Official Xbox One Thread

[killgod]

[JimLeavy59]

People on Twitter are trash talking what EA showed people aren't very impressed. The NBA stuff looks bad player movement looks stiff, I hope what they showed was pre-rendered and not actual footage.

[Swarley]

Report: All Xbox One games must be installed, secondhand players must pay fee

All games for Microsoft's Xbox One must first be installed onto the console's HDD before they can be played, according to a report from Wired.

Wired reports that game discs must first be installed onto the Xbox One and, if owners want to use the disc with a second account, that owner would be given the option to pay a fee and install the game from the disc. This suggests that, once installed, games may no longer require their discs.

It is unclear whether this means Xbox One will support used games and what this means for users who rent games or lend them to friends.

Current-gen consoles like the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 support used games, which make up a significant portion of retail game sales.

While competitor Sony is yet to confirm whether the PlayStation 4 will support used games, its VP of Worldwide Studios, Michael Denny told CVG back in February that it would "do the right thing" by consumers, saying that Sony understands that it's a "massively important issue" and it would be considering the wants of both gamers and game makers.

[JimLeavy59]

Fuck you Microsoft.

[TeflonDonny]

And here we go

[padman59]

Report: All Xbox One games must be installed, secondhand players must pay fee

And that explains why EA is discontinuing online passes.

[KINGOFOOTBALL]

I've never wanted a console to be hacked before launch more than I do know. Fuckin pay a fee for second user.. Lol scumbags.

What kind of abused wife syndrome do these game industry idiots have? Bitch and whine about used sales... Give gamestop preferred pricing and exclusive content. Fuckin hypocritical assnuts.

[JimLeavy59]

Xbox One Will Not Function Without Kinect Attached

http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/05/21/xbox-one-will-not-function-without-kinect-attached?utm_campaign=ign+main+twitter&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

[Swarley]

Xbox Live To Offer "Game DVR," Dynamic Achievements

In addition to the company's talk of "intelligent TV," Microsoft unveiled some new gaming capabilities for the next-gen version of Xbox Live. Xbox One allows players to save and share gameplay footage and gives publishers the ability to create dynamic achievements.

Microsoft's Marc Whitten spent a few minutes during the Xbox Reveal event today talking about the evolution of Xbox Live for the company's new Xbox One console. The new system and network architecture allows both gamers and game developers to access the power of cloud computing. This is going to impact your game experience on Xbox Live in some significant ways. For the gamer, Whitten says that all you entertainment content - games, movies, television, music, and more - are stored in the cloud and available to you "anywhere, anytime." This is also true for game saves.

Developers can also access the power of Microsoft's cloud for "direct game computations," which he said will result in "bigger matches and more persistent worlds." This allows for features like asynchronous matchmaking (meaning that you could, for example, watch television while you wait for your multiplayer match to begin) and - most exciting - the ability for developers to constantly update and add achievements to a game throughout its lifecycle.

It's worth noting, however, that any game using the cloud computation for core game features would essentially require an online connection.

To make all this possible, Microsoft is beefing up the number of servers on Xbox Live from 15,000 to 300,000.

[killgod]

Sorry guize, can't join you in COD tonight cause my kinect is acting up.

[KINGOFOOTBALL]

BTW that bothers and worries me.

There was a report recently that confirmed MS was actively monitoring Skype audio and video calls. As in watching listening monitoring not looking out for terrorists. Im not having that fucking thing plugged in and "on" all day. I dont trust a post Gates MS.

[killgod]

looks like the press felt the same.

[killgod]

quote from MS

"We purposefully did not target the highest end graphics. We targeted it more as a broad entertainment play."

So considering that and it's not as powerful as the PS4, can fatlas come in here and tell me how they are going to look the same some more?

[Swarley]

Your Achievements Will Transfer To Xbox One, Can Be Added Post-Release

Apparently you can take it with you. Microsoft announced during its Xbox reveal event that players’ Xbox 360 profiles and achievements are making the transition to the new system.

That’s good news to players who have toiled over the past seven years to scrounge up every last bit of Gamerscore from the Xbox 360 library. Microsoft has also revealed how the concept of achievements is expanding in the next generation.

“We find a pattern where a user will purchase a game, they’ll play the game, they’ve maxed out achievements within three to four weeks, but they’re playing the game six months later,” says Chad Gibson, Xbox Live’s principal group program manager. “We really want to enable our achievement system to fully embrace cloud power, which is why in this generation we’ve got cloud achievements. Achievements are decoupled from the actual client of the game, so a game developer can be adding achievements weekly, monthly, or quarterly and constantly be adding new opportunities for the game player and to constantly maintain and offer fun experiences for those users, even if they’ve been playing the game for six, seven, eight months.”

Companies can release new achievements for a retail game to keep players playing. The current system allows publishers to incorporate additional achievements with DLC. This is different. Under the new system, players can earn achievements that are doled out beyond the current 1,000 limit that accompanies retail games.

The new system offers publishers a considerable amount of freedom. Achievements and challenges can span between several games in a publisher’s library. For instance, Activision could hypothetically keep track how far a player runs in their entire Call of Duty career, rewarding players with an achievement when they hit a particular distance milestone. Or EA could award points to players who win a Madden game with a team that’s bound for the Super Bowl.

Microsoft didn’t say whether players’ avatars would be making the move, but they were conspicuously absent from the console’s reveal.

[JimLeavy59]