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I had a chance to play with a set in local store. Controller is massive improvement regarding rumble and grip. Simple touch of coloring the letters ABXY and not

by iamshs 13y ago

I had a chance to play with a set in local store. Controller is massive improvement regarding rumble and grip. Simple touch of coloring the letters ABXY and not whole buttons looks so appealing. Nice to see such a beautiful UI. We (me and roommates) use 360 for TV, netflix, Play-To, and games. This will be nice upgrade, especially with UI being beautiful. I was hoping that the internals would be powerful, I want to see 4K games 5 yrs later. I do not think present internals will be able to push that many pixels. But Dead Rising 3 and Killer Instinct are addicting games. Will pick it up after Titanfall launches. I could totally connect with the use-cases shown in the video, as each one of us has different preferences and it becomes a hassle signing in and out. Will be nice to see it switching preferences on-the-fly. Here's to next-gen. Some videos: 1) Giantbomb impressions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXwud8fSNhs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXwud8fSNhs 2) Xbox UI walkthrough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhe6jV-APwM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhe6jV-APwM

simba-hiiipower 13y ago
I was hoping that the internals would be powerful, I want to see 4K games 5 yrs later. I do not think present internals will be able to push that many pixels. pretty sure they wont, but i think that's sort of the point, and it speaks to the fundamental difference in how they see the market evolving vs. sony with their ps4. i get a sense that microsoft views this as the last 'console' (in the traditional sense) they'll release.. everything from the architecture, to the internals, to even the naming, makes me think that this is meant to be just a 'box' - the one and only box you'll need - which will grow (in features and power), with more-and-more of the resources offloaded to the cloud over time... i think their original policies around 'always on' speak to that vision, but that's just my guess, and is why i'm more excited about the xbox one long-term.
- untog 13y ago
  Also they're making a very transparent play away from games being the primary focus. IMO it's a very sensible move as long as gaming doesn't get neglected.
drzaiusapelord 13y ago
>I want to see 4K games 5 yrs later Me too, but I'd rather have the console generation lifetime be shorted. Why not a new Xbox after 3 years? The 360 was released almost 9 years ago. How is this the norm? I'd love to see us PC gamers given some level of competition here. I can't tolerate 360 graphics unless they're super cartoony. It just looks like a PC game from 2004 or so. Incremental updates work for things like phones and tablets. I mean, people line up by the Apple store near me for a couple blocks (downtown Chicago) for a slight bump in hardware specs. Not sure why we can't have a faster update schedule with consoles.
- clarky07 13y ago
  To be fair, we did get lots of incremental upgrades to the 360, they just didn't change the name. The 360 selling now is much different than the one I bought 9 years ago.
  - drzaiusapelord 13y ago
    You got power and noise/fan savings and hardware fixes. In almost 9 years you went through 3-4 generations of video card technology, yet the 360 I buy today has similar performance of the one that shipped in 2005. My PC from 2005 would be a joke to game on. I think a lot of this shows the lack of competition in this area and plain greed. Why redesign when we can milk the current design? Our only real competitor feels the same and those critical of this will just buy PC games. Seems like console gamers are being abused a bit by these policies and the gaming world is always many years behind on consoles.
    - chc 13y ago
      I don't think it shows a lack of competition and greed. As far as I can tell, it illustrates a fundamental attribute of consoles: They are a fixed target. Game developers can hyper-optimize for the specific hardware in a console because 100% of the people using that console will be using that hardware configuration. With PCs, there's the question of how well your computer will play a game. With consoles, this question is instead binary: Either your Xbox 360 will play the game exactly as well as all the others or it will not play the game.

by iamshs 13y ago

simba-hiiipower 13y ago

I was hoping that the internals would be powerful, I want to see 4K games 5 yrs later. I do not think present internals will be able to push that many pixels. pretty sure they wont, but i think that's sort of the point, and it speaks to the fundamental difference in how they see the market evolving vs. sony with their ps4. i get a sense that microsoft views this as the last 'console' (in the traditional sense) they'll release.. everything from the architecture, to the internals, to even the naming, makes me think that this is meant to be just a 'box' - the one and only box you'll need - which will grow (in features and power), with more-and-more of the resources offloaded to the cloud over time... i think their original policies around 'always on' speak to that vision, but that's just my guess, and is why i'm more excited about the xbox one long-term.

untog 13y ago
Also they're making a very transparent play away from games being the primary focus. IMO it's a very sensible move as long as gaming doesn't get neglected.

drzaiusapelord 13y ago

>I want to see 4K games 5 yrs later Me too, but I'd rather have the console generation lifetime be shorted. Why not a new Xbox after 3 years? The 360 was released almost 9 years ago. How is this the norm? I'd love to see us PC gamers given some level of competition here. I can't tolerate 360 graphics unless they're super cartoony. It just looks like a PC game from 2004 or so. Incremental updates work for things like phones and tablets. I mean, people line up by the Apple store near me for a couple blocks (downtown Chicago) for a slight bump in hardware specs. Not sure why we can't have a faster update schedule with consoles.

clarky07 13y ago
To be fair, we did get lots of incremental upgrades to the 360, they just didn't change the name. The 360 selling now is much different than the one I bought 9 years ago.
- drzaiusapelord 13y ago
  You got power and noise/fan savings and hardware fixes. In almost 9 years you went through 3-4 generations of video card technology, yet the 360 I buy today has similar performance of the one that shipped in 2005. My PC from 2005 would be a joke to game on. I think a lot of this shows the lack of competition in this area and plain greed. Why redesign when we can milk the current design? Our only real competitor feels the same and those critical of this will just buy PC games. Seems like console gamers are being abused a bit by these policies and the gaming world is always many years behind on consoles.
  - chc 13y ago
    I don't think it shows a lack of competition and greed. As far as I can tell, it illustrates a fundamental attribute of consoles: They are a fixed target. Game developers can hyper-optimize for the specific hardware in a console because 100% of the people using that console will be using that hardware configuration. With PCs, there's the question of how well your computer will play a game. With consoles, this question is instead binary: Either your Xbox 360 will play the game exactly as well as all the others or it will not play the game.