Well said on all these comments DragonKnight. Too many people jump to a conclusion without actually analyzing the whole story. There were multiple ways this could have been handled without the need to call for a "personal army" as this woman has.
@showtimefolks
I just want to point out that besides three of the people responding to your comment have 3 bubbles, worldwide launches are usually problematic. There are a ton of logistics involved in shipping to every country in the world and manufacturing enough consoles to meet demand in all of them. Last gen was notorious for PS3 shortages all over the world. Both Microsoft and Sonys strategies have their pros and cons.
Hopefully both consoles sell really well. Th...
Yeah, because instead of downclocking the APU they overclocked the GPU portion of the APU. Is that standard practice when having yield issues?
The answer is No.
@nypifisel
"And don't spew lies, the yield have always been a fact, the natural reaction of a yield problem is a downclock to raise the amount of useable dies - hence a downclock was rumoured. You just don't know how it all works, cause you're not interested in the real world."
I didnt realize rumors were now considered fact. Especially when the opposite of a downclock ends up being the case. You are right that they would downclock if th...
@deadie
And 10 years from now when every console is pure digital sales and/or cloud streaming, you will be the person playing their PS4 saying you dont trust Sony and their new PS5.
The market is moving in that direction. There is no doubt about that. Perhaps it was a bit too early for Microsoft to try that approach. I happen to think they were planning for the future i.e. 5 years from now. A lot of products have failed because they were released before there time. <...
Yes you two, continue on with the speculation. Nothing makes someone sound more intelligent than speculating on unproven rumors. Keep it up!
Most of those changes are software related, and Microsoft is a software company first and foremost...
That was some nice stealth trolling you pulled right there.
"even if I do get an XBOne I wouldnt touch it in the first year till we see if its going to be reliable."
@BG11579
Dialects? There are obvious differences between the two countries and how they speak the language. You know, Spanish is spoken in tons of areas around the world; Europe, Central America, North America, Africa; But its not the EXACT same language in all of those places.
8 out of 21 countries is not the majority...
@HammadTheBeat
Kind of. Its more like a wrapper for the input signal since it can have more features built on top of the normal cable signal.
@Everyone
Just wait. Its possible for cable to make a comeback. A lot of them have matched the private DVR/PVR companies products features. Although the one thing I could see making an actual difference when it comes to cable would be buffet style cable plans.
Instead of buying a packa...
What are you talking about? I play on my Xbox 360 controller all the time with no batteries or battery pack. Just plug in the USB cable and your good to go.
"You might be wondering why Microsoft didn't just ditch the need for AA batteries and go with an internal rechargeable battery, as Sony has with its PlayStation controllers and Nintendo with its Wii U GamePad."
"We thought long and hard about integrating batteries," Alam said. "Rechargeable batteries have—this is physics—X number of cycles. After those cycles, the controller has to be replaced. So we decided that we wanted to give our customers an...
lulz... Not only horrible grammar and punctuation, but its topped off by stating your own opinion as an undeniable fact while trying to write off someone elses opinion.
Both controllers and systems have theirs upsides and downsides depending on the angle you are using to compare/analyze the two consoles. Your opinion is not a fact, other than the fact that it is your opinion.
"The internal wireless protocol that allows the controller to communicate with the console has been overhauled from the 360 era, replacing a 1.6 megabit per second connection of the old one with a modified WiFi protocol for the new one that enables 20 times the bandwidth which, in turn, Alam said, "allows a whole different variety of different accessories we can build with the controller and around the controller."
The new proprietary protocol—to be clear, it&#...
@kreate
I know Im jumping back to your first comment, but I wanted to give you some information I thought I had read before and is now confirmed.
"Other than that, the d-pad needs reconstructuring and the battery pack gets in the way of my fingers."
Hit the link below. Look at the Xbox One controller video and the image that shows the back of the controller. D-Pad is fixed and the awkward sticking out battery pack is fixed.
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Sounds about right. I had the same fan issue when I overclocked my HD4870. Although I didnt use any manufacturer software. I ended up using RivaTuner. Same principle though.
@malokevi
His name was Clippy, and dont you ever forget it! lol
Dont forget the Occulus Rift PSVita, but yeah, without a controller it would be an exercise in futility.
@The_Con-Sept
You know that was never more than a myth right... sitting close to a television is not going to ruin your eye-sight. Cant believe people still believe that drivel.
Yes, ban consoles. Thats the logical thing to do here... you know, because its not like multiple people use their accounts on one Xbox. There simply is no gold standard for monitoring users. Every single online community has this problem, whether its more prevalent in others or not.
Last I checked Microsoft does ban consoles, but for people who hacked their consoles. IF they were to change their policy to ban people in a more extreme way, I would imagine it would be IP based,...