New Xbox revealed!

spirit

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I'm finding that a lot of companies are going with the attitudes 'it's our way or the highway' and giving the end user no options but to adopt to what they want. I agree with Hyper above, I think they do need to do some rethinking. Everybody I've spoken to who is interested in purchasing a next generation console is avoiding the Xbox One.
 

mihir

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I have never been a fan of the XBOX. But the new XBOX is just plain ridiculous. It actually makes the PS4 look a ton better because Sony did not add anything extra other than the usual system upgrade, but Sony also took out backward compatibility, but still people cheered Sony's announcement, because of what XBOX ONE did.

And the XBOX ONE is clearly not taken into account other countries who offer a huge market as well. Take India for instance, where the average internet speed is 1Megabit per second, and stable internet connections with unlimited download, and even devices like wireless routers are difficult to find at people's homes. So why would anyone in India go for an Xbox One over the Playstation 4. Even a millionaire in India would struggle to maintain an Xbox One, because of its Internet requirements, which can only be satisfied say in like 4-5 cities in the country. It is plain stupidity by Microsoft.
 

Hyper_Kagome

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I have never been a fan of the XBOX. But the new XBOX is just plain ridiculous. It actually makes the PS4 look a ton better because Sony did not add anything extra other than the usual system upgrade, but Sony also took out backward compatibility, but still people cheered Sony's announcement, because of what XBOX ONE did.

And the XBOX ONE is clearly not taken into account other countries who offer a huge market as well. Take India for instance, where the average internet speed is 1Megabit per second, and stable internet connections with unlimited download, and even devices like wireless routers are difficult to find at people's homes. So why would anyone in India go for an Xbox One over the Playstation 4. Even a millionaire in India would struggle to maintain an Xbox One, because of its Internet requirements, which can only be satisfied say in like 4-5 cities in the country. It is plain stupidity by Microsoft.

Microsoft is catering to American's at this point. I should say big city North Americans. Mattiuk (or whatever his name was) pretty much flat out said thy for people without the Internet to support a One.. "We have a system for those people, the Xbox 360."

And Sony hasn't had backwards compatibility since the very first runs of 60s and 80s, but Gaikai should hopefully be able to offer something for playing older stuff, and PS3.
 

Turbo10

Active Member
Microsoft is catering to American's at this point. I should say big city North Americans. Mattiuk (or whatever his name was) pretty much flat out said thy for people without the Internet to support a One.. "We have a system for those people, the Xbox 360."

And Sony hasn't had backwards compatibility since the very first runs of 60s and 80s, but Gaikai should hopefully be able to offer something for playing older stuff, and PS3.

Pretty much, baseball basketball and american football or whatever it was they were advertising, and all this cable tv integration. Cable is rarely used outside of North America and nobody gives a monkeys about those sports.

Plus it's only coming to 21 countries and they've left out around half of Europe out of it :/ Portugal, Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Croatia, Cyprus, Malta etc etc, it's ridiculous
 

spirit

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Staff member
Pretty much, baseball basketball and american football or whatever it was they were advertising, and all this cable tv integration. Cable is rarely used outside of North America and nobody gives a monkeys about those sports.
This is another problem with the Xbox One. It's aimed at Americans who want to watch TV. I'm sure most Americans can watch TV without spending hundreds of bucks on the new Xbox though.
 

jonnyp11

New Member
Yup, you can get a box from the cable company, but they charge monthly fees, even the basicones cost like 11 or more a month though which is BS when you already spend a crap load on packages and hd boxes (our tv andinternet is over 200 a month, internet is like 50ish i believe)
 

spirit

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I think the problem is Microsoft didn't quite know what they wanted out of the Xbox One. Did they want it to be an entertainment hub? Or a games console? As a result it's kind of ended up as being a bit of both but with some limitations which hinder certain things. :/
 

jonnyp11

New Member
I think the problem is Microsoft didn't quite know what they wanted out of the Xbox One. Did they want it to be an entertainment hub? Or a games console? As a result it's kind of ended up as being a bit of both but with some limitations which hinder certain things. :/

The push for kinect and media says they want it to appeal to everyone, but their efforts to achieve that resulted in turning their backs to their core gamers
 

Justin

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almost spat soda on my computer. :p
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Geoff

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I mostly used to play games that online games mostly. I would like to have details about the latest online games along with the updates in these. Please share some attachment links regarding my request. Thanks in advance.
You must be new to the internet.
 
A weaker system that requires kinect in not appealing for an extra $100. Although I heard the ps4 will charge for online play. That levels the playing field slightly. Although I got used to paying for live so that is no deal breaker.

Besides my PC is built and I have a western digital TV live. Got all my bases covered. Only losing out on final fantasy in my eyes.
 

PCunicorn

Active Member
A weaker system that requires kinect in not appealing for an extra $100. Although I heard the ps4 will charge for online play. That levels the playing field slightly. Although I got used to paying for live so that is no deal breaker.

Besides my PC is built and I have a western digital TV live. Got all my bases covered. Only losing out on final fantasy in my eyes.

Yeah but the Xbox will charge to so no it doesn't.
 
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