We've now seen the next generation of major gaming consoles unveiled (well, mostly - we still don't know what the PS4 console will actually look like), and it looks like the Xbox One is ready for the future, while the PS4 sadly clings on to the bygone---and less profitable---era of hardcore gaming.
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lmao!
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"The future of driving isn't vehicles, its chairs that are cemented to the ground..."
The Simpsons sure have got the Xbox One right...
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Hint: the highest-selling console of last gen was the one with the fewest non-gaming features.
Getting beyond ridiculous
I wish we could get rid of this thought that gaming console has to be more than just a gaming console. We don't need apps and TV stuff, it should be a an extra and not a focus
I don't understand why people would buy an Xbox with these Tv functions when they could just buy a cable box and use a remote for a lot less of the price.
People keep saying the Xbox is all in one (hence the name)this kind of complete living room experience but so far it seems like they're the jack of all trades and master of none. I can't see hardcore gamers buying them
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is anybody's guess if you really think about it.
@xheavyx...no it doesnt. Both ms and sony have made a general statement that used games will be supported.
Both just need to disclose more info on how those used games are attainable.
pretty much sums up my reaction
That being said, they should have used the initial announcement to assauge the fear that theor core base has. They should hav started and ended with games...tech bwing the middle content. And they should hav answered more questions. Once they took care of the base, then they can move forward and begin to market to everyone else. Instead, they left an overall negative feeling with those that saw the reveal and the word spreads. They did it backwards.
I will buy a ps4 initially but will probably buy an xbox one at some point afterwards. Its too early as most reveal will be at e3 for both but I believe that the xbox one will be fine and I believe that there is room for both.
PS: I am either a philosopher or drunk or neither of those or just following the logics of this article's author aka a "gaminge" machine is not for gaming meaning the logic of absurdity in mathematics or the logics of the non-logics.
In other words it is USELESS as a cable/sat box.
Who in the hell watches live TV anymore?
I laughed so damn hard on this!!!
That's why I've started calling it a set top box accessory since it doesn't do much on it's own.
So Microsoft's real competition is companies like Cisco, Motorola etc. that already make set top boxes with much of the same functionality.
The cable companies have no interest in someone like Microsoft, Google or Apple co-opting their networks so expect the STBs to continue to add features over the coming years.
They have been added to the list of ongoing disappointments
1 Tool not releasing a new album cause maynard is a stuck up turd who wants to work on garbage music like puscifer
2 Valve promising up 3 episodes of hl 2 and just giving up midway and on top of that waiting like 26 years with no word on anything at all
3 Microsoft ruining the good thing it had with windows 7 so that they could release the trash windows 8 and later windows blue
4 Msoft just ditching the gaming community by giving up entirely on what their supporters want and concentrating on fat redneck sports fans who are gullible enough to let a fuckin hal9000 in their living rooms to watch/record everything they fukin do.
what is wrong with the world these days haha :)
What was Microsoft way to show off their new games console? Show hardly any games? Dohhhhh!
I know I know. It isn't e3. But showing off a games console with hardly any games.....That is surely far more stupid way to launch a games console.
They showed off enough everything else. Utter madness.
And being able to sell them only on the MS network and make any money isn't true used game sales. You are now at the mercy of what one company thinks that game is worth.
I guess by that thinking a car with no motor is a valid form of transportation and being able to trade in said car ONLY to the original dealership for any profit at all is true a resale.
@morganfell
I think it's sad and obvious that 1 or multiple mods have it in for you. You have without question some of the most insightful post over the years yet you sit at one bubble regardless of how many times you have been marked with helpful or well said post. It just proves how ridiculously broken and 1 sided N4Gs system truly is.
Who needs games when you could watch The Price Is Right?
Who needs games when you could watch movies?
Who needs games when you could watch sports?
Games are a thing of the past...
The One is here, ladies and gentlemen. Xbox! Watch, but don't play
(better with Kinect)
i've been gaming for over 30 yrs, and i damn well plan to continue gaming not play with a cable box.
I imagine that your laughter is similar to laughter a few years back when cynical people had just found out that the future of cellphones wasn't actually having conversations on them.
I wonder if they're still laughing.
I wonder if you'll still be laughing in a few years.
If you like games, why would you buy a console that you thought would end up not being about games, surely that's what consoles are about.
XB1 isn't doing that, it's a glorified voice activated universal remote, smartphones essentially gave us computers in our hands.
What is XB1 bringing to the table that a DVR or Cable box doesn't ....Skype?...Samsung Tvs come with cameras Skype and motion controls.
I'm sorry but early adopters of game consoles are GAMERS and gamers' console priorities are gaming and games. The road MS is going down they don't seem to care about either
Samsung motion control TV - http://youtu.be/5C1nADiC6OE
Are you serious? If so pass along some of the sh1t you are smoking cause it MUST be good.
The XBone doesn't even function as a DVR or a TV tuner. In other words all it functions as is a pass through channel changer with an online program guide (break out the kazoos). So in other words they FAILED at producing a Tuner/DVR AND a games console.
Wow I know I want to rush right out to buy yet another box that connects to the existing box that I already use/rent from my provider. WTF is the point of that??
