New XBox One features revealed

[mr3urious]

Honestly, the thing still scares me because what a lot of people don't realize is that the built in kinect camera is ALWAYS watching you. That's some potential privacy breaching right there. I can bet that people are going to find a way to remotely hack a system and get the feed. And who knows what Microsoft would actually do with th information. There's no reason why it should ever be on constantly. The Kinect is still universally hated and hardly any games use it.

Also, the Kinect is very limiting to the types of games you can do when you get down to it. Ever notice how the majority of the games feature on-rails movement? That's because there's no possible way for a gamer to move a character long distances when he/she is only a few feet away from the TV. At least the Wiimote and PlayStation Move controller gives you some analog sticks for more control.

 

[Sgt Floyd]

The motion controls are barely responsive too. There are some hilarious videos on screwattack of the staff trying to play kinect games.

This is not anyone from screwattack but its still really funny watching a grown man bumble around trying to play a kinect game and it not working XP

LANGUAGE WARNING
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=r4F_rUroGqw

 

[Slackbot]

I don't think the Kinect is that big a deal. If I were to buy one--note the subjunctive tense, indicating a condition that is not possible--I'd just hang a black cloth over the camera. Boom, privacy restored.

 

[Sgt Floyd]

Yeah...but again, why is it always on in the first place? And what about the microphone? That's always on too...

 

[Drtooth]

Sooooo....

Apparently Microsoft is now backpedaling and saying that the internet connection every 24 hours will NOT be required and that you can now share games. I bet a lot of people feel like this is a victory for them, but I think it shows just how incompetent Microsoft is and that they don't give two squats about the people they are supposed to be there for. Then again, not many do but thats beside the point.

I wanted to see Microsoft tank because of this, but no...legions of fanboys will forgive them.

Sounds to me like Microsoft made some sort of BS story to test the loyalty of said fanboys. That and there's no such thing as bad press.

I never really cared for X-Box. But then again, I never got into realistic looking shoot'em'ups and crap like that. I quite prefer cartoony looking adventure games. That's the one thing X-Box doesn't have any originals for. They tried with Viva Pinata, but both Microsoft and 4Kids blew that one. And 4Kids is famous for blowing stuff.

Though they did a good job with TMNT and they did get Toei to get Ultimate Muscle through the Choujin Olympic arc. 2 mild successes.

 

[Sgt Floyd]

I dunno...apparently during Nintendo's E3 conferences which were actually held at Best Buy, they sent people to talk down about the Wii U and harass people to buy the X box. Needless to say, those people were thrown out. A lot of people thought it was just some elaborate hoax but when there's someone at every single best buy holding the event something didn't add up.

Either Microsoft are the biggest idiots in the world or are criminal masterminds.

Still, I've never had interest in the x box. I like my violent gore filled games as much as the next person, but Sony also has exclusives like Ratchet and Clank, Sly Cooper, cute cartoony platformers. The X Box has nothing but shooters for their exclusives and I really don't like shooters. They are all the same. and the few shooters i would give the time of day are multi platform anyway.

(Though give me a game where you're an overpowered mutant bent on destruction any day and I'll be happy. I still need to buy Prototype and Infamous 2...Protype you're a shapeshifter who can also absorb NPC and change into them as well as grow all kinds of weapons from your body. You absorb humans and monsters for health. Infamous you can either be a hero or villain and you have electric powers......I wanna say they are both exclusives, but Infamous I know for sure is. Like...even the games on the PS3 are more creative than cut n paste shooters)