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PlayStation 4 will work with Xbox One's HDMI pass-through port

Later in the presentation, when Panello discussed the Xbox One's ability to snap applications to the side of the screen during gameplay, he said "any application can be snapped to a game…this could be the live TV feed, so if you wanted to be playing Ryse and Killzone at the same time, you could snap that."

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black0o3868d ago

that's great for those lucky rich Ba#$% who will get both consoles

ZHZ903868d ago

Defintely a person who'll end up with both yep, he'll be lucky.

NewMonday3868d ago (Edited 3868d ago )

for a multi-console owner this will be the perfect setup, I'm sure most will use it this way.

snap from Halo to Killzone
stay in touch with 2 social networks simultaneously

the problem is this will cost $900 + $110 per year

Eonjay3868d ago

This can be used to do direct comparisons of multiplatform titles on the same screen... its coming.

Sitdown3868d ago

I have never paid over $40 for Xbox live, and got my psn+ for cheaper..... if you pay $110, you are doing it wrong.

P0werVR3868d ago (Edited 3868d ago )

OH YEAH!

That's what I like!!

I love this so much for first time I skipped the article.

EDIT:

"Defintely a person who'll end up with both yep, he'll be lucky"

Yes sir, that's ME. Day One then 2 months after next year.

Army_of_Darkness3868d ago

"The Xbox One's HDMI pass-through port will support "any HDMI device", including the PlayStation 4, Microsoft confirmed during its presentation at the Tokyo Game Show. "

If you can't beat'em! Join'em!

Liefx3868d ago

I'm getting both, and I'm certainly not rich. I just don't mind being in debt lol

darthv723868d ago

@army...i see what you did there. join'em as in plug them together.

Yeah, that's what i intend to do with the ps4/xb1.

dantesparda3868d ago (Edited 3868d ago )

"PlayStation 4 will work with Xbox One's HDMI pass-through port"

No sh*t, we've already knew this. Also you dont have to be rich to own both. I own both (the 360/PS3) and i aint rich. And i could definitely afford both (X1 and PS4) but dont wanna do that.

tokugawa3868d ago

ill be doing that at the end of november..

very nice. i might even do some side-by-side comparisons with multi-plats

Syntax-Error3868d ago (Edited 3868d ago )

xxxseigezzz

Not everyone is 16 years old like yourself. We dont save our money to "hook up" our cars. Grown ass men(like myself) have cars for transportation and take us to jobs that make us a lot of money. Maybe when you get older and realize that cars get into accidents and those $1500 rims, $800 stereo, and $500 exhaust dont mean shit.

FTR-There's not much to hook up on a Mercedes S500. Only those POS little go-karts you kids drive get tricked out. You don't tinker with art

BattleAxe3868d ago

People can watch Sony's Internet TV through an Xbox One.....fantastic...

PSX043867d ago

why i must buy xbone if i can directly matching my ps4 with my hd tv through hdmi cable ..... fuck you microsoft

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meatysausage3868d ago

Not true, I have just saved up quite a while to afford both. Almost a year now so not everyone is rich

Darth Gamer3868d ago

Same here, Both are already paid for. Not rich by any stretch, just smart with my money.

xxxsiegezzz3868d ago

Why would you save to 2 consoles when you could buy one and a lot of games to it or use that money for an exsample to your car?
It's just plain stupid

MWong3868d ago (Edited 3868d ago )

Probably because they are gamers and they like something that both consoles offer on their own. People have been doing it for years, since NES vs Sega. I had a PS3 & XB360.

I myself will eventually get a XBone. Only thing is the money I could buy an XBone with now, I used to buy more PS4 games.

creatchee3868d ago

@xxxsiegezzz

"Why would you save to 2 consoles when you could buy one and a lot of games to it...?"

Exclusives.

Darth Gamer3868d ago

@xxxseigezzz

I love games no matter what platform they are on. Not a fanboy of either but only a fan of good games.

Just think that if I didn't have a PS3, I would never have had a chance to play the uncharteds or the last of Us and same goes for the Gears series or the first Dead Rising ETC, Etc... I like to have choices and the freedom to play what I find interesting. Plus, I have 4 children who also like to game. We also have a Wii U and a Wii and a PS2 and XBOX and PS1 as well as my VITA and a bunch of Nintendo handhelds. Just love games in general. Cheers.

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BallsEye3868d ago

No need to be rich to do that. I was thinking same when I was in my teens. Money ain't that hard to get if you're not lazy. Getting 2x xbox one on release date. Ps4 probably next year if some games I like will come out.

BLAKHOODe3868d ago

You don't have to be rich to get both. I'm getting both and I'm far from rich.

You've had since June to pre-order. Most places let you make payments on pre-orders, so that's less than $200/month for both consoles, making it VERY affordable even for a poor mofo such as myself. My PS4 is already paid off and I only owe another $150 on my Xbox One. If I can do it, anybody can.

