Anyone know if the new kinect is wireless? I have a rear projector set up where all my equipment is near the projector and not the screen. So, when I want to use my Kinect I have to run a long USB cable to it to hook it up. Since I don't like leaving it on all the time I never ran a permanent cable. Since the Kinect is a requirement now just wondering if I'm going to have to start drilling holes to wire a new cable. Hell, I'll have to find out what kind of cable since I'm sure the one it comes with will be short as hell. Would be great if it was wireless.
They really need to clarify the used game. First they say you can't borrow your friends game unless you play on your profile, but yet you can go buy a used game.
I'm wondering if once a game is installed to a new account, if it deactivates it any old accounts.
I hope they are not going to charge extra to play a used game, that will realllly hurt it.
Kinect for Xbox One will also work with Windows eventually. That doesn't change the end of the cord of course, just thought I'd mention it.
I'm unsure how neccessary an external hard drive would be to be honest. I'd imagine it'd be most useful for those with a bare minimum of broadband internet service.
Ok friend (a )buys a new copy of call of duty ghost installs to his( xbox one) loads it to his hard drive and after the system determines it is a new purchased game he can play the game without the disk.
Now he goes to gamestop and trades it in, Friend (b) goes to gamestop and buys used copy of call of duty ghost for 45.00 . He goes home installs it in his new (xbox one), now the systemrecognizes its a used copy he now has to pay a fee on top of the price he paid for a the used copy to be able to play it on his( xbox one)( or just a fee if friend (a) lends him the game for the night to play on his xbox one).
Same thing with gamefly every game you rent from them once installed to your system you will have to pay a additional fee to actually play the game. That sucks !
Ok friend (a )buys a new copy of call of duty ghost installs to his( xbox one) loads it to his hard drive and after the system determines it is a new purchased game he can play the game without the disk.
Now he goes to gamestop and trades it in, Friend (b) goes to gamestop and buys used copy of call of duty ghost for 45.00 . He goes home installs it in his new (xbox one), now the systemrecognizes its a used copy he now has to pay a fee on top of the price he paid for a the used copy to be able to play it on his( xbox one)( or just a fee if friend (a) lends him the game for the night to play on his xbox one).
Same thing with gamefly every game you rent from them once installed to your system you will have to pay a additional fee to actually play the game. That sucks !
The fee is the full game price. The fee is there to prevent people from installing it and just trading it in immediately as you suggest would happen.
My guess is that in order to trade it in the game has to be de-linked with your console, and gamestop must verify this themselves at the store.
Lending the game over night means the person lending it can still play it - as the disk is not required. Lending will be digital - not with the disc itself.
It doesn't suck, but allows the new features while preventing people from completely ripping off every game developer to ridiculous proportions.
Based on this article the PS4 is a better gaming console than the xbox one. I am not tech savvy but would appreciate if anyone can weigh in if they are.
Based on this article the PS4 is a better gaming console than the xbox one. I am not tech savvy but would appreciate if anyone can weigh in if they are.
Based on this article the PS4 is a better gaming console than the xbox one. I am not tech savvy but would appreciate if anyone can weigh in if they are.
they're almost identical.
The difference is your freedom. The Xbox ONE at least from yesterdays impressions is VERY restrictive. The PS4 is a much more open platform. And if the games are going to look and play the same, the choice is do you want to buy into a needlessly intrusive closed system like ONE or buy into something more developer and gamer friendly like PS4. And I say that as someone who has had zero interest in sony consoles.
Based on this article the PS4 is a better gaming console than the xbox one. I am not tech savvy but would appreciate if anyone can weigh in if they are.
The hardware in the physical consoles seem to give Sony the edge. Software is Microsoft's strong suit, and Sony can't use consumer electronics skill to improve the PS4's hardware.
The critical advantage Microsoft mentioned with regards to performance has the ability to make both of their hardware in the console box look ancient. It's the hundreds of thousands of cloud servers that can do game computation for the console. That means they can add more servers and software can improve this ability too. The PS4's hardware might be ancient in comparison to Xbox One at their launch if this cloud computing is brought to bear on games.
Based on this article the PS4 is a better gaming console than the xbox one. I am not tech savvy but would appreciate if anyone can weigh in if they are.
Basically they are the same cpu wise. The ps4 has more gpu cores. The ps4 has better memory bandwidth but the One has 32mb of super duper fast embedded memory to offset the slow (relative) 8gb of ddr3 system memory. Both have 8gb of memory.
Based on this article the PS4 is a better gaming console than the xbox one. I am not tech savvy but would appreciate if anyone can weigh in if they are.
