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Switched On: One box to rule them all

However, the spreading of the Zune brand's ashes and the sale of the pay TV, vendor-focused MediaRoom division to Ericsson were the final precursors to the end of the hidden agenda's secrecy. Xbox One is charging into the living room with the ferocity of one of its exquisitely rendered Call of Duty: Ghosts soldiers. Mere streaming boxes may be prepared to carry live streams of broadcasters. However, not only will the Xbox One incorporate the pay

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just_looken3977d ago

good article but still no one is talking about long term effect's. Right now you can fire up a xbox 1 or ps2 and play your games single player no problem but with these new console's depending so much on server's what happens when those server's are shutdown? or when like xbox 1 Microsoft decides to shutdown 360 xbl server's? oh your digital purchased content went by by.

jujubee883977d ago

I'm not sure how MS does it. They totally grabbed the mind share of all gaming enthusiasts and now have them talking around their product. That's an amazing feat.

But I'm fckin sick of hearing about this thing. I really am.

stuna13977d ago

Actually that is a good question! I know people who have spent hundred, maybe even thousands on multiplayer downloadable as well as disc based games.

What truly happens once console makers stop supporting previous console? You basically lose what you've spent money on! So can people really say they owned it once it becomes useless?

thehitman3977d ago

nothing stops you from keeping it and using it so its not useless just you cant use it w/ the new version of the console. Unless ofc your one of those who will trade-in the old to get the new.

Maddens Raiders3977d ago (Edited 3977d ago )

"Microsoft will actually have another opportunity to serve as it makes its E3 announcement a few hours before the ball lands in the court of Sony, which has previously offered TV viewing and recording capability with PlayTV in Europe. With a richer living room legacy than either of its main competitors, Sony will be under the gun to show that it has not abandoned its heart in the living room as it has turned its head toward the cloud."

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say

A.) Ross Rubin isn't interested in using his console to play games.

B.) Ross Rubin isn't interested in playing games.

C.) Ross Rubin isn't interested in consoles.

D.) Ross Rubin doesn't realize how the photo used for his piece reinforces all of the negative things the internet thinks about the xboxone in the first place, making the words in said article nearly completely irrelevant.

MysticStrummer3977d ago

"exquisitely rendered Call of Duty: Ghosts soldiers"

That pretty much says it all right there.

ltachiUchiha3977d ago

They wont succeed if they take the negative route they are trying to take. I asked a few of my cousins who are xbox 360 die hards what they think & they said they would not support such a move even though the love xbl.

GameCents3977d ago

Neither will SONY if what I hear is true. Both One and PS4 deserve to fail if they are bringing DRM to consoles.

ltachiUchiha3977d ago

Yeah but the difference is sony isnt forcing u to do the things microsoft is trying to do & sony said the drm will be up to the developers because they are the ones making the games. That doesnt mean all games will have it.

Gemmol3977d ago

The other problem people are forgetting with ps4 is that although Sony is not forcing it, and the other 3rd party developers use it, you still stuck in the same situation as the Xbox One, you will only be free from it when you buy Sony 1st party games

andibandit3976d ago

@ltachiUchiha

To me it all seems like MS are going after casuals and non gamers, the last people you should ask are 360 die hards.

The_Blue3977d ago

If this is all apart of Microsoft marketing, they're really out-doing their competitors.

fabiani3977d ago

as a gamer n a future developer.our future is in sonys hand pretty much. Microsoft will change thier tune to whatever they think will get the most money. Sony has blind faith and fallows thier heart and keeps thier individuality. Microsoft thinks logically about how to make money. sony has passion n Microsoft has logic. but i think as far as companies go Microsoft is gettin as bad as att nearly in american corruption.

fabiani3977d ago

thier xbox one would be interesting to play with though.

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All Call of Duty Games Ranked from Worst to Best

BLG writes: "Call of Duty has to be the most recognizable franchise on the planet. They didn’t get that way by only making a handful of games.

COD has a long and storied career. Launching as a PC WW2 first-person shooter, Call of Duty has gone through numerous makeovers and been on just about every system. The series has gone through some serious highs and tragic lows. I’ll be looking at each Call of Duty game, the good the bad, and the ugly."