THamm3868d ago

Yeah but would the screen quality diminish? I mean taking it through an extra component to get to the TV, instead of straight through. I would rather plug it straight to TV, can't afford any lag

Cueil3868d ago

<_< I'm not sure I'd call myself a rich bitch... using old Xbox 360 games to pay for PS4 and paying for Xbox One straight up

MineHaxx3868d ago

You should be happy,Xbox One costs 3700 ILS(1000$) and PS4 3000 ILS (850$).(Israel)

Crazyglues3868d ago (Edited 3868d ago )

-But who's silly enough to get both consoles this time around...

I know for me, after MS's first press conference I pretty much wrote Xbox one off as a complete lost...

-and put that $500 dollars towards PS4 games and extra controller, so thanks MS I normally get both but-because of MS I am going to have an amazing PS4 launch, -every game they drop and an extra controller and stand and hard-drive upgrade-

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infamousinfolite3868d ago

Me: "Xbox... Play PS4!"
Xbox: "Sorry you must be a Gold member in order to access this function"

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Jambab3868d ago

I don't see the advantage of this, why boot up your Xbox One to view your PlayStation 4?

The only benefit I can see is so that you can chat to your Xbox friends while playing but other than that, I see no real benefit.

dumahim3868d ago

Pretty sure the Xbox doesn't need to be on to pass through the HDMI signal.

meatysausage3868d ago

Really? how does that work

CBaoth3868d ago (Edited 3868d ago )

@eggnog - I would imagine just like VCRs did back in the 80s and 90s. You have an input and an output. You didn't need to have the VCR always turned on to watch TV back then unless your set couldn't pick up channels past 13.

XB1 is designed to have cable boxes plugged in; forcing consumers to turn on their XB1 in order to watch TV would be momumentally short-sighted.
These consoles are vampiric so they're always going to be "on" in some capacity anway.

Deadpoolio3868d ago

UH yeah it does....Do you not know how electronics work.....It makes so much sense to have 2 devices on to use 1 when you could just use the 1

MarkusMcNugen3868d ago

It shouldnt need to be turn on fully to pass HDMI to the TV. Basically, the device never actually powers down unless you unplug it. It goes into an extreme low level power state. So you only really need to turn the PS4 "On" to pass the HDMI to your tv through the Xbox One.

@Deadpoolio
Uh, no it doesnt. You dont know how electronics work apparently.

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Sitdown3868d ago

Simple benefit, one less HDMI port you have to use on your TV. I won't do it though because I am interested in the TV features if compatible with my service provider.

strickers3868d ago

That is not a reason. Buy a switching box for a few quid.

Audiggity3868d ago

Or buy a receiver and do it properly... you should never need more than 1 HDMI slot in your TV if you do it right :)

Then use the pass-through for the enhanced Cable features.

Saving an HDMI port in the back of your receiver.

Sitdown3868d ago

@strickers
Ummm, it is a reason.....especially if someone does not want to spend a few quid, when this could work for them for free.

Death3868d ago

Xbox One will go into a low power or standby mode. This is so you can walk into the room and say "Xbox on" and have it power on before you even sit down. The idea is to have the system always connected so you always have access to your social network of friends and can or atleast could share content at all times.

If you use the Xbox One as intended, you won't boot up to use it to pass the signal, it will already be on waiting for commands. The only thing you will be booting up is the PS4, you don't even need to change inputs with the remote.

Bathyj3868d ago

Your comment just made me think off something. What if you own a parrot and he keeps turning your console on when you're not home

KentBlake3868d ago

Why do that? Only to save on HDMI ports? Because it makes no sense to leave both consoles on while using only one of them.

Kaiou3868d ago

We are only talking about possibilities.

OC_MurphysLaw3868d ago

For one you could use skype very easily for both systems ;-)

MarkusMcNugen3868d ago

The Xbox One will not have to be "on" to use HDMI passthrough. HDMI passthrough can be used when the Xbox One is in its "Off" low level power state. Since the device doesnt turn completely off, the low level power state will keep the HDMI passthrough working.

CandyCaptain3868d ago

The only problem with that I see might happen, is additional input lag. Other then that though, it sounds novel. lol

byeGollum3868d ago

merging ur PS4 into the ONE's OS. . I can't wait to do that :D

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Bethesda Needs to Reduce the Gaps Between New Fallout and Elder Scrolls Releases

Waiting a decade for new instalments in franchises as massive as Fallout and Elder Scrolls feels like a waste.

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-Foxtrot10h ago

Microsoft have Obsidian but I feel it's Bethesda who just don't want to play ball as they've always said they want to do it themselves.

