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What the point of this thread and sudden leaks?

Looks like shady Sony PR.
Why mention 20% drop in performance, if it is nothing to worry about?
Why all the bad news for Xbox all the sudden?
Why brief mention of PS4 and it is 100% ready to launch?

Reddit answer looks totally legit to me.

What the fuck am i reading?
 
why is there so much salt in this thread? it's a CBOAT thread!

about the Microsoft being more believable than CBOAT...wow, what's CBOATS hit rate? 95%? what's Microsofts after all of these 180's? what happened to not fliping a switch? we'd understand once we used it. they lied all the way through E3, they lied about where they'd launch and they're lying about why there not launching there.

Hello, this is switzerland, all 3 languages used here are officially supported on the XB1, why isn't it a supported country?

infinite power of the cloud, 5 billion transistors, they seem like a shady guy in the pub selling you a pair of jeans.

Not to mention "xbox one is launching in more countries than any console ever before" well yes if you want to believe the xbox 360 launched in a country called "eurozone" and then list all of these countries seperately for XB1 then yea that probably will seem like more countries, but to the rest of us it will seem exactly how Mr. Penello put it "#geographyfail"

I may have gone on a rant here but I cannot understand how people are coming inhere and saying "CBOAT is wrong Microsoft said so" It's absolutely ridiculous.

Yeah, frak those people who have different opinions.
 

Steroyd

Member
Well, you have to believe someone, and I'll take the word from the company.

While I believe in principal that this should be the case, CBOAT is currently winning by a large margin against everything MS has denied, and even if you do take a grain of salt with what he said about yields for example, you only have to look at MS announcing the drop from releasing in 21 countries to 13, to see an overall picture being painted.
 

Ushae

Banned
What the point of this thread and sudden leaks?

Looks like shady Sony PR.
Why mention 20% drop in performance, if it is nothing to worry about?
Why all the bad news for Xbox all the sudden?
Why brief mention of PS4 and it is 100% ready to launch?

Reddit answer looks totally legit to me.


What? Reddit, did I miss something?
 

Huff

Banned
What the point of this thread and sudden leaks?

Looks like shady Sony PR.
Why mention 20% drop in performance, if it is nothing to worry about?
Why all the bad news for Xbox all the sudden?
Why brief mention of PS4 and it is 100% ready to launch?

Reddit answer looks totally legit to me.

Your right. We should ban him so we never get leaks again. Who likes leaks anyway.
 

Finalizer

Member
Let me understand, Finalizer.

So you agree with his complaint about Microsoft lying for having optimized the clock speed of the console?

That user's complaint is not "nitpicky". It is just fabricated around something which is so "low" even to be considered a proper complaint.

Even if you, as a producer, as not aiming for the highest specs possible you would be a perfect IDIOT not to optimize the hardware you actually put in YOUR console.

It's more like:
"Hey Bob, so we can raise the clock speed by 4%"
"Stop it! Someone on NeoGaf could be offended by this!"

His complaint:

they said specs didnt matter...then upped their specs...

Both parts - that they publicly stated something to the effect of "specs don't matter" (though IIRC, it was more "we specifically didn't target the highest possible specs"), then later went and stated that they did a 53mhz upclock - paint it however you want with "optimizing," an upclock is an upclock is an upclock, and still an increase in spec - contradict each other fundamentally. As I said, it's nitpicky because who honestly minds getting a small extra performance boost at the end of the day, but he isn't inherently wrong.
 

mjontrix

Member
Just take the time to go through CBOATs post history. And reddit legit? lol

Yeah, reddit should rebrand their website from being a news aggregator to being a Pr aggregator to the highest bidder.

Reddit is literally the most blantent astroturfer site there is. The only decent areas are the smaller subreddits but they have barely any active users...
 

Abominuz

Banned
why is there so much salt in this thread? it's a CBOAT thread!

about the Microsoft being more believable than CBOAT...wow, what's CBOATS hit rate? 95%? what's Microsofts after all of these 180's? what happened to not fliping a switch? we'd understand once we used it. they lied all the way through E3, they lied about where they'd launch and they're lying about why there not launching there.

Hello, this is switzerland, all 3 languages used here are officially supported on the XB1, why isn't it a supported country?

infinite power of the cloud, 5 billion transistors, they seem like a shady guy in the pub selling you a pair of jeans.

Not to mention "xbox one is launching in more countries than any console ever before" well yes if you want to believe the xbox 360 launched in a country called "eurozone" and then list all of these countries seperately for XB1 then yea that probably will seem like more countries, but to the rest of us it will seem exactly how Mr. Penello put it "#geographyfail"

I may have gone on a rant here but I cannot understand how people are coming inhere and saying "CBOAT is wrong Microsoft said so" It's absolutely ridiculous.

Im going on the rant for you.
We all know that unsupported language is a bullshit statement if you live there.
Like i said in my country they released the 360 without any support and they didnt care and gamer where happy and their console sold well.
Till this date they havent supported my native language on the 360 and frankly who cares ?
And all of a sudden they care now and delayed the One for a 2014 release.
Come son, they didnt care about DRM they reversed that ! they didnt care for always online they reversed that ! oh Indie policy, wait we will reverse that and even now the rumours about a Kincect less SKU.
But oh no they do care about language support in the delayed countries........
Then al the vagueness abou the cloud and what it can do, it will make your games look like your running it on a PC with quadro Titans !
Its just a glorified dedicated server.
Oh we dont care about graphics, but we upped the clock speed ????
Look i dont hate MS, i wish them to succeed so bad.
I really wanted the One to be my game console, but they justed messed up so bad.
It makes me mad that they think their averages consumer is so dumb they will fall for their lies and follow like sheep.
 

Metfanant

Member
As far as I was aware they said, "We upped it from 800 - 853~!" on a podcast before ever announcing it was 800mhz in the first place though.

Perhaps I missed something.

but you just completely contradicted yourself...you tried to say what dont know what it was before...but then you agree that MS said they upped it...??...

your logic is beyond me...

What the point of this thread and sudden leaks?

Looks like shady Sony PR.
Why mention 20% drop in performance, if it is nothing to worry about?
Why all the bad news for Xbox all the sudden?
Why brief mention of PS4 and it is 100% ready to launch?

Reddit answer looks totally legit to me.

-because its an interesting fact...if he had similar info about the PS4 im sure he would share
-bad news all of a sudden?...have you been living under a rock? i thought most of the news Cboat posted was pretty good...neutral at its worst..

What lies were those? They said a lot of things consumers did not like but I can't remember any lies.

their reasonings for all of the policies...or more specifically why they could not change them...

"hardware is designed around kinect"
"cant flip a switch"
"entire OS designed around the DRM"
"online is required to achieve awesomeness"

things like that...they could have changed these things at ANY time...there was no need to implement them in the first place (except that they were MS' vision for the Xbone)...but in an initial attempt to convince people everything was ok they LIED about how integral these things were to the functioning of the box itself...

as soon as preorder figures started rolling in they hit the panic button big time...
 
uhh yes we do...MS themselves stated that the clock speed got a bump from 800mhz to 853mhz...



still going to ignore the rest of my post eh?

Solid response.

I don't see how a clock speed change isn't considered a spec change. It's like not acknowledging the entire overclocking trend in PC gaming.
 

user1337

Member
Irrespective of what happens, I do feel this is probably going to be one very veyr very interesting year for the gamers.
 
I am pretty sure that MS will release an Xbox without a Kinect, assuming that the PS4 will significantly outsell the Xbox, which I think it will. They flipped all the other stuff, because money, so why wouldn't they cancel this last thing?

Then it will be very interesting.. two 399 systems with minor differences. (However the PS4 is still much more powerful, right?)
 

Skeff

Member
Yeah, frak those people who have different opinions.

opinions are fine, but this is just blind ignorance.

If someone prefers xbox franchises and want to buy an xbox one because of that opinion, then that's fine. But look a few post's up i pointed out a few Microsoft lies there, I probably couldn't point out that many CBOAT misses. Never mind the fact that it's in Microsoft's best interest to stretch the truth but it seems CBOAT doesn't give a fuck if you buy the console either way.
 

Finalizer

Member
What the point of this thread and sudden leaks?

youmustbenewhere.jpg

Why mention 20% drop in performance, if it is nothing to worry about?

He specifically points that out that it's why there's no Gamescom livestream from MS. Read the first post.

Why all the bad news for Xbox all the sudden?

Leaks are inherently bad news. PR isn't going to hide good news, especially for something in a situation like the Xbone's.

Why brief mention of PS4 and it is 100% ready to launch?

Probably word on MS' end of the grapevine.
 
What the point of this thread and sudden leaks?

Looks like shady Sony PR.
Why mention 20% drop in performance, if it is nothing to worry about?
Why all the bad news for Xbox all the sudden?
Why brief mention of PS4 and it is 100% ready to launch?

Reddit answer looks totally legit to me.

More tears for CBoaT's bidet!
 
but you just completely contradicted yourself...you tried to say what dont know what it was before...but then you agree that MS said they upped it...??...

your logic is beyond me...

What?

We didn't know what the specifications were before Microsoft said they upped it. So when Microsoft turned around and said on a podcast, "WE UPPED IT!" after they had said specifications aren't important and not revealing previous numbers all we can really do is take their word for it.
 

Theecliff

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What the point of this thread and sudden leaks?

Looks like shady Sony PR.
Why mention 20% drop in performance, if it is nothing to worry about?
Why all the bad news for Xbox all the sudden?
Why brief mention of PS4 and it is 100% ready to launch?

