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Author Topic: If you hate consoles... Xone love hate?  (Read 43675 times)

Ozyton

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Re: Famous Xbox ONE being revealed.
« Reply #45 on: May 21, 2013, 07:20:26 pm »

The included Kinect should be considered more of a bonus
It's not something there to jack the price up? I can't imagine why I would ever use a Kinect. Maybe for head tracking (TrackIR) but that's aboot it, it's just going to be collected dust somewhere, and if you have to always have it plugged in then it's just going to be collecting dust in a more inconvenient spot.

EDIT: The used games thing is a big deal for a lot of people. The thing is you don't want to have to pay multiple times for something you already own. Not everybody has money they can just piss into the wind whenever Microsoft wants them to. (EDIT 2: this is also why having to pay to be able to play with friends online is dumb)
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« Reply #46 on: May 21, 2013, 07:21:00 pm »

The included Kinect should be considered more of a bonus
I think this is actually a big point for me. Hopefully developers will start implementing the Kinect as a part of the control system rather than trying to implement it as the sole method of control.

I'm thinking a button that activates the upper body motion tracking in a multiplayer game.
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« Reply #47 on: May 21, 2013, 07:24:06 pm »

Good god. You people all seem to be blowing this way out of proportions. This is not the end of the consoles, this is not the end of everything ever.

The whole "NO MORE USED GAMES!!!!!" thing? It's not that big of a deal. You pay the fee and you can play it, still probably at a smaller price than a brand new game.

The fee is the retail price. The new price. That's just to borrow from a friend. That's what the vice president has said.
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« Reply #48 on: May 21, 2013, 07:24:37 pm »

Basically you can pump up the profit margin when you include "extra free things".

And jesus gawd wtf are you doing microsoft? This made me craddle my PC and start singing to it softly.
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« Reply #49 on: May 21, 2013, 07:25:20 pm »

The connect is included for a pinnacle reason. It's voice and motion controls for entertainment are a big part of the entertainment aspect. My friend assures me that the voice commands and gesticulation work flawlessly without the problems of previous iterations. I am sure it will take some adapting, but it's a pretty cool functionality to voice control between gaming and television amongst other applications.
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Re: Famous Xbox ONE being revealed.
« Reply #50 on: May 21, 2013, 07:27:00 pm »

Basically you can pump up the profit margin when you include "extra free things".

And jesus gawd wtf are you doing microsoft? This made me craddle my PC and start singing to it softly.

There has not been a positive profit margin on a console in quite some time. It increases the potential loss on the hardware but increases the consumer demand, which is a strategy they are betting on.
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« Reply #51 on: May 21, 2013, 07:44:02 pm »

And jesus gawd wtf are you doing microsoft? This made me craddle my PC and start singing to it softly.
Your PC that is running Microsoft Windows?
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« Reply #52 on: May 21, 2013, 07:45:28 pm »

And jesus gawd wtf are you doing microsoft? This made me craddle my PC and start singing to it softly.
Your PC that is running Microsoft Windows?

Or Linux or OSX.
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« Reply #53 on: May 21, 2013, 07:49:32 pm »

I have a laptop that games quite well. Plays every game I try. Minecraft. Skyrim. Team Fortress 2. Bioshock. I have never encountered a game it doesn't play well. And I paid under $400 for when I bought a scratch and dent model from Lenovo. It has a dedicated graphics cards. 6gb of ram. It kicks.

I even wrote an article on how to find gaming laptops on the cheap.

Buying a Value Gaming Laptop on a Budget
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Re: Famous Xbox ONE being revealed.
« Reply #54 on: May 21, 2013, 07:53:08 pm »

Can the thread be retitled to something like "Hating on Xbox One" so that a thread for legitimate discussion could be made? Not only has this thread already devolved into general hating on consoles and PC Master Race circlejerking, it was never unbiased to begin with. The OP was about how a bs rumor that Xbox was anti-used game sales, not about discussing the console itself.
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« Reply #55 on: May 21, 2013, 07:55:33 pm »

Can the thread be retitled to something like "Hating on Xbox One" so that a thread for legitimate discussion could be made? Not only has this thread already devolved into general hating on consoles and PC Master Race circlejerking, it was never unbiased to begin with. The OP was about how a bs rumor that Xbox was anti-used game sales, not about discussing the console itself.

This so much.
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Re: If you hate consoles... Xone love hate?
« Reply #56 on: May 21, 2013, 08:00:21 pm »

Here we go, i hope it better suits where it went. I had nothing against console, but when i saw that, the DRM crap they putted out hard to not be unbiased,
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Re: Famous Xbox ONE being revealed.
« Reply #57 on: May 21, 2013, 08:00:51 pm »

Can the thread be retitled to something like "Hating on Xbox One" so that a thread for legitimate discussion could be made? Not only has this thread already devolved into general hating on consoles and PC Master Race circlejerking, it was never unbiased to begin with. The OP was about how a bs rumor that Xbox was anti-used game sales, not about discussing the console itself.

This so much.

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Re: Famous Xbox ONE being revealed.
« Reply #58 on: May 21, 2013, 08:09:23 pm »

There has not been a positive profit margin on a console in quite some time. It increases the potential loss on the hardware but increases the consumer demand, which is a strategy they are betting on.

Yeah, hardware as a loss leader is not a new plan.... Hp, and their printers?  The ones people always complain about the ink costs?  _HUGE_ loss leader.  Depending on the model, the retail price can sometimes be less than _half_ of what it costs to produce.  Yeah, let that sink in for a minute.

Can the thread be retitled to something like "Hating on Xbox One" so that a thread for legitimate discussion could be made? Not only has this thread already devolved into general hating on consoles and PC Master Race circlejerking, it was never unbiased to begin with. The OP was about how a bs rumor that Xbox was anti-used game sales, not about discussing the console itself.

This thread is representative of the discussions I've read elsewhere today, even discarding the livesnarking while the event was going on, and the cynical bias of The Internet(tm).  People are not happy about a lot of the things announced.  Overall positive opinions have been virtually non-existent.

I'm usually quiet about my Master Race membership card (I had to chisel mine out of old mobo PCB), but this was too good of a chance to pass up.  Take it with a grain of salt.
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Re: If you hate consoles... Xone love hate?
« Reply #59 on: May 21, 2013, 08:19:01 pm »

Or just sign into your XBox account while at your friends house?
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