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I guess Microsoft wants to make sure everyone gets their consoles tonight. The company rolled out the Xbox themed armored trucks in NYC. Thanks to space_honey for the photo.
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So that's why it costs more than a PS4, god damn delivery charges!
So is just about every apple product in the last 10 years, you forget it's hardware + software that makes the system appealing.I find it impossible to get excited about this thing because it's larger, less powerful, and more expensive than something that ALREADY CAME OUT.
I guess in Chicago they delivered them in tanks?
So is just about every apple product in the last 10 years, you forget it's hardware + software that makes the system appealing.
And, in Detroit, delivered guarded by GCV tank battalions, soldiers in TALOS armors accompanied by Big Dog.
While I commend their efforts to protect the public from the xbone, this all seems really cheesy.
I find it impossible to get excited about this thing because it's larger, less powerful, and more expensive than something that ALREADY CAME OUT.
Both xbone and ps4 are way less powerful than what they should have been. IMHO.
lolNah, Detroit's too poor to afford it.
I agree. I was sorely disappointed by how poor the spec's jump was for this iteration. Down Under... we've gone from a 1000AUD PS3 launch day price to a 550AUD release. And while i like the near 50% drop for the same device... its specs make me absolutely not really give two fks to buy it in the first place when my next mobile phone will be more powerful then it will be in 2years! (i won't even mention the fact that i dont wish to buy any given all the limitations and shenanigans/hoops/bs they are trying to force gamers into).
The Cell chip was suppose to be an APU itself. There wasn't suppose to be an Nvidia GPU in the PS3, because the SPE's were there for that reason. Sony was betting that the PS3 would have such huge market dominance that developers would have to code for it, and the code wasn't going to work on any other platform. So pretty much all games made for the PS3 were going to stay exclusive. Developers bitched, and the Nvidia GPU was thrown in just before release to make developers happy.Keep in mind that Sony originally worked with IBM and Toshiba to develop an entire new method of thread-processing and scaling with the Cell architecture, billions upon billions of research dollars that were supposed to herald a shift in consumer electronics formed by the surge of developers using Cell's ability to scale the same code from 1 SPE units to 100 SPE units. Only, Cell was a failure. ARM took off in the consumer market that the Cell 1 and 2 SPE unit chips were supposed to attract... and Sony came pretty close to bouncing all of their cheques.
The reasons the Xbox One is doing terrible is because the PS4 is cheaper and the game lineup sucks. Actually, here's a short list.If the Xbox One moves less than 250,000 units within 24 hours of launch... and struggles to top 500,000 within a week... I don't think it matters who the new CEO for Microsoft is... they'll probably look at stunts like this one here... and say "enough is enough, we're dumping this trainwreck.
Not really no. You already see issues with these devices due to heat and power consumption. The only reason the mobile market was able to compete so well is because of manufacturing, which allowed these chips to compete fairly well with 10 year old desktop PCs.We'll have smartphones and tablets on the level of mid-range desktop PC graphics cards OR FASTER by the end of this decade at the rate mobile GPUs are advancing.
Majority of PS3 games use the 1 PowerPC core and the Nvidia GPU exclusively, while ignoring the SPE's. Did Sony really think the PS3 could herald in a market shift? Probably more marketing then reality.
The reasons the Xbox One is doing terrible is because the PS4 is cheaper and the game lineup sucks. Actually, here's a short list.
#1 PS4 is $100 cheaper
#2 Both have similar games
#3 PS4 is more powerful
#4 PSN online is cheaper
#5 PS4 has a removable hard drive
#6 Believe it or not NSA. I bet you some people thought about it.
Not really no. You already see issues with these devices due to heat and power consumption. The only reason the mobile market was able to compete so well is because of manufacturing, which allowed these chips to compete fairly well with 10 year old desktop PCs.
But very soon we'll hit a manufacturing limit, and you won't be able to increase a CPU's speed without increasing it's power consumption as well as heat. Tablets and smart phones already get very hot when you start using an application that turns on all the cores. The only reason people haven't gotten mad about heat problems, is because there's very few applications that will use all four cores of your tablet/smartphone device. Angry Birds and Facebook won't cook these devices.
So yea, I don't think any tablet will play PS4/Xbone graphics level quality of games in 2 years. And that's just the hardware, cause the software is a major issue as well. The drivers for the graphics chips in them are so bad that it's proving to be a major hurdle for a lot of developers. The Dolphin developers really hate ARM/Mali, and just despise Qualcomm/Adreno. From what I hear, the PowerVR drivers are extremely buggy as well.
So unless they can turn around their drivers within 2 years, the drivers are so immature that they can't even render Wii games at the moment.
The reasons the Xbox One is doing terrible is because the PS4 is cheaper and the game lineup sucks. Actually, here's a short list.
#1 PS4 is $100 cheaper
I'm not sure if the cost difference between the PS4 and Xbox One can be fairly compared. You could say that the extra $100 landed you a Kinect whereas with the PS4 you'd need to spend an extra $60 for a PlayStation Camera which doesn't even hold a flame to the Kinect.
Kinect is really interesting for people like me who will try to use it and it's SDK to derp around. I don't think the avg consumer will take it into account fully, mostly it will be a 100 dollar expensive good quality microphone for people. And voice commands are the only thing i see good enough to transition into games. Gestures even when precise is too much. Can't distinguish between voluntary and involuntary gestures.I'm not sure if the cost difference between the PS4 and Xbox One can be fairly compared. You could say that the extra $100 landed you a Kinect whereas with the PS4 you'd need to spend an extra $60 for a PlayStation Camera which doesn't even hold a flame to the Kinect.
Or you could say that paying $100 less landed you better hardware?
I would buy the PS4 [assuming I was going to buy a console] even if the prices were flipped. The kinect is of 0 interest to me.
Despite all the technological advances the Xbox One has, I picked mine up from a a local gamestop at midnight launch, downloaded patch, tried to play forza 5, got the disc error message.
GameStop acknowledged that the disc drive was faulty and accepted to refund me, I'll never be an early adopter ever again.
It's a great machine guys, everything worked except the disc drive.
So is just about every apple product in the last 10 years, you forget it's hardware + software that makes the system appealing.
As far as the size of the xbox1 it doesn't bother me, i actually like it a bit more then the ps4 as it's not as deep, and it's how deep things are that fucks up when placing it on the shelving for the home entertainment.
More for attention then security. That has to be the biggest waste of money I've ever seen. Do they really think by putting these machines in armored cars with Xbox logos on them, will make people want to go buy one? Do banks put giant money symbols on them to let people know they're carrying around valuable stuff? No of course not, but the marketing department that Microsoft is clearly over paying, sure thinks if they make it look valuable then you'll want to buy one.
Sadly the amount of money spent for this stunt is probably more then the cost to develop some of the games on the Xbox One. Which the games so far are O.K. at best.
It's restricted crippleware that has less functionality than an HTPC. What is there to get excited about?