The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

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Sithro_sl said:
The slaughter that Sony just unleashed was even more bloody than the red wedding. Holy shit.

And I'm glad. I hope this DRM shit is the downfall of this generation's Xbox.
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I cannot wait until Neogaf comes back up and the gifs explode. There will be awesome Jack Trenton Red Wedding gifs.
 
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Soriak_sl said:
As for voice commands and switching channels: there are TVs that support this natively. Ask people who have one of those how often they use it... and how often they just grab the remote. It's a cool gimmick at first, but not a selling point for TVs much less consoles.

You could also just spend some money on a Logitech Harmony Smart Control:http://www.logitech.com/en-us/produc...ontrol?crid=60
Comes with an android/iPhone app that lets you control 225,000 different media devices -- including the PS3, Xbox 360, and surely also the next-gen consoles. Also hooks you up to Netflix & Co.
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Dammit Soriak - I love my current Harmony remote, but that's looking slick enough I might have to replace it with that newer variant. Damn you for making me spend more money on stuff that I enjoy owning! Although do note it needs an adapter for PS3 at $60. (Which I already own myself)
 
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Quick question regarding the gamertag and playing at a friend's house on Xbone thingie, you would have to download and install the game on your friend's console before playing right?
 
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The crazy thing is how much of a crazy bet Sony made in designing the PS4 that only paid off in the final few months. Sony decided on a unified GDDR5 memory, 2 years ago it meant the system would only have 2GB of memory. Microsoft decided they were gonna go with 8GB minimum to offer a much richer game experience, so they used GDDR3 and so had to add extra caches and shit to speed up the system. Sony got fucking lucky as fuck as GDDR5 prices dropped over the past year, to the point they are able to ship with 8GB of memory in a clean, beautiful architecture. Meanwhile Microsoft is fucked with an overly complicated hardware system that solves a problem that is not really relevant anymore.

Still, its not wise to hope Sony completely crushes Microsoft. No competition is bad. Plus since porting games from xbone to PC is trivial (X86, DirectX11, running Windows 8), the more devs make games for xbone the more likely they will do PC ports too.
 
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If that's real, I may just buy my first kingdom hearts game

donald duck + wolverine?

BETTER WATCH OUT BITCHES WE BE SPRINTING MARATHONS NOW
 
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The amazon listing includes the PSEye in the order, by the way. That's Sony's version of the kinect, right? So developers *could* include gesture control if it didn't suck.
 
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If that's real, I may just buy my first kingdom hearts game

donald duck + wolverine?

BETTER WATCH OUT BITCHES WE BE SPRINTING MARATHONS NOW
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Sadly that is an old, old fake that was made when Disney bought Marvel. However, it's very possible!
 
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Amzin_sl said:
The Xbox division is such a minute fragment of Microsoft's overall business though, they could just cut off that arm and still have like 4 spare good ones. In the long run I still think Win8 is a good move, poorly delivered and received, but once people get over themselves about it it'll help MS out in the future more than not building a mobile-friendly OS would.
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Yeah, but this overall direction of attempting to control the market, rather than collecting fees for bringing people together, isn't just part of Xbone--Xbone is just the clearest, current incarnation of it. Gabe from Valve said it best last year...

"If people look at what they can accomplish when they can limit competitors' access to their platform, they say, 'Wow, that's really exciting.' Even some of the people who have open platforms, like Microsoft, get really excited by the idea thatNetflix has to pay them rent in order to be on the Internet."

Microsoft sees that Internet is killing the distribution middleman. And rather than embracing that and setting up markets where they can skim money from everything (Like Google does, or even Steam)--it's attempting to use it's size to exert control, hoping to become the internet-age's equivalent to cable TV...Where they can just charge the producers of the content because they have absolute control over X or Y demographic.
 
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Yeah got it down to 100 x 75 and it wont show up still and it 100 x 150 is max and it still doesnt work. Ill just take the failure along with the beating like a man and move on. HA there it is , nice lol!
 
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hodj_sl said:
If that's real, I may just buy my first kingdom hearts game

donald duck + wolverine?

BETTER WATCH OUT BITCHES WE BE SPRINTING MARATHONS NOW
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That looks like some sort of TF2 mod/photoshop. That's definitely the Lumberyard map.
 
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Lithose_sl said:
Yeah, but this overall direction of attempting to control the market, rather than collecting fees for bringing people together, isn't just part of Xbone--Xbone is just the clearest, current incarnation of it. Gabe from Valve said it best last year...

"If people look at what they can accomplish when they can limit competitors' access to their platform, they say, 'Wow, that's really exciting.' Even some of the people who have open platforms, like Microsoft, get really excited by the idea thatNetflix has to pay them rent in order to be on the Internet."

Microsoft sees that Internet is killing the distribution middleman. And rather than embracing that and setting up markets where they can skim money from everything (Like Google does, or even Steam)--it's attempting to use it's size to exert control, hoping to become the internet-age's equivalent to cable TV.
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Well, what they want is to have the type of total domination of their market, which is far larger, that Apple enjoys.

Microsoft has Apples in its eye in terms of the model for profitability they want to emulate.

But Microsoft isn't Apple. Apple gets away with it because of the particulars of their business model, which markets to an "upscale" (or want to be upscale) market, while Microsoft is supposed to be catering to the working folks, basically. The working folks won't take the anal pounding of their wallets that the Apple crowd will. They simply can't afford to.

irt Cantatus: I barely played TF2, so I didn't recognize it.

Plus its late. I blame bad eyes. And a bad memory. And incontinence.

Really I'm just getting old.
 
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This is really crazy to me. I honestly thought Microsoft would stay the course for this gen of consoles and just push Sony out of the market, but instead they gave Sony the perfect way to get back into the market!

Just pre-ordered my PS4 from Amazon as well.
 
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Sean_sl said:
Sadly that is an old, old fake that was made when Disney bought Marvel. However, it's very possible!
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Thinking of the possibility's for this game make me hard.

The Heartless recruit Darth Vader saying they are the dark side of the force personified. They get him to use the Death Star to blow up Twilight Town.

Sora wakes up on Tattooine and is rescued by Jawas and is sold to Luke to work the farms.

I can see it now, R2-D2 playing the video of Leia "Help me Sora, your my only hope "
 
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