The Xbox One
Little surprised no-one's talking about the XBox One, which was officially announced today.
And has a stupid name.
Really, there's a lot we could say about this console, but I'll just bullet-point the best bits.
- It's called the XBox One. Even though it's actually the third. *sigh*
- The controller is extremely similar to the 360s, with a better D-Pad and higher Home button.
- It comes with an updated Kinect... that the console WILL NOT FUCTION WITHOUT.
- It won't be backwards compatible. With anything. 360 games, XBLA games, nothing. *facepalm*
- Playing a used game? You'll be charged a fee to do so.
In short - fail. The used games thing is perhaps the biggest kick in the teeth, and it's going to ruin this console.
EDIT: Oh, you're all talking about it in the "Whatever's On Your Mind" thread. Well, whatever.
And has a stupid name.
Really, there's a lot we could say about this console, but I'll just bullet-point the best bits.
- It's called the XBox One. Even though it's actually the third. *sigh*
- The controller is extremely similar to the 360s, with a better D-Pad and higher Home button.
- It comes with an updated Kinect... that the console WILL NOT FUCTION WITHOUT.
- It won't be backwards compatible. With anything. 360 games, XBLA games, nothing. *facepalm*
- Playing a used game? You'll be charged a fee to do so.
In short - fail. The used games thing is perhaps the biggest kick in the teeth, and it's going to ruin this console.
EDIT: Oh, you're all talking about it in the "Whatever's On Your Mind" thread. Well, whatever.
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You Ninja-edited. Darn you!
It's those last three bullet points of mine that are the big problems, and understandably so.
The Kinect's only real use was for Dancing games, so forcing everyone to have one, even if it's not used much, will merely bump up the price tag for the console and upset everyone in that regard. And I'm sure I don't need to remind you of what happens when hardcore games try to use it *COUGH*Steel Battalion*COUGH*
The lack of backwards compatibility is frustrating as all hell (though not entirely unsurprising), and the lack of it is going to make it hard to justify buying the console until there's enough new games out for it. Why should we buy a new console with few games and no way to play the old ones? The 360 still works fine. No reason to upgrade.
The fine for playing used games though is frankly insulting. There is no reason this should exist. At all. It's simply punishing people for not buying new and it's going to completely kill the rental market. And with no way to try games before buying them, people won't bother.
Wii? Loved it to death. Buying a WiiU this winter.
PS3? Killed it, loved it to death.
XBOX? I always end up buying the HALO games and that's about it, then reselling the system for cash.
On a different note, it's hilarious noting the aging gamer demographic. People are starting to sound like their grandparents with their complaints about all this newfangled technology and stuff they don't like, and how the next generation of gamers are spoiled or have it easy.
It's easy because we have documentation of the Romans complaining about the same damn shit.
Every generation thinks the next one is ruining things or spoiled blah blah blah.
5 of which are going to be sports games!
...sigh...
Looks like it will be PC and Wii U only this gen for me.
(Maybe PS4, if Sony doesn't do anything stupid, but I'm not holding my breath over it. I'd argue the 3DS is the current killer console to watch (since you know, it has actual games that people with any sense of taste would give a fuck about))
Still, Xbox One is at least a better name than the rumoured Xbox 720 idea (and far better than Wii/Wii U).
I buy most my games from pawn shops.
With these used charges Microsoft plan to implement, they better be giving the money to the people who made the games otherwise it's just theft.
(£30 max at launch, with fast sales after a month or two)
But c'mon here guys, we know that would never happen! XD
50 bucks has been the price of a game for as long as I can remember. I think accounting for inflation, 60 seems reasonable.
That's just stupid. They're just turning off people.
Yes, the controller doesn't include a built-in battery.
Honestly, the controller's the ONE THING they got right, and then they go and screw it up.
Also dammit every minute something terrible seems to be said by some spokesman or said in some press document, I'll have to collect all the terrible things and put them together.
It's like they went to the Wii controller for advice on how to do batteries.
"Oh no... Xbox One."
Beatin' coolsome to that shit.
Loving the comments on Destructoid - they're so pessimistic.
Perfect Dark One perhaps?
That's nice of them./
And compare your download speeds to that of 8 years ago when the Xbox 360 launched. Imagine what they'll be like in another 8 years. It's a console that'll become more and more accessible to people as time goes on.
First Telltale and everyone's grandmother and DAISHI wants to take gameplay out of games and remove critical thinking and puzzle solving so humanity can be reduced to brainless fuckwads who slap their cocks in each other's faces while hooting now Microsoft want to market an entire console to said brainless cockslapping fuckwads and I am fucking done video games are done. There is no innovation. There is no intelligence. Jake Rodkin and Dave Grossman can kiss my ass and so can Microsoft fuck off. I don't care. Gaming is dead. Gaming will go nowhere. My hopes and dreams for gaming are gone. It's over. I'm wasting my time. There is nothing on this green earth for me as a human being to contribute now because it will mean nothing in the long run when games are replaced by skype sex chat sports shitstain something something I quit.
I can't even. I am too mad to post. There is no point in even being a game designer. My dream is dead.
Hey grandpa.
Just keep fighting the mainstream to get your idea game design out there with no compromises and I'm sure you will find a fanbase with people who are like you and are sick of the game market as it is.
Ps4 still hasn't given a stance about Preowned games and a lot of things could be the same about the PS4...
At the moment Sony are winning but when they announce the actual games maybe microsoft may catch up...
oh, except in Japan. Even if the "features" they mention do work well in other non-US countries, the original XBox did horribly in Japan for the simple fact that the console's physical size was too damn big. And this one is bigger.
Now remind me: SmartGlass is a Microsoft-only feature, right? Which means that any features it brings to the XBox One are not available to anyone who uses iOS or Android...
Further, what if I want to use a real remote control at night when I'm playing games after my wife has gone to sleep?
We honestly don't know. Will the Xbox interface with regular remote controls? Will it have a media remote that does the job? It's way up in the air in regards to HOW this is actually going to work. My guess is that, worst case scenario, you can use a controller or cellphone or tablet.