dissapointed in the one reveal tbh.
Now it's official. Sony in February announced the Playstation 4 and today Microsoft announced the Xbox One. Sony only announced the internal specs, some features and game demos. Sony did not provide what the console will look like, a price and release date. On the other hand Microsoft has provided what the console will look like and the features it will have (Kinect and Smart Glass). The internal Hardware on both consoles are identical. (8 core x86, 8GB of RAM, 500GB of storage). Both the Xbox One and PS4 do no support game on Xbox 360 and PS3. Sony has revealed that the PS4 can stream PS1,PS2 and PS3 games while the Xbox One has no support. Does the fact that the Kinect has to be connected in order for the Xbox to function bother you. Does lack of Playing Black Ops 2 on Xbox One sway you away from purchase. The fact that users have to pay a fee for used games is an absolute atrocity. Are Graphics enough to make you purchase the Xbox One or PS4. What are your thoughts
Backwards compatibility doesn't bother me. Never has.
Paying for used games - still waiting for full details on that - but yeah, that would put me off the one. Not because I buy used games, I don't. But I do buy a hell of a lot of new releases and usually trade them in within a month - and therefore if used games sales are affected - they would also impact trade in pricing too.
Black Ops 2 - couldn't give a hoot. Played single player and it was all meh! and I rarely if ever play multi-player games
Re: TV integration. Likewise the concentration on media content on Xbox One is great if your in a country with access to that and fast broadband, otherwise meh! I don't see how routing everything through my xbox one would save me that much of time that pressing input on my TV remote.
There was actually nothing tangible at the Microsoft conference to persuade me 'a gadget obsessive' to part with my cash, or choose it over the PS4. The PS4 at least showed games and 'gameplay' - something a gamer can get their teeth into.
As for Kinect 2.0. No thanks. Kinect never worked in the first instance for me sufficiently to make it anything other than a dust gatherer on my TV. And no I don't feel like gesturing my arms like a loon or shouting at my console to do something a quick button tap or trigger press can achieve. Its a solution to a problem I don't have.
Also all games must be installed to HDD. Well if retail games get to the sizes of 20-50gb next gen - that 500gb HDD is going to fill up fairly quickly. Unless there are tangible benefits to the user to off shoot that (other than DRM benefits for publishers) then it's not so great. Yes we could put a 2tb drive in there - assuming it allows us access to do so - but if this was so future forward as Microsoft claim to be - then couldn't they have stuck a 2tb drive in there for a start....
Also this future promise of 'cloud computing' to help offload game processing will never happen. It's a nice idea in principal but we are very far away from having so fast internet access globally that can send intensive data up and down from a server to your computer without causing any kind of lag in such a way that it didn't interfere with gaming experience. It's a nice idea in principal, in practice it will be forgotten in 12 months time.