Microsoft launches the XBox One

I've always been a Playstation man and can't see this release being any different.
 
Yeah will be picking one up but I wasn't as excited as I was with the 360...maybe I'm getting old now. :-/
 
I'm too busy taking photos with my film Minolta and digital Nikon. Doing graphic design work with CorelDRAW and writing with Microsoft Word on my Windows 98. I love my old computer but it is really getting slow.

Do I want to buy Xbox One? PlayStation 4? Wii U? Nah! I'd rather buy a new computer! :)
 
underwhelmed.

not sure about cloud gaming, looks like a way of stopping you playing second hand games as well

total lack of backward compatibility from both this and PS4

slow memory

not much mention of games, and slightly ropey trailer for COD Ghosts.

roll on E3 to see some proper gameplay from both consoles.

oh and sony share price rose 8% just after the reveal of xbox one, that was funny
 
Despite it looking like the lovechild of a Sega Saturn and a one of those fake, polystyrene Betamax players in MFI, I will officially sell my missus for the ability to make hand gestures at my telly, have Skype conversations while I miss the climax of the Emmerdale Christmas special, and fight the axis of evil alongside a heavily-armoured alsatian. Think I'm in love with the Xbox One.
 
When the first Playstation came out in 1995, I sold my left nipple to get one and then found myself still being up at 3 am playing "Doom", Ridge Racer" and "Tomb Raider" on it, it was the most precious machine I've ever had the pleasure of owning

Fast forward some two decades later and I'm thinking "m'eh" with the new X Box.

Maybe I've long since grown out of my games playing phase as the internet became the new distraction (which ironically had revived my passion for cartoon drawing - a favourite hobby BEFORE I got the first playstation).
I bought a Xbox 360 two weeks after it was launched but it developed the brown ring of death two days later so I took it back to Comets to get a refund or a new machine - and they refused to exchange it. Anyway, to cut a long short short (which involved threatening to get the police involved), I did get my money back. I then went elsewhere and bought another one - but then I began to notice that my PC was able to handle the exact same game at a faster and smoother frame rate anyway ("Prey" for instance) so I ended up feeling underwhelmed with the Xbox and sold it a month later. Good job I didn't get silly and bought the HD-DVD player add-on that came with it as the format went the same way as the Betamax video recorder (Blu-ray is the VHS).
 
To be honest, we can't really call it a gaming console anymore! And as for the gestures etc, what if you are epileptic / diagnosed with fits or tourettes?

I'm a playstation man, I bought the original xbox and Halo was my favourite game, the rest were rubbish!

Hurry up Sony and show us some more images!!!
 
Well the Microsoft shares dropped 3% at 1pm when they release the new Xbox... Then to make things worse for them. Sony's share prices rose by 9% at about the same time.
 
You think share prices have anything to do with games consoles? It's just speculators making money on the back of a media event.

Really is very little between the two platforms apart from a handful of exclusives....but I think kinect will just about swing it for me.
 
I have a ps3 for media, but it is bloody noisy with a disc in.

The Xbox one has bluray, streaming media looks good but the question is will it be quiet.

Why all the fuss on second hand games? You've not been able to do it with PC games for years.

I will buy the quietest and best for media. I will then buy either forza or gran turismo
 
mid_gen said:
You think share prices have anything to do with games consoles? It's just speculators making money on the back of a media event.

Really is very little between the two platforms apart from a handful of exclusives....but I think kinect will just about swing it for me.
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Well from a microsoft stand point it would be a terrible way to start off the release of their new games console.

The new playstation is yet to come out... its still early days on which console to go for.
 
Why would they give a flying one which way a bunch of market speculators decide to swing over this particular press release?

PS4 and Xbox One are going to sell by the truckload and Nintendo will end up a software house a la Sega. That's how this generation is going down :)

The Steam box may make good headway too.
 
XBox One will be good for me

My youngest son wants it now (He's 22 and games mad)

When it arrives he will pass his current 360 to me and it's life as a games machine will cease and it will go into my new studio as a media player/sky tv extension etc running on cat 6e to my house to connect with my media server and Infinity 2 broadband!

Bring it on.

I think the last console game I played was some 4x4 race game on PS1.

S
 
mid_gen said:
Why would they give a flying one which way a bunch of market speculators decide to swing over this particular press release?

PS4 and Xbox One are going to sell by the truckload and Nintendo will end up a software house a la Sega. That's how this generation is going down :)

The Steam box may make good headway too.
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Because it won't just be speculators looking at their shares. This share drop for them and a increase in Sony's shares shows me a reaction. This reaction being that people don't like the new Xbox/ what has been said recently by microsoft. This would simply push me to wait for the ps4.

