Interesting article on new xbox

I've worked in a repair center for the past 7 years and the failure rate of PS3s is much higher, more so with the slim consoles. The 360s did fail faster but the numbers defiantly evened out.

With the ps3 slim the power supply are laser prone to just dying and the drive mech would fail alot. The 360 slim did actually fix the problems the 360 had with the main fault being the drive tray derailing and need slotting back. It's a very reliable machine.
 
Well, some people will be happy. Others will just bitch that it's something else for them to buy. Now that that's out of the way, can we skip the next fifteen posts about it? :ninja
 
I don't care what anyone says, as soon as you go to a slimline anything it isn't worth it. The ps2 slim is okay but you cram that much crap into a tinier case and you're going to overheat. I had a slimline pc that no matter what unless it was in ac at like 50 degree you could nearly cook an egg on it. i'm going to avoid the ps3 slims if at all possible.
 
My PS3 slim runs about 100 times cooler than my fat model. It has newer chipsets that don't require nearly as much power so they can make it smaller. They are not just cramming the same stuff into a smaller case. I much prefer the slim because the fan doesn't sound sound like a 747 and I can run it all night without fear of it bursting into flames. (I do miss the backwards compatibility though....)
 
I wonder if my ps3 is a slim. I know for a while my 360 sounded like a jet taking off but it doesn't do it anymore. i do like the way the ps3s vents are, i hate having to have a dust cover on my 360 when it's laying flat so no dust gets in when i'm not running it.
 
Now all they have to do is offer a model that doesn't come with the Kinect and I'll consider getting an Xbone. Not paying $100 for something I have no intention of ever using.
 
I wonder when they will change the name... since there's already an Xbox one.

Lord Boron said:
Now all they have to do is offer a model that doesn't come with the Kinect and I'll consider getting an Xbone. Not paying $100 for something I have no intention of ever using.
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Hear hear!
 
Lord Boron said:
Now all they have to do is offer a model that doesn't come with the Kinect and I'll consider getting an Xbone. Not paying $100 for something I have no intention of ever using.
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Same here. My sister has a Kinect and my niece and nephew played a few games on it right when the got it, but not since. It's a gimmick.
 
Yeah i wanted a kinect for my system accessory collection but they're too pricey even used at the moment. You guys see the changes they're doing by getting rid of xbox points and getting rid of family accounts so that everyone who uses it needs an account?
 
Wes R said:
Yeah i wanted a kinect for my system accessory collection but they're too pricey even used at the moment. You guys see the changes they're doing by getting rid of xbox points and getting rid of family accounts so that everyone who uses it needs an account?
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Points are being converted into local currency. No more fuzzy exchange rate for space bucks. This is a good thing.

As for family gold accounts going away they've been very clear that on Xbox One only one person needs to have a Gold subscription for everyone on that console to use Gold functionality like game DVR and Netflix. Yes, you'll want to give your kids and wife their own accounts but you were probably doing that anyway so they wouldn't bone up your achievements. This is also a good thing because you don't have to buy an expensive family plan for everyone on your console to have those features.
 
The shame of it is that Kinect seems like a technology with such potential...but nobody's building games for it. Like, I'd LOVE a realistic sword-fighting game where things like your footwork and the angle of your attack and such would count. That's not possible without Kinect. Or a game where your actual movements control the avatar 1:1 in the game world. It'd be awesome to be playing something like BF3 and actually have how you crouch or whatever matter.

Instead, they do doofy dancing games and other crap in which I have no interest. The only other value is voice control and even that's supposed to be kind of wonky.
 
My issue with the Kinect is you have to be so far back it doesn't translate we'll to smaller rooms. I don't want to have to move my coffee table and couch every time I want to play.
 
I'd imagine a lot of developers don't use kinect because it pretty much eliminates portability.

If you're using motion capture as the premise of the game, it isn't going to work for PS3 or WII or PC - though, they were supposedly doing a kinect for PC that was $50 more than the xbox version. Never heard more than the announcement though. But porting one of those games to the PS3/4 for example, is a total rewrite of the entire input of the game.

I'd love to play the swordfighting game you describe though :) Just need multiple feedback points along your sword so you can feel the contact :)
 
Plus accuracy of shooting after jumping up would be difficult againt fast controllers. When your hand eye coordination was still adjusting etc. Future soldier is kinect ready but never tried it. So no sure about the features.

J



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The novelty of the kinect wore off long ago just like the Wii's novelty. Microsoft just doesn't want to admit it.
 
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