next-Jin
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Microsoft’s E3 presentation has been labeled an effective disaster by almost everyone in the industry and tens of thousands on the internet. There are just too many restrictive policies such as 24 hour internet check in or the unit will not function; even single player games. Always on Kinect where it needs to be connected or the system will not power on. They prevent the resale of used games replacing it with something that is completely irrelevant. They force independent developers to have publishers and charge them 40,000 (estimated) dollars every time they want to update their game on Microsoft Live. Sony will let anyone self-publish their titles on PSN free of charge for updates. They have hardware that is 33% weaker than the Sony PlayStation 4 because they instead chose to add other features to the system that they themselves fail to deliever a proper experience (Live TV but no Cable DVR)
Microsoft aimed high with their design and failed to deliver. They have implemented very restrictive policies on their services and the resale of games. The Xbox division needs to take a step back and take another look at their policies and customer privacy concerns. Right now all they are doing is alienating the people that matter; Gamers.
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So what is so bad about the Xbox One? Let's discuss this and I will update this thread with up to date information as it becomes availible.
After reading all the news, feedback and reactions I simply fail to understand what their thinking was here. They proclaim "A world connected" but how is Sony doing anything that does not push the same goals?
Let's look at what Microsoft says are good things about their platform;
Those are the major things I have heard from either Microsoft's PR or Xbox fans, and frankly that is a sad list.
Microsoft can't really go back now and change things because nothing is flexible. Changing one thing will affect everything else, so this thing will be released as is. I think it will still sell (more so than the Wii U), however it will be very interesting to see how this all plays out. The online community has taken a rather firm stance, however I feel that your average consumer will still pick up the system especially folks heavy into fantasy football or sports in general.
Looking at it as it stands right now, I cannot possibly see how this thing was developed and frankly hope it crashes and burns. How can you possibly take your eye off Gamers and still not succeed at properly integrating your other goals into the system instead of half assing most all of it.
Please share additional concerns or fix some of my main listing points if I have them wrong.
Microsoft aimed high with their design and failed to deliver. They have implemented very restrictive policies on their services and the resale of games. The Xbox division needs to take a step back and take another look at their policies and customer privacy concerns. Right now all they are doing is alienating the people that matter; Gamers.
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So what is so bad about the Xbox One? Let's discuss this and I will update this thread with up to date information as it becomes availible.
- 24 Hour Check Ins or even single player games will be unplayable
- Extremely limited resale abilities on purchased games
- 33% weaker hardware compared to the PS4
- No "NEW" interactions introduced, just improved Kinect capabilities
- Only Live TV through HDMI pass through, no Cable DVR
- Harsh Restrictions on Indie developers through forced publishers and fees for updating games
- More expensive online
- No user upgradable hard drive
- Region locked
After reading all the news, feedback and reactions I simply fail to understand what their thinking was here. They proclaim "A world connected" but how is Sony doing anything that does not push the same goals?
Let's look at what Microsoft says are good things about their platform;
- Cloud Computing (PS4 also does this)
- Live TV w/ widgets (No Cable DVR?)
- Skype
- Family Plan (Only useful for friends located off site)
- Release day online game sales (How is this a positive? Everyone already does this)
- Kinect with every system allowing gesture controls and universal support for games
Those are the major things I have heard from either Microsoft's PR or Xbox fans, and frankly that is a sad list.
Microsoft can't really go back now and change things because nothing is flexible. Changing one thing will affect everything else, so this thing will be released as is. I think it will still sell (more so than the Wii U), however it will be very interesting to see how this all plays out. The online community has taken a rather firm stance, however I feel that your average consumer will still pick up the system especially folks heavy into fantasy football or sports in general.
Looking at it as it stands right now, I cannot possibly see how this thing was developed and frankly hope it crashes and burns. How can you possibly take your eye off Gamers and still not succeed at properly integrating your other goals into the system instead of half assing most all of it.
Please share additional concerns or fix some of my main listing points if I have them wrong.
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