Posted by L0N3 P4ND4

Guys Microsoft said before that they were trying to go with a box of all your entertainment. The specs on the Xbox and the ps4 are nearly the same. Some specs on the ps4 are higher and lower. Some specs on the Xbox 1 are lower and higher. Plus we don't know too much information yet. Maybe this is the best gaming console? We don't know yet

Well looking at what they said, it looks bad

This is the situation:

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Posted by Pimpsy G.

You can easily plug in an Xbox 360 controller to a PC, and also use an HDMI cable to play games on your television. Its not that hard to find a good computer to run games decently.... it just takes a little bit of knowledge. And in the long term, its actually a lot cheaper. Not to mention that Steam is far more sophisticated than Xbox Live has ever been.

I guess so. The only games I really like to play on the PC are old classics like Sonic and Knuckles and Rayman. I just like the feel of the gaming experience better on consoles. Except ever since the PS4 and Xbox One was announced I feel it'll be a hard turn around for console gaming. I'm not really interested in either of them which is sad because usually when a new console comes out I'm hyped about it.  

Posted by Talon

PC gaming feels like such a nicer gaming experience for me. There are a lot of PC-exclusive games like League of Legends, Guild Wars 2, WoW, Runescape, etc. that I love a lot more than the console-exclusive games. Mind you, I was a huge Halo player (had 4 50/General accounts in Halo 3 which is no small feat) and got to Reclaimer in Reach before I stopped playing consoles altogether. I just like PC communities much better (no more profane, screaming 12-year-olds in CoD yay) and I feel Steam is superior to Xbox Live and PSN in almost every way. There are times where I miss the pre-Reach Halo 3 days, but after I switched to PC, I'm glad I did.

You listed a bunch of rpgs so its obvious why you like PC better.
I dont understand why people feel like the have to devote themselves to one platform. I don't have to "switch" because I play games on anything connected to a screen.
I prefer consoles in particular because the latest games are guaranteed to run on my console no matter what. I dont have to worry about hardware upgrades, drivers, or incompatibility issues.
Can an 8 year old PC run Crysis 3? Nope. Can a 360 or PS3? Yes.

I prefer looking at a tv than my face being 6 inches from a screen. I prefer a controller over a mouse and keyboard, ergonomically its superior in every way and more comfortable. I prefer my couch over a desk chair.

Its preference and pc gaming vs console gaming are entirely different experiences. Its comparing apples to oranges like Dusty said.  

One thing I do find disappointing is that a bonus of consoles is they didn't have to bother with OS crap. ALL hardware power was accessible from games. Now consoles are getting more and more like PCs, and getting less of that dedicated raw power.  

Well consoles have been pretty much pcs for a long time now. That is why ps3 didn't work so well because it did not use the pc stuff and Xbox did.  

Posted by L0N3 P4ND4

Well consoles have been pretty much pcs for a long time now. That is why ps3 didn't work so well because it did not use the pc stuff and Xbox did.

That was kind of my point about this generation, and how it's only getting worse.

Also that's... not really what was the PS3's problem...  

I read somewhere that the new XBox will reward you in shopping points if you watch commercials. In order to prove that you're actually watching the commercial, the Kinect will "watch you" and track your eyes and ensure they are facing the television.

I can handle Google tracking everything I do online but this freaks me out.  

Posted by MattKan

I read somewhere that the new XBox will reward you in shopping points if you watch commercials. In order to prove that you're actually watching the commercial, the Kinect will "watch you" and track your eyes and ensure they are facing the television.

I can handle Google tracking everything I do online but this freaks me out.

I wonder how easy it will be to just trick the Kinect.  

Posted by Dusty

I wonder how easy it will be to just trick the Kinect.

Do you think my cat will fool it?  

Posted by Dusty

One thing I do find disappointing is that a bonus of consoles is they didn't have to bother with OS crap. ALL hardware power was accessible from games. Now consoles are getting more and more like PCs, and getting less of that dedicated raw power.

Right...X1 already has less RAM than PS4. And how much of that RAM will be dedicated to their touted "3 Operating systems" so you can instantly give a voice command that can switch back and forth between watching Wheel of Fortune and playing CoD. And the switch isn't even instant, there's like a one second delay.  

That is kind of instant to some people.  

Posted by Zazzi*

Contains bad language

Spoiler

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Put the spoiler tags, this movie is too good to be spoiled.

I always trade my games with friends and most are single player.
I didn't even want to buy the Xbox but this makes me more sure not to.  

Posted by CourierSix

Put the spoiler tags, this movie is too good to be spoiled.

I always trade my games with friends and most are single player.
I didn't even want to buy the Xbox but this makes me more sure not to.

Are you blind? There are spoilers... ALSO

Kinect can be turned completely off because people like me don't want my data sent to third party companies and feel like they can see me naked through that thing.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/05/...sted-nightmare  

Okay.............  

Posted by Zazzi*

Are you blind? There are spoilers... ALSO

Kinect can be turned completely off because people like me don't want my data sent to third party companies and feel like they can see me naked through that thing.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/05/...sted-nightmare

I didn't read where it said it could be turned off.
The last I heard the kinect must be plugged in for your Xbox to work which in turn means the kinect is on too, I'm guessing.
The data collected by Microsoft could be worth millions to market research companies.