Postby metalgear2095 » May 21st, 2013, 3:53 pm
I didn't get to see the show so read this instead. Either this guy lying or y'all getting excited over nothing
Microsoft Xbox One Reveal Impressions:
Microsoft just revealed their next generation console, Xbox One. During the hour long press event, we got a glimpse into what the future of gaming on Xbox will be like. Or did we?
What we really got is what the future of watching TV will be like with Xbox One's HDMI in port, if you happen to have a subscription to a major cable or satellite provider, assuming one is even available where you live. We got to see how you can surf the net while watching a movie, though I can't imagine why I would want to interrupt my movie so I can watch a trailer for another movie as my original movie is still playing in the background. We got to see how sports games will automatically update your fantasy teams when the real team scores. We got to see the machine can do a great job of multi-tasking all of these things at once.
What we didn't get to see much of is how it is going to improve our gaming experiences. It took half of Microsoft's hour long conference just to show a single game, and all we got is the typical pre-rendered crap that EA used to show off their sports games during the Xbox 360 reveal. Not a single game was shown being played on stage in real time. The only confirmed in game footage came from a brief clip of Call of Duty: Ghosts at the very end of the conference, after which Microsoft revealed they still think buying timed exclusive multiplayer maps is a worthwhile investment. We did get a glimpse of the new Forza, though no gameplay was shown.
We got to see Steven Spielberg talk about how he is involved with the new Halo "premium" TV series that is being launched on Xbox One. That could turn out to be cool... but it also further supports the idea that Microsoft is trying to move away from gaming and towards entertainment as a whole. Good news if you aren't that much into gaming, but if you're a core gamer like the rest of us it just sucks. I would have much rather seen a new Halo game than a new Halo TV show. Spielberg being involved should mean great things for the series, and I do not doubt that it will be very cool. However, this announcement would have been far better suited to follow the reveal of a new Halo game. It would have sent hype levels through the roof had they done it like that, rather than leaving us wondering why they didn't just show a new Halo game.
They revealed a new updated Kinect will be included with each system. This means one of two things... Either the system will have corners cut with it's hardware to allow room for the cost of including Kinect with each box, or the Xbox One will be a very expensive system. I'm leaning towards the former, as they refused to specify anything about the GPU, CPU, or the speed of the RAM in the system when they were talking about "what's under the hood". Those are kind of important elements to mention when you talk about your machine's specs.
They say there is more waiting at E3, but Sony also said the same thing at the PS4 reveal after filling almost the entire conference with game reveals. This lends credence to the rumors about Microsoft being behind in their first party game development. Another disturbing thing is they confirmed that you must pay a fee to play used games on the console. Remember how much flack PS3 caught for it's mandatory installs? Now every game you play on Xbox One must be installed to the hard drive in order to play it. You will likely be able to play the game as it installs in the background, however you must still have enough free HDD space out of that 500gb hard drive to accommodate that game install. They did deny that you must always be online in order to play your games, which is good. Like the PS4, the Xbox One also is not backwards compatible with the Xbox 360, though that was to be expected due to both machines adopting a vastly different architecture than the previous generation's IBM CPUs.
All in all, the conference left a lot to be desired. Microsoft had better have one hell of an E3 press conference lined up if they expect to give the PS4 any competition at all at the end of the year. Even if they showcase an awesome lineup of games, the mandatory installs, pay to play online (especially now that PS4 is introducing the same features for free), and pay to play used games will hurt Xbox One a lot as it tries to compete with the PS4.
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will buy
