If you use the Xbox One's non gaming services like Skype and Live TV then yes. I got a Day One edition when it launched and its been great watching TV and Skypeing with family around the country. My brother and I watch football and Basketball together. I also use the voice commands all of the time. When my parents visited and saw the voice commands for switching channels, my mom immediately thought of getting one for my dad. I have a PS4 as well, but where the Xbox truly beats it is in th...
If MS gets just one cable company like Comcast to sell its console as a standard DVR/media hub option for $149 down on a 2 year contract, that gap may close quicker than you think.
My friends from another state and I are going to watch on our XBox Ones and Snap Skype so we can watch together. I tried it with the Heat game the other night, but this time we are going to try a Group Video call. It should be interesting at least.
I actually use the Kinect to Skype to family members around the country. My wife uses it to exercise with her sister, and my Parents read stories to their grandchildren in their livingroom. I would have gotten one with a Kinect even if there was a option to not have it. I use it to jump to my favorite TV channels without having to remember what channel number it is on. I get it that some people don't want it, but to me its useful every day. I just hope they enable it to work in Snapped mo...
@zeuanimals I was really referring to apps that could exist on Windows phone like Smartglass that could interact with a game like we see with Tom Clancy's The Division, but project Fortazella might work when you have access to the cloud to do the rendering for you. If projects like Gaikai's PS Network can do it and stream the interactivity, I'm sure Microsoft can.
I think that the main difference between the two companies offerings will be that Sony's will only work with the PS4. Microsoft's will in all likelihood work with Windows, Xbox one, and Windows Phone due to them not only owning all three platforms, but having universal apps that will work a all of them.
I have both consoles, but I have to say that if MS can pull off a Halo tournament where the winner(or even the top 5) gets their Gamer Tag or even their Spartan to show up in the TV show, it not only would be a huge win for MLG, but the gamer would have instant immortality in the gaming community, especially if they treated him like a rock star on tour.
It will be interesting to see how they handle this, the Gears game and Kinect Sports.
Also while Windows Phone has a low user base, it will benefit from DX12 as well. MS is pushing pay once run anywhere and for those users in the WP ecosystem they may benefit from being able to buy "lite" games like Halo Spartan Assault 2 and run it anywhere they want. It may attract more people to their phone platform.
I would love to see a weekly contest where if you win, you get your gamer tag listed in the show or on the credits somewhere. They could even Skype to you. There's lots of potential here. It could take esports to the next level.
Sony has TV and Movie studios. Microsoft now has their own production services. To me, I think it just sounds like Microsoft just has their different divisions working better together. Sony could easily do the same thing. If they did, would you complain?
It will take some refinement, but I could easily see Sky and other cable/satellite providers offering subsidized Xbox Ones for a reasonable amount down(say £99 - £150) on a 2 year contract with free Xbox Live for the duration of the contract. It would stem cord cutting for those who would want one and are considering with streaming only solutions like Roku, Apple TV, PS4, and now Amazon Fire HD. I especially like the One Guide.
Later this year MS is supposed to be ...
Most of the people I know of including myself who got it, bought it digitally. If this is true then they have probably sold more than 2.5M copies. Yes its a wild ass guess, but it looks promising for digital sales.
The promotional Deal for $399 that lasted only 30 minutes was for a bundled XBox One with either Titanfall or Forza. The Xbox One Bundle with Titanfall is regular price at $450.
I agree. This is why the Xbox One has a huge advantage over the PS4. Any of the cable or satellite companies could make a deal with Microsoft to offer Xbox Ones On a subsidized contract for $99 down and it would not affect their own offerings since the Xbox One would use the HDMI input and not use large amounts of I.P. bandwidth that streaming uses. The cable companies wouldn't have to worry about multiple devices in a home all streaming unlike the PS4. It also could be tied to a package ...
Its still too expensive for a enough users to buy before developers will make real AAA games continuously for it. Most revs won't target less than a 10%marketshare either. So lets do the numbers shale we?
Lets look at the up front costs. Its a minimum of $399 for the console, $60 for the camera, $300 for the VR Headset, and say $99 for a decent set of Bluetooth headphone that will be compatible for it(yes you have to get headphones too). That is roughly $860 without purch...
How about this being another piece of enabling "Buy once run anywhere" as the Microsoft ecosystem matures into a more cohesive ecosystem? Would that be a game changer? Xbox, PC, Windows Phone will all have the same APIs soon. This is another step toward making that vision possible. None of the other ecosystems can do this.
You have to understand that part of the reason the Xbox one is having performance issues is the architecture of the operating systems. There's a virtualization/hardware abstraction layer and then on top of that there's the OS for the games and the Windows 8 styled OS interface for apps. Part of the problem (I believe) with this model is that the games have to essentially process through an emulator/translator to talk to the hardware. Direct X12 seems to have allowed a more direct/effi...
They have better products at NASA. I know I worked at Goddard and JPL 10 years ago and what they had was significantly better than this. If anything they are just curious and looking at it as a cheap revision to what they have. My friend who is still there says they looked at Oculus as well. They have been using it to do things like plan the path that rovers will take since commands take a little more than 8 minutes to get to Mars. if they were sending live commands, the rover might end up in...
@darthv2 It will be one set per PS4
I am getting a 49" Samsung ultrawide monitor in a couple of weeks. This is going to be amazing on it!