Reddit answer looks totally legit to me.
:lol
 

twobear

sputum-flecked apoplexy
The 'specs don't matter' comment was unfortunate, because it's clearly not what they meant. If it were they would have pulled a Wii and released a box barely more powerful than the 360. Instead they built a box that's in the same ballpark as the PS4. So they clearly do think specs are important. It would have been more sensible to say, 'we don't think that specs are the be-all end-all', which would have both been a reasonable thing to say and true, if the history of consoles is anything to go by.
 

Skeff

Member
Are they really lies? not in my opinion. I don't care enough to argue though so lets just agree to disagree.

Yes they are lies.

not drm - it's the only way to implement discless playback without enabling piracy, it is the definition of DRM.

can't flip a switch - 4 days later flips switch

21 countries - oh shit 13 countries

infinite power of the cloud - followed by 3 xb1's in the cloud for every 1 xb1 sold, so not infinite then?
 
21 countries isn't a lie. There was no intent to deceive. MS just has a shorter supply of systems coming than they were wanting.


Weeelll, that is kind of true, but actually if one is to believe what MS officially states, it was a lie! They state that they can't release at 21 countries because they need to "localize" the Xbox. Which, if they were telling the truth, means that they never could release at these countries, thus they lied.

So either they have (it is obvious that this is the case) supply problems and lied about that, or they lied about the 21 countries.
 

Donos

Member
I am pretty sure that MS will release an Xbox without a Kinect, assuming that the PS4 will significantly outsell the Xbox, which I think it will. They flipped all the other stuff, because money, so why wouldn't they cancel this last thing?

Then it will be very interesting.. two 399 systems with minor differences. (However the PS4 is still much more powerful, right?)

Thing is, even if MS get's outsold from the start with 499$ Kinect Xbox, it could be a real ace in the long run. Everyone has it, developers can/have to implement interestings things (headtracking etc.). But if the drop kinect and make a 399$ SKU , the sales gap will be slim at the beginning but they loose their longterm ace with Kinect which would differentiate them more from the PS4. Everything else will be decided by the games but that will probably be a stalemate with exclusive XY on PS4 side and exclusive XY on Xbox side.
 
Yes they are lies.

not drm - it's the only way to implement discless playback without enabling piracy, it is the definition of DRM.

can't flip a switch - 4 days later flips switch

21 countries - oh shit 13 countries

infinite power of the cloud - followed by 3 xb1's in the cloud for every 1 xb1 sold, so not infinite then?

You realise your last point is pure marketing speak and not really a lie. Its like someone from top gear saying a car takes off like a space shuttle, it's not to be taken literally. I think most sensible people knew that from the get go.
 

Skeff

Member
21 countries isn't a lie. There was no intent to deceive. MS just has a shorter supply of systems coming than they were wanting.

News broke of 21->13 1 month ago from polygamia.pl on 26th July, This means the decision was taken before 26th July and so Microsoft lied from between 26th July at least until their official release a few days ago.

that is about 3 weeks of purposefully deceiving customers in those countries int pre ordering something microsoft knew they weren't going to deliver.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=635406
 

cyberheater

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I think this is related to Thuway's posts about the SDK -> retail transition having downgrades because the SDK is overpowered compared to the retail configuration. If the latest SDK ringfences the correct amount of power rather than the unlimited amount that was previously allowed from a 7970 and 12GB RAM then the slowdown makes sense, and matches up to what Thuway said about E3 -> release having games looking worse.

I really hope this isn't right. Unfortunately, It's got a horrible ring of truth to it.

Are the XBO at Gamescon dev kits or retail units? If they are retail units then we'll find out pretty quick of Thuway is correct.
 
21 countries isn't a lie. There was no intent to deceive. MS just has a shorter supply of systems coming than they were wanting.

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Arcticle about Xbox One being delayed until 2014 in Euro countries.

Greenberg : "Ha, don't believe everything you read"

Hours later, MS confirms the delay in European countries.

:lol
 

Pug

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youmustbenewhere.jpg



He specifically points that out that it's why there's no Gamescom livestream from MS. Read the first post.



Leaks are inherently bad news. PR isn't going to hide good news, especially for something in a situation like the Xbone's.



Probably word on MS' end of the grapevine.

But it's been reported that MS will 100 Xbox ones freely available at the show with I assume a variety of games. It makes no sense that the lack of a Video Stream from MS is due problems with an SDK update.
 
For some people, no matter how many truthfacts CBOAT gives us, he will continue to be questioned. One day, these people will see the light.

I've never said he was inaccurate. A lot of what he's said has been true, but at the same time, I don't out right reject anything from Microsoft (especially a dev). I just feel like hating Microsoft and Xbox and also thinking all they do is lie to us is absolutely silly.
 
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