Xbox E3 Conference 6/11 2pm PST

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I'm not familiar with Mixer, is there a way to turn off the menu bar at the bottom and completely hide the chat comments when viewing in full screen? I want to be able to view the conference at the best quality without any stupid shit on the screen.

Someone said something about putting your cursor on the chat window before going full screen or something?
 
Do you think they'll end the show with the price or do we get all of that right from the start? I am hoping they actually do some kind of "one more thing" game. Whatever it could be.
 
Do you think they'll end the show with the price or do we get all of that right from the start? I am hoping they actually do some kind of "one more thing" game. Whatever it could be.

My gut tells me if the price is higher than $399 (which does seem quite likely given what's in there and people with experience in these matter's estimations) they won't say it at the conference, but it will probably be part of material released immediately after the show. Then again, they may also temper a higher price announcement by talking at length about the Xbox One S being $199, and how much of a premium experience Scorpio is (i.e. it's expensive but you're getting what you're paying for), a $449 wouldn't be too hard to swing this way; $499 or higher will definitely need some serious upselling especially given how crushing that price would be internationally.
 
Do you think they'll end the show with the price or do we get all of that right from the start? I am hoping they actually do some kind of "one more thing" game. Whatever it could be.

if it's $399 they will end the conference with the price + release date, if it's above $399, they will show the price right after the console unveil
 
With their new strategy of more than one spec sku plus the pc they very well may price scorpio so they get a healthy profit. The days of them dumping money into xbox without getting a return are gone. If you want cheaper option, you can buy the lower sku. Look at the surface line, those are priced at a high premium.

Microsoft just wants to drive users toward their store and services. whatever platform. If they are in 3rd but more people use the windows store because of their strategy, they will be happy.

I think their dream would be to be like valve and just maintain a platform, and stop making games and hardware.

I agree with almost everything you're saying, but if you don't think they also want to lead the market again, you're crazy. And if they're dream is to be like Valve as you say then they NEED to be #1. It's the only way they'll get the user numbers to even come close to being like Steam.
 
One way to look at is that the graphical power between PS4P/Scorpio is one whole base PS4.
I'm guessing it will be 449 with price dropping soon after, seems about right for what you could get/save coming out one year later.
Both PS4P and Scorpio are on 16nm FinFet so no real savings there, AMD might have knocked a few bucks off but that's about it.
There's also more RAM present, 4GB GDDR5 it doesn't come easy, on top of that you got vapor chamber cooling which isn't cheap.
 
They will likely announce a barebones bundle for Scorpio for 399 but will have special launch bundles for 499 that will come with elite controller and throw in a couple of digital game codes and get the hardcore to pick that instead.
 
Aaron Greenberg said it's even longer than that now.

Phil said today it's even longer again, no clarification on how much longer though.


Oh...Missed that. I wonder what was added last minute then?
 
Won't matter how long it is if they spend most of the time talking. Needs to be a quick 10 minute max introduction and then pull a Sony 2015-2016.
 
I guess it's a good thing everyone's buying into the higher price-point and "MS will be happy just to be in the race" mentality, that way MS will get just the reaction they're hoping for tomorrow, surprise and jubilation. You just wait and see people, MS gonna come with the thunda tomorrow, no more half-measures. They wanna be the talk of E3 this year.
 
I agree with almost everything you're saying, but if you don't think they also want to lead the market again, you're crazy. And if they're dream is to be like Valve as you say then they NEED to be #1. It's the only way they'll get the user numbers to even come close to being like Steam.
Oh they want to lead, they just don't want to dump money into. They don't need to be #1 in consoles to be a success, they just need to be a player in the market. If they get more people buying games and using live from Windows Store then they will have a much better marketshare than Sony and will be able to compete with Valve on Windows. More adoption of the windows store means more adoption of their UWP strategy which ties into any new market they want to enter, be it mobile (lol) or AR. And of course, all of this is backed by their true future money maker, Azure.

to be honest, they should have combined windows and xbox 17 years ago.
 
I'm on XB1 as well. Dang. I'll try different channels.

Ok I was a bit wrong. :D First you need to select the "fullscreen" icon button at the botton of the screen and press A then it goes to a "kinda fullscreen" mode with still the chat appearing, then press X and it works! :)
 
So I basically convinced a friend of mine to cancel a cookout at his house, then convinced my wife to take the kids to her parents house for dinner so that I can watch in peace tomorrow. Pass me a High Life bartender.
 
Does anybody know how many units that Sony sold of the PS4 Pro? I think that the market for the Scorpio is going to be really low this far into the generation. I already own an Xbox and will just wait until the next generation, which will happen in 1 - 3 years. I don't get what's the point of playing the same Xbox One games in higher resolutions. I wish there were games created specifically to take advantage of its capabilities or Microsoft started the next gen. It's too late for Microsoft to say we have the most powerful console 3 years into the generation.

Beyond resolution and framerate, I doubt 3rd party developers are going to spend the time to create enhanced Scorpio versions. This will likely only benefit 1st party stuff like Forza.
 
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