Interesting article on new xbox

Does anyone else think its design looks like the Atari 5200? Just as I was getting used to slimed down boxes in my entertainment center, ms hits the 1995 is retro button.

Also if the kinect is always listening I can see issues with this. I had to turn mine off because during certain shows and movies it would pick up on what was said onscreen and skip back preventing the show from playing.
 
I think the way they were going on about the new kinect, it will only activate by your voice and motions so having something running in the background won't activate it.

When they unveiled it, my first thought was the monolith from 2001. Big black box.
 
It's the end... The $$$$ has outweighed the cause. Goodbye XBOX.. (I honestly hated you anyway) You will go the way of the sega console. You will be an afterthought in 10 years or less. Mark my words.
 
If Sony is smart, and they don't go down this same dark path, then victory for this generation is theirs for the taking. They need only reach out and take it. But if they try the same nonsense, then a plague on both thier houses.
 
I wonder when consoles will reach a plateau, where the technology included in the system and the price involved will create a situation where it just becomes too expensive for anyone, and they can't upgrade it enough for a relative inexpensive price to make it worth buying. I personally believe consoles have no longevity, are revamped too often, and are just too expensive to buy a new one every couple of years.
 
Scareb said:
I think the way they were going on about the new kinect, it will only activate by your voice and motions so having something running in the background won't activate it.

When they unveiled it, my first thought was the monolith from 2001. Big black box.
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That's what they said about the current Kinect.
 
Next xbox with new kinect brings new meaning to Big Brother is watching(and listening to) you.
Also a lot of the "cool stuff" the One will do samsung smart tvs already do, and better.
The 500gb harddrive is a joke sort of, way too tiny.

"It seems that for some folks, every time an executive said something like "Xbox" or "Xbox Live", those with a Kinect experienced issues like having the stream paused or being kicked out of it altogether, because they're the same terms the peripheral uses for its voice commands." :lol :lol

Sluis Van Shipyards said:
I can play PC games from 20+ years ago and they work.
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How?! What magic is tis? :eek I can't even get GTA IV to play properly :facepalm let alone great games from 90's :(

hansicle said:
and are just too expensive to buy a new one every couple of years.
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The 360 is soon 8 years old. Longest duration for any console generation.
 
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OOOOOOOOOOOps, didn't realize it was that old ;) I think I didn't realize it was that old because I just bought one last year.......not looking to replace it any time soon :p
 
It's okay ;)
Original xbox came out in 2001, then the 360 came out in late 2005 and now the One in 2013, a bit of a gap :p
You could always buy the new one in oh... 8 years? hehe
 
:lol That was hilarious. I totally agree with Lord Boron too. They have a real chance to seize the day here. I think they will. After all these years PSN is still free. You can opt to pay for a premium membership for more features if that's what you want. I've never had a problem with PSN... (except for the whole hacking thing but that was handled very well IMO).

As for playing older games on PC. I play the old Kings Quest games and the old MYST games at least once a week on my PC... So I don't know why anyone else can't.
 
The Terminator said:
How?! What magic is tis? :eek I can't even get GTA IV to play properly :facepalm let alone great games from 90's :(
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Three ways:

1. Steam games. Steam has a large number of retro games, such as old LucasArts adventure games.

2. GOG.com. Old games from the early-to-mid 90s (and newer stuff, too) set up to run on modern PCs. Works like a charm and DIRT cheap.

3. DOSBox and SCUMMVM. Two "virtual environments" that let you run old DOS games or the SCUMM games from LucasArts. (E.G. early Monkey Island games, Loom, etc.)

Jedi2016 said:
Not "always", but definitely on. It needs to call home at least once a day to remain functional.
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I could handle that technologically, but that sounds really annoying.

JoMamma_Smurf said:
It's the end... The $$$$ has outweighed the cause. Goodbye XBOX.. (I honestly hated you anyway) You will go the way of the sega console. You will be an afterthought in 10 years or less. Mark my words.
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Lord Boron said:
If Sony is smart, and they don't go down this same dark path, then victory for this generation is theirs for the taking. They need only reach out and take it. But if they try the same nonsense, then a plague on both thier houses.
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I think what you guys aren't getting (which is understandable) is that MS is fundamentally shifting their target market. They've been doing this for a while with the 360, gradually migrating it over to a more multimedia platform. The goal is no longer to produce gaming consoles. The goal is to produce integrated multimedia center devices. Think of this less as a "PS3 with a bunch of other media crap" and more like a ROKU or TIVO that can also play games.

You, as a gamer, are no longer their primary target market. Families are the target now.

So, if Sony decides "We just want to be a gaming platform that can do some other stuff," they will indeed capture a large portion of the Xbox GAMER market. But I think Xbox doesn't really care because they've noticed a marked increase in people using the Xbox for stuff other than gaming.

Honestly, I hardly use my Xbox for gaming these days, simply because I have a PC that can run most of teh stuff I want to play and I'd rather do that. I use the Xbox primarily for Amazon Prime videos and Netflix. That's about it, really.
 
Solo4114 said:
Three ways:

1. Steam games. Steam has a large number of retro games, such as old LucasArts adventure games.

2. GOG.com. Old games from the early-to-mid 90s (and newer stuff, too) set up to run on modern PCs. Works like a charm and DIRT cheap.

3. DOSBox and SCUMMVM. Two "virtual environments" that let you run old DOS games or the SCUMM games from LucasArts. (E.G. early Monkey Island games, Loom, etc.)
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Awesome! :D Great tips, thanks. Was REAL pissed off in Nov last year when I finally bought Halo 2 for pc and it wouldn't run on my Win 7 pc, and when I called M$ support(like it said on their website) they simply told me they dropped the support for that game a month earlier :wacko :facepalm
 
The only surprising thing that came from this presentation was that they didn't hire JJ Abrams to do the Halo series.
 
Solo4114 said:
Three ways:

1. Steam games. Steam has a large number of retro games, such as old LucasArts adventure games.

2. GOG.com. Old games from the early-to-mid 90s (and newer stuff, too) set up to run on modern PCs. Works like a charm and DIRT cheap.

3. DOSBox and SCUMMVM. Two "virtual environments" that let you run old DOS games or the SCUMM games from LucasArts. (E.G. early Monkey Island games, Loom, etc.)
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OMG I found Red Baron 3D on there!!! I'll say goodbye to my wife and kids for a couple weeks... :lol:thumbsup

Jeyl said:
The only surprising thing that came from this presentation was that they didn't hire JJ Abrams to do the Halo series.
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Okay, this made me laugh! :lol
 
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