The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !
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Microsoft is also laying off 18,000 employees, around 12,000 of them from the absorbed Nokia division.
Big changes coming to Microsoft - the new guy may just kill off Xbox and switch to mobile, he sure loves mobile gaming.
Big changes coming to Microsoft - the new guy may just kill off Xbox and switch to mobile, he sure loves mobile gaming.
Noodleface
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If you think Xbox is going to stick around after this gen you're fooling yourself. It would have had to be a wild success, and it isn't right now.
Xexx
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Its absurd if you think xbox is going anywhere with all that money they get from XBL subs alone. Even if they had a bad system gen which they dont it would still not be going anywhere. Also how does laying off people who are majorly from what was Nokia bode well for Xbox? I could understand if those numbers were reversed....no nm no i couldnt because MS may not have the cash on hand as apple but they most assuredly have way more cash than the hemorrhaging Sony.
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I does not bode well because exclusive programming is just the latest item in a long list of Xbox One specific features that got sent to the trash can. It also was a domain with a big potential for growth, so something for the long term. So getting rid of it is a bit like saying 'we don't believe there is a future in this.' You can argue that it might have been discarded because it was too far from their core business, but they are content creators with their many game studios and they were just following in the footsteps of Netflix.
That MS TV goes with there plans to make the Xbox a complete entertainment system. Obviously they are not going that route anymore, and trying to realign the xbox back to being a gaming machine.
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I wish theyd stick to the core - show gamers what the xbox can do GAMEWISE and tack on all that other shit along the way. Kinect be it a failure AGAIN is still quite nice of a feature. I come in from work and say xbox on, netflix, option etc etc and its turned on my tv and started up whatever i want to watch all the while im doing other shit. I mean its not amazing by no means but i dont mind the little things it does do. However at the end of the day all i care about is the games i can play on it and its UI navigation(which is clunky atm).
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They don't want Xbox to be a gaming machine, that's the problem. They want it to be a media center. Too many things to get in the way of gaming.
Fighting games are still played on the 360, and is the console of choice for that platform.
Sf4 came out in June so I'm sure that helped.
Sf4 came out in June so I'm sure that helped.
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My original 60GB, fully backwards compatible, PS3 died yesterday. I knew it was a matter of time because after about half an hour of playing, it sounded like a fighter jet was taking off next door. Even though money is pretty tight right now, I went out and picked up the 500GB Last of Us bundle. Even though the PS4 version comes out soon, I figure I can dump the game on Ebay and get $20 or so for it to help ease the sting a little bit. I'm really going to miss being able to play my old PS2 games on it though.
As I said, beginning of the generation, XBox 360 was my frontrunner winner. By the end of the generation, the 360 was disconnected to free up the HDMI slot and I was using the PS3 more than any other console.
As I said, beginning of the generation, XBox 360 was my frontrunner winner. By the end of the generation, the 360 was disconnected to free up the HDMI slot and I was using the PS3 more than any other console.
Vaclav
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D'oh Angel - just as an FYI - it takes a while, but if you could've dealt with the downtime of having it away, sending the unit to Sony and paying for it to get repaired last I checked was something like $60-80 with the NEWER units costing more to fix. And if they determine they can't fix it, they just replace it anyhow.
I realize this probably won't help you now, but posting it to make sure folks know in general. Sony's repair services are really damn good. Hell, if you're paying cash they didn't care that I'd actually tried to repair the unit the one time and busted the "do not remove" stickers to get inside to try first. [might care if you're using warranty to get it free though, but not relevant for 1st gen I'm sure]
[Note: My luck with repairs for the 360 on the other hand were the major reason I abandoned the system]
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Crone
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360's are so popular in the "mod" scene to allow them to play burned games, look on any Craigslist and find dozens of dudes that can repair any 360 issue for the most part, and do it really cheap.
No doubt, Microsoft is probably pretty bad, outside of the red ring repair they had extended warranty on, but it was easy enough to just get it fixed locally. Must faster turn around time as well.
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Might work in some regions - maybe even here - but I'm very leery of certain parts of Baltimore and from when I still cared about trying to fix my 360 back in the day I remember only seeing listings for places I would be scared to drive with a relatively sought after piece of electronics sitting in my car. Can't recall ever seeing a storefront that did it after we lost the one import store I was familiar with. (pre-360 for me, I got my first 360 about the time I finally quit EQ1)
Rather just pay the extra cost and not deal with the anxiety of such.
Rather just pay the extra cost and not deal with the anxiety of such.
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Oh that's a good point. Not really anywhere I won't go in terms of someone's house here in Phoenix.
They would spin it off before they killed it. If they did either they would be retards but then again look at their decision making of late and, well, yeah.
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Article says it has "virtually simulated" benchmarks for ps4 vs xbone. Sounds kinda bullshit-ty to me
PlayStation 4 GPU Vs Xbox One GPU Vs PC - The Ultimate Benchmark Comparison
(spoiler: PS4 wins)
but i thought this was interesting:
a $5-600 290x just fucking smokes it, and Nvidia is releasing their next gen 880s in 3 months which is going to be 50%+ faster than 290x. but we will be stuck with pretty much PS4-level visuals for the next 8 years for all big studio games
PlayStation 4 GPU Vs Xbox One GPU Vs PC - The Ultimate Benchmark Comparison
(spoiler: PS4 wins)
but i thought this was interesting:
a $5-600 290x just fucking smokes it, and Nvidia is releasing their next gen 880s in 3 months which is going to be 50%+ faster than 290x. but we will be stuck with pretty much PS4-level visuals for the next 8 years for all big studio games