Xbox One- what would it take to get YOU to buy one ?

Absolutely nothing is going to convince me to buy a One. I've already bought a Wii U on launch day and am planning on getting a PS4 after Christmas and there's no way I'm going to get an Xbox One and pay for a second online subscription on top of PlayStation Plus.
 
Can't say much has changed today, I had slight hope MS would start cultivating a first party, but it seems buying exclusives is their way permanently.
 
MCC Bundle would push me over the edge. The Halo franchise and Quantum Break are the only thing that interest me. I think I would get most of the multiplat games on my PS4 (this was the other way around last gen--where all exclusives were for the PS3 and multiplats were for my 360).
 
Probably a gun to my head?

But seriously, the series I have the fondest memories of playing on Xbox Live is PGR. And that game is gone, Bizarre are no more, and the gap could possibly be getting filled by DriveClub... Hopefully.

I don't see anything I need on the Xbone. The Remedy game just looks like a 3PS, I don't like Halo, the Forza games look okay at best. Microsoft are money hatting their games with potential, that doesn't exactly sit well with me, its as though they are taking something away (being a PS4/PC gamer) rather than providing something new.
 
As someone who is all aboard the Wii U at the moment and hasn't jumped on the PS4 or Xbone yet I must admit the Xbone is more appealing to me right now.

I know that's crazy talk, but I prefer the lineup. I know I already posted once in this thread, but man Halo does it for me more than anything Sony has.

Problem is I just can't get over the idea of the performance GAP. It IS there, and it IS easily noticeable especially in multiplatform games. Paying the same price just IDK gets to me for an inferior product on the bone.
 
BlackBanditSho said:
Play Xbox 360 digital purchases on Xbox One.
Done.
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That's the same thing as full backwards compatibility.
But regardless, that would get me to buy one. Would've bought one at launch with BC. Never gonna happen though.

I still want a tiny digital only 360. Like a Vita TV type thing. I'd buy one of those in a heartbeat. At the very least it would free up the only space I would potentially have to put an Xbox One.
 
Vanillalite said:
I must admit the Xbone is more appealing to me right now.

I know that's crazy talk, but I prefer the lineup.
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Why is that crazy talk? Everyone likes different things. Because you like something that seems to be the popular thing to dislike at the moment, isn't crazy talk.

Problem is I just can't get over the idea of the performance GAP. It IS there, and it IS easily noticeable especially in multiplatform games. Paying the same price just IDK gets to me for an inferior product on the bone.
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Personally speaking, the performance gap hasn't affected my enjoyment of any of the cross gen games I've played. It's not as if the games run like dog shit or are unplayable or anything.

Go with your instinct rather than what you feel is the right thing to buy.
 
Ubersnug said:
Why is that crazy talk? Everyone likes different things. Because you like something that seems to be the popular thing to dislike at the moment, isn't crazy talk.



Personally speaking, the performance gap hasn't affected my enjoyment of any of the cross gen games I've played. It's not as if the games run like dog shit or are unplayable or anything.

Go with your instinct rather than what you feel is the right thing to buy.
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My instinct says don't pay $399 for the lesser performing product when the other better performing product is the same price doe.

It's a mind fuck to be sure.
 
Console redesign, Interface redesign, No Kinect (well one of these things is solved)

If down the line there are a handful of great singleplayer exclusives then I might get it - for a low price. I was a big fan og halo, but I don't like 343's direction.

Right now online is more expensive (and I won't pay for it twice) and multiplats, for the most part, work best on the PS4.
 
Vanillalite said:
As someone who is all aboard the Wii U at the moment and hasn't jumped on the PS4 or Xbone yet I must admit the Xbone is more appealing to me right now.

I know that's crazy talk, but I prefer the lineup. I know I already posted once in this thread, but man Halo does it for me more than anything Sony has.

Problem is I just can't get over the idea of the performance GAP. It IS there, and it IS easily noticeable especially in multiplatform games. Paying the same price just IDK gets to me for an inferior product on the bone.
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You have a Wii U, but can't get over the performance gap? Clearly it isn't an issue for your Wii U.

I have both a Wii U and a Xbox One. Love both.
 
Bedameister said:
I'm already conviced now that I will buy one some day. But only in a few years. I'll get a PS4 first. Simply because most of my friends get one, I have already a PS+ subscribe and multiplat titles look better on PS4.
Will get the X1 for exclusives one day
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This is me in bold. But I kind of want to play Ryse right now. It can wait though since I got tons of backlogs to play.
 
2n2 said:
That's the same thing as full backwards compatibility.
But regardless, that would get me to buy one. Would've bought one at launch with BC. Never gonna happen though.