Basically they are the same cpu wise. The ps4 has more gpu cores. The ps4 has better memory bandwidth but the One has 32mb of super duper fast embedded memory to offset the slow (relative) 8gb of ddr3 system memory. Both have 8gb of memory.
Not all 8 gigs of that memory will be available to games though in ONE. It is a virtual machine platform, it has two systems running on it. The gaming virtual machine has a fixed assignment of system resources, it can use X number of cores and X speed and it can use X amount of the 8 GB of ram. This is because that's what devs want, consistancy system to system. The other virtual machine runs the windows OS and the UI, plays videos/music and all that other non-gaming stuff. This also requires cpu, gpu and memory resources, though stuff like this only needs a minimal amount set and the ability to grab more as needed.
So ya, both systems have 8 gigs but in ONE, that's not all for games.
Based on this article the PS4 is a better gaming console than the xbox one. I am not tech savvy but would appreciate if anyone can weigh in if they are.
Basically they are the same cpu wise. The ps4 has more gpu cores. The ps4 has better memory bandwidth but the One has 32mb of super duper fast embedded memory to offset the slow (relative) 8gb of ddr3 system memory. Both have 8gb of memory.
Not all 8 gigs of that memory will be available to games though in ONE. It is a virtual machine platform, it has two systems running on it. The gaming virtual machine has a fixed assignment of system resources, it can use X number of cores and X speed and it can use X amount of the 8 GB of ram. This is because that's what devs want, consistancy system to system. The other virtual machine runs the windows OS and the UI, plays videos/music and all that other non-gaming stuff. This also requires cpu, gpu and memory resources, though stuff like this only needs a minimal amount set and the ability to grab more as needed.
So ya, both systems have 8 gigs but in ONE, that's not all for games.
I've heard 3 OS's. I also thought MS was using an ARM proc for low power and other bits like that. 5gb should be available for devs and I think Sony is setting aside 1gb for OS use so 7gb for devs.
Pretty good read. Highlights the privacy concerns of an always on Kinect sensor with cameras and mics sitting in your living room connected to the interent 24x7. Talks about the lending games to your friend or multiple gamer households and the whole used game issue. Says microsoft is generally shocked by all the negative reactions.
Pretty good read. Highlights the privacy concerns of an always on Kinect sensor with cameras and mics sitting in your living room connected to the Internet 24x7. Talks about the lending games to your friend or multiple gamer households and the whole used game issue. Says microsoft is generally shocked by all the negative reactions.
The whole privacy issue already exists. All of the millions of laptops and PCs with a webcam already have this privacy issue. These devices have already been exploited and used in attempts to coerce money out of victims. If anything, the XB1 will be more secure when it is not being used and less likely to allow illegal intrusion The media should be slapped for bringing this up.
Pretty good read. Highlights the privacy concerns of an always on Kinect sensor with cameras and mics sitting in your living room connected to the Internet 24x7. Talks about the lending games to your friend or multiple gamer households and the whole used game issue. Says microsoft is generally shocked by all the negative reactions.
The whole privacy issue already exists. All of the millions of laptops and PCs with a webcam already have this privacy issue. These devices have already been exploited and used in attempts to coerce money out of victims. If anything, the XB1 will be more secure when it is not being used and less likely to allow illegal intrusion The media should be slapped for bringing this up.
Pretty good read. Highlights the privacy concerns of an always on Kinect sensor with cameras and mics sitting in your living room connected to the Internet 24x7. Talks about the lending games to your friend or multiple gamer households and the whole used game issue. Says microsoft is generally shocked by all the negative reactions.
The whole privacy issue already exists. All of the millions of laptops and PCs with a webcam already have this privacy issue. These devices have already been exploited and used in attempts to coerce money out of victims. If anything, the XB1 will be more secure when it is not being used and less likely to allow illegal intrusion The media should be slapped for bringing this up.
When a laptop is off, so is the webcam. The Kinect is always listening for voice commands and ready to analyze the people in the room for recognition.
Or are we supposed to put a box over kinect after every use, or unplug it when the system is off and plug it in when we want to turn on the system?
It's VERY VERY different than a laptop where you close the lid.
Edit: personally, I'm waiting until police use footage and data from Kinect to catch a murderer. After all, it can recognize faces that it obviously stores in a global network, it tracks movements of multiple people, and reads heartbeats.
Pretty good read. Highlights the privacy concerns of an always on Kinect sensor with cameras and mics sitting in your living room connected to the Internet 24x7. Talks about the lending games to your friend or multiple gamer households and the whole used game issue. Says microsoft is generally shocked by all the negative reactions.
