IN a cool way AR/VR will negate any size issuesAnd illumaroom would negate any as well.
I know, but it is a couple of years away at the moment.
XboxEvent.com just registered by the same company that did Xbox's E3 presentations
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I know, but it is a couple of years away at the moment.
Karak
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Yep agreed.
Is that the bird picture?
http://byrdr.com/
http://byrdr.com/
Miles Quaritch
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I can't even begin to imagine gaming on a 170 inch screen. Must take some adjusting/getting used to?
No, looks different.
EagleBurnn
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Would be terrible for competitive play on shooters. I can hardly play well on a 70-inch my friend has. Too much looking around.
It's different, but similar in a few ways. Good catch.
Miles Quaritch
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As someone pointed out earlier, the bird in the picture looks like a stork.
An interesting choice, does anyone remember the "life is short, play more" advert Microsoft ran when they launched the original Xbox?
REMEMBER CITADEL
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Yes, it's a concept that seems to be made precisely with AR in mind.
Karak
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Well...not really depending on viewing distance.
We sit a good deal away from it so its fine. We also have temporary stations to move it from room to room so many times I am watching it at a 120 inch size all the way down to 90 inches in our smaller guest room. Gaming is amazing. That thing has seen so many hours of Halo, COD, and Battlefield its crazy. My god I used to dominate in those games. Now its mostly things like Skyrim with mods, and movies
Though I played a shit ton of Halo 4 MP on it recently.The one with the baby?
Miles Quaritch
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This is what I was thinking.
Thanks for the reply. I look forward to seeing what both Sony and Microsoft bring tot he AR/VR market.
I'd love to experience it, it genuinely sounds amazing. The biggest I've ever gamed on is a 50 inch screen and that mind-blowing, especially as I was coming from a 19inch set up.
I have a more respectable 42inch set up at the moment, but I am eyeing an upgrade to 60 plus inches.
Miles Quaritch
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That's the one. Here it is for anyone who hasn't seen it or forgot about it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6zgQH3tUKk
It caused some anger and was eventually banned, but it was a pretty good advert in that it caught your attention and was very memorable.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/2028725.stm
Karak
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I was lucky to get an 85 inch Mitsubishi DLP before they stopped making them and we use that as well. Great fucking tv for its type. A 60 is a great tv size for almost any home and I am sure you would be MORE than happy.
As for competitive MP. I play pretty much everything competitive from AC to Halo, to COD and BF3 on it and never have issues. But I am not sitting 1 inch from it
Having a big screen is great but its not really the same thing as some of this stuff. It just gets bigger or smaller having AV/VR glasses or a wrap around effect. That is cool and I would be genuinely VERY excited for that and far more so than a new tv or a bigger screen.
THAT AD WAS BANNED?!?
Microsoft fucking nailed the hipster stuff with the 360's early days and launch. J Allard was such a perfect rep. for them.
I can't remember seeing it at the time, but I knew about it since because it is pretty infamous.
Remember the PS3 one, 'this is living'? I still don't know what that advert was about.
I've been playing on +100" projector screens since 05. Never had problems with any genre.
Yep. The UK's regulatory body at the time banned it.
Karak
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Jezuz after what I have seen and always see there was NOTHING wrong with that ad except for the fact that it was good.
A person dies, cmon!
That "everyone shooting everyone" ad was banned too ... understandable though.
Karak
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Well any normal movie trailer is 10 times worse than that. Shit man. To me that was comically tame compared to what I thought I was going to see.
I am sort of also a believer that putting something like that on TV doesn't suddenly cause people to die...or shoot people. But I am in the minority lately.
But there are people out there that it does offend, and when they start complaining the regulatory body takes notice.
I'm offended by all the doctor/hostpital-TV-shows because I am affected by a disease in RL, no one gives a shit though...
I know it's different
I don't normally watch TV anyway - only sports - so knock yourself out.
I'm offended by all the doctor/hostpital-TV-shows because I am affected by a disease in RL, no one gives a shit though...
I know it's different
Lol
XtremeXpider
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Xbox is not a name only for videogames consoles anymore, for Microsoft, Xbox is a trademark for some services (Xbox Music, Xbox Video, Xbox Games in Windows Phone, etc).
To think that a codename pretty much has managed to turn into the name for all of Microsoft's entertainment services.
Xbox is MS's entertainment brand, yeah.
XtremeXpider
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And http://www.rightnowatmicrosoft.com/xboxbeyond is not only for next Xbox console. That's what I mean.
Xbudz
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^ I approve! The start of a flip on the scale of EA and Activision?
^ Very well put, System Settings agrees.
He whispered, “My precious child,
I love you and will never leave you
never, ever, during your trials and testings.
When you saw only one set of footprints
it was when I was out of range of the Kinect Sensor."
^ Only if you Believe.
^ Thanks man, I have rose colored cheeks right now and they are tingling.
I'm pumped for the reveal.
I mentioned this on another thread. Does anyone think that Microsoft will use the word 'console' at all during their presentation. Because I think they will call Durango an entertainment box or device.
I don't think they're gun-shy about that kind of stuff, but we probably won't hear it all that much.
I think we will. Don't forget that E3 is right around the corner so they would't want to blow their entire load and leave nothing for E3.
I can see home entertainment system, but not home entertainment console.
I just mean that we'll hear them throw around the term console once or twice in passing, but it'll mostly be entertainment box or whatever.
I shall be listening out for it come April.
For sure. I'm just as excited as I was for the PS4 event. Things are really starting to heat up.
Baconsammy
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Given how popular consoles are now for their ability to play Netflix/Amazon/HBO etc, marketing yourself as a gaming-centric console is likely a huge mistake. If Sony's goal is to attract gamers for the first 3-4 years and then have a wider appeal after that as we've traditionally seen (as pricing drops), they're going to get destroyed, because I believe it's obvious that Microsoft wants to make a box that appeals to core gamers and people that typically don't buy a console for years after its release. All on day 1. Where they potentially will get hurt is the no-used-games and always-online rumors. That's a good way to drive away core gamers. They' also need to do a lot to make paying for XBL more attractive in the face of PSN+.
I agree with you, but I think no used games and always online could drive away a lot more than just people like us who are way into games. I'm not even sure which of those practices would hurt them more. For me, I don't like either of those, but if they make up for it in other areas, I could still see myself get an Xbox.
Used games would hurt them more I reckon.
And it kind of goes against the idea that they have with Xbox 360, and seem to increase focus on with the Nextbox, where they always position their consoles as very high value compared to competition. The idea of me not being able to bring games to friends' houses and sharing games seems like a huge disadvantage in terms of value proposition, and I think a lot of people would agree with me, especially younger people. I couldn't list the number of times that I've borrowed and swapped games with friends since I was a kid. Too many to count.
Always online is a whole other can of worms, mainly because of how sketchy connections are even in some places in America, but for me, I have my 360 connected 99% of the time, so it's not a big deal. For other people though, I could see it being a huge pain in the ass.
dragonelite
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Ooh god just saw the video.
Bail im out there are suits everywhere.
/If event doesnt impress...
Always online is a funny one because we are on the cusp, I think, where practically all of our devices will be connected to the internet somehow, the infrastructure, like you said, is not their yet. Microsoft might think that it is worth the hit to get people used to having their console connected to the internet. They do have history in this regard with XBox Live and how it required a broadband connection at a time where dial-up was still widely popular.
I'm still not exactly sure why it benefits them so much. Is it just because anti-piracy and maybe more ad-revenue? Are there any benefits to the customer?
Anti-piracy is one, a siri-like service for Kinect, getting you to spend money in Microsoft's ecosystem, more ad-revenue, free-to-play games, regular updates for the OS, apps and games, enabling more games to be like Destiny and there are probably more that I can't think of right now. So even though Microsoft might sell less console, they could make much more money off the people who do own it.
dragonelite
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Nope i would bet they are probably tracking your cursor in the dashboard.
I CS student implemented it for a website just querying the mouse movement and clicks.
They had a heat map for every page and could see what kept people clicking and interested.
So maybe microsoft not so trojan horse to get into the add business to compete with google.