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UnSelf789d ago

Vanguard better be at the fkn bottom. Can’t believe ppl haven’t eviscerated that game with all its lacking

Minimoth789d ago

Yeah, it's close to the bottom. There are a couple of worse ones. Infinite Warfare definitely deserves its place.

KyRo789d ago

There's a number a lot worse than Vangaurd. It's also a lot better than that car crash Treyarch released before it.

XbladeTeddy789d ago

World at War is my favourite. Didn't know the N-Gage had a Call of Duty.

MadLad788d ago

Same for me.
I was never huge into Call of Duty, but I sunk a lot of time into WaW.
Both the campaign and the multiplayer are on point. Wouldn't mind a remaster.

I quit on CoD for a long while. Though I'm the odd man out that actually really enjoyed the campaign for WWII, being I got it through Humble monthly way back when.

TheLigX789d ago

I really enjoyed the Infinite campaign. Multiplayer... not so much.

Yppupdam789d ago

I agree, The Infinite campaign feels more like it's own thing that they slapped the CoD name on. If it stood on it's own, (sans the CoD name) I think it could have been it's own scifi franchise. And a damn good looking game, to boot. I never bothered to play the multiplayer.

victorMaje789d ago

MW 2019 apart from the desastrous file sizes is way better than AW.

MadLad788d ago

That was one I grabbed for Playstation because it pretty much just came out during the Redbox purge of videogames, and I got it for dirt cheap.

It was great coming home to an update every night, and watching one game eat up almost half my console's memory.

Amplitude789d ago (Edited 789d ago )

Will get disagrees but Infinite Warfare campaign was really good. Decent story, set pieces were amazing and if it didn't have the CoD game on it I'm sure people would have been more into it. Advanced Warfare was alright too. Titanfall 2 was just 1000 times better than both but I enjoyed them for their campaigns. I literally barely gaf about the story I'm in it for the set pieces and 5 hours of being stoned watching cool nonsense happen if I'm in the mood to play a CoD campaign. If I'm looking for a deep plot I'm gonna go somewhere else.
Ghosts was the worst story-wise though lol that cliffhanger ending was so bs.

Also MW 2019 was sick and is one of the best CoD games in yeeeears not sure why it's so low on this dude's list. Campaign was great, multiplayer was great and Warzone was fun for a while. Over it now but shrugs.

Beat the Vanguard campaign too but I can't even remember a single thing about it other than that it felt like it was 45 minutes long. Might be the most forgettable thing I've ever played lol just fully erased from my brain

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Call of Duty Multiplayer This Decade Ranked (2010-2019)

Call of Duty multiplayer ranked from worst to best! 2019 is coming to a close and MP1st ranks the best COD multiplayer games this decade.

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Ray Tracing in Monster Hunter World, Deus Ex Mankind Divided, Watch_Dogs 2, COD: Ghosts & more

DSOGaming writes: "YouTube’s members Benchmark PC Tech, Jose cangrejo, WillTalksTech, Zetman and MissinInAction have published some videos, showing Monster Hunter World, Black Mesa Xen, Watch_Dogs 2, Call of Duty Ghosts, Need For Speed Hot Pursuit, The Sinking City, Remember Me, Deus Ex Mankind Divided and Dishonored 2 with the ray tracing/path tracing effects that Pascal Gilcher’s Reshade mod introduces."

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Pyroxfaglover1750d ago

Wore implementation I've ever seen,.. guess it just does not work all that great on every engine

MarkyMark891750d ago (Edited 1750d ago )

Agree, but this gives me hope that one day Ray Tracing can be a software based feature and not require some type of proprietary hardware to achieve. Software will always outpace Hardware so it could happen, but I feel like its going to take a lot more time to achieve the same level that RTX has already shown glimpses of so far. Really just waiting for Cyberpunk to see if RTX is actually something viable. I think if anybody can truly showcase RTX Features it would be Projekt Red.

zeal0us1750d ago

Too bad it doesn't make Mankind Divided a better game.

starchild1750d ago

It doesn't need to, the game was already fantastic, imo.

zeal0us1749d ago

Human Revolution was a better game and not to mention longer.

isarai1750d ago

Reshade is not raytracing, its a screen space post processing effect. Thats like calling SSAO "global illumination"