Nah unlike bdoughty's and your boyz at MS I have plenty of REAL ammo to use in actual logical arguments for Sony/PS4. Sadly for bdoughty and yourself MS hasn't given you much ammo to work with.Quote:
Originally Posted by I OU a Beatn
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Nah unlike bdoughty's and your boyz at MS I have plenty of REAL ammo to use in actual logical arguments for Sony/PS4. Sadly for bdoughty and yourself MS hasn't given you much ammo to work with.Quote:
Originally Posted by I OU a Beatn
When I upgrade to next gen I have already decided my first system will be a PS4 because I prefer their first party games. I will pick up a 360 down the road for exclusive games not on the PS4. You on the other hand are defending a plastic box as if your life depended on it.
Don't try to reason with him. I'm going Sony first this generation like you (possibly getting a One when Titanfall releases) and he still has delusions of me being a Microsoft fan boy and hating on Sony. How that's even possible when I'm buying their system (and on top of that, I'm buying it first) is beyond me, but hey, whatever helps him feel better about his odd brand loyalty to Sony. :dunno:Quote:
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I'm glad you finally listened to reason:Quote:
Originally Posted by I OU a Beatn
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TGS: Microsoft on its Vision for Xbox One...
...And why that vision won't be reality at launch.
http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/09/...n-for-xbox-one
XBox Play PS4
http://www.gamespot.com/tgs/playstat...-port-6414735/
Indie Games May Not Show Up on Xbox One Until Early 2014
Phil Harrison also states Microsoft's "long term vision hasn't changed at all."
http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/09/...til-early-2014
Doritos & Mountain Dew teaming up to give away over 5,000 Xbox Ones:
Microsoft and PepsiCo are continuing their long-running partnership to market Mountain Dew and Doritos products to Xbox gamers. This year, the two companies will be giving away free Xbox One systems in a new "Every 2 Minutes" promo. And as usual, the event will coincide with the release of new "Game Fuel" products.
To participate, you'll have to buy specially marked Mountain Dew and Doritos products to collect codes. Then, starting September 30th, you'll be able to enter those codes onto Every2Minutes.com. Finally, on November 5th, you'll be able to use your points to bid on Xbox One systems. Nightly auctions will run every two minutes from 9PM ET to 2AM ET. That means 150 systems will be given away every night.
The auctions will run until December 9th, meaning the promo will end up giving away over 5000 systems.
While you'll be able to find codes on standard Mountain Dew and Doritos products, the two brands will have special editions targeted specifically at gamers. Mountain Dew Game Fuel returns in Citrus Cherry and a new Electrifying Berry flavor. Doritos will also offer a special "Gamer Pack," which includes Doritos Nacho Cheese chips in a "conveniently packaged, re-sealable, wide-opening table-top box, so gamers can snack easier and play harder."
We really didn't make that last bit up. It'll be available in Wal-Mart come October.
Courtesy: Shack News
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I'm using Tapatalk 2 and the Cleveland Browns STILL suck.
Xbox One Sharing Limited to Xbox Live at Launch
YouTube and Facebook will have to wait.
http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/09/...live-at-launch
I find it ironic how the only one who posts articles and news is a person who hates the Xbox.
It would be ironic if it wasn't for the fact he tends to post things that make Xbox look bad.Quote:
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I cannot help it that most of the PR post announcement has been bad for XB1. I go to sites and I post just about anything I see/read that is newsworthy.Quote:
Originally Posted by bdoughty
Microsoft On Its Games Lineup and Policy Changes
Despite sudden reversals over the past few months, Microsoft remains confident.
http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/09/...policy-changes
Forza Motorsport 5: Direct Feed Gameplay | Bernese Alps
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YfEU...ature=youtu.be
For a comparison of 4 and 5.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPAQa6Scbdc
Microsoft Announces Xbox Fitness
Feel the next-gen burn!
http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/09/...s-xbox-fitness
Since I have Atrial fibrillation, I wonder if the Xbox One would dial 911 for me when it recognizes it. :hmm:Quote:
Originally Posted by CLW
You'd think Kinect 2.0 would detect you falling flat on your face...Quote:
Originally Posted by bdoughty
MS clearly knows Houston is Sony/PS4 territory. :nod:
http://www.xbox.com/en-US/onetour
May I also suggest moving this "discussion" to the anything thread or at least let us stop here and resume xbox discussion for those that click this thread looking for that info?