The whole privacy issue already exists. All of the millions of laptops and PCs with a webcam already have this privacy issue. These devices have already been exploited and used in attempts to coerce money out of victims. If anything, the XB1 will be more secure when it is not being used and less likely to allow illegal intrusion The media should be slapped for bringing this up.
When a laptop is off, so is the webcam. The Kinect is always listening for voice commands and ready to analyze the people in the room for recognition.
Or are we supposed to put a box over kinect after every use, or unplug it when the system is off and plug it in when we want to turn on the system?
It's VERY VERY different than a laptop where you close the lid.
Edit: personally, I'm waiting until police use footage and data from Kinect to catch a murderer. After all, it can recognize faces that it obviously stores in a global network, it tracks movements of multiple people, and reads heartbeats.
XB1 Kinect is not directly connected to the Internet. It can't do anything external without the XB1 activating. Laptops are always open for the most part and it's when they are open they are the problem. Soon as my wife read about the very real PC webcam trojan exploits, post-its went over the webcams. Nothing wrong with having a stylish rag to put over the XB1 Kinect as a simple deterrent. Believe me when I say the privacy sky-is-falling campaign is garbage, when it comes to the XB1. Conversely, if you own a continuously connected webcam or newer laptop, you most certainly are already exposed to real privacy exploits. Spread the word. :)
Thanks guys. I really didn't get much out of the presentation yesterday as it was multi media focused. I like the new controller and the UI looks nice. I guess more info at E3.
I saw that the One can replace your cable or satellite decoder box/dvr and program/record/view channel menus,, etc... That has been the WORST headache of my media experience since the birth of this technological era. I live in an area that is COX zone. Requires a decoder box, no way around it, so all the fancy TV's with PIP, and programmed favorites etc...(I have 2) are a waste of money because of the required decoder box null and voids all those options. SO if the One CAN TRUELY eliminate one box from around the TV, I'm am all for it, otherwise I'm meh about the whole thing. I don't do fantasy leagues and do I really want Skype while I'm playing or watching TV? Oh sorry, didn't mean to answer phone while I was naked and scratching myself. I am gonna wait a while for everthing to come to light before I buy anything, Xbox or PS4 or whatever.
I saw that the One can replace your cable or satellite decoder box/dvr and program/record/view channel menus,, etc... That has been the WORST headache of my media experience since the birth of this technological era. I live in an area that is COX zone. Requires a decoder box, no way around it, so all the fancy TV's with PIP, and programmed favorites etc...(I have 2) are a waste of money because of the required decoder box null and voids all those options. SO if the One CAN TRUELY eliminate one box from around the TV, I'm am all for it, otherwise I'm meh about the whole thing. I don't do fantasy leagues and do I really want Skype while I'm playing or watching TV? Oh sorry, didn't mean to answer phone while I was naked and scratching myself. I am gonna wait a while for everthing to come to light before I buy anything, Xbox or PS4 or whatever.
You still need your cable box. The cable box hdmi plugs into the ONE hdmi in and then goes to the tv.
edit: Maybe if they added a cable card slot and the bits to support it but I don't think that is the case. I have a cable card and a box that shoots the decoded signal via lan to pc's that are on the tv and that thing ran me like $200 alone.
I saw that the One can replace your cable or satellite decoder box/dvr and program/record/view channel menus,, etc... That has been the WORST headache of my media experience since the birth of this technological era. I live in an area that is COX zone. Requires a decoder box, no way around it, so all the fancy TV's with PIP, and programmed favorites etc...(I have 2) are a waste of money because of the required decoder box null and voids all those options. SO if the One CAN TRUELY eliminate one box from around the TV, I'm am all for it, otherwise I'm meh about the whole thing. I don't do fantasy leagues and do I really want Skype while I'm playing or watching TV? Oh sorry, didn't mean to answer phone while I was naked and scratching myself. I am gonna wait a while for everthing to come to light before I buy anything, Xbox or PS4 or whatever.
The cable box plugs into the Xbox One in the HDMI input slot. It is provider agnostic - so any cable or satellite box with HDMI out will go into Xbox One, and the console will have its own guide and software layered on top of it.
It doesn't replace as much as enhance and control cable boxes.
