So cringe-worthy when when an exec is presenting and obviously pauses because someone told him to expect applause and the room is silent.
Xbox, A New Generation Revealed (livesteam)
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#42Most annoying to me, is we're 30 minutes into the reveal, and they've still not discussed games. Literally, we've had about 7 seconds of a game playing in the background. As far as I people can tell, this would (so far) seem to be a voice controlled cable box. Oh, and it looks like a shiny VCR. Bleh. Edit: Ah, at 31 minutes, we have a games developer. Pity it's EA, but c'est la vie.
I think they're saving most of the game related content for E3, which is soon(ish).
Re: Xbox, A New Generation Revealed (livesteam)
#43A Halo TV show: sums up the whole event...
Re: Xbox, A New Generation Revealed (livesteam)
#44I'm pretty impressed with the device but I was expecting a LOT more when they started talking about sports. Especially considering that live sports is one of the last bastions of television. Fantasy football and "taunting friends on Skype" is not what I consider an ultimate experience.
Re: Xbox, A New Generation Revealed (livesteam)
#45Most annoying to me, is we're 30 minutes into the reveal, and they've still not discussed games. Literally, we've had about 7 seconds of a game playing in the background. As far as I people can tell, this would (so far) seem to be a voice controlled cable box. Oh, and it looks like a shiny VCR. Bleh. Edit: Ah, at 31 minutes, we have a games developer. Pity it's EA, but c'est la vie.
Thanks, I got a lot of value from that middlebrow dismissal.
As someone who is a dedicated gamer, I think his comment is 100% valid. The last PlayStation I owned was the PS2, after that the Xbox and the Xbox 360 were my primary consoles, mostly because Xbox Live was such a breath of fresh air for multiplayer console gaming.
I'm 99.9% sure I'm buying a PS4 this fall because of the extreme de-emphasis on gaming for the next Xbox, while Sony is making all the right moves in supporting indie games, etc.
Re: Xbox, A New Generation Revealed (livesteam)
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#47Most annoying to me, is we're 30 minutes into the reveal, and they've still not discussed games. Literally, we've had about 7 seconds of a game playing in the background. As far as I people can tell, this would (so far) seem to be a voice controlled cable box. Oh, and it looks like a shiny VCR. Bleh. Edit: Ah, at 31 minutes, we have a games developer. Pity it's EA, but c'est la vie.
Thanks, I got a lot of value from that middlebrow dismissal.
Just as I got a tonne of information from yours. My point is that this is, primarily a games console. They're up against Sony, who are focusing entirely on games, and Nintendo, who are focusing entirely on games. They've shown, essentially, 3 games, and a giant pile of fluff. I can already watch TV on my TV. I have never desired to go "Quick, watch TV! Damn, back to the game! No, wait, TV! Hold on, TV guide!". That's a gimmick, not a feature worthy of nearly a minute of stage time. It looks, in honesty, like a rushed announcement for something that's years off ready, not launching in 6 months.
My "highbrow" comment then, is that this is a big mistake. They had the advantage of being the last next-gen console reveal - they can answer every point of Sony and Nintendo, plus add their own spin. And they basically gave us less information than was already public in the gaming press, probably pissed off a large proportion of the hardcore gaming public, are unlikely to have attracted the non-gaming groups, and picked a rather daft name. It was an open goal, and this went so far wide, I think they'd have been better not saying anything until they had something to say.
Re: Xbox, A New Generation Revealed (livesteam)
#48Three operating systems in one? So that's what Dave Cutler was working on?
Re: Xbox, A New Generation Revealed (livesteam)
#49From the web: "8 gigs of RAM, USB 3.0, Wi-Fi Direct, a Blu-Ray disc drive, 64-bit architecture and "practically silent operation." Super fast switching of TV inputs between TV, Gaming, Skype,IE etc. Runs the Windows NT kernel. Kinect 2.0 also gets a substantial upgrade. Whitten promised the integrated camera will have a wider field of view, and the sensor will be able to detect more joints, to include rotation of wri…
Did they say anything about its power consumption? Because in addition to reduced noise, this would need to have a low-power mode in order to be a successful "always on" device.
Re: Xbox, A New Generation Revealed (livesteam)
#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks, I got a lot of value from that middlebrow dismissal.
Just as I got a tonne of information from yours. My point is that this is, primarily a games console. They're up against Sony, who are focusing entirely on games, and Nintendo, who are focusing entirely on games. They've shown, essentially, 3 games, and a giant pile of fluff. I can already watch TV on my TV. I have never desired to go "Quick, watch TV! Damn, back to the game! No, wait, TV! Hold on, TV guide!". That's…
You still think this is still primarily a game console?
Microsoft is putting all its chips down on the battle for your living room, which is a major front. The fight to be the all-in-one device people buy that replaces their cable box, game console, and media server (and the data being positioned as the provider of that device brings with it) is not a small one.
Self-identified "gamers" like yourself, who will probably turn out to be the minority purchasing audience for this generation of consoles-cum-entertainment boxes, already have a venue for game porn - it's called E3 - and Microsoft knows it's coming up in a few weeks.