I don't care what it is. From what I can gathered it seems to be more of a device that can and will spy on you with it's required kinect camera. Call me paranoid, a conspiracy theorist, whatever. I will not have that device in my house.
Should we even consider the Xbox One a games console?
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Seriously. I haven't even thought about it in like a conspiracy way, but more just in the sense of embarrassment. Are people just going to be able to call me without my consent and activate my camera when the console is on? I don't know about all of you but when I'm lying on my couch playing video games there is absolutely no guarantee whatsoever that I will be dressed at the time. What if I activate my camera by accident when I only meant to activate the microphone or because it misunderstood my voice or something?Brotha Desmond said:
If I did ultimately get the Xbone at some point in the future I can assure you I would be covering that lens up straight away.
Is the Xbox 360 a games console? Is the PS3 a games console? Can both of those devices do significantly more than game? Is this even a question?
This bandwagon of Xbone hate is tiring me very quickly. Why not get back to hating EA?
We can at least see they are bad. Right now the Xbone is being condemned too quickly. Wait until you see the games. THEN condemn it and call it a pile of crap. This is all just hearsay and other such shit.
This bandwagon of Xbone hate is tiring me very quickly. Why not get back to hating EA?
We can at least see they are bad. Right now the Xbone is being condemned too quickly. Wait until you see the games. THEN condemn it and call it a pile of crap. This is all just hearsay and other such shit.
Its bad marketing on MS' part right now. And there won't be a Nintendo to hold "worst conference" at E3 this year so the eyes are on them. Sony's set up a pretty nice preview of the PS4 already and have announced some exclusive that people are generally intrigued in.
That and the features of the PS4 seem to be good for GAMING so far. (Being able to play games as they download and such)
One of the main things MS has to do is have some damn good exclusives. Seriously, can someone name ten 360 exclusives that DIDN'T jump to PC or the PS3? Most of the "exclusive" franchises on the 360 either ended or became multiplatform to make more money.
MS has very little exclusive franchises left and the one that are left have been changed to such a point that fans of them are starting to wane.
MS also needs to really justify Xbox Live Gold accounts. Seriously, why do they still charge people for things that the competition does for free?
That and the features of the PS4 seem to be good for GAMING so far. (Being able to play games as they download and such)
One of the main things MS has to do is have some damn good exclusives. Seriously, can someone name ten 360 exclusives that DIDN'T jump to PC or the PS3? Most of the "exclusive" franchises on the 360 either ended or became multiplatform to make more money.
MS has very little exclusive franchises left and the one that are left have been changed to such a point that fans of them are starting to wane.
MS also needs to really justify Xbox Live Gold accounts. Seriously, why do they still charge people for things that the competition does for free?
It's not a games console, it's a water cooler. Weren't you paying attention?
OT: Although it's a games console in technical terms, in practice, it's more a Smart TV that requires another TV to plug it into, so I consider it more a Media Player, like the Apple TV
OT: Although it's a games console in technical terms, in practice, it's more a Smart TV that requires another TV to plug it into, so I consider it more a Media Player, like the Apple TV
if more people were like you mate we wouldn't have these pointless fucking threads bashing a product after a ARCHITECTURALPetromir said:
reveal. the games ARE COMING they're saving them for e3 which people forgot is a FUCKING VIDEO GAME FOCUSED EVENT, I'll bet my thumbs if ms revealed all their games they'd be saying "oh why didn't they wait to e3? they showed their hand too early?!" it's getting annoying frankly.
On a cheerful note i can't wait till e3!
selective memory at it's finest am i right? at least here the conversation is civil here, over on ign and gamespot it's like MS kills peoples moms or something, I can't understand the logic in hating a piece of hardware you know nothing about.meowchef said:
I bought my iPod Touch as a gaming device, and that's really all I use it for. I don't even have any music on it. The only non-game app I have on this thing is Netflix.
And y'know what, I consider my iPod more of a gaming device than some of the actual gaming devices I have. I own a device that releases a lot of great, fun, cheap, unique games every single week, and many games go on sale for free all the time. Just check the free page every now and then and you can get lots of free gaming entertainment.
...None of that is super relevant to this conversation, I just like pointing out because a lot of gamers I see still seem to have that foolish mentality that iOS games "aren't real games" (not that I am directly accusing anyone here of saying that)
Anyway, right now I have to agree simply based on the fact that...well...they didn't announce any games. Can't really call it a game system without games, right?
I'm sure the Xbone will have lots of fun expensive games that will not have any effect on my decision to not by the console, but I'm sure it will turn lots of other people around.
It seems like every console has this weird rocky period when it's announced or launched or whatever where fans are going "God, there are no games for this thing!!!" the only difference with the Xbone here is when fans say that...well...it's kinda literally.
And y'know what, I consider my iPod more of a gaming device than some of the actual gaming devices I have. I own a device that releases a lot of great, fun, cheap, unique games every single week, and many games go on sale for free all the time. Just check the free page every now and then and you can get lots of free gaming entertainment.
...None of that is super relevant to this conversation, I just like pointing out because a lot of gamers I see still seem to have that foolish mentality that iOS games "aren't real games" (not that I am directly accusing anyone here of saying that)
Anyway, right now I have to agree simply based on the fact that...well...they didn't announce any games. Can't really call it a game system without games, right?
I'm sure the Xbone will have lots of fun expensive games that will not have any effect on my decision to not by the console, but I'm sure it will turn lots of other people around.
It seems like every console has this weird rocky period when it's announced or launched or whatever where fans are going "God, there are no games for this thing!!!" the only difference with the Xbone here is when fans say that...well...it's kinda literally.
To be fair, a computer is a device with a great many features, one of which is gaming. However, until now, nobody has tried to go quite so far as to make a console do stuff like that, especially when it hardly needs to. Chances are, the PS4 probably STILL won't push things that far...because it wouldn't work. You give it SOME features, not all of them. That's more reasonable. X-bone's still a console, but it's kind of a stupid juggling act of one with too many pins, and we laugh when one of the pins bonks it on the head. It's the goofy clown of consoles.woodaba said: