Just don't forget this handy gif's instructions if things don't work out during the launch period!
Jeremy Conrad (former IGN): BF4 and CoD: Ghosts are 720p on Xbone
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Just don't forget this handy gif's instructions if things don't work out during the launch period!
Zatoichi's Cane
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activision to be accurate
but there is an embargo
it will be too late, they will have launched by then. Jeremy did say he'll never get an email from activation PR again, it think he wasn't posting those comments based on Mort's statements but what he has actually seen. but ok
booooooooooooooooooo
Killing it LOL
BronsonLee
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It's very odd. Say what you will, but Kinect landed really well for them and did gangbusters. That must've changed their direction a bit, no? Has to be why they're requiring it in the box..
If Microsoft just kept it clean and made a straight up successor to the 360, who knows how this turns out? The direction change affected everything, including freaking Live Arcade, right?
It's astounding. It's kind of like HD-DVD vs Blu-Ray. Microsoft used that to compete for a bit, then just let it go to move onto other things. Sony did it with motion controls too. Except Blu-Ray is ubiquitous, and motion shit ain't.
Samir Sedlar
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I wish we had a picture of them after Cerny dropped the 8GDDR5 + 1.84 TF bombs !
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Oh shit
UltraGunner
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That's what I'm trying go to say. I don't like MS as much as the next guy but, I thought the rumors of the buggy OS/rushed production of the console would make people more angry.
Also these gifs are amazing. Lol
The most convincing part of this ploy? Releasing The Last of Us, Beyond, Puppeteer, Gran Turismo 6, and Ratchet & Clank: Into the Nexus all on PS3 in 2013.
I'm sure Microsoft assumed no one would ever support their old platform that heavily the year they launched a new one.
Chobel
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Brilliant.
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the sad thing for me , that gets lost in all the cheering and beating of chests is how many jobs are going to be lost over there when MS Game Studios go under, it's not exactly a great economy for these folks to bounce back either.
I wish they'd made less of a mess, it seems such a shame. Not good for the games industry in that part of the world in the end.
I wish they'd made less of a mess, it seems such a shame. Not good for the games industry in that part of the world in the end.
dragonbane
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Zero. Everyone thought Sony would unveil and launch after MS. With only 4 GB of RAM. This glorious video literally came out of fucking nowhere: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-3GMHIgR-U
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LMAO
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just chipping in with my thoughts on resolution- back when xbox 360 came out i was rocking a 720p native tv. some games looked a lot sharper than others but i just put it down to different AI implementations but i knew something looked off in some games. lo a behold it turns out both ps3 and 360 had some native 720p games and they were always the games that looked completely off. blurry, felt laggy for some reason (blurring edges), not smooth at all. so i could easily tell what games were running under 720p.
Now, i have a gaming pc. and have had so for a while now (had a gaming pc previously which also wasnt overly powerful before my latest upgrade). With my old pc, to get better framerates i would run games at under my tvs native rez (which is 1080p) so id drop the res to 1600x900 or 1280x720.
The scaling is EASILY, EASILY noticable even on my 1080p 50" pioneer kuro which, apparently has one of the best scalers ever made. 1600x900 is obviously less noticable but its still EXTREMELY, easily visable.
I can understand someone saying they dont see the difference between 60fps and 120fps (i struggled a little at first to differentiate) but it absolutely dumbfounds me when someone claims they cant or dont notice scaling. even when i turn up the AA to higher levels on 1600x900 it still looks nowhere near as clean as 1080p native. and gaming on a tv too, so i do sit fairly far back.
so basically tldr: i dont believe when people say they dont or cant notice scaling issues. 720p would be an extremely disappointing resolution to game at on next gen consoles. 900p would be better, obviously, but its very underwhelming that these consoles are not striving to make 1080p a standard. ps4 obviously less so as ive seen more games run 1080 native, but ms, even with, imho, the better launch games, really dropped the ball hardware wise.
