Official Xbox One Thread

[SethMode]

I agree with the first point, but the part about people being upset they've switched policies is completely rational. Some people want the future of gaming, not the PS3.1 and the Xbox 361.

Not arguing with those people that want that. Most gaming sites though are rife with people that hated Juan out of the gate. I have seen multiple people at some forums (one of which is hocked off of and posted here excessively) now say that they would have at least respected MS for sticking to their guns, but now they're STILL not buying it because they hated it before but now they also didn't stick to their guns (obviously all paraphrasing).

My point was less about the people that liked the ideas and were mad about losing them and more about the people that like to dislike everything.

[Houston]

Most gaming sites though are rife with people that hated Juan out of the gate.

Yes they wasted our fucking time. We all watched a press conference for a video game console, that had nothing to do with gaming. The part where they mentioned Halo(which got everyone excited) only to bring out Steven Spielberg to not talk about a Halo game...but instead some TV show, pretty much sums it up the entire experience.

[SethMode]

Yes they wasted our fucking time. We all watched a press conference for a video game console, that had nothing to do with gaming. The part where they mentioned Halo(which got everyone excited) only to bring out Steven Spielberg to not talk about a Halo game...but instead some TV show, pretty much sums it up the entire experience.

Oh come on...they wasted your time? You were watching a press conference about video games, and you expected not to be lied to in some way? Have you ever seen an E3 before?

You're posting on VSN right now man, surely that is exponentially more of a time waster than anything you would see at what could charitably described as America's Next Top Video Game.

[Houston]

Some people want the future of gaming, not the PS3.1 and the Xbox 361.

What was the future of gaming?

Being able to turn your gaming console on by talking to it?
Getting fantasy basketball updates on your TV screen?
Being able to watch trailers and order tickets for the Hunger Games Part 2 while you're still in the middle of watching the first one?
Not being able to play unless you're online?
Not being able to easily lend, trade, or sale games to your friends?

How is any of this a future that anyone should've wanted?

[Primetime]

E3 Press conferences:

PS4: 64% spent on gaming
Xbone: 61% spent on gaming


DAMN YOU MICROSOFT!

[Primetime]

What was the future of gaming?

Being able to turn your gaming console on by talking to it?
Getting fantasy basketball updates on your TV screen?
Being able to watch trailers and order tickets for the Hunger Games Part 2 while you're still in the middle of watching the first one?
Not being able to play unless your online.
Not being able to easily lend, trade, or sale games to your friends.

How is any of this a future that anyone should've wanted?

Just to name a few...

Always online
Digital era
Family share(Which they've reinstated partially )
Seamless transitions
Endless controller possibilities
Cloud

[Garrett67]

Link?

I hope they have my size

[jms493]

Yeah what the hell...where do I put in my size request. I want green ones

[Primetime]

The Xbox One Can Tell When It's Overheating, and Adjusts to Fix It

So here's a cool thing the Xbox One can do: It automatically recognizes when it's overheating—probably because you're an idiot and left a pizza box on top of it—and can adjust on the fly. In fact, it's designed with extra room to make those adjustments.

In our chat with Xbox's General Manager of Console Development Leo del Castillo, I asked how Microsoft can account for the unknowns it's facing with the new design—much more Blu-ray player-ish than its predecessors, which invites people to set things on top of it. That's never really been a problem for weirdo designs like the SNES or N64, or even the concave Xbox 360.

“We can’t prevent misuse of the product," del Castillo says, "but we can certainly anticipate it." That's done by the Xbox being aware of the temperature it's running at, and having the capacity to cool itself down in a few ways. "The way we designed the box, we don’t actually intend it to ever have to go to maximum speed under normal environmental conditions. But there is overhead. So we’ll allow the fan to go all the way up to its maximum speed and if that solves the condition without the user having to do anything."

It goes a little further than that, though. The Xbox One actually has the ability to ramp down its power usage, so that it's using next to no power when it feels it's under total thermal duress. This keeps it from melting the plastic in its body, and also from experiencing critical overheating errors, but at the cost of performance, most likely. These are old news to PCs in general, but fairly new developments for consoles, which can't reinvent themselves as often.

"One thing that we have more flexibility with," del Castillo says, "With the architecture of the Xbox One, is that we can dial back the power of the box considerably. We had a little less flexibility with the 360. And so basically, if we couldn’t dissipate the heat, there wasn’t a whole lot of leverage we could pull to keep the heat from being generated, so we had a limited amount of time before it just shut down. Xbox One can actually dial it back to a lower power state, so low in fact that it can in a mode that uses virtually no air flow."

He wasn't clear about if we'd see that lowest power state in games themselves, or only in apps or other functions, like watching movies, but it's an interesting addition—one that will need to be closely monitored and balanced, because the last thing you want is to be losing framerates on your game because your Xbox One decides it doesn't want the fan to wake up. There's a give and take, and it probably won't be tinkerable for the user. In fact, it's not really clear how it'll show up at all on your end.

"I don’t know the exact details of how it’ll show up to the user," del Castillo explains. "But we try to be as transparent to the user as possible. We’ll allow the fan to go all the way up to maximum speed. They might notice the extra noise, and that will help to self-correct the condition."

Using the audio cue of the fan is actually a half-decent natural design. And if the usually quiet fan gets loud as hell and no one bothers to move the 24-pack of diapers from on top of the console? "If we get to the point where that is no longer enough, we have the mechanism, the interface, to deal with that," del Castillo says. That means pop-up or banner alert, probably, which sounds annoying, but it's better than your Xbox melting to death.

[KNUBB]

The Xbox One Can Tell When It's Overheating, and Adjusts to Fix It

Big deal for XBOX. Already present on the PS3

[Atlas]

oh you mean how party chat is a big deal for ps4, but was already on the 360

[KNUBB]

oh you mean how party chat is a big deal for ps4, but was already on the 360

Who said its a big deal. Reliability is a much bigger deal. Just accept the jab and move on

[Atlas]

[Primetime]

YOLOD

[KNUBB]

YOLOD

Would you like to know what the YLOD stemmed from?

90% of the time the thermal paste has melted away so technically yes it overheats and shuts down to prevent further damage. It also does recognize overheating and turns itself off well before it even reaches YLOD status