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12 minute Xbox One dashboard demo
- Thread starter CrunchinJelly
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Just checked, but seems like you are half right. But not necessarily general OS features, but things involving network connectivity and XBL. Specifically...
"Things like parties dropping people when moving from one thing to another. Connectivity issues. Missed invites. Friend requests not working, etc."
i nerini del buio
Member
Unless you have actual new info (e.g. our coders found that by employing this x new tech instead of the old y one the game looks sharper and cleaner) you should stop doing this. Thank you.
BananasWithGuns
Member
Hmm, interesting. I guess people will have to take special care to not push their game out of the queue lest they risk losing saved progress and the like.
Unless they've coded in a way to give games priority so that they're always in the queue and always available.
Nightengale
Member
Wait? When did MS demo the 'sleep-to-resume-game' part?
All I saw was the mult-tasking/suspend-in-OS bit, which Sony also has at launch.
Silly.Mikey
Banned
Wow, color me very impressed.
Terbinator
Member
You can unplug it.
Pretty underwhelming to me: Everything seems to react kind of slow, especially the Kinect. And overall, the UI is pretty unpleasant to the eye and is potentially laid out in a way that doesn't seem to aid usability.
What is there to be jealous of?
What is there to be jealous of?
I don't feel like I'm browsing GAF today.
Achievements for Amazon Instant and Xbox Video:
These are challenges, not achievements.
I daresay the reason these exist is to interact with the community, and such.
I am shocked that you were underwhelmed.
But you still have to pay for it.
No way games are in that queue. Only whatever is running on the apps side of the virtual machine.
How very out of character for you.
Sorc3r3r
Member
UI looks great.
Integration looks awesome.
But as before i'm still not convinced how this can be a major selling point for what still is a game console, i think that there will be fierce competition with smart TV with the camera, gestures, voice recognition things.
And outside the anglosaxon world, many of the services they are demoing are absent.
With that said,it is like looking in the future with that integration in the living room: i dont know who will rule this future if ms or apple or google or samsung but this time MS is actually not trying to catch up but opening a new road, will be interesting to see the results.
Then if this kind of living room integration is something with market potential is yet to see.
Seems weird,again, trying to open this road with a game console with that high entry price and demographic: but who knows?
Integration looks awesome.
But as before i'm still not convinced how this can be a major selling point for what still is a game console, i think that there will be fierce competition with smart TV with the camera, gestures, voice recognition things.
And outside the anglosaxon world, many of the services they are demoing are absent.
With that said,it is like looking in the future with that integration in the living room: i dont know who will rule this future if ms or apple or google or samsung but this time MS is actually not trying to catch up but opening a new road, will be interesting to see the results.
Then if this kind of living room integration is something with market potential is yet to see.
Seems weird,again, trying to open this road with a game console with that high entry price and demographic: but who knows?
That was mighty impressive. Best OS in this upcoming generation yet I would say.
If I import a Xbox One to Scandinavia (official launch i 2014) this month, will I be able to make a UK Xbox Live account so that I can use the Kinect voice commands, and be able to play US/UK games region free on my console? How will I be able to purchase XBLA games and will DLC be free?
If I import a Xbox One to Scandinavia (official launch i 2014) this month, will I be able to make a UK Xbox Live account so that I can use the Kinect voice commands, and be able to play US/UK games region free on my console? How will I be able to purchase XBLA games and will DLC be free?
Me.
Nightengale
Member
Er... every feature PS4 won't have?
The reverse logic applies. If I was going to buy Xbox, I'd be mad-jelly for VitaTV, Remote Play, Gaikai and the longer built-in sharing limit.
It's not a deal-breaker, but being human, I think it's normal to be jealous of stuff others have and you don't, and be irrational in wishing it has everything.
Like, I'm not a music-buff, and I would never use Garage Band in any reasonable shape or form, but I'm always jealous that Android don't have a similar app for me to play around with.
MORTALIS
Member
This was the one I was kinda blown away by. Super handy. Sure you will still have to load the app on selection but having things quede up in one uniform space. Well, its cool.
djblackice
Member
Very cool, although not sure why Snap wasn't demoed.
Who is this and what have you done with netBuff.
!!! ;-)Other than the fact that what they showed seemed to work well that was the most interesting to me. All of the features they showed have been shown to death. At least if you've been following every leak and tiny bit of official content. If that guide is useful for normal TV viewing then having Netflix, Hulu etc all right there without having to load up those apps first this will be cool. I wish it integrated your DVR recordings too, but somehow I doubt it. Theoretically it could if Comcast let the Xbox log into your Comcast profile since the content of your DVR's are shown on the website.
Nightengale
Member
It worked for Apple.
Many companies have Apple envy inside them, but MS is probably one of the more transparent ones in their deep-rooted Apple jelly.