I still want a tiny digital only 360. Like a Vita TV type thing. I'd buy one of those in a heartbeat. At the very least it would free up the only space I would potentially have to put an Xbox One.
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Yeah, i only turn on my Xbox 360 because I have about 20 digital purchases that I cannot do anything else with. I can't trade them. can't sell them. they're locked to the system, so there's this big box sitting on my shelf. My wife still uses the old Kinect for Zumba. She asked why the Xbox One doesn't play the old games and I honestly had no good answer.

Also, for some reason, the media apps are much better on the Xbox 360. It's annoying watching Netflix, Amazon, or Hulu on PS4, then having to go back to Xbox 360 to watch HBO GO. In fact, most of the tv media apps aren't on PS4, which is really annoying.

So yeah, had MS done the digital purchases Xbox 360/Xbox one thing, as well as all of the media apps, I would've not only purchased an Xbox one at launch paying full price with kinect, I wouldn't have CONSIDERED a PS4.

I got rid of my Xbox one and picked up a PS4 a week ago. The final straw was the fact that the Kinect is such a GREAT concept that deserves the upgrades and attention that the OS was receiving. It simply wasn't pushed and sold to the consumer well.

Now that MS has abandoned it, I just couldn't justify the system anymore and went Sony. The Gamescon presser left me with zero regrets. Shame. I was all the way team MS.
 
TetraGenesis said:
Is it weird that I now feel less likely to buy an XB1 because they moneyhatted Tomb Raider?
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Why would it be? You like the franchise and want to play it. Because Microsoft is pumping out great exclusive this year and following year with Quantum Break, Fable Legends, Halo 5 and Now Tomb Raider.
 
They would have to have exclusive rights to an amazing RPG that everyone raved about and told me it is the game of a generation. It would have to be pretty amazing. Exclusive rights to FF would do it or MGS. Beyond that I don' t see myself ever needing on (Ps3/Ps4/WiiU/PC has me covered).
 
I feel like Sunset Overdrive and Halo: MCC are going to make my almost one year old console finally worth the price of purchase. Sucks it took so long, though.
 
I already plan on buying one later this year, main reason being the fact that my younger brother already has a PS4. So, I can borrow his for his the few exclusives (Uncharted, Bloddborne) I'm interested in. Now, the majority of games will likely be next-gen exclusive in the future; for those (and games like MGS5 / Evil Within that I don't want to play in watered down last-gen versions), I'd rather have my own system, and buying the same console twice wouldn't be very... efficient, I guess? I mean, you never know what exclusives will come to what console in the future, so it's better to just own all of them in case. I'm a huge fan of Platinum Games, so Scalebound is already something I wouldn't want to miss out on, for example. Sunset Overdrive also looks really rad.

Furthermore, I don't give a shit about resolution, if I'm being perfectly honest. When it comes to frame rate, multiplatform games have been more or less identical on both consoles; beyond that, I don't really care. The PS4 definitely is the better machine, but again, I already have access to that console; I'm not getting another one to play multiplats in 1080p.
 
BlackBanditSho said:
Yeah, i only turn on my Xbox 360 because I have about 20 digital purchases that I cannot do anything else with. I can't trade them. can't sell them. they're locked to the system, so there's this big box sitting on my shelf. My wife still uses the old Kinect for Zumba. She asked why the Xbox One doesn't play the old games and I honestly had no good answer.
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Same, my wife does the Just Dance games on 360 and my kids still want to play Kinect Party. So I can't jettison the 360 from the shelf quite yet.
 
Serious question since I am on the fence of purchasing an Xbox One soon. Can I use my regular earphones to listen to audio and chat like I can on my PS4?
 
The only thing really stopping me from buying an Xbone is money. If it were cheaper and had one more neat exclusive on it right now, I'd make it my exclusive box. Halo:MCC is almost enough for me to buy one right now were it not for it not being available yet.
 
haven't picked up either ps4 or xbox one yet. PS4 is likely my next purchase but I will definitely be seriously considering xbox when the halo collection is out in november. I'm sure microsoft is going to do well in the fall with Call of Duty and Halo, even if COD is multiplatform.
 
Exclusive jRPG, like Lost Odyssey, Blue Dragon, Infinite Undiscovery. Those titles sold me the 360 as my first console of that generation (Fable 2 and Oblivion also helped a little bit).

Right now, considering the existing and upcoming lineup, I have no interest in the Xbox One (I already have a PS4). It's actually like the first years of the PS3 which were quite awful for my taste.
 
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