Xbox One Can See, But Not Speak To, Xbox 360 Friends

[wetfart]

That headline is misleading. When I first read it I took it to mean you couldn't import your Xbox 360 friends list to your Xbox One. One reflection though, I'm not sure where I got that from.

Don't worry, that was my first take on the headline too.

If launch day doesn't go as well as Microsoft wants, I'll be curious to see if Balmer makes Julie Larson-Green fall on the sword for it.

 

[faefrost]

So remind me again about those supposedly awesome benefits of "always online, it like to watch you while you sleep" were supposed to be? because "ability to see but not talk to your friends appears" to be one of them.

Hmmm? Now that I type it out, I find I am actually seeing some benefit to this policy. All of my friends are jerks.

 

[-Dragmire-]

Interesting, I hadn't even thought of this. This will be the first time(to my knowledge) that console companies will be supporting 2 online scenes at once.

As for the chat, wouldn't that be an interesting way to show off cloud computing? 360 talks to One and the signal is received at the One with it's lower audio quality. One talks to 360 and server side computing does a quick conversion before sending it to the 360 in a way it can understand. Alternatively, just use a damn codec both systems understand.

That being said, they can't do that because they need to push the message that One is sooooo much better than the 360 they can't even talk to each other.

Btw, I'm not saying One isn't a much better piece of hardware than the 360, it is, I'm just saying that the need to push units will create artificial instances of separation between the two consoles.

 

[lancar]

That's right! The lack of vocal communication with your last-generation brethren is only one of the upcoming "features" of the Xbox One. No doubt, additional restrictions-- err, i mean features, will be revealed later on.