CLW Cancels subscription to Popular Mechanics.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/tech...f-2013#slide-9
This isn't going to end well. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by bdoughty
Is this supposed to hint at GTA V coming to XB1 or are those players just playing on 360?
They are playing on 360.Quote:
Originally Posted by gschwendt
XBone = Twitter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-KEwaIvNPQ
Info on the cloud. The bold and underlined part is the huge bit of the whole thing, really. Considering it's free to developers to access these services, including dedicated servers, online games using P2P garbage should be a thing of the past now. I'm so glad that dedicated servers is such a huge focus for online gaming this generation. It's long overdue.Quote:
Hi! My name is John Bruno – I am a Lead Program Manager from the Xbox Live team. For as long as I can remember, games have been part of my life. Whether it was playing my Commodore 64 in my basement as a young kid, feeding my spare quarters into arcade machines in the 1980s, or playing “Project Gotham Racing” on the original Xbox - I have always enjoyed playing video games. We’ve obviously come a long way with games since I started playing, and for me personally, it has been an incredible experience bringing Xbox One to life and supporting the forthcoming game titles that are launching on this console generation. I’m especially proud of what our team has been working on with Xbox Live Compute, and I’m glad to finally be able to share more details with you as part of the “Week of Xbox Live!”
As you have heard over the course of the past weeks, Xbox One will benefit greatly from the power of the Xbox Live cloud. This obviously represents a broad Microsoft commitment that spans a number of scenarios, all intended to bring the best of entertainment and gaming experiences that our game creators have to offer. Xbox Live Compute represents one of the ways that games will be better on Xbox One. This service is specifically designed to enable game creators to utilize the scalable computing resources that Microsoft deploys within our regional datacenters, to enhance their game experiences beyond what is generally possible with the finite resources of a console. This sounds great, but what does it really mean for gamers and developers?
Well, for starters let’s talk about what the Xbox Live cloud is all about. Simply stated, it’s about massive numbers of high-powered servers running in Microsoft datacenters all over the world – all performing various computing workloads. At Microsoft, running hundreds of thousands of servers that power experiences like Bing, Skype, or Xbox Live is in our DNA.
So, why did we build Xbox Live Compute? When we were planning the next generation of Xbox Live, we spent a lot of time talking with game creators about ways to make games better. We realized that there was an incredible opportunity to bring together the resources and global scale of Windows Azure, with the game services of Xbox Live to build a cloud computing platform that was uniquely focused on gaming and game creators. Our intent was to enable developers to take advantage of server resources in their games without having to deal with the challenges that come with building, managing and running servers at scale. So, we chose to provide cloud features that allow the game creators to push the limits of their gameplay experiences and apply the bulk of their investments to game creation, rather than server and operational resources. In fact, we even give them the cloud computing power for FREE so they can more easily transition to building games on Xbox One for the cloud.
As you’ve seen since its debut, Xbox One is a powerful device, and it will do amazing things for entertainment and games. The challenge with the compute power of any consumer electronics device, however, is that the resources it ships with are finite. Building games that leverage the power of the physical device often requires game creators to strike the balance between the fidelity of the player experience and the available computing resources on the device. In essence, the richness of the game world they create is often limited by what they can do with the power of the device. With every generation of console we have seen the richness of the game experiences improve as the power of the devices improved. However, in this generation, we really want to help game creators draw on the ever-expanding power of our server infrastructure to drive continuous innovation in their game experiences – innovations that translate directly to better, more engaging gaming experiences. The really exciting part becomes evident when we consider a few things game creators can do when they use these additional computing resources in the cloud:
Higher fidelity game experiences – As I mentioned before, cloud compute can enable developers to offload computations for all sorts of environmental elements. In a typical game development scenario, the game creator needs to balance resource allocation across each area – world management, rendering, controls, networking, lighting, physics, AI, as well as networking and multiplayer. Balancing the local computing resources for all of these elements often results in developers making tradeoffs that result in more focus on core gameplay, and less on environments, NPC and other elements of world fidelity. However, when cloud compute is available to support the various computationally-intensive elements of the game, these kinds of tradeoffs become much easier for developers to make. Games can afford to provide higher fidelity worlds and deeply intelligent NPC AI all at the same time. These experiences could only be accomplished by leveraging the resources of servers.
