What a nice picture of the Xbox One it is. Can someone guess why? :P
Call it 'Xbox 3' and start respecting your gaming tradition like Sony does.
Holding my fingers they will. It's the only thing that keeps me from buying one, because other than that it looks like a great console.
Didn't they say they're going to sell our physiological data to commercial companies so they can measure how we react to commercials?
Maybe it's just a rumor, but who knows? I don't want to pay 500$ to become a guinea pig for some psychological an physiological experiments of advertisement tactics.
Not optimized and more expensive. If this was the case they would probably just give 4GB of GDDR5 for games and another 4GB of DDR3 for the OS.
Almost 4 gigs of GDDR5 RAM for a console OS? Doubtful.
If every generation introduced a mandatory gimmick we would be surrounded by useless crap now.
Just make it optional and demonstrate it's abilities instead of going the cheap way.
@ joecanada
Clicked 'disagree' by mistake. Have a thumb up.
Yeah, me too! I'm very excited about the Xbox one since E3, and especially since they removed the DRM. It was my dream to buy both next gen consoles (I also has both consoles this gen) and this Kinect is the only thing holding me off.
Gimmicks aside, there is nothing exciting about this console. Not only is the hardware much weaker than the PS4's, this system runs 3 operating system kernels through a hypervisor, which means that games will run through something like a virtual machine, and will have a severely restricted access to the hardware, which is vital for a console.
This is probably the reason why Sony and Mark Cerny are so open about the architecture, while Microsoft hides from the media in a b...
This is a faulty argument. All those features are just minor enhancements that can be implemented without requiring Kinect. Just like Sony now requires to implement certain cross-play features with the Vita without requiring everyone to buy a Vita.
I recently bought Skyrim for Xbox, and it has some very cool features for people who like Kinect, like shouts and voice inventory management. And this is the way it should be - optional gameplay enhancements.
I was...
Nice feature, but still not a reason to make the kinect mandatory.
This generation this question shouldn't be asked in plural.
The camera in my phone is in my pants or inside the desk. The camera of kinect is in the living room, staring at me all the time, even in darkness. Why should I want it in my living room?
Do those features involve:
1. Waving your hands in the air,
2. Talking to your television?
If yes, not interested.
Why only 2 gigs of RAM? I was expecting 4GB at this stage.
I prefer physical and I hope it's here to stay. I honestly don't think manufacturing and shipping costs are higher than 5$ (at commercial quantity), and I'll gladly pay a little more for the freedom and value for money that physical media gives.
This is the "future" you were saved from today.
Rights > Convenience
I already made some new invisible friends to practice talking to myself for when my new Xbox arrives.