Xbox: A New Generation Revealed - Conference Thread

That was even worse than expected. Lots of exclusives coming though so I guess we have to wait for E3.

Mr Chips wrote:Its nice to see the console though.

It looked like a strawberry floating first-gen VHS recorder!

Straight in with the lack of games.

In conclusion, that's about as worst of a reveal as anyone reasonably expected. It's not PS3's Giant Enemy Crab bad, but it shows Microsoft has done nothing to appease its critics (and indeed doubled down on the entertainment-only-available-in-the-US gooseberry fool with the NFL moneyhat and the Halo TV series) and more to the point completely failed to deny any of the negative rumours. [Edit: oh, and now they deny always online in the post-show. I suspect lots of people will miss that tidbit] Of special note is the lack of a mention of backwards compatibility, which they at least noted in the 360 reveal to much applause. Therefore, my working assumption on the subject: the Xbox1 is not backwards compatible with any 360 games.

No always online. Glad to see that debunked.

GrinWithoutaKat wrote:Eh. Not a lot to get me excited here, but I think they could have a great E3. 15 exclusives for launch including 8 news IPs? THAT has me interested, but I could not care any less about this TV, movies and music crap.

Year I think he said.

Oh dear. That was very disappointing.

KKLEIN wrote:Didn't want to overload people with too many games.

OUTSTANDING.

Mission accomplished.

Anyone who was disappointed with that had completely the wrong expectations.

They showed the console, specs, talked about what it could do, showed 1 new exclusive game and confirmed they have lots more and confirmed its launching in 2013. Oh and they announced they are creating TV series out of their biggest franchise with one of the biggest directors in the world and I guess not important for here, but the link up with NFL is huge for the US.

Not sure what else you realistically could have expected.

I thought the multitasking stuff worked really well, the interface looks good.

Only two things really missing. Firstly with all that TV stuff and a 500GB HDD...why isn't the box a PVR. Secondly, price point. Other than that it was just about perfect.

Steve wrote:

Mr Chips wrote:Its nice to see the console though.

It looked like a strawberry floating first-gen VHS recorder!

it's the betamax of nextgen

Delusibeta wrote:In conclusion, that's about as worst of a reveal as anyone reasonably expected. It's not PS3's Giant Enemy Crab bad, but it shows Microsoft has done nothing to appease its critics (and indeed doubled down on the entertainment-only-available-in-the-US gooseberry fool with the NFL moneyhat and the Halo TV series) and more to the point completely failed to deny any of the negative rumours. Of special note is the lack of a mention of backwards compatibility, which they at least noted in the 360 reveal to much applause. Therefore, my working assumption on the subject: the Xbox1 is not backwards compatible with any 360 games.

The stuff about a smaller streaming device for BC could be true. They did say at the beginning that they would talk about the future of the 360 at E3, so I wouldn't completely rule out BC although it's not looking promising.

Delusibeta wrote:In conclusion, that's about as worst of a reveal as anyone reasonably expected. It's not PS3's Giant Enemy Crab bad, but it shows Microsoft has done nothing to appease its critics (and indeed doubled down on the entertainment-only-available-in-the-US gooseberry fool with the NFL moneyhat and the Halo TV series) and more to the point completely failed to deny any of the negative rumours. Of special note is the lack of a mention of backwards compatibility, which they at least noted in the 360 reveal to much applause. Therefore, my working assumption on the subject: the Xbox1 is not backwards compatible with any 360 games.

Backwards compatibility shouldn't matter. If it keeps the cost down then strawberry float it.

RetroBait wrote:

GrinWithoutaKat wrote:Eh. Not a lot to get me excited here, but I think they could have a great E3. 15 exclusives for launch including 8 news IPs? THAT has me interested, but I could not care any less about this TV, movies and music crap.

Year I think he said.

No. 15 MS published exclusives in the first year. Forza 5 at launch.

HSH28 wrote:specs

Except they didn't even do that. What little information they game us was incredibly vague.

I want my one hour back!

HSH28 wrote:Anyone who was disappointed with that had completely the wrong expectations.

They showed the console, specs, talked about what it could do...

So what are the specs of this thing anyway?

HSH28 wrote:Anyone who was disappointed with that had completely the wrong expectations.

They showed the console, specs, talked about what it could do, showed 1 new exclusive game and confirmed they have lots more and confirmed its launching in 2013. Oh and they announced they are creating TV series out of their biggest franchise with one of the biggest directors in the world and I guess not important for here, but the link up with NFL is huge for the US.

Not sure what else you realistically could have expected.

I thought the multitasking stuff worked really well, the interface looks good.

Only two things really missing. Firstly with all that TV stuff and a 500GB HDD...why isn't the box a PVR. Secondly, price point. Other than that it was just about perfect.

Here he is. Look at him.

Look at his stupid face.

I thought the tech was really good. Looking forward to them showing off the majority of the games in 3 weeks time.

Halo tv series

Goker wrote:

HSH28 wrote:Anyone who was disappointed with that had completely the wrong expectations.

They showed the console, specs, talked about what it could do...

So what are the specs of this thing anyway?

Magic and 8gb RAM.