Next Xbox Reveal Set For May 21, 10:00 A.M. PST, Livestreamed

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Izick said:
Not sure, but the rumored device that's Microsoft's equivalent was called the codename Foraleza. It was in those leaked MS docs from a few years back. Looked more like glasses that added VT stuff rater than full on goggles like the Rift though.
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It would be nice if both systems supported Rift off the bat and it becomes a legitimate peripheral with strong suppor behind it early next gen. The possibilities after seeing Hawken are very intriguing.
 
It's funny. After all the "LOL persecution complex" comments here, Takuya shows up and shits in the other thread. Right on cue.

djblackice said:
It would be nice if both systems supported Rift off the bat and it becomes a legitimate peripheral with strong suppor behind it early next gen. The possibilities after seeing Hawken are very intriguing.
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I think Nintendo should buy it. Would make them instantly viable again with the core.
 
Can't wait to see custom nextboxes!!

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This is so awesome.

Baconsammy said:
It's funny. After all the "LOL persecution complex" comments here, Takuya shows up and shits in the other thread. Right on cue.
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He really has no excuse for his behaviour.
 
Izick said:
Not sure, but the rumored device that's Microsoft's equivalent was called the codename Foraleza. It was in those leaked MS docs from a few years back. Looked more like glasses that added VT stuff rater than full on goggles like the Rift though.
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Don't like to be that guy, but 'm pretty sure it's Fortaleza. Since they are named after brazilian cities and by Alex Kipman, who is brazilian too.

Izick said:
I forgot to type the 't'.
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No problems then :)
 
Dynopia said:
This build up is like the build up to christmas, everyone wants it to hurry up but when it gets here it's over so quickly and you want that build up back!

We should be relishing the wait really.
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good point, yes this is better than annual E3 as it is so infrequent and always exciting, even more with the amazing tech coming up this gen.

I have been enjoying this week and this thread especially with the excitement along with the rest moreso than usual as well.
 
Phonomezer said:
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Is that Fez? Minecraft? Reminds me of Sword and Sworcery EP.
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Speaks volumes.

I'm not actually sure, front looks minecraft, side looks fez like. Cool either way!

Klocker said:
good point, yes this is better than annual E3 as it is so infrequent and always exciting, even more with the amazing tech coming up this gen.

I have been enjoying this week and this thread especially with the excitement along with the rest moreso than usual as well.
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And the best is yet to come! It has been great counting down the days (which are becoming hours lol)
 
many places said:
And one trillion "lol kinects" isn't circle jerking? Most posts saying "destroy" or "obliterate" are exageratting. If you can't see that maybe it's time to relax a little.
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I never said it wasn't. I was just talking about this thread in particular. But as has already been said, no need to derail further. :)


And I think that custom xbox is Minecraft. I hope both consoles are customizable in some way, without resorting to people painting it themselves. I think the 360 faceplate idea was great, but poorly executed for the most part.
 
Appollowexx said:
Here is a video I made today. A retrospective of the 360 from 2006-2013. It's missing a lot of games due to the length but a short amount of time to devote to it. Thought it may be nice to look back on the platform before the new one is announced on Tuesday. Hype train and all that jazz...

http://youtu.be/oFmHoq-e40E

*Apologies as it isn't in HD even though the file has been encoded as such. I'll try to upload in full HD later this weekend.
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NICE! I enjoyed that Mortal Kombat part with the splitting of heads and whatnot. Good music, but the 360 was released in 2005.
 
aristotle said:
The bolded part is factually untrue. I can name several people in this thread for doing that, but it's silly and juvenile. Trust me it happens in any thread that isn't third-party. And by saying "you don't see xbots saying it" is where people have started to say there's a persecution complex. There definitely is, but you may just not notice it.
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Sure there may be some doing it but it's not even close to the same level that I've seen in MS threads in the last few months. Noticing a trend is not a persecution complex.

Its not a big deal but since the subject was brought up I thought I'd mention it.
 
