Xbox Announcement Live Stream

[DeathPrincess]

I dont even like Porsche but I respect them enough not to call them budget sports car.

Yes but in the real world they look like Mazdas. Actually Mazdas look nicer, and cost less than a 1/10th. If you're paying that kind of money, you don't want cut corners or hideous design.

 

[HoffY]

For those with a short memory... why are there so many sprouting the all-in-one-ness media playing XboX ONE yet last Round when the PS3 was the Media-Player-Do-Aller they bagged it like no tomorrow!

 

[DarkStar_WNY]

For those with a short memory... why are there so many sprouting the all-in-one-ness media playing XboX ONE yet last Round when the PS3 was the Media-Player-Do-Aller they bagged it like no tomorrow!

I never bagged on it for that, especially as it all I use really use our PS3 for. Sony did the media stuff right, it's all the other areas I found lacking.

It will be interesting to see how developers support both these consoles. I'm not just talking about releasing titles on it but also everything that comes after, from creating patches to fix issues to offering DLC for the games.

This generation the the 360 is far and away the winner for after release support. Look how many times 360 owners had problems fixed, or dlc released that PS3 owners had to wait months longer for, if they received them at all. If this continues into the new generations of consoles it will give the Xbox One a huge advantage in the market.

 

[Outamyhead]

This. The only game that was interesting was forza, everything else was predictable and uninteresting.

This was the only reason I bought an Xbox a couple of months ago.

 

[DeathPrincess]

This generation the the 360 is far and away the winner for after release support. Look how many times 360 owners had problems fixed, or dlc released that PS3 owners had to wait months longer for, if they received them at all. If this continues into the new generations of consoles it will give the Xbox One a huge advantage in the market.

Not true, other than Bethesda, who have dubious motives, and couldn't code their way out of a 2 room text adventure.

Microsoft sill charge developers $50k to patch something, meaning games get abandoned quicker, or errors left unpatched.

 

[HardOCP News]

http://money.cnn.com/quote/quote.html?symb=SNE

Doing well Microsoft...

LOL! Trying to gove Microsoft credit for THIS is pretty funny.

CEO Kazuo Hirai told a press briefing on Wednesday that Sony would assess a proposal from its biggest shareholder, billionaire Daniel Loeb's Third Point LLC hedge fund, that the group should sell up to a fifth of its music and movies business, which includes artists such as Adele and hit franchises like "Spider-Man".

Sony shares charged to their highest in more than 2 years on Wednesday after the Nikkei newspaper said Sony's board would consider evaluating Loeb's proposal. The stock closed up 5.9 percent at 2,290 yen.

 

[zombiebeat]

 

[DPI]

A slot load drive? That makes it a no sale for me.

Oh yeah well your moms got a slot load drive bro

Ba-dum-tssshhhh

 

[cariocadude]

I don't like xbox one looks but if it is going to be cheaper than the ps4...i'll buy the xbox 1.

 

[mh15216]

Does anyone else think this should be released under the name "X-Block?"

 

[daglesj]

I seem to remember much the same sort of posts a while back after the 'closed curtains' Sony reveal.

I'll wait to see what turns up at E3.

 

[Marees]

http://www.engadget.com/2013/05/21/xbox-one-used-games/

A little more info
#1 - BUYING AND SELLING OF USED GAMES IS SUPPORTED

Yes, you can play used games. Yes, you can buy used games and, therefore, it's reasonable to conclude that you can sell them too. It was postulated that you would have to pay some sort of activation fee to Microsoft to re-enable those used games, but Microsoft seems to be trying to dispel that thought. Exactly how it works still remains to be seen. "It's going to be different than the way we currently do it," Albert Penello, senior director of product planning at Microsoft told us. "We'll get into more specifics later."

#2 - GAMES ARE INSTALLED IN THE BACKGROUND WHILE YOU PLAY

Just pop the disc in and start playing and the game will start installing while you play. No need to hit the Y button and go through any other theatrics.

#3 - YOU CAN PLAY INSTALLED GAMES WITHOUT THE DISC

Sick of sitting through the full game install on the Xbox 360, only to still have to get up and put the disc in every time you want to play it? So was everyone at Microsoft, as it turns out. "That feature, the ability to play games off the hard drive, was one of the first things we wrote down when we started to talk about next-gen," said Penello. So, yes, once you install the game, you can put the disc on the shelf and forget about it. But, presumably, you can't just sell the disc and still keep playing the game.

So, how does that work? At a minimum, each game disc must have some sort of unique ID associated to your account. "Your Xbox account will tie you to your game," said Penello. That ID must, therefore, be somehow disassociated from your account before you can sell the thing. Unfortunately, this is where things start getting murky. "We'll get into more specifics later," Penello told us again, a common chant that hopefully will change when we get to E3 in a few weeks time.

#4 - YOU CAN DOWNLOAD GAMES THAT WERE PURCHASED ON DISC

Here's an interesting situation. What happens if you want to play a game you own on a friends console? You will, Penello says, have "the ability to go over to your friends house, download your save game, or even download your game to his Xbox and pick up where you left off." So, not only will your game saves be stored in the cloud, your entire game library will be and you'll be able to download it from anywhere.

#5 - OFFLINE GAMEPLAY IS SUPPORTED

That all your game saves are in the cloud is a nice step forward, but what if you're offline? Can you still access those game saves? Can you still play your games? Yes, you can. Games will work offline without an issue and game saves will sync transparently when you reconnect, Penello told us. However, some games that make use of Microsoft's online services may not be playable offline. That will be up to developers.

#6 - YOU CAN SHARE GAMES WITH THOSE IN YOUR "HOUSEHOLD"

Another use-case we threw Penello's way: what if your spouse or child signs in to the family's Xbox One and wants to play a game that is associated with your account? Will they have to buy it themselves? "Certainly we've accounted for family members in the household being able to play games." Exactly how? That, again, remains to be seen. Only 19 days until E3...

apparently from xbox one onwards there is an unique id associated with each disc

when you insert the disc in your xbox, it associates that disc id with your xbox login

now there is a new feature coming up where you can convert disc to digital. which means as long as no one else inserts that same disc in their console, you can play that game on any device pc/console (even without the physical disc). this will be very helpful for handheld devices like rog ally X

Xbox OG, 360, One and Series disc licenses all could follow players to future Xbox devices
Microsoft plans portable Xbox disc licenses and Xbox 360 emulation for PC

Source: VideoCardz.com
https://videocardz.com/newz/xbox-og...l-could-follow-players-to-future-xbox-devices