Now, i have a gaming pc. and have had so for a while now (had a gaming pc previously which also wasnt overly powerful before my latest upgrade). With my old pc, to get better framerates i would run games at under my tvs native rez (which is 1080p) so id drop the res to 1600x900 or 1280x720.
The scaling is EASILY, EASILY noticable even on my 1080p 50" pioneer kuro which, apparently has one of the best scalers ever made. 1600x900 is obviously less noticable but its still EXTREMELY, easily visable.
I can understand someone saying they dont see the difference between 60fps and 120fps (i struggled a little at first to differentiate) but it absolutely dumbfounds me when someone claims they cant or dont notice scaling. even when i turn up the AA to higher levels on 1600x900 it still looks nowhere near as clean as 1080p native. and gaming on a tv too, so i do sit fairly far back.
so basically tldr: i dont believe when people say they dont or cant notice scaling issues. 720p would be an extremely disappointing resolution to game at on next gen consoles. 900p would be better, obviously, but its very underwhelming that these consoles are not striving to make 1080p a standard. ps4 obviously less so as ive seen more games run 1080 native, but ms, even with, imho, the better launch games, really dropped the ball hardware wise.
Half of those games weren't even announced until *after* the reveal, though.
Windows 8, nuff said.
This is a tease. I hope it doesn't affect the PS4 in anyway because thats the only console I plan to get at launch.
I'm hoping everyone can find it before the XBO launch what this is...
Indeed. According to Bish, there is much more going on than multiplats at 720p.
GillianSeed79
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Aren't there three different operating systems in the Xbox One? Having three OS all trying to work together sounds like a recipe for a nightmare.
If they are talented, the industry will pick them up. Just like when THQ went under.
It would have been an empty room as they all left to figure out how they would make their new console remotely close to what Cerny had just described.
In the end we get an underpowered entertainment focused box.
Windows 8 is stable and fast though. Something else has gotta be causing the issues.
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not really, they've had mature virtualisation tools on pc for years.
Windows 8/8.1 is fine. But on a bastard console device? Different story.
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i've been begging for over 5 years.
Same here I think the OS is the big awkward elephant in the room here. It's one thing for games to run at 720p. It's another thing entirely for them to not run at all because you are getting errors and hard freezes constantly.
Gaming journos need to do their jobs and stop hiding behind NDA agreements. Too bad many of them won't. Show some integrity and report what you know.
is that for real?
Maybe your TV is 720p (some TV's can take a 1080p signal but downscale to 720p, as the screen can't handle higher res)
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BronsonLee
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It's like they had a time machine and went into the future to see Microsoft's shit. Think about it. The reveal was slick, but people were confused as to why they were all about games and such, right?
Then Microsoft's deal hits, and the flipside is; where are the damn games?!
This is actually surprising to me too. Microsoft did Gears and Sony did God of War, but beyond that, nobody really expected much, right?
Then Sony drops all those, especially Last of Us and Beyond?
Eh, Windows 8 criticisms are usually quite exaggerated. It's not an amazing OS by any means, but it hasn't had critical problems that I've run into.
I'd really like to know the technical hitches for this console though.
This. What Proelyte said days ago is a bigger deal than a couple shooters not hitting 1080p at launch. That's utterly meaningless if the reason for it was shitty drivers in development.
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with the only major players left overseas it gives then less chances. Really hope they can bounce back. it feels like this is terminal for ms.
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lmfao
bigboss370
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no they still have a month since they can update via patch.
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Wow, is that pic real?
Exactly. It's just $500 people are spending on this thing, not including tax, Gold and games.
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What would Allard do?
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Ah cool. I wonder how they kept such a tight lip on everything.
Couldn't they technically fix those issues by launch and include it in the patch?
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Lolool
Only raises more questions than answers.
MS has too many similar partners in the industry to not know about them. Case in point - they obviously knew about Into the Nexus as they've hired a large portion of Insomniac to make Sunset Overdrive.
Information in the video game industry typically passes between companies like a sieve. MS knowing that Sony had GT6 in development for PS3 isn't exactly the height of corporate espionage.
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