JimiNutz
Banned
The specs thing is starting to bother me less and less (thanks in part to videos like this and the recent Forza 5 and KI footage) but I do agree that this being underpowered in comparison to PS4 still pisses me off...
If X1 was equal in power it wouldn't even be close for me, X1 would be my primary console of choice.
Stupid MS!
When MS actually does something right, we (for the most part...) give props where props is due.
I'm already experiencing this. I want to play Battlefield on PS4 because it will run better and I can sit in bed and use Remote Play, but some of the Xbox Live stuff like the matchmaking, and doing other things while it's doing that makes me want to play on Xbox One. Where is my PSXboxOne with everything truly all in one!
jordan0386
Member
They would have if they could. Only so much money to throw around.
GrizzleBoy
Banned
That was brilliant.
After almost getting sucked in to the "everything is about 1080p" bullcrap, this video reminded me why I actually pre-ordered a console for the first time in my life.
Its about more than games to me and this video could not have tapped into that any better.
The television features/One Guide are what impressed me the most though. Instead of simply being a custom looking overlay, its literally a custom content browser that encapsulates all media available to you. I've been trying to explain in essay length posts how XB1 intends to integrate itself directly into every TV interaction for all people in the house (not just gamers) but the video finally showed it better than I could have explained.
The Kinect controls also worked much better than I imagined, especially with the profile switching, instant recognition when it sees you (and visual acknowledgement/feedback from the system) and being able to specifically tell it which channel you'd like to view. I hope the part where Whitten says "Xbox: Select" and then simply gives separate commands without having to say "Xbox" first extends to other parts of the UI.
I think this video could easily sell an XB1 to people who aren't even interested in gaming or technologically inclined. Especially the Skype, One Guide and app demos.
Come on November 22nd!!!
After almost getting sucked in to the "everything is about 1080p" bullcrap, this video reminded me why I actually pre-ordered a console for the first time in my life.
Its about more than games to me and this video could not have tapped into that any better.
The television features/One Guide are what impressed me the most though. Instead of simply being a custom looking overlay, its literally a custom content browser that encapsulates all media available to you. I've been trying to explain in essay length posts how XB1 intends to integrate itself directly into every TV interaction for all people in the house (not just gamers) but the video finally showed it better than I could have explained.
The Kinect controls also worked much better than I imagined, especially with the profile switching, instant recognition when it sees you (and visual acknowledgement/feedback from the system) and being able to specifically tell it which channel you'd like to view. I hope the part where Whitten says "Xbox: Select" and then simply gives separate commands without having to say "Xbox" first extends to other parts of the UI.
I think this video could easily sell an XB1 to people who aren't even interested in gaming or technologically inclined. Especially the Skype, One Guide and app demos.
Come on November 22nd!!!
Cyan!
I thought that was pretty great. And as someone that's getting both consoles at launch -- it's awesome to see it shaping up well.
The only really disappointing thing is it seems that the talk of Twitch live-streaming not making launch is true, as I didn't see any option like that anywhere on the dash. That feature is what I'm the most excited for on these consoles. And that means I'm probably going to prioritize PS4 games right out of the gate. Once MS gets that on XBO, I'll be set.
The only really disappointing thing is it seems that the talk of Twitch live-streaming not making launch is true, as I didn't see any option like that anywhere on the dash. That feature is what I'm the most excited for on these consoles. And that means I'm probably going to prioritize PS4 games right out of the gate. Once MS gets that on XBO, I'll be set.
Metalmurphy
Member
Really nice user experience you gotta admit.
rain elbows
Member
12 minutes and not 1 second of snap shown.
Loved the video, a few more would be fantastic. Looking forward to the easy suspending of games, son is 5 and I don't like him watching me play the likes of COD etc. If he's out with the wife I don't like playing the games thinking I'm going to have to get to a checkpoint etc before I have to turn it off, suspending it means it 's quick and I can get back into it real quick.
TheLegendary
Member
Looks absolutely amazing. These are the kinds of things that are most exciting about next gen imo.
Instant switching between people's "Favorites" guide (and profiles in general) is going to be amazing with my family. Didn't realize you could do that switching so seamlessly
Instant switching between people's "Favorites" guide (and profiles in general) is going to be amazing with my family. Didn't realize you could do that switching so seamlessly
Kydd BlaZe
Member
Same here.
I've got my PS4 pre-ordered and payed off, but the only things that I find interesting on that platform right now are Killzone and the new controller. The Xbox One has a ton of shit that I really want to mess around with in terms of the OS/Kinect, and all of the exclusive launch games. I'm really waiting until the review embargo ends on the 12th (iirc) to find out how well the games are running on Xbox before I switch my pre-order.