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Admittedly, I haven't played used my XBO much for gaming so far, but I've used it a bunch for Blurays and other apps and don't have too much of an issue with the interface. What are your complaints? My only issue is that the voice command can be spotty at times which is annoying.
So now you have to pay a hundred bucks more for a camera that they are going to disable to get a little more power to the system. Brilliant.
Sure. The hardware on both of these is pretty poor, so it is laughable that XBO is taking a big performance hit to use this Kinect.
I bought an XBO at launch and just ordered a PS4, so I'm not really a fanboy of either. I will say that in the couple months I've spent with the XBO it has a lot of impressive features and the Kinnect is much cooler than I was expecting. Each system has its pros and cons.
yeah it was scheduled maintenance. The store was unavailable but online gaming still worked.
My only complaints are regarding the Snapped TV.
Specious argument. If a game doesn't use the Kinect why not redeploy that 8% processing power to what needs it?
I fixed your post. The point was if you are deploying a underpowered system why would you reserve 8% of the OS for a camera when it isn't used in the first place.
Because they were (and are) dreadfully behind on system software development. I like the XO, but the OS needs a huge amount of work. They are whacking moles at this point. That one was sticking up highest.
It took me a little while to get used to the PS4 menu, but now that I've grown accustomed to it I like it a lot more than the PS3 version. Except I do wish I could delete or somehow hide Music Unlimited and the Playroom thing. Oh, and they need wallpaper/themes.
The only way they could manage that is by eliminating the Kinect portion. And I don't see that happening. They've sold it as being an integral part of the XBone and have maintained for quite some time that they would not release one without that as a feature. Reversing course now would not only be a huge admission that they screwed up, but any developer that integrated those features into their game with the belief that all XBones would support it would be extremely upset.
The main rumor floating around is that the $399 model will still include Kinect but won't include an optical disc drive. I'm not sure how believable that is, since they would need to include a larger HDD if it was going to be digital-only.
The word is they are going back to their original design, the one without the disk drive to cut the cost.
The only notable difference that I have seen mentioned so far between the two versions is that Elder Scrolls Online is a free to play model. That means you would not have to have a Playstation Plus membership to play it, much like Netflix Hulu etc. If you get the Xbone version you will have to pay for a XBlive membership to access it.
And I heard for the first year, you have a monthly ESO membership of $15/month regardless of platform. For me, that's crazy talk. No way in hell I pay that on top of Xbox Live just for this game.
I agree that a Kinect less model would sell more sucessfully, but the weird thing is the Kinect is the primary reason for choosing a Xbone over a PS4.
I guess that makes sense from Microsoft's viewpoint since they probably despise paying royalties to Sony for the Bluray drive anyway.
Microsoft will patch in (hopefully soon!) the ability to use external USB drives to store/play games.
It so fookin' easy a caveman could do it. It literally took me 2 minutes to swap the original 500gb drive out and replace it with a 1TB version.
Yep. Really, all gamers should want ALL consoles to sell well. The last thing I want is a single console market. That would be the death of console gaming.
That's a denial, not a refutation. And it's the only thing Greenberg could possibly say on this topic since it's marketing suicide to confirm that you're planning on cutting prices in the near future.
Nice trophy list, I am pretty sure you have OCD though, you and I have roughly the same trophy score but you have twice as many platinums!
Did you platinum Dark Souls? The miricle achievement is redonkulously hard. Last one for me.
Nope. I'm missing the "Acquire All Miracles" trophy (which like you said has some crazy requirements) and the "Acquire All Rare Weapons" trophies (knowing that I wasn't going to platinum this anyway, I didn't feel like grinding for the Channeler's Trident). I see now that I'm also missing the trophy for maxing out a weapon with crystal reinforcement, which I'm guessing is one I must have just blown off because I never use that particular upgrade line.
I'd rather have console gaming die than have it go the direction MS is pushing things. Frees up more franchises to be on PC.
This generation is much cheaper than last generation was and that's without taking inflation into account. The Xbox One WILL eventually take a price cut but not now. Both systems are selling very well.
As a PC gamer, I disagree. I believe now is a perfect time to be a gamer on all current platforms - with Wii U being the exception :smhNintendo:I'd rather have console gaming die than have it go the direction MS is pushing things. Frees up more franchises to be on PC.
I can never find that damn button either. I just use the controller all the time now.
I'm only about an hour in, but it's been really tense so far with several good "jump" scares. Nice atmosphere too.