Improved multiplayer game experiences – This is perhaps the most obvious example of what is possible with Xbox Live Compute – dedicated servers! If you have played a lot of multiplayer games, you know that playing on dedicated game servers has advantages over peer-to-peer gameplay. With server-based multiplayer gaming, not only can more players play the game (think hundreds of players simultaneously), the gameplay will be much more reliable for the players. No more host migration interruptions, suboptimal experiences for the host, home network NAT constraints, or player cheating! Additionally, Xbox Live Compute can be utilized to persist game state so that your squad can live to fight another day without losing any progress. A great example of a game that is using Xbox Live Compute for their dedicated server multiplayer experience is “Titanfall.”
Adaptive & evolving game play – Imagine the game you play every day improving each time you log in. Imagine joining a match in your favorite first person shooter to find new maps and game modes even though you never downloaded a game update. Imagine playing with your friend even when he/she is not online. When games are powered by Xbox Live Compute, they can be dynamically updated, tuned, changed, and improved continuously. Games will evolve and live on for greater periods of time, continually providing fresh content and new experiences. The flagship example of this application of cloud computing can be found with “Forza Motorsports 5, “and its Drivatar system.
On-demand compute improves game availability – With all of the potentially interesting things that can be accomplished with Xbox Live Compute, one of the most important things is that the resources (e.g. servers) are available when gamers need it most. It is the geographic availability of this service, and its elastic scalability that enables gamers to connect to an available server and play without experiencing busy or unavailable servers. This ensures that games meet the changing demands of their player communities for compute, and gamers experience optimal connectivity based upon their geographic location. Additionally, it means that game creators can be assured that the server capacity they need, in the appropriate geographies, will be there when they need it.
With Xbox Live Compute we hope to inspire a new era of innovation in game development and game experiences for Xbox One. We expect that this platform will help our development community build more of their games as services – games that are intelligent, immersive and continuously evolving experiences for the players – powered by Microsoft’s ever-expanding cloud infrastructure. This is only the beginning though. We are really excited for the opportunities that lie ahead for the platform, our development community and ultimately our amazing Xbox owners. Stay tuned though, as we’re excited to share more of the nuts and bolts details about how we’re bringing this platform to life.
Now Call of Duty has no excuse for lag kills, even though it's PLAINLY obvious it's their shitty engine and not just server lag.Quote:
Originally Posted by I OU a Beatn
Yeah, we'll find out for sure in a month. It would certainly be nice being able to play FPS' like Call of Duty again and not have to deal with lag kills and all the other non-dedicated server bullshit.Quote:
Originally Posted by morsdraconis
Xbox One Won't Allow Real Names Online at Launch
But it's still planned somewhere down the line.
http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/10/...line-at-launch
As long as it's optional like on PS4, I'm fine with that.Quote:
Originally Posted by CLW
I hate when I hear the term "the cloud" :fp:
"the cloud" has been around for years..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dEbrdfXfCc&hd=1
Looks better every time they release something new. Easily the best looking launch game graphically, I just hope it plays as well and has an engaging story to boot.
Isn't this the game allot/several people were complaining about b/c it was nothing but QT events where you just mash the button it tells u to press?Quote:
Originally Posted by I OU a Beatn
Yes, uninformed people. They're not quick time events, but rather execution prompts. You can hit the button to trigger a special execution, or you can completely ignore it and kill them the standard way. As for the game itself, to me it looks like God of War from a Gears of War perspective, which I will love if the gameplay and story are solid.Quote:
Originally Posted by CLW
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