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12 minute Xbox One dashboard demo

Gaz_RB said:
When MS actually does something right, we (for the most part...) give props where props is due.
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Whatever, people will still call this place SonyGAF and NeoGIF. /s

But it's really a poor time for MS, honestly. Every good news from their camp... is accompanied with something bad, and it's almost always simultaneously.

Titanfall exclusivity -> EA/MS 'teh evilz'/Respawn not aware
XB1 launch title blow-out -> Ryse sucks, and Forza 5 disappointment. ( 200 cars/14 tracks)
XB1 OS -> Xbox Division spin-off rumours #2546
 
Looks pretty fast and slick. I dig the style of the OS, here's hoping the new Kinect picks up its pace as the public gets its hands on it.
 
Omiee said:
a cool feauture is still seeing game invites and skype invites while watching tv.

will this work for every tv? i mean should my cable provider be supported or can i just plug my cable box inside the xbox one and be able to use the features they showed in the video?
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Wondering about this as well.
 
So black. So good. I like metro so this layout is good. Also wouldn't forza pause when he went to internet explorer? When he came back he was in a different position.
Maybe its just me
 
MCD said:
Every time they used Kinect I kept thinking it will fail to recognize what they said.

My experience with Kinect 1 was really bad.
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It didn't work for me at all , Microsoft hates Scottish people I guess :)

Please prove me wrong MS
 
I think it looks very nice. I don't really use my console for more than putting in a disk and playing but obviously Microsoft has beefed up the dashboard enough so that you can have a full experience doing other things.
 
looks pretty snappy...I wish Sony would copy the avatar system from Ninty, love how MS improved them a bit...

Could be the one area where I say MS has Sony beat. Looks like a better WIndows phones on your TV.

not enogh to touch an X1 though, but good stuff MS...
 
This was the shit I was actually excited about ze bone when they announced it, and I'm glad they've finally revealed it properly. I know it's been a bit flakey since those first demos at the console reveal months ago, but it's good to see it seems to have come together nicely. That day one patch.

This has gotten me excited for the xbone again - it's pretty much what I wanted. Assuming it's real of course. I'm 99% sure it is, but you never know.
 
Nightengale said:
Whatever, people will still call this place SonyGAF and NeoGIF. /s

But it's really a poor time for MS, honestly. Every good news from their camp... is accompanied with something bad, and it's almost always simultaneously.

Titanfall exclusivity -> EA/MS 'teh evilz'/Respawn not aware
XB1 launch title blow-out -> Ryse sucks, and Forza 5 disappointment. ( 200 cars/14 tracks)
XB1 OS -> Xbox Division spin-off rumours #2546
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Yeah those negative rumors are kinda just things you're spinning tbh
 
Omiee said:
a cool feauture is still seeing game invites and skype invites while watching tv.

will this work for every tv? i mean should my cable provider be supported or can i just plug my cable box inside the xbox one and be able to use the features they showed in the video?
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Works for absolutely anything with an HDMI connection.
 
Impressed by the Skype tracking.
Hopefully voice recog is at on the level on the other side (helps that you don't need a camera for it)
 
It looked really nice. I just don't know that I would use anything other than using voice commands to immediately find and start a game.

Is it known how much power the Xbox One uses when it's on? I'm not sure I'd want to have the system on just to watch TV unless it barely uses any power.
 
Cartman86 said:
According to some articles going up right now they showed it to each individual press member at the event where they seemed to have given a very similar demo (with the same two guys).
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In fairness, then it makes no sense for them not to include it. The snap feature was specifically rumored to be causing instability and its completely missing here.
 
Y2Kev said:
I think it looks very nice. I don't really use my console for more than putting in a disk and playing but obviously Microsoft has beefed up the dashboard enough so that you can have a full experience doing other things.
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Same here, but i guess it could come in handy for a lot of people.
 
That looked responsive and convenient. I don't even mind that they didn't show snap, because I don't see myself getting much use out of it if I can't just switch between apps with such fluidity. Good show MS.
 
Fucking amazing!! I can see this being the center of my entertainment room, does most of the tasks that i have to share with other devices.

Ive always encouraged this form of application with my video games console. Just showed it to a colleague and he went nuts with the Skype tracking! Another purchase.
 
Holy shit that is quite impressive! I'm glad I haven't locked in to either console, because this just gets more and more difficult to decide as more stuff is shown!
 
netBuff said:
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?
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You're predictable.

