The Xbox One (yes, that is the name)

metalangel said:
The PA Report - The Xbox One: the services, the hardware, the limited details

So, it looks like a 5-disc CD changer from 1990, has decentish looking hardware specs... and basically, no more second hand games.

That combined with the cost of Xbox Live means it'll take a freakin' miracle to get me interested in this.

Any thoughts?
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The kinect is showing big improvement in detecting body movement even the mouth and video is in 1080p. That alone to me is worth considering.

If you go to this website Microsoft unveils new Xbox One game console - May. 21, 2013

The second video in this page is a lab testing video and they were testing kinect showing how much improvement it had made over the year.


I am hoping that they don't lock new kinect to work only on Xbox One thou.


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Using the Kinect to interpret voice commands, Microsoft corporate vice president Yusuf Mehdi was able to turn the Xbox on from its off state, and switched from gaming to apps to TV watching almost effortlessly.
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Not deaf friendly.

I would rather to wait until June 10th for Sony to release Playstation 4, and from there I can compare.
 
authentic said:
Not deaf friendly.
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Good point. Sending text messages via the Xbox Guide was extremely slow and tedious, even with the chatpad (Keyboard) attached to your joypad. The interface was just really really slow and you had to sit and wait. However, if you had a friend on MSN there was a button you could push on the chatpad to have a little text window at pop up at the bottom of the screen to type to them! I wonder if this sort of feature will be enhanced along with the (hopeless) Kinect Voice controls?
 
Biggest con about Xbox One is it won't be back-compatibly with existed Xbox 360 physical and digital games purchased on online store. Also it switched to x86 just like PS4 did, that mean there are high chance on PC ports.

I hope Microsoft make Xbox One gamepad available for PC. I do like their Xbox 360 gamepads.
 
Worse console ever seen. It looks like a DVR than a console.
 
Foxrac said:
Not really - there is two big difference.

Wii uses motion remote to move and you don't have to move entire of body.

Xbox Kinect uses WITHOUT controller or remote so you have to move completely - that's more challenge for someone with physical disabilities.
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Use tongue then
 
Foxrac said:
I feel sad for military whoever became disabled during war and unable to make full physical as normal people, so prefer to play with controller than move the body intensely.
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Also for military personnel currently serving overseas who like a bit of R&R with a game system - the Xbox VCR (hehehehe) wants to connect to the internet once a day for no good reason except to do a DRM check.

Ocie Denver said:
Biggest con about Xbox One is it won't be back-compatibly with existed Xbox 360 physical and digital games purchased on online store.
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Keep your 360, I guess. I think I played Xbox original (can't even call it the Xbox 1 now, because now there's the Xbox One even though it's the third... one) games on my 360 half a dozen times. Microsoft probably spent a lot of time getting that emulator feature to work on 360 only to see not many people used it (apart from for Halo 2) and so aren't going to bother this time around. This is the great thing about download-only games on consoles! They're trapped forever on THAT console! What would be nice? If they reissued that game for the Xbox VHS then you get a free licence for it on there...
 
I could keep Xbox 360 to play the games that Xbox One refused to run UNTIL it RRODed. What if Microsoft discontinued Xbox 360s in favor of the new console?

By the way, I don't buy or own a single Xbox 360 in its lifetime. RROD is my top reason to avoid the consoles.
 
It looks like PS4 will be my definitely choice but won't get until next year.
 
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