I saw that the One can replace your cable or satellite decoder box/dvr and program/record/view channel menus,, etc... That has been the WORST headache of my media experience since the birth of this technological era. I live in an area that is COX zone. Requires a decoder box, no way around it, so all the fancy TV's with PIP, and programmed favorites etc...(I have 2) are a waste of money because of the required decoder box null and voids all those options. SO if the One CAN TRUELY eliminate one box from around the TV, I'm am all for it, otherwise I'm meh about the whole thing. I don't do fantasy leagues and do I really want Skype while I'm playing or watching TV? Oh sorry, didn't mean to answer phone while I was naked and scratching myself. I am gonna wait a while for everthing to come to light before I buy anything, Xbox or PS4 or whatever.
The cable box plugs into the Xbox One in the HDMI input slot. It is provider agnostic - so any cable or satellite box with HDMI out will go into Xbox One, and the console will have its own guide and software layered on top of it.
It doesn't replace as much as enhance and control cable boxes.
As I thought, the story I read was touting the fact that you could do away with the cable decoder box and use this instead.DAMN! I have TV's that will accept the cable cards and I have cableboxes/DVRs by COX that require the cards. BUT the cards don't work in the TV's. COX doesn't allow that practice, .....fuckers.
In the hardware panel they talked about 3 OSs but I believe they said it's only two virtual machines. So the one OS must just be an overlay OS on top of the windows virtual machine is my guess. If it turns out there is three virtual machines, that's even worse for dividing up resources.
I would guess that ONE has at least 6gb available for devs, 1.5 GB maybe for the non-gaming virtual machine and half a gig for head room. They're building it to growover time so it would make sense i guess to have some extra in there. They can't add or take away from the game side.
Looks wired and proprietary.
They really need to clarify the used game. First they say you can't borrow your friends game unless you play on your profile, but yet you can go buy a used game.
I'm wondering if once a game is installed to a new account, if it deactivates it any old accounts.
I hope they are not going to charge extra to play a used game, that will realllly hurt it.
http://www.engadget.com/2013/05/22/xbox-live-multiple-accounts/
This fixes the family gamertag problem.
WOOT, no more 24 hour trials to help with an achievement.
Kinect for Xbox One will also work with Windows eventually. That doesn't change the end of the cord of course, just thought I'd mention it.
I'm unsure how neccessary an external hard drive would be to be honest. I'd imagine it'd be most useful for those with a bare minimum of broadband internet service.
No Cross-Platform 360 / ONE gameplay (kinda obvious i think)
http://www.joystiq.com/2013/05/22/microsoft-no-cross-platform-play-betwe...
GAMES marketplace section will not be divided, it'll include GonD, XBLA, XB Indy titles
http://www.joystiq.com/2013/05/22/xbox-one-marketplace-wont-have-separat...
Xbox ONE Kinect hands-on
http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/05/22/xbox-ones-kinect-is-legitimately-...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOxdMQhDMIU
Ok friend (a )buys a new copy of call of duty ghost installs to his( xbox one) loads it to his hard drive and after the system determines it is a new purchased game he can play the game without the disk.
Now he goes to gamestop and trades it in, Friend (b) goes to gamestop and buys used copy of call of duty ghost for 45.00 . He goes home installs it in his new (xbox one), now the systemrecognizes its a used copy he now has to pay a fee on top of the price he paid for a the used copy to be able to play it on his( xbox one)( or just a fee if friend (a) lends him the game for the night to play on his xbox one).
Same thing with gamefly every game you rent from them once installed to your system you will have to pay a additional fee to actually play the game. That sucks !
The fee is the full game price. The fee is there to prevent people from installing it and just trading it in immediately as you suggest would happen.
My guess is that in order to trade it in the game has to be de-linked with your console, and gamestop must verify this themselves at the store.
Lending the game over night means the person lending it can still play it - as the disk is not required. Lending will be digital - not with the disc itself.
It doesn't suck, but allows the new features while preventing people from completely ripping off every game developer to ridiculous proportions.
Based on this article the PS4 is a better gaming console than the xbox one. I am not tech savvy but would appreciate if anyone can weigh in if they are.
they're almost identical.
The difference is your freedom. The Xbox ONE at least from yesterdays impressions is VERY restrictive. The PS4 is a much more open platform. And if the games are going to look and play the same, the choice is do you want to buy into a needlessly intrusive closed system like ONE or buy into something more developer and gamer friendly like PS4. And I say that as someone who has had zero interest in sony consoles.
The hardware in the physical consoles seem to give Sony the edge. Software is Microsoft's strong suit, and Sony can't use consumer electronics skill to improve the PS4's hardware.
The critical advantage Microsoft mentioned with regards to performance has the ability to make both of their hardware in the console box look ancient. It's the hundreds of thousands of cloud servers that can do game computation for the console. That means they can add more servers and software can improve this ability too. The PS4's hardware might be ancient in comparison to Xbox One at their launch if this cloud computing is brought to bear on games.
