have some new titles is pretty bad. They could have gave some hints like "and coming up at E3 is a game you guys have been waiting for for a long time" or something. We have no information about what we'll be getting.

On May 23 2013 01:43 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:
It also doesn't help that people are now posting stills of how rushed it seemed the CoD Ghosts "unveiling" was in terms of graphics etc.



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On May 23 2013 02:10 FastAce wrote:
As I heard this thing runs on x86 architecture, so one step closer to PC.
This also probably means that console games will be easier to port to PC and vice-versa. 15 exclusive games in the first year. Including Blizzard games (probably D3).

I ask myself: What if they add keyboard and mouse options to this new Xbox? This would mean that Starcraft 2 could go to consoles.
On one side this would be nice because it would help to grow the E-sport SC2 community. On the other side I like that SC2 stays only PC exlusive.

On May 23 2013 02:15 Djzapz wrote:

D3 is literally the least exclusive thing you could think of. It's already on PC and will be on PS3.

On May 23 2013 02:28 TheRabidDeer wrote:
The specs that we are aware of

On May 23 2013 02:10 FastAce wrote:
As I heard this thing runs on x86 architecture, so one step closer to PC.
This also probably means that console games will be easier to port to PC and vice-versa. 15 exclusive games in the first year. Including Blizzard games (probably D3).

I ask myself: What if they add keyboard and mouse options to this new Xbox? This would mean that Starcraft 2 could go to consoles.
On one side this would be nice because it would help to grow the E-sport SC2 community. On the other side I like that SC2 stays only PC exlusive.

On May 23 2013 03:19 johnny123 wrote:

that ps4 ram bandwidth..

If i was getting a console, i'd be no brainer for me, PS4... However i like my pc, sticking to it.