Are YOU interested in Xbox One?Follow

I read this earlier - http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/06/06/microsoft-details-xbox-one-used-games-always-online

I couldn't help but feel sad and disgusted about what I was reading. I own two 360's. One for me and one for my son. He is constantly raiding my gaming cabinet to take to his room to play on his console. If I read this correctly, then him and I will not be able to share games back and forth like this anymore. So now, unless I am mistaken on how it's going to work or unless something changes, Microsoft will be losing the sales of 2 Xbox Ones, the yearly fees for 2 Xbox Live accounts, and the money from many games that I buy.

I just bought a gaming laptop at the beginning of this year. It seems like I got into PC gaming at the right time. I like having choice though. So I really hope Microsoft changes, and that the PS4 doesn't come with all of this red tape.

I am deeply interested in its eminent demise. Clearly that sort of thing interests me, if you catch my drift

Ok, well if that part about being able to share my games with my son is true then maybe they haven't lost me as a customer quite yet. That was my biggest gripe.

If ARR captures me the way I want it to then it's kind of a moot point anyways I guess since I will be spending most if not all of my gaming time on my PC/PS3 with hopefully all of you guys and gals!

Collar duty: now with even more dog.

It was a nice read and definitely piqued my interests with the game sharing features. I have to admit, I also lit up a little bit when I read the words persistent world however, I don't think I'll be getting the system if I have to choose between the PS4 and Xbox One. Since I was eight, from my Playstation X to now, I have gone through a PS2, PSP and PS3. Sony has my captured my soul heart from a young age, I suppose :p

http://youtu.be/ryB-hdtpQRw

Angry Joe pretty much says what I'm thinking about it. Beware though, he's loud and cusses alot.


Also, I was never a one or the other console owner. I've always owned every console out if I could. The only reason why I liked the 360 over the ps3 was literally because of the controller. I still own a ps3, but didn't play it near as much as I did my 360. I've been very fortunate to be able to afford my hobby for myself and my son.

After reading and watching all of this about the Xbox One I am not excited about it at all. I should be excited, it's a new freakin console entry into the hobby that I love so much.

Edited, Jun 7th 2013 6:40pm by Hatamaz

To simply answer the title, no Im not interested. Playstation has always been my thing but last gen Xbox started winning me over with better titles/graphics. After all this though I will remain loyal to Sony...depending on how outrageous their details are Monday. I may end up PCGAMAR4LYFE

My Kinect kinda creeps me out. Honestly, it reminds me of the Dark Knight when they hack into all of the cell phones. Most of the time I keep it closed in a cabinet.

Consoles are going.to exist awhile. There are three reasons pc will never be the main stream platform of choice as is.
1. Too many different manufacturers. The three big companies cannot model the content how they see fit if they do not own a unified platform.
2.There are is no unified power gaming pc platform. When it isn't unified, that makes gamers wonder what the rules are. Can their system play this particular game? Is there a dedicated online service for connecting and playing with others easily through this particular pc platform? Can my gaming pc play every game out there since there is no standard rule that makes devs create games at a certain spec?
3.There is no gaming pc manufacturer who publishes games, creates games, creates custom peripherals or markets games for their machine as a gaming first pc on a whole.

As of right now consoles are claiming to be a gaming system first which can do some things a pc can do. And pcs are being a pc first that can do games. Microsoft should have made the first affordable unified gaming pc. Then if they didn't dominate the game industry. They would have at least made their system night and day different from their current competition. They could actually live up to ps3s slogan not hyped. "It only does everything."

Hardware competition doesn't breed quality. Developers breed quality. Whether we have 1 gaming platform or a hundred. We are not stupid children. The devs who pain stakingly strive for excellence will be the ones that sell above the other games.

Pc as of now can be way more powerful than consoles but the cost run up as they become more apparently powerful over consoles. If there was an affordable gaming pc. That would probably cement the death of consoles. There are a couple of dabblers such as the ouya experimenting with that notion. But they are not doing what I had listed under the topic three above.

Xbox one is going to sell. PS4 is going to sell. Nintendo is going to sell hopefully. We win either way. But lose at the same time if we do not buy all three systems. The exclusives are out of reach.

Edited, Jun 7th 2013 7:33pm by sandpark

Seeing as how XIV has a minimum required* GPU of GTX8800 I would go on as much to say that is not the case, just that pc developers understand their users upgrade much more often. Developers of console games are REQUIRED to match those specifications. A ps3 today is very similar to a ps3 from 2006. A PC today is VERY DIFFERENT to a PC from 2006.

It has everything to do with the limitations they have on a console and the creativity required to squeak that last bit of performance out of the system.


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Edited, Jun 7th 2013 7:48pm by burtonsnow

http://piersmorgan.blogs.cnn.com/2013/06/06/glenn-greenwald-on-the-nsa-and-prism-its-well-past-time-that-we-have-a-debate-about-whether-thats-the-kind-of-country-and-world-in-which-we-want-to-live/


I wouldn't be so sure. I don't really know one way or the other but I seriously wouldn't put anything past the US gov. at this point!

I am not replying to anyone. I am just stating my thoughts. You call it optimism. I call it realism. Everytime a console releases people start claiming it dead on arrival. I can only think of one console that lived up to that in my eyes. The Jaguar 64.

Yeah, well for those who didn't click the link above, they've already admitted to taking data from Google, Facebook, and Apple. I don't really think Microsoft is off-limits. Imagine the value of pictures from inside homes on the scale of "terrorism prevention and national security."



Very much this. We need software competition, and we have more than plenty of it (and where it lacks won't be made up in the least with console diversity--quite the opposite). But the biggest improvements in gaming hardware are not germane to consoles alone. It's predominantly integration of other aspects of improved technology. Processing and applications will get better if we just WAIT by virtue of all the other industries in which advancement is truly critical and valuable. Active development towards consoles is for the most part more about squeezing the consumers than pushing the tech forward, and the primary exception to this are the things that many gamers dismiss as "gimmicky."