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JoeK

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PS4 doesn't interest me either, mind you. I think I will stick with 360 for a LONG time, as there are loads of games (esp. XBLA games) that I simply haven't got round to trying yet.

I wouldn't put it past the buggers to lock all 360 XBLA stuff as soon as the new machine comes out :P .

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If that was the case, they would have put another proprietary connector on the end. Using USB 3.0 means any drive will work.

the original xbox controller was USB... with a proprietary connector on the end.

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Positives for a change:

Controller is more refined - better dpad, better thumb sticks, rumble in triggers

Faster, snappier ;) OS

Kinect works in a smaller space and picks up on facial expressions and heartbeat

New game IP's from first party

Exclusive DLC from big franchises

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Folks I haven't waded through the whole 40+ pages on the big reveal part of the thread yet so don't shoot me if someone else has already mentioned this, but I'd have gone with Xbox 365 as the name for the new console. It would have maintained the 36X brand better, it wouldn't sound like a backwards step, it's suggestive of a piece of entertainment hardware that you'll use for pretty much everything all year round (except in a leap year obviously) and, crucially, it'd have a startlingly obvious '5' in it, which is one more than PlayStation 4's '4'.

Is it too late for them to change it? Or shall I just call mine 365 when I get one?

(Arf! When I get 'One'! Maybe it's more catchy than I gave it credit for.)

365? Almost as shit as calling it the 720.

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I do fear for the indie games though, as presumably when they get bored and switch the authentification servers off for them they'll be lost forever

A very sad day indeed. A number of the better games have made it to the PC but that's just not good enough. Hopefully XBLIG will last as long as the 360 at least, but how long will that be?

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"What we were able to do is play a demo which had us don headphones and handle the triggers a bit in various scenarios that demonstrated the precision and power of the new motor setup. A helicopter takes off and the blades whup in time with the pulsing of the triggers, a car stops and the ABS brakes tock the triggers in time. A fireball grows in a hand, building your controllers vibration to a roar and releasing it in a fading blast of shudders."

http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2013/05/21/hands-on-the-xbox-one-controllers-refined-d-pad-and-4-independent-vibrators/

The ABS feedback sounds neat.

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Having spent the last week with the Oculus Rift I was hoping (although it was very much wishful thinking) that there would be some kind of tie in...maybe in the future with one of the consoles. It is so important the Rift runs at 60FPS so a tie in with a console to guarantee performance and frame rate would be utterly fantastic. Looks like I will just be chasing graphics card upgrades for the next couple of years at least.

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sixbuttons

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Positives for a change:

Controller is more refined - better dpad, better thumb sticks, rumble in triggers

Faster, snappier ;) OS

Kinect works in a smaller space and picks up on facial expressions and heartbeat

New game IP's from first party

Exclusive DLC from big franchises

I'm pretty much running with this as well. New Forza, a Remedy game and 8 new IPs is nothing I'm going to sniff at. In that moment alone I was more impressed than PS4, although I want both machines.

I struggle to think of 8 new IPs MS rolled out in the 360's lifetime, let alone one year.

I want more details about the PVR thing, because it sounds more up my street than the PS4 offering, with inbuilt editing tools.

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Positives for a change:

Controller is more refined - better dpad, better thumb sticks, rumble in triggers

Faster, snappier ;) OS

Kinect works in a smaller space and picks up on facial expressions and heartbeat

New game IP's from first party

Exclusive DLC from big franchises

Controller is more refined - better dpad, better thumb sticks, rumble in triggers - which have an integrated battery meaning you need a new pad once the battery dies

Faster, snappier ;) OS - which looks like windows 8

Kinect works in a smaller space and picks up on facial expressions and heartbeat - but will still be used for shitty eyetoy esque games nobody buys

New game IP's from first party - sports

Exclusive DLC from big franchises - more expense

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Harsin

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I still don't understand the need for a massive black extension to the top of the controller

That's the privilege sensor. If you moan about Day 1 DLC it administers an electric shock, if you talk about not being able to re-sell your purchases it sprays you with acid and if you complain about DRM it replaces all your games with Sim City.

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Ork1927

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I wouldn't put it past the buggers to lock all 360 XBLA stuff as soon as the new machine comes out :P .

While its not BC - surely the publishers are worried that their xbla sales may now fall off a cliff as no-one impulse buys games they now they might not play for a while.

Seems criminal that all those games will just disappear in a year or two when they eventually turn off the 360 marketplace.

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I'm pretty much running with this as well. New Forza, a Remedy game and 8 new IPs is nothing I'm going to sniff at. In that moment alone I was more impressed than PS4, although I want both machines.

I struggle to think of 8 new IPs MS rolled out in the 360's lifetime, let alone one year.

I want more details about the PVR thing, because it sounds more up my street than the PS4 offering, with inbuilt editing tools.

I always get dubious when ms makes claims about new ips, remember all those core new ips coming for kinect? exactly we got pos none working game and most of the rest are mia.

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Positives for a change:

Controller is more refined - better dpad, better thumb sticks, rumble in triggers

Faster, snappier ;) OS

Kinect works in a smaller space and picks up on facial expressions and heartbeat

New game IP's from first party

Exclusive DLC from big franchises

I agree with the rest, but how is the last one a positive? Don't mind if a game is available in one place but not another, but exclusive DLC is jut a shit practise given that it works both ways - gain exclusivity here, lose it there. For the same fucking game.

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I always get dubious when ms makes claims about new ips, remember all those core new ips coming for kinect? exactly we got pos none working game and most of the rest are mia.

Granted, but it's not going to cost me anything to wait until E3 to see what they roll out.

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Controller is more refined - better dpad, better thumb sticks, rumble in triggers - which have an integrated battery meaning you need a new pad once the battery dies

Faster, snappier ;) OS - which looks like windows 8

Kinect works in a smaller space and picks up on facial expressions and heartbeat - but will still be used for shitty eyetoy esque games nobody buys

New game IP's from first party - sports

Exclusive DLC from big franchises - more expense

Jesus, some people really are out for blood aren't they.

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JoeK

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While its not BC - surely the publishers are worried that their xbla sales may now fall off a cliff as no-one impulse buys games they now they might not play for a while.

Seems criminal that all those games will just disappear in a year or two when they eventually turn off the 360 marketplace.

And there's no chance of something like GOG ever happening on consoles :( . Which is why I'm thankful that I have a PC to do this when I have the need for it. It seems a really sad state of affairs that in the 360's prime, MS did an awful lot to promote indy gaming only to let it kind of...let it slide :( . You're right though - once they decide to, I can't seem a lot of these games ever coming back.

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Any way I look at this, even ignoring all this awful "entertainment" stuff, I can't see why Microsoft should be a platform holder that I would want to support.


As Moz mentioned, literally every move they've made has either been meh or actively damaging to the consumer.


The sad bit is that when the games come, people will buy it anyway, leaving them free to make an even worse walled garden.

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