XBOX ONE revealed

[Shoeberto]

Oh.

[Depression Moon]

I think they forgot their core. The Xbox 'core', as is the PS 'core', is gamers. Heck, their GAMING CONSOLES at the end of the day.

The Xbox reveal was focused primarily on the multimedia 'front of the room' aspect. The Xbox facilitates T.V, and movies and all of that. That basically is going to market towards families really and the sort of casual gamer you see.

Now, who routinely follows game conferences like this? Not families or casual gamers: actual gamers follow these events. What they essentially did was produce a conference geared mainly towards families while being scrutinised by gamers.

No wonder the reveal didn't go down well.

I've been wondering this since last E3. Why don't they show the games at these conferences and just release that other junk through press articles?


Also, yeah, the name is crap. I thought it was the original Xbox when I first heard about it.

[Loony BoB]

Over at Gamasutra they have referred to the new console as the 'Xbone' and I'm really hoping it catches on.

[Pike]

WiiU sales through the roof ever since the the Xbox One reveal

[krissy]

[HasteInTime]

WiiU sales through the roof ever since the the Xbox One reveal

OMG, I was wondering if that would be the reaction. Seems like I was right. Still, E3 is coming and those new Wii U owners will love Nintendo or GTFO the way for their approach- which has slowly been getting better and better since the 3DS in my opinion. I love the personal Nintendo Direct style of news. Microsoft has the Xbox Wire which doesn't feel as personal or frequent yet but I think they are on track in that regard to comparison. Each console will offer something different and I think Nintendo unlike Sony does "get" gamers, they just take their own sweet time getting to things sometimes, is all.

Yeah the PS brand is popular and so is the Xbox brand it seems 50/50 in the UK and in the EU it seems Sony wins that bet for shares in sales with Wii in Second. Here in the US It has been the 360 and Wii while the PS3 Struggled to gain enough sales to be considered a super profitable success like in EU and Japan are already.

It will be interesting to see how the sales data stacks up between Xbox One, Wii U, and PS4 in 3-5 years. Since this time Wii U is HD and has considerable backing from Nintendo for 1st party games and indie made games, while it seems to struggle with EA and Activision-Blizzard for addtional 3rd party support even though they bash it are indeed working on games for it. Meanwhile Sony certainly has its 1st party games. While some of its 3rd party "exclusive" companies, that may or may not jump to multi-console like Insomniac has (See; FUSE). On top of that they also encourage indie Devs to create for the PS4. It remains unclear what PS4 and Xbox One will become in its entirety until E3, but sure its dam interesting to watch and read about these so-called "console-wars' and see the people react in a "freak-out" sort of way. LoL.

I have called it; the Wii U is my main console with Xbox One in second, PS4 third. Figured it would work almost the same way this time for me. The only reason why is I have a soft spot for Nintendo and I love their direction and approach right now, however I'm just not really a Mii lover everything else aside. Which brings me to the Xbox One with all its features and my account from the 360 will transfer over without a hitch (and Yay~! Skype), this includes all my 360 friends, my avatar/gear and stats/Gamerscore. I have only one request to Sony- Communication (proprietary 1st party headsets and party chat) and the dissolve of timed exclusives the way they do them, in favor of a more clean and easier way to allow to release games multi-platform wise and actually advert 1st party exclusives and have a way for for exclusivity on PS systems, in favor of the supporting alll kinds of Developers and End-User/Consumer/Gamer doesn't get screwed in the process this way since only and I repeat only PS4 will get it. That and they need to clean house when it comes to adverting PS games, half of the PS3 games I own are well after they launched and I had no idea they were out in stores at all.

Sony is a messy ball of yarn to me and I want to play Sony games but they dont seem to want me as a Consumer/Gamer and Dev to care. I hope that the PS4 is a sign of good change for me and Sony.

Also as I have said once before; I will love my Dreamcast forever-n-ever and I would LOVE for SEGA to make another console but SEGA is now partnered with Nintendo for 1st party games from SEGA like Sonic the Hedgehog aka Lost Worlds for the WiiU & 3DS and future projects on Nintendo systems. Nintendo and SEGA seem to have finally become the best of best friends. No more of the slogans of old like "SEGA does what Ninten-DONT!" lamo... It's finally time I get to say goodbye officially to SEGA as a hardware company forever. SEGA will be sorely missed in the hardware biz.

Should SEGA come back around ever, I will be there in some-line somewhere really excited for them. Till then bye bye SEGA baby, I'll visit and see you in your games on the Big N's console and handhelds. (Congrats SEGA! :3)

EDIT: (thought this might settle us down on the Xbox One a bit more till E3.It's interesting at least.)
You Don’t Hate the Xbox One, You’re Just Jealous
http://gizmodo.com/you-don-t-hate-th...lous-509604549

[Shauna]

Pity that article you linked seems to entirely miss the point of why people are actually annoyed about the things that the Xbone seem to be bringing to the table. :3

[Pike]

Is this an actual ad? Because if so that's amazing xD

[Shauna]

It's not, it's a mock up. x3

[Loony BoB]

It totally should be a real ad.

[Pike]

I agree. Get on it, Sony!

By the way. The YouTube URL for the official xbox presentation has "ps4" in it. Not joking. (They also disabled comments because they were all negative xD)

[Loony BoB]

That is amazing. xD

[Slothy]

(They also disabled comments because they were all negative xD)

I see they subscribe to the Games Workshop method for dealing with fan criticism.

[Madame Adequate]

Honestly I'm not exactly excited for XBox 3 (Screw their dumb name I've already got an XBox 1 knocking around somewhere) but what I've seen so far certainly puts it above the WiiU and PS4 in desirability.

...what have you seen that I haven't? o_o You really like the Ultimate Team thing? Or Skype? Or uhm... uh... TV...stuff?

Nah it was terrible, even worse than the PS4's conference and that thing was a disaster. I was just trying to ruse, but I guess it was too insane to even garner much attention

[Bolivar]

Honestly, I think they actually are hitting their demographic pretty well. If you read around the web, a lot of writers are not on the same page as their readers with the backlash. These guys have full-time jobs and do a lot of their gaming on their phone/tablet on the way to or during work, and when they come home to their significant other and/or kids, their Xbox is used for the various ways in which it can play media. To that end, it's not hard to find people who actually did find the Xbox One event fairly compelling.

Personally, I was actually intruiged by some of the gaming features they did announce. Especially with the way Achievements evolve along with the user's playstyle. As a big multiplayer addict, I was pretty inspired by them teasing that their server architecture would allow devs to expand what multiplayer can be into a much more ambitious undertaking. And as I said in the Sony thread, turning my gamer profile into its own content hub is one of my favorite things about Steam. I like what Sony is doing with sharing, but it sounded like Microsoft is going even further. I'd like to see this stuff in action, and I assume we will while watching someone play Fallout 4 and the Respawn game onstage at E3.

I was surprised that their big innovation is tied to live TV, though. Not just because of the Exodus away from live tv over the last few years, but more so because Microsoft was kind of its Moses .

Welp, Valve is up next and it should be interesting to see how they round out, and possibly subvert, the next-generation of consoles.