Xbox One

[IlliniM1ke]

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I hope your right. I want my consoles early and I have to work Black Friday.

I doubt they'd release it on Black Friday but like most others I'll be pretty surprised if they aren't out at least a little before Black Friday.

[Kevin26385]

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Latest voodoo on the benefits of the cloud:

http://www.engadget.com/2013/08/01/x...-processing-p/

Also, very important to reiterate the time developers are saving with Microsoft providing dedicated servers. The developers of Titanfall were raving about that shortly after E3.

[mestevo]

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External video capture solutions will work fine with the Xbox One, in case any of you are aspiring youtube celebrities.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/08/01/xbox-one-will-support-gameplay-capture-devices?utm_campaign=ign+main+twitter&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

Not sure why that was in question, but OK.

[m1ke_nyc]

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External video capture solutions will work fine with the Xbox One, in case any of you are aspiring youtube celebrities.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/08/01/xbox-one-will-support-gameplay-capture-devices?utm_campaign=ign+main+twitter&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

Not sure why that was in question, but OK.

Its funny on every article surrounding next gen consoles the comment section is flooded with people arguing about which console is better without a single second of hands on experience.

[Kevin26385]

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External video capture solutions will work fine with the Xbox One, in case any of you are aspiring youtube celebrities.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/08/01/xbox-one-will-support-gameplay-capture-devices?utm_campaign=ign+main+twitter&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

Not sure why that was in question, but OK.

Huge plus for those with capture devices. It will be interesting to see what the quality is like though.

[CaliDude916]

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I decided I'm definitely getting Xbox One. I was going to get PS4, but MS has done away with everything I didn't like so I'm finding it really hard to leave Xbox after all these years. Now just deciding if I still wanna pick up a PS4?

[m1ke_nyc]

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I really wanna get the Xbox one. I just feel like it has a better feature set. But the PS4 being $100 cheaper makes it tough. That $100 can be 2 games or a game and extra controller. Decisions decisions.

[xcrushx]

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If Microsoft were to drop the price to $400, it would give me something to think about. I think I'd still go with the PS4 but it would eliminate my problem with paying for the Kinect which I don't really care about.

[Boltman]

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Wha... Huh?

Xbox One is designed to be always-on for 10 years


Pretty good little read if interested.

[Scoop 24]

Microsoft Confirms Xbox One GPU Boost

http://m.ign.com/articles/2013/08/02/microsoft-confirms-xbox-one-gpu-boost

“This is the time when we’ve gone from the theory of how the hardware works - what we think the yield is going to look like, what is the thermal envelope, how do things come together - to actually having it in our hands,” Whitten explained. “That’s the time when you really start tweaking the knobs. Either your theory was dead on or you were too conservative or you were a little too aggressive. And an example of that is we’ve tweaked up the clock speed on our GPU, from 800 MHz to 853 MHz. Just an example of how you really start landing the program as you get closer to launch.”

[Trapper700]

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Microsoft Confirms Xbox One GPU Boost

http://m.ign.com/articles/2013/08/02...-one-gpu-boost

Good news. Not much of a boost, but this brings the Xbox One GPU from 1.24 TFLOPS to 1.32 TFLOPS.

[inkcil]

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Despite all of the negative pub, as a sports gamer, I am leaning towards keeping my PS3 and buying the Xbox 1.

Here are my reasons, as a sports gamer:

1.) 90% of the cross-platform sports titles looked and played better on the Xbox and Xbox 360 than on their Sony counterparts. Now I know everyone is "hoping" that the architecture of PS4 will result in better looking sports games, but this has been an issue for Sony going back TWO generations now, not just the PS3 era. So the whole idea that "Sony Devs have figured out how to make their games easier to design for" doesn't mean alot to me since the PS2 was easier to design for, but Developers STILL chose to port games from Xbox to PS2. So that's two generations of ported, inferior sports games. For instance, play APF 2k8 or NCAA 14 on PS3 then go and play them on 360.
2.) I've accepted that I will have to pay for online service. I'm at peace with that concept now. I wasn't in 2006.
3.) Xbox Live Arcade: There were a lot of sports titles that came to 360 that didn't come to PSN like MLB Bobblehead pros.
4.) I missed Forza. I personally found GT5 underwhelming.
5.) I can still play the Show for awhile at least on PS3. Crossing my fingers that MVP baseball makes a return or something else comes out. The Show is the best sports game, IMO, but I just got married, had a kid, started a new job and I hardly have time to play it anymore...it takes so long to get through a game. LOL.

[ffaacc03]

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Another "expert" view about both consoles, their features, similarities and also of Kinnect 2 ...

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/197463/Carmack_Xbox_One_and_PlayStation_4_are_essentially_the_same.php

[Trapper700]

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Despite all of the negative pub, as a sports gamer, I am leaning towards keeping my PS3 and buying the Xbox 1.

Here are my reasons, as a sports gamer:

1.) 90% of the cross-platform sports titles looked and played better on the Xbox and Xbox 360 than on their Sony counterparts. Now I know everyone is "hoping" that the architecture of PS4 will result in better looking sports games, but this has been an issue for Sony going back TWO generations now, not just the PS3 era. So the whole idea that "Sony Devs have figured out how to make their games easier to design for" doesn't mean alot to me since the PS2 was easier to design for, but Developers STILL chose to port games from Xbox to PS2. So that's two generations of ported, inferior sports games. For instance, play APF 2k8 or NCAA 14 on PS3 then go and play them on 360.

You're completely wrong on this point. It was more difficult to develop games for the PS2, because the original Xbox was basically a PC stuffed into a console (Pentium III processor paired with an nVidia graphics card and 64mb ram - double that of the PS2). It's why games were ported very easily from PCs to the Xbox.

"Difficulty" isn't what developers use when deciding on which system to begin game development on. They usually use the lowest common denominator, or whichever had the least powerful hardware. It's why the extra features of the xbox and gamecube games weren't being utilized, because the PS2 didn't have them and it wasn't cost-effective. If what you said was true, then they would have started development on the GameCube, because that was the easiest console to develop for in that generation.

The reason why games looked better on the xbox than on the PS2 was because it was a much more powerful device. Not because developers ported from that system to the PS2.

[inkcil]

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You're completely wrong on this point. It was more difficult to develop games for the PS2, because the original Xbox was basically a PC stuffed into a console (Pentium III processor paired with an nVidia graphics card and 64mb ram - double that of the PS2). It's why games were ported very easily from PCs to the Xbox.

"Difficulty" isn't what developers use when deciding on which system to begin game development on. They usually use the lowest common denominator, or whichever had the least powerful hardware. It's why the extra features of the xbox and gamecube games weren't being utilized, because the PS2 didn't have them and it wasn't cost-effective. If what you said was true, then they would have started development on the GameCube, because that was the easiest console to develop for in that generation.

The reason why games looked better on the xbox than on the PS2 was because it was a much more powerful device. Not because developers ported from that system to the PS2.

Ok, thanks for the insight. I heard NFL2k5 was ported and many other sports games as well...even back in 2001-2005 the word "port" was a common word. So I guess it can be difficult to know what was truly ported in every case (and why), but in many cases developers went on record about porting.

NFL 2k5 had a bunch of features on Xbox that were not on PS2, and many other games had better framerates on xbox. So, while I may be wrong as to why exactly this was the case, the bottom line is for 2 generations the Microsoft's cross-plat sports games have often outperformed Sony's. And I don't want to miss out like that again.

What do you think will happen with the PS4 and Xbox One?