Basically they are the same cpu wise. The ps4 has more gpu cores. The ps4 has better memory bandwidth but the One has 32mb of super duper fast embedded memory to offset the slow (relative) 8gb of ddr3 system memory. Both have 8gb of memory.
1.2 TFlops (XBOX One)
vs
1.8 TFlops (ps4)
Not all 8 gigs of that memory will be available to games though in ONE. It is a virtual machine platform, it has two systems running on it. The gaming virtual machine has a fixed assignment of system resources, it can use X number of cores and X speed and it can use X amount of the 8 GB of ram. This is because that's what devs want, consistancy system to system. The other virtual machine runs the windows OS and the UI, plays videos/music and all that other non-gaming stuff. This also requires cpu, gpu and memory resources, though stuff like this only needs a minimal amount set and the ability to grab more as needed.
So ya, both systems have 8 gigs but in ONE, that's not all for games.
I've heard 3 OS's. I also thought MS was using an ARM proc for low power and other bits like that. 5gb should be available for devs and I think Sony is setting aside 1gb for OS use so 7gb for devs.
definitely offloading computing power to the cloud makes the One be able to scale much better in the future.
Kotaku article "XBox one reveal sure was a disaster huh? "
http://kotaku.com/that-xbox-one-reveal-sure-was-a-disaster-huh-509192266
Pretty good read. Highlights the privacy concerns of an always on Kinect sensor with cameras and mics sitting in your living room connected to the interent 24x7. Talks about the lending games to your friend or multiple gamer households and the whole used game issue. Says microsoft is generally shocked by all the negative reactions.
How do you figure it will be more secure?
When a laptop is off, so is the webcam. The Kinect is always listening for voice commands and ready to analyze the people in the room for recognition.
Or are we supposed to put a box over kinect after every use, or unplug it when the system is off and plug it in when we want to turn on the system?
It's VERY VERY different than a laptop where you close the lid.
Edit: personally, I'm waiting until police use footage and data from Kinect to catch a murderer. After all, it can recognize faces that it obviously stores in a global network, it tracks movements of multiple people, and reads heartbeats.
Xbox Music and Video purchases will transfer to ONE
http://www.joystiq.com/2013/05/22/xbox-live-video-music-purchases-will-t...
Thanks guys. I really didn't get much out of the presentation yesterday as it was multi media focused. I like the new controller and the UI looks nice. I guess more info at E3.
I saw that the One can replace your cable or satellite decoder box/dvr and program/record/view channel menus,, etc... That has been the WORST headache of my media experience since the birth of this technological era. I live in an area that is COX zone. Requires a decoder box, no way around it, so all the fancy TV's with PIP, and programmed favorites etc...(I have 2) are a waste of money because of the required decoder box null and voids all those options. SO if the One CAN TRUELY eliminate one box from around the TV, I'm am all for it, otherwise I'm meh about the whole thing. I don't do fantasy leagues and do I really want Skype while I'm playing or watching TV? Oh sorry, didn't mean to answer phone while I was naked and scratching myself. I am gonna wait a while for everthing to come to light before I buy anything, Xbox or PS4 or whatever.
You still need your cable box. The cable box hdmi plugs into the ONE hdmi in and then goes to the tv.
edit: Maybe if they added a cable card slot and the bits to support it but I don't think that is the case. I have a cable card and a box that shoots the decoded signal via lan to pc's that are on the tv and that thing ran me like $200 alone.
The cable box plugs into the Xbox One in the HDMI input slot. It is provider agnostic - so any cable or satellite box with HDMI out will go into Xbox One, and the console will have its own guide and software layered on top of it.
It doesn't replace as much as enhance and control cable boxes.
As I thought, the story I read was touting the fact that you could do away with the cable decoder box and use this instead.DAMN! I have TV's that will accept the cable cards and I have cableboxes/DVRs by COX that require the cards. BUT the cards don't work in the TV's. COX doesn't allow that practice, .....fuckers.
In the hardware panel they talked about 3 OSs but I believe they said it's only two virtual machines. So the one OS must just be an overlay OS on top of the windows virtual machine is my guess. If it turns out there is three virtual machines, that's even worse for dividing up resources.
I would guess that ONE has at least 6gb available for devs, 1.5 GB maybe for the non-gaming virtual machine and half a gig for head room. They're building it to growover time so it would make sense i guess to have some extra in there. They can't add or take away from the game side.