Xbox One is being revealed right now. Comes with Kinect, three OS', new d-pad, Xbox One can stream shit to tablets/phones, picture on picture type feature, ie look at a Youtube guide while playing a game. No games yet.
All the "gameplay footage" looks so much like CG. It's hard to believe they aren't trying to fool us.
They showed EA sports games, Forza 5, and Quantum Break-new game from Remedy. They have more games in development now than ever before. 15 exclusives published in the first year of Xbox One, 8 of them new IPs.
Remedy's new game seems like an interesting concept (even though I was hoping for Alan Wake 2) and the new Kinect actually looked like it works. Gotta wait for E3 to see some proper games.
Brief summary of the conference before the reveal: EA Sports
EA Sports
EA Sports
Oh hey this is the box. See? Cool, now Call of Duty.
Call of Duty.
Has a lot of dogs now.
We also added AI to it.
We also added dogs.
It'll be the best Call of Duty ever, and the best Call of Duty we ever made, and the best Call of Duty ever.
Oh, and we put dogs in it.
Just seems like a fad to me really. It's not focused on what it's supposed to do...play bloody games. I have a laptop for Skype and browsing the internet and I can make calls on my phone if I need to. I want an Xbox (lol) because I want to play games. Also I love that they showcased so many titles from a company voted the worst in the world two years running. Yeah, fuck you EAsoft.
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Oh yeah, fair point. Maybe he was just tortured until he lost consciousness.
Looks like a perfectly fine console, I'll wait to see what the launch titles are.
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Ah, we are high school boys,
the miserable high school boys.
If we were girls, we could get popular by doing anything:
rock band, jazz band,
karate, kendo, mahjong, cyborg, synchronized swimming...
On the other hand, high school boys are
useless outside battle and sports anime.
But they're recklessly trying to make a slice-of-life anime about us.
Ah, we are high school boys,
the miserable high school boys.
I really like the controller, but it doesn't exactly sell the console for me.
I don't know, I'm becoming less and less interested in consoles, especially when they have irritating features such as having to pay extra for second hand games. Yes, I understand it's already gone that way with most PC games, but PC games are a lot cheaper anyway so it doesn't make a difference. Console games however are usually £40-£50 new (may be even higher in the new generation), and eliminating the ability to get cheap second hand versions is absolute bullshit.
Some of you will probably hate me for saying this but I'm not at all surprised that it was Microsoft that decided to refrain from producing a more traditional gaming console in favor of, essentially, a souped-up iPhone with sharper edges and a controller. I may really be quick in such judgements but it seems inevitable that certain big-name companies in the gaming industry deviate from what they set out to do to satisfy the masses. And no, I'm not in support of Sony either, but in all honesty the PS4 will likely enjoy far more popularity in the current gaming community. Sort of like the PS3 did this generation.
That spike in the Sony shares is actually hugely interesting, Microsoft or Xbox if it's an actual subsidiary of Microsoft (I don't know if it is or not) are going to be financially damaged from that and in my eyes. If the market speculates that the Xbox One is going to be that bad...they are going to potentially run into a lot of trouble when it comes to release.
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Oh yeah, fair point. Maybe he was just tortured until he lost consciousness.
No backwards compatibility, and Microsoft having created an atmosphere of distrust and chaos in the platform they made blow up (downloadable games) means I won't buy. I doubt we're getting another Braid, or N+, or Super Meat Boy out of their consoles. No one wants to pay $40,000.00 to patch a game if they don't have to.
Xbox One