Appollowexx said:
Here is a video I made today. A retrospective of the 360 from 2006-2013. It's missing a lot of games due to the length but a short amount of time to devote to it. Thought it may be nice to look back on the platform before the new one is announced on Tuesday. Hype train and all that jazz...

http://youtu.be/oFmHoq-e40E

*Apologies as it isn't in HD even though the file has been encoded as such. I'll try to upload in full HD later this weekend.
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Bravo well done!
 
I'm cautiously optimistic for this. My memories of my family's original xbox are Halo and Jet Set Radio future, both of which made me vomit from motion sickness. I've played a little fable 3 on a friend's 360 and that's the sum of my time spent with Microsoft's consoles.

Still I'd like to be surprised and see if there's something their next system has to offer me. If nothing else I'm curious to see what kind of show they put on.
 
Shinypogs said:
I'm cautiously optimistic for this. My memories of my family's original xbox are Halo and Jet Set Radio future, both of which made me vomit from motion sickness. I've played a little fable 3 on a friend's 360 and that's the sum of my time spent with Microsoft's consoles.

Still I'd like to be surprised and see if there's something their next system has to offer me. If nothing else I'm curious to see what kind of show they put on.
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You have my condolences :P Actually I didn't think it was as bad as most made out.
 
I quite enjoyed Fable III as well, I could see why people were dissatisfied with it though. Odd way to spend your only time with a 360! Saying that, the first 360 game I played was Sonic 2006...
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Appollowexx said:
Oops. Should really know that as I queued for 3 hours to get one launch night.



Thanks. Can't believe I forgot to include Sonic Generations and Child of Eden.
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I do admit the music isn't...of my personal taste for this kind of thing but the footage is great!
 
Appollowexx said:
Here is a video I made today. A retrospective of the 360 from 2006-2013. It's missing a lot of games due to the length but a short amount of time to devote to it. Thought it may be nice to look back on the platform before the new one is announced on Tuesday. Hype train and all that jazz...

http://youtu.be/oFmHoq-e40E

*Apologies as it isn't in HD even though the file has been encoded as such. I'll try to upload in full HD later this weekend.
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Awesome, good job!

Here's all I can give in gratitude:

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Not 1/10th as good as your video, but it's all I got!
 
Appollowexx said:
Here is a video I made today. A retrospective of the 360 from 2006-2013. It's missing a lot of games due to the length but a short amount of time to devote to it. Thought it may be nice to look back on the platform before the new one is announced on Tuesday. Hype train and all that jazz...

http://youtu.be/oFmHoq-e40E

*Apologies as it isn't in HD even though the file has been encoded as such. I'll try to upload in full HD later this weekend.
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Awesome video! I don't think I saw any PDZ though :(

It has been a really long generation but wow have we gotten some amazing games! It is really cool to see how far Gears has come!
 
It was the only non FPS game she had that wasn't packed at the time. I played for like 3 hours and got bored but I thought it had potential.
 
Karak said:
I do admit the music isn't...of my personal taste for this kind of thing but the footage is great!
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The Birthday Massacre is one of my fave bands, but the thing with music vids is you can never please everyone so I just threw caution to the wind! Better than shoe-horning more obtrusive Dubstep in there I guess...
 
Appollowexx said:
The Birthday Massacre is one of my fave bands, but the thing with music vids is you can never please everyone so I just threw caution to the wind! Better than shoe-horning more obtrusive Dubstep in there I guess...
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Where's the drop? No inception horn? #videofail

PS: what do you edit with? AFX?
 
I remember how lucky I was to get my launch 360. I reserved in late March and I got a call the day before launch from the Gamestop in Broadway near Greenwich Village that somebody cancelled at the last second. I showed up and hung out in line at midnight and walked back to my place at 1AM with my new $500 investment in a huge plastic bag.

