Xbox one revealed, next-gen console from Microsoft

[_Caboose_]

Oh and lol, shudve watched the live stream on an xbox with my kinect

[Dohc-WP]

Yeah, Steam offline mode was fixed somewhere in the past few months. There was a big discussion on it on the Steam forums. I haven't had trouble with it in a long, long time.



And yet the Nintendo at least tried to innovate the way you play games on their console by changing up their controller with the Wii-U. Microsoft isn't trying to do something new to improve the gameplay experience.

if something isnt broke dont try to fix it

[Saint_Dee]

Its not really my complacence, I've never had a problem with it, since I've had always on internet since they started implementing these features. As crap as Diablo 3 was, it at least forced my friends to sort out their internet connections, get online and experience the small extras you get with being always online. Highscore lists, Lap times for racing games. That sort of thing, which they never bothered with because they didnt see the point until being forced online. The line is being blurred between offline games and online. You wouldn't question always online with Dota 2? Yet you could possibly play with bots offline if they allowed it.

I wouldn't question it because that's a game (a single game, mind you) centered around it's online gameplay, but I certainly would question Always online for something like Metro: Last Light, or Bioshock Infinite. Sure, the social aspect (achievements tracking and the like) is a nice option (that being the keyword), but if it's a requirement for all my games (SP or MP by proxy of it being the console's requirement), then it may become roadblock for my gaming experience, if as I mentioned in my previous post, I don't have the proper connectivity to fulfill the requirement (whether it's an area related issue or otherwise...). This will ultimately make me question whether or not I should get the console (if it had the Always online requirement, since that's what we're examining here; the implications of Always online), because I won't always have the ability to connect, therefore I won't always have the ability to use the console at my discretion.

In my books, that's a very serious implication.

[Saint_Dee]

I must admit, all these reports are a bit overwhelming with the confusion they spread. Has the daily check in been confirmed because I've been reading reports that contradict each other, each of them with 'quotes' from Microsoft execs...

What has actually been confirmed?

[MetalSoup]

I must admit, all these reports are a bit overwhelming with the confusion they spread. Has the daily check in been confirmed because I've been reading reports that contradict each other, each of them with 'quotes' from Microsoft execs...

What has actually been confirmed?

Yeah Microsoft is not handling this well at all.

[Hagan]

I must admit, all these reports are a bit overwhelming with the confusion they spread. Has the daily check in been confirmed because I've been reading reports that contradict each other, each of them with 'quotes' from Microsoft execs...

What has actually been confirmed?

I think Sony caught them off-guard.

[Saint_Dee]

Yeah Microsoft is not handling this well at all.

Yeah, not the best PR by a mile.

[jasong]

Well let's face it they're clearly hiding something there.

[Saint_Dee]

Well let's face it they're clearly hiding something there.

I won't lie, it's probably a good piece of tech (from a purely technical point of view), but the marketing and PR is throwing people off.

Too many buzz words.

[Dohc-WP]

I won't lie, it's probably a good piece of tech (from a purely technical point of view), but the marketing and PR is throwing people off.

Too many buzz words.

the problem is MS did not expect sony to reveal their console ahead of E3 they where probably holding out for E3 expecting sony to do the same (to still finalize the console and games) and then sony dropped the bomb in feb and they scrambled to make a quick May reveal of the console.