FAIL
"That's the thing, they didnt lessen phone capabilities with smartphones...they gave you a new option that never existed. "
Okay, fair enough. But tell me how XBOX ONE is lessening gaming capabilities to compromise for its other endeavors. And no, don't mention used game licensing or RAM differences VS a PS4.
The fact is, we haven't seen games yet. Or at least, no longform gameplay. MICROSOFT TOLD US THAT WE WOULDN'T BE SEEING MOST OF THE GANES UNTIL E3. That last sentence is in all caps because everybody is forgetting that simple fact, whether willfully or otherwise.
So how can you say that the gaming aspect is being lessened if we haven't even been shown that aspect AND were told that we wouldn't see it for two weeks? Or is it just a "feeling" you get?
You need to separate the can and will!
Furthermore, the Xbox One does solve a major problem with current cable boxes and that is finding what I want with it.
It's painfully slow to find what I want on their slow @ss cable box with the pretty confusingly labeled remote.
Just like when Xbox Live launched, you could play online on PC with voice hat, but Xbox Live brought it together and we know what happened.
This is a similar attempt at transforming your living room experience and there is some serious technology behind this to make it happen.
I think the era of high performance gaming consoles only is bygone and the Wii U is an example of this.
An iPhone isn't a dedicated gaming device, yet there probably more people gaming on it than the PS Vita.
Heck, I'm finding children of parents I know aren't asking for a Nintendo 3DS or a PS Vita, they are asking for an iPad!
I think the long term, Sony will try to follow as best they can the path MS is laying granting their hardware can keep up.
if you find a cable box remote confusing then the Xbox one is certainly for you.
This central entertainment hub approach is an antiquated notion., families don't sit and watch TV together, they may watch a movie together once in a while but pretty much everyone had access to their own screen to watch what they want. Even my 3 year old can work netlixs on the wii.
People watch tv with smart phones in hand and tablets on laps for all their social media needs.
Xbox one bring nothing new to the table, it just bottle necks it in one box for the family to fight over.
one more point, some of us where playing socom online with the ps2 long before xbox live showed up, it was free and it was awesome.
The future of gaming consoles is not gaming. It is everything but gaming. Mind blown.
So what they're telling me is that games don't matter? All that matters is stuff you can do from a PC/tablet/smartphone?
Well I'll be d*mned...
Otherwise there is no reason to purchase this thing when your cable company already has a DVR box in your living room and you already own a blu-ray player. Why would you spend that kind of money on a console when you have everything you need already? That is right! Because of the games!
I'm sure that you were super upset back when PS3 talked about Linux, web browsing, folding at home data crunching, music services, and on demand movie/tv show purchases or rentals, and blu-ray right? That's not gaming right? So it really bothered you when Sony did all that and called it the future of consoles right?
Super upset? No.
Super indifferent? Yes.
Blu-Ray interested me because of storage capacity for games. Those other things were not a factor in my PS3 purchase.
If Sony had revealed PS3 and talked about those other things, giving games only a passing mention, you'd better believe they would have gotten this same reaction.
Hell the sales of the Wii U went up after the Xbox reveal event.
hence why I buy one.
Wait, how the potato are you commenting!?
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It seems MS wants to take on the entire world of electronics manufacturers and service providers all at once....I'm not sure if I should have respect for their fortitude or disdain for their idiocy.
Now I understand.
you know i dont usually support these flame bait articles, but i just have to check this one out.
So you may be right where the future of consoles isn't gaming but luckily Sony can just integrate directly into the TV. Can MS do that? If your TV already offered you all the games & social apps would you really need a Xbox 1 & all it's extra hidden fees for everything? I'm surprised the Xbox1 isn't coming with a credit card swiper that you would need to use before your allowed to turn your Xbox1 on.
That will be $10.00 to access your Xbox1 please insert your credit card now.
the future of console "gaming" isnt "gaming"?????
What is this sorcery?
"On top of all of those features, Xbox is getting into making original content, like Hulu and Netflix have, starting with a Steven Spielberg-directed live action Halo TV series. It's unclear where else Xbox One will go with original content or how successful it will be, but that's an entirely new direction for a gaming console to go"
"getting into making original content"? so because of ONE (probably pretty crappy) live action moive that theyre producing, you think this is going to lead to thousands of hours of high quality original content?! listen, not every retarded piece of original content is going to be directed by Stephen Spielberg. if in fact all this "original content" youre so excited about does happen, its probably going to be B-movie material at best.
get a clue brother. your arguments need some serious work.
don't treat us like idiots and give out stupid hints if your being hypocritical.
Here's the thing, both consoles will have the same features. Movies/Music/TV/Games. Both will offer all these services and both will be entertainment centers.
This uninformed, stupid idea that the PS4 is some machine only for hardcore gamers is idiotic. Like all game consoles, it is the core that will spend hundreds at dollars at launch so it is the core which the thing should be marketed too.
Does anyone really think some soccer mom or sports dad is going to buy a $500 Xbox One just because it can do stuff your cable box can? There goes my next point, YOU STILL NEED YOUR CABLE BOX AND DVR! So much for "All-In-One".