I've said it before but the 360 has been my favorite video game console. I'm 28 and started with the NES a long, long time ago. I still consider myself a core gamer, but one who's time is now limited. I care about multimedia things a hell of a lot. I still game a lot but its mixed in with a lot of other things- hell the HBO Go app has probably been the single most important use of my console (I can't believe I didn't know about GoT until after Season 1...).
 
aristotle said:
Any hint if they'll have a release date or price for the console or is it more suited to E3 or later?
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From what we've heard from the general chatter about the event, it seems like this will be an event about the concept behind the nextbox; therefore, I personally doubt that a price will be given. At E3 though, I'm 100% that convinced we'll see the $. This event won't be the whole picture though, so a price being given here wouldn't be a good idea on their part.
 
Appollowexx said:
The Birthday Massacre is one of my fave bands, but the thing with music vids is you can never please everyone so I just threw caution to the wind! Better than shoe-horning more obtrusive Dubstep in there I guess...
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Ya don't worry about it at all. Just an observation. Sometimes dubstep fits but mostly no:)
 
Dynopia said:
Oh man I hope it isn't later, I don't see what good it does announcing a few weeks after E3 -_- so annoying.
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I hate that crap. I'm holding out hope that Sony & MS aren't waiting for the other one to state the release date/price so they can undercut or whatever. I think this is the first time in a long ass time that I can remember when 2 consoles are releasing in the same timeframe.

Dark_AnNiaLatOr said:
From what we've heard from the general chatter about the event, it seems like this will be an event about the concept behind the nextbox; therefore, I personally doubt that a price will be given. At E3 though, I'm 100% that convinced we'll see the $. This event won't be the whole picture though, so a price being given here wouldn't be a good idea on their part.
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Right. I honestly can't tell how the prices will play out since there may current gen prices drops, release schedules and price announcements forthcoming very soon. For me, I'm taking a wait & see approach. I just hope they both announce the prices @ E3. With MS going first @ E3 though, it could be anyone's guess right now what they may do.

Appollowexx said:
Abobe CS5, I use it for freelancing.
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Nice. I haven't tried out my After Effects yet. I should since I finally got a 64bit CPU & OS.
 
We should get some Halo lobbies going an hour or so before the reveal. We can talk about our hopes, dreams, and fears while playing the preeminent Xbox franchise! Yeah yeah?

Four_Chamber said:
I've said it before but the 360 has been my favorite video game console. I'm 28 and started with the NES a long, long time ago. I still consider myself a core gamer, but one who's time is now limited. I care about multimedia things a hell of a lot. I still game a lot but its mixed in with a lot of other things- hell the HBO Go app has probably been the single most important use of my console (I can't believe I didn't know about GoT until after Season 1...).
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I'm 28, too, and the 360 is probably my favorite console ever, too. I couldn't care less about all the multimedia stuff (I hate TV), but the game library and online experiences have been amazing.
 
Four_Chamber said:
I remember how lucky I was to get my launch 360. I reserved in late March and I got a call the day before launch from the Gamestop in Broadway near Greenwich Village that somebody cancelled at the last second. I showed up and hung out in line at midnight and walked back to my place at 1AM with my new $500 investment in a huge plastic bag.

I've said it before but the 360 has been my favorite video game console. I'm 28 and started with the NES a long, long time ago. I still consider myself a core gamer, but one who's time is now limited. I care about multimedia things a hell of a lot. I still game a lot but its mixed in with a lot of other things- hell the HBO Go app has probably been the single most important use of my console (I can't believe I didn't know about GoT until after Season 1...).
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Awesome story, I think many feel they've grown up with 360 (even if they were 17 at the time like me) because it's been such a long gen, it's almost like 2 gens long. Thinking back to playing Dead Rising in 2006 .. it's like a lifetime ago. Defo my favourite console too.
 