I heard that people who streamed the conference through they're Xbox and had a kinect attached had problems viewing it. Apparently when the conference got to the Kinect part, they started saying commands etc and people's xboxs were doing what they were saying... Oops
 
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my wife will end up with one ( she loves the 360 )but not for some time after launch she's gonna wait a while to see how much better it is than the 360
the interactive media bit isn't that interesting there's current tv's, media players and bluray players already with the same features in fact the front end menu of the xbox one looks a hell of a lot like the front end menu of my samsung tv i would go as far as to say it looks identical with more or less the same features apart from the gaming side of course
there are voice and gesture controlled tv's on the market now and if you already have this feature the xbox one brings not a lot to the table

like i said my wifes waiting to see what it's like before jumping in
 
looks like MS are going to change the used game market, if you buy a game, it will install to the HDD like a pc game, if you then trade it in or sell it, the next person to buy it will have to pay MS to play it. i wonder if sony will do the same thing?
 
matty said:
looks like MS are going to change the used game market, if you buy a game, it will install to the HDD like a pc game, if you then trade it in or sell it, the next person to buy it will have to pay MS to play it. i wonder if sony will do the same thing?
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I think they won't and then use it as their trump card. Could be wrong though.
 
if they had it planned, then it would make sense to forget it now and capitalise on the disgruntled xbox users
 
matty said:
looks like MS are going to change the used game market, if you buy a game, it will install to the HDD like a pc game, if you then trade it in or sell it, the next person to buy it will have to pay MS to play it. i wonder if sony will do the same thing?
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will be interesting. EA at least are abandoning their "online passes" a-la BF3 amongst others as it has had a massive thumbs down from gamers (good to see someone listening to their customer base for once). At the end of the day, the used game market effects the developers and publishers, not the console manufacturers.
 
Not for me , I love my 360 and the mates I have made playing it . But prompted by some of the fantastic images on this forum I have gone back to my first love photography .
Hopefully I will be picking up my canon 7d sometime this afternoon so something had to give so its tara xbox one .
 
I only bought my (old, fat, like it's owner...) 360 because asda were knocking them out for under a hundred quid on an offer a good few years back. I honestly hadn't been arsed about gaming since the first Playstation, but had loads of fun playing Halo 3 and lots of generic FPS, but I simply don't want a games machine in my livingroom. I have a bluray player, and a hifi, and a media PC, and firmly believe that the Swiss army knife approach doesn't work.

I'll wait until it, and the PS4 come down in price then decide what's best value. If it's neither, so be it, I'll just have to hope that people keep releasing games for the geriatric 360!
 
Normally get exited when a new console comes out but not this time :'(
The wife and I have always had an Xbox each, first the origanal then the 360 but we are considering moving to Sony as Microsoft are going to make it difficult for people to play secondhand games
As Matty has said Microsoft are trying to kill off the secondhand games market buy charging a licence fee for buyers of secondhand games

The missus esp is a keen gamer and trades in her games for another one at our local shop when she has finished them
we also swap games with friends when we have finished playing them
 
LCPete said:
As Matty has said Microsoft are trying to kill off the secondhand games market buy charging a licence fee for buyers of secondhand games
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They may not be trying to kill the used game market, there's not enough facts yet to be sure what they're doing.

My opinion is that they're just trying to get some of the large amount of money from the used market back to the the people that actually make the games rather than it all going to the retailers as it does now. Which IMO is a good thing.

I'm guessing used game sales will work by de-registering and selling your activation code. That'd allow sales to be tracked and a % to be taken for the devs but would probably require shops to be a registered MS partner which could be a problem for smaller independents.

The real question is how will pricing work with this tracked system. If it's anything like GOD then everyone might as well buy new.

O, & loaning games will likely be killed off by this system which I can see will hurt some people but for me just means less stuff going missing/ getting damaged. :-p


However it works out I don't really care as I always buy new & have had to deal with DRM on PC for Years. If a game is not worth full price to me I just wait a few months for the price to drop/ it to be on special offer somewhere.
 
I think it will be a system where you can sell the media, but they need to buy their own activation code. A bit like some of the current games and online gaming. You can sell the game, but for the person who buys it to play online they need to buy a code.
 
Dale_tem said:
I think it will be a system where you can sell the media, but they need to buy their own activation code. A bit like some of the current games and online gaming. You can sell the game, but for the person who buys it to play online they need to buy a code.
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The thing is though it looks like when you buy a new game you install it, activate it online, then don't need the disc to play. Just a periodic Internet connection for account verification.


Basically the disc is just for distribution & selling it wouldn't stop the initial buyer from continuing to play the game.
 
Sounds perfect, no more sodding around finding the disc to play a game and less noise as no disc to spin up :D

You might find the cost of games fall slightly then as the number of games purchased would increase rather than them all circulating in the 2nd hand market. (I can dream :D )
 
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