The Xbox One

[koopaking]

So what do you guys think of the new Xbox One that was released today?

Looks like it has pretty good voice recognition, I wonder how people will connect VoxCommando with this.

Here is a link to the reveal if you haven't seen it:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidewalt/2013/05/21/video-live-stream-microsoft-xbox-event/

[Mace]

Impressive!

[Mark Norville]

Currently I am not impressed to be honest. This is coming from a 360 gamer. Unless I win the lottery before the launch date then I shall not be buying it upon release. If it had of been backwards compatible,  then that might have been a different matter. The other big matter is that you have to pay to use second hand games, which could wind up being expensive. Most of my collection is second hand titles and I still plan on collecting more.

I have no interest in connecting up to a sat dish or having live TV on there. I am not interested in it being a multimedia centre. All what I am interested in is gaming, even though at my age then I am not so much into that anymore.

E3 will be the big show to watch for both PS3 and One.

[IKROWNI]

I have always been a huge MS fanboy when it came to the xbox, sadly they have lost all of my respect. The kinect is an always on object with no way to turn it off without unplugging your console from the wall. After the whole NSA MS Skype thing im sure there will be something in the ToS that allows them to give away your private videos and audios to anyone that they want to.

[jitterjames]

So I should not be doing my naked dances in front of the xbox even when it is in standby?  Is that what you are saying?

[IKROWNI]

pretty much or if you have children and plan on getting them an xbox one i would keep it out of there room, my daughter gets dressed in there. aside from that one reason there. plenty of other reasons i couldnt bring myself to grab an xbox one.

ddr4 comes out around same time as the new consoles which doubles the speeds of ddr3, they are using an amd cpu thats only clocked at 1.6ghz, the gpu is equivelent to a gpu from 5 years ago, they tried to force DRM then removed it, because of the outcry but i wouldnt put it past them to sneek it in on a console update. They removed features like the family share plan because they didnt get there way? what kind of company does that? why pay for your internet 2x which is what happens with there live subscriptions. even though i pay for internet and pay for netflix i still have to pay even more to access it through the xbox.

but sony is no better as a matter of fact i had my ps3 only till they took the linux abilities away.

me personally im looking forward to the new hardware and new steam features coming up soon.
2 of these outperform the GTX titan http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DGM8B6O
2x the speed of ddr3 http://www.crucial.com/promo/DDR4.aspx
steam big picture http://store.steampowered.com/bigpicture
steam game sharing http://www.gamespot.com/news/steam-may-allow-game-sharing-report-6410433
12k resolution http://www.techpowerup.com/187847/12k-resolution-gaming-setup-renders-1-5-billion-pixels-costs-17-000.html
haswell-e http://www.extremetech.com/computing/158824-haswell-e-to-offer-ddr4-support-up-to-eight-cores-in-2014

Right now for $1 you can grab saints row 2, saints row 3, sacred2 , and risen 2 for steam. Add that up for the 360 or ps3 version and your investment is about $120
https://www.humblebundle.com/

Occulus rift will be coming out before to long, and with it there is no need for any other system not when you can basically be in and be a part of the game.
http://www.oculusvr.com/

MS says the xbone can handle 4k resolutions but with hdmi 1.4a on the console you will only get your 4k at 30hz which is terrible for gaming or 3d.
http://www.brightsideofnews.com/news/2013/3/4/the-state-of-4k-and-4k-gaming-early-2013.aspx

most games will most likely still be 720p upscaled to 1080 and they will still be turning down tons of the graphics settings to get there reported 60fps 1080p in BF4


i would also take that reveal with a grain of salt since they were using GTX780 GPU's in a pc running an emulator to show off the xbox one, and when they did try running BF4 on the xbox one it crashed and they took it right back to live feeds. also the part with the kinect using voice was all streamed as well none of that was real just smoke and mirrors.

xbox one is just a glorified spying cable box.

[MrWolf]

IKROWNI's summing up is brilliant.

If anyone asks my opinion I will forward them to your post as I couldn't put it any better.

The only problem with PC gaming from the perspective of wanting an all in one solution that looks pretty is that Ubisoft force their crappy Uplay  interface on you if you if you intend to play Ubisoft games.  I just got Splinter cell blacklist free with my graphics card and thought to myself "I'll just use Vox to launch it so I can go straight from XBMC to playing my game without picking up my mouse", but I'm stuck.  I've done it successfully with a few Steam games by using Launch.RawParam and entering the shortcut.  I got the shortcut from the properties of the desktop Icon.

I don't know if Ubisoft are trying to spoil my fun intentionally, but the desktop shortcut for Splintercell is "D:\Uplay games\src\SYSTEM\gu.exe" and that just launches the Uplay interface without the game.

Anyone know a solution?

-P