Dynopia said:
Awesome story, I think many feel they've grown up with 360 (even if they were 17 at the time like me) because it's been such a long gen, it's almost like 2 gens long. Thinking back to playing Dead Rising in 2006 .. it's like a lifetime ago. Defo my favourite console too.
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It does feel like a lifetime ago, so much has happened between then and now for me. Mostly good, thankfully :P

I actually wanted to buy a Wii and didn't know anything about the Xbox 360. Wii was out of stock so I just impulse purchased a 360 with Sonic, Dead Rising, Kameo, DoA4 and PGR3.

Was also told by the guy in the store to pick up some game called "Gears of War" (which I hated after 5 minutes and didn't return to it until some months later when a friend of mine was like "IM DYING TO PLAY THAT", so we did and it turned out to be one of the best local co-op experiences I've ever had). All in all it cost me about $950.00 AUD... still cheaper than the PS3 which was at $999.95, lol.

Great system, bought me back to gaming after the death of the Dreamcast, RIP.
 
Dynopia said:
Awesome story, I think many feel they've grown up with 360 (even if they were 17 at the time like me) because it's been such a long gen, it's almost like 2 gens long. Thinking back to playing Dead Rising in 2006 .. it's like a lifetime ago. Defo my favourite console too.
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I'm a old pc gamer and my first console was the 360. Man it took me forever to figure out using the dual stick. I spent alot of time playing Lost Planet and looking at the wrong direction.
 
Lol you guys are in full hype mode. I don't know why I'm not, but I'm sure after the reveal I will be pumped up to the max.

Good thing I was scheduled off on Tuesday. :)
 
benny_a said:
GT.com: Next Xbox - 5 Ways Xbox Can Win Next-Gen
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Nice, good video.

One thing that sort of amazes me though is that so many people think the Indie Games part of the 360 is shut down... It isn't. They just aren't making any more updates to the XNA framework, probably because all of their platforms are just going to use straight DirectX going forward instead of wrapping it in XNA (Win8 and WinPhone8 do this today).

There's honestly a lot of hidden gems on the indie games section. Their biggest problem is how hard it is to find in their marketplace. Hopefully MS can find a way to solve this next-gen.

Other than that, I totally agree that MS needs to add more to XBL to make it more worthwhile to everyone. And of course, have greater diversity in their portfolio. MS does have some great games still coming out (Lococycle, State of Decay for example), but that tends to be lost in the noise since they aren't AAA retail titles they are taking a risk on (though State of Decay looks to be a massive game for an arcade release).
 
Dark_AnNiaLatOr said:
From what we've heard from the general chatter about the event, it seems like this will be an event about the concept behind the nextbox; therefore, I personally doubt that a price will be given. At E3 though, I'm 100% that convinced we'll see the $. This event won't be the whole picture though, so a price being given here wouldn't be a good idea on their part.
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clashfan said:
I'm a old pc gamer and my first console was the 360. Man it took me forever to figure out using the dual stick. I spent alot of time playing Lost Planet and looking at the wrong direction.
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I don't know why but this cracked me up :lol My first dual-stick was the N64 (if that counts). Then the DS1 on PS1 for Gran Turismo. Man it made turning so much better for a sim driving game.
 
Iced_Eagle said:
Nice, good video.

One thing that sort of amazes me though is that so many people think the Indie Games part of the 360 is shut down... It isn't. They just aren't making any more updates to the XNA framework, probably because all of their platforms are just going to use straight DirectX going forward instead of wrapping it in XNA (Win8 and WinPhone8 do this today).

There's honestly a lot of hidden gems on the indie games section. Their biggest problem is how hard it is to find in their marketplace. Hopefully MS can find a way to solve this next-gen.

Other than that, I totally agree that MS needs to add more to XBL to make it more worthwhile to everyone. And of course, have greater diversity in their portfolio. MS does have some great games still coming out (Lococycle, State of Decay for example), but that tends to be lost in the noise since they aren't AAA retail titles they are taking a risk on (though State of Decay looks to be a massive game for an arcade release).
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If they did a PS+ jut for XBLA and Indies I would be very pleased.
 
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