Everything reacts quickly. To the point some think it's being faked. But keep up the good fight. You'll win something.
 
jordan0386 said:
They would have if they could. Only so much money to throw around.
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True, just think it's gonna bite them in the ass.
Would be interesting to see whether next gen discussion would still be so one sided and pro Sony if the two consoles were equal in specs.
 
Excellent. Now all they need to do is provide a service to rival the instant game collection, lower the price of the X1 and launch an Xbox handheld as good or better than the Vita complete with remote play.
 
Majanew said:
You're predictable.
But keep up the good fight. You'll win something.
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Is this really fair? He didn't drive-by, he stated how he felt about the demonstration and presented why he felt that way. There is no fight because no war is fought for an opinion on this, you either like it or you don't.
 
iMax said:
IGN have just posted a dashboard walkthrough too. This one's 17 minutes long.
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Packaged footage disturbed by MS, and again, not a second of snap with real gameplay. They show "snap activity feed" next to a Killer Instinct title screen and no gameplay. I think the swapping between apps looks awesome, but this doesn't resolve any of the concerns about instability with gameplay while simultaneously snapped with another app (IE, Twitter, etc.)
 
Is there a technical reason they couldnt have put in extra RAM dedicated to the UI so this didnt have to come at the expense of game resources?
It looks nice and all, but I would much rather have the 3GB it uses dedicated to gaming, then the PS4 wouldnt have such an advantage.
 
I'm hugely anticipating the PS4 and I had a lot of shit to say about X1 at the first unveiling and the short period that followed when it looked (to me) like a bit of an unfocused mess.

This looks great, though. Really responsive, nice and simple. I just hope it's this good in the wild.
I can't wait to play on my friends' X1s. I'll probably end up getting one in a year or so when there's a game that pushes my hype over the edge.
 
Looks fantastic! I don't give a damn about the TV features since I cut the cable cord 10 years ago but the responsiveness is great, videoconferencing looks pretty good, though the sound was underwhelming.

Now just lower the price to $300 and you have a killer console.
 
Yay! Exactly what I/everyone on planet earth wanted

I'll consume this at work, since I don't think I need audio for it.

Note: Anything in here licensing wise :-P
 
Sorc3r3r said:
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?
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Two things that I see being huge.

The integration and universal search. The combination infinitely increases the user experience.
As soley a gamer, this is an expensive and underpowered device for my gaming use. For a family this could easily be the centerpiece of a living room catering to different family members easily in a way that is approachable and not overly techie.
 
Y2Kev said:
I think it looks very nice. I don't really use my console for more than putting in a disk and playing but obviously Microsoft has beefed up the dashboard enough so that you can have a full experience doing other things.
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Exactly.

MS is trying to change the status quo of:

- Gamer turns on console
- Gamer plays
- Gamer turns off console (or they/someone else switch TV input to do something else)
- Console not turned on/used again till gamer wants to play again

into:

- Everybody and anybody looking at the TV screen is using the console, all the time that the TV is showing a picture.

Your mother and father become Xbox users. Your kids become Xbox users. YOUR DOG BECOMES AN XBOX USER.
lawl
Basically allowing gamer hardware to be fully family accessible hardware.



Instead of being a separate box on a separate input that provides a drastically different experience for those who wouldn't normally use it (the One Guide for instance is quite similar to many TV guide interfaces), it just adds a tonne of other options for them around what they'd normally be able to do.

/excitement
 
the better twin said:
Is there a technical reason they couldnt have put in extra RAM dedicated to the UI so this didnt have to come at the expense of game resources?
It looks nice and all, but I would much rather have the 3GB it uses dedicated to gaming, then the PS4 wouldnt have such an advantage.
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It's not the RAM, it's the GPU.

To concurrently run apps like this without lag, you need hardware acceleration, and that comes from GPU.

The alternative was a stronger GPU, but 'cost' measures obviously inhibited that.
 
Xbox One doesn't nail a lot of things. But its UI? That's a thing of dreams.

PS4 with Xbox One UI? I couldn't throw money at the screen hard enough.
 
Y2Kev said:
I think it looks very nice. I don't really use my console for more than putting in a disk and playing but obviously Microsoft has beefed up the dashboard enough so that you can have a full experience doing other things.
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Yeah I've been impressed with the UI stuff even though I have to keep reminding myself that I would never really use any of it.
 
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