Once MS bought Zenimax in 2020 they should have put the Outer Worlds 2 on the back burner, allow Bethesda to finish off its own Space RPG with Starfield (despite totally different tone why have two in your first party portfolio with two developers who's gameplay is a tad similar) and got Obsidian for one of their projects to make a spiritual successor to New Vegas.

When the Elder Scrolls VI is finished Bethesda can then onto the main numbered Fallout 5 themselves.

The Outer Worlds 2 started development in 2019 so putting it on the back burner wouldn't have been the end of the world, they'd have always come back to it once Fallout was done and it would have been nicely spaced out from Starfields release once they had most likely stopped supporting it and all the expansions were released.

If they did this back in 2020 when they bought Zenimax and the game had a good, steady 4 - 5 years development, you might have seen it release in 2025.

We are literally going to be waiting until 2030 at the very earliest for Fallout 5 and all they seem bothered about is pushing Fallout 76.

RaidenBlack8h ago(Edited 8h ago)

Its not just only Todd not playing ball.
Obsidian have made a name for themselves in delivering stellar RPGs, but most famous once have always been sequels/spin-offs to borrowed IPs like KOTOR 2, Neverwinter Nights 2, Fallout: New Vegas, Stick of Truth etc.
Obsidian wants to invest more in their own original IPs like Outer Worlds or Pillars of Eternity with Avowed.
Similar to what Bluepoint & inXile wants to do or Kojima is doing (i.e not involving anymore in Konami's IPs).
So yea, even if New Vegas has the most votes from 3D Fallout fans, Obsidian just wants to do their own thing, like any aspiring dev studio and MS is likely currently respecting that.
But a future Fallout game from Obsidian will surely happen. Founder Feargus Urquhart has already stated an year ago that they're eager to make a new Fallout game with Bethesda, New Vegas 2 or otherwise. Urquhart was the director of the very first 1995's Fallout game after all.
And don't forget Brian Fargo and his studio inXile, as Brian Fargo was the director of Fallout's 1988 predecessor: Wasteland

KyRo5h ago(Edited 5h ago)

Obsidian should take over the FO IP. They're do far better with it than Bethesda who hasn't made a great game for almost 15 years

Duke194h ago(Edited 4h ago)

I disagree. Part of these games is the support for the mod community. If they move to releasing a "next game" every 2 or 3 years, the modding support plummets and the franchises turn into just another run of the mill RPG.

Make the games good enough to withstand the test of time, to keep people coming back to them and expanding on them with mod support.

--Onilink--2h ago(Edited 2h ago)

I dont think anyone is saying they need to come out every 2 years (not to mention almost no game is released that quickly anymore)

By the time Fallout 5 comes out, it will be more than 15 years since Fallout 4 came out (same with ES6 coming out 15 years after Skyrim). Even if you want to use F76 as the metric for the most recent release, that one came out in 2018. It will be a miracle if F5 comes out before 2030

The point is that for a studio that doesnt seem to operate with multiple teams doing several projects at once, that their projects normally take 4-5 years as a minimum, and that now they even added Starfield to the rotation, it becomes a 15+ years waiting period between releases for each series, which doesnt make sense. Imagine that Nintendo only released a mainline Mario or Zelda game every 15 years…

They either need to start developing more than 1 project at a time, let someone else take a crack at one of the IPs or significantly reduce their development times

Duke1950m ago(Edited 47m ago)

Why should someone else take a crack at one of the IPs? Look at what happened to Final Fantasy as a recent example - there is pretty clear FF fatigue setting in because they are now pumping out titles in the franchise every few years. Pumping out more games faster doesn't always make a series better.

There are plenty of options to make new games, not just create more titles in the same universe at a faster pace.

mandf2h ago

Yeah I’m going to say it, who cares about the modding community when making a game? Half the time developers only tolerate modders because they fix there game for them.

Skuletor3h ago

Yeah, let's all advocate for smaller gaps between series' releases, then we'll probably get headlines about how the series have dropped in quality and they could have benefited from more time in the oven. Let them cook.

SimpleSlave2h ago

"how the series have dropped in quality and they could have benefited from more time in the oven" So every Bethesda game then? Got it.

Listen, I would agree if this was about From Software or something, but Bethesda?

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C'mon now. What timeline are you from?

Skuletor45m ago

Think about it, they're already bug filled messes on their current schedule, can you imagine how much worse it would be if they rushed things?

Duke1949m ago

I mean you aren't wrong. People are going to complain about anything

isarai2h ago

Hows about you focus on quality, just a thought 🤷‍♂️

Sciurus_vulgaris2h ago

Bethesda [or Microsoft] would have to reallocate internal and external studios towards fallout and elder scrolls titles. Bethesda has the issue of developing 2 big IPs that are large RPGs on rotation. If you want more Fallout and Elder Scrolls, development will have to be outsourced.

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