That was very informative everyone thank you. Now I have another question. I heard rumours that a free year of Live was going to be included with the xboxone to off set the PS4 price differential. Anyone have any reliable info on this one? I know they are giving FIFA14 free in Europe for sure and potentially something in NA.
That was very informative everyone thank you. Now I have another question. I heard rumours that a free year of Live was going to be included with the xboxone to off set the PS4 price differential. Anyone have any reliable info on this one? I know they are giving FIFA14 free in Europe for sure and potentially something in NA.
Haven't read anything of the sort. They did just announce The Kinect Fitness App which will have 10-60 min workout routines such as P90X, Insanity, videos from Jillian Michaels and other such fitness guru's. It will be free from launch til November 2014 if you are a gold member, but after that it is a pay service on top of your gold membership.
That was very informative everyone thank you. Now I have another question. I heard rumours that a free year of Live was going to be included with the xboxone to off set the PS4 price differential. Anyone have any reliable info on this one? I know they are giving FIFA14 free in Europe for sure and potentially something in NA.
That was very informative everyone thank you. Now I have another question. I heard rumours that a free year of Live was going to be included with the xboxone to off set the PS4 price differential. Anyone have any reliable info on this one? I know they are giving FIFA14 free in Europe for sure and potentially something in NA.
I saw that this week. Might have been EBgames.
I'm trying to think where I heard it. It may have been in the post E3 analysis where the argument was made that if MS give a free year the difference between PS4 is only €50, assuming consumers will pay for PS+ Google isn't throwing up any sources right now though.
That was very informative everyone thank you. Now I have another question. I heard rumours that a free year of Live was going to be included with the xboxone to off set the PS4 price differential. Anyone have any reliable info on this one? I know they are giving FIFA14 free in Europe for sure and potentially something in NA.
Yeah, I hope they're not giving away FIFA here...I already have drink coasters.
That was very informative everyone thank you. Now I have another question. I heard rumours that a free year of Live was going to be included with the xboxone to off set the PS4 price differential. Anyone have any reliable info on this one? I know they are giving FIFA14 free in Europe for sure and potentially something in NA.
Yeah, I hope they're not giving away FIFA here...I already have drink coasters.
Or Forza. So far, it just sounds like games that start with "F" that are doomed to...well, fail.
That was very informative everyone thank you. Now I have another question. I heard rumours that a free year of Live was going to be included with the xboxone to off set the PS4 price differential. Anyone have any reliable info on this one? I know they are giving FIFA14 free in Europe for sure and potentially something in NA.
Yeah, I hope they're not giving away FIFA here...I already have drink coasters.
Or Forza. So far, it just sounds like games that start with "F" that are doomed to...well, fail.
Ha ha. FIFA is still very populat stateside but just to clarify its a digital download anyway not a disk!
That was very informative everyone thank you. Now I have another question. I heard rumours that a free year of Live was going to be included with the xboxone to off set the PS4 price differential. Anyone have any reliable info on this one? I know they are giving FIFA14 free in Europe for sure and potentially something in NA.
Yeah, I hope they're not giving away FIFA here...I already have drink coasters.
Or Forza. So far, it just sounds like games that start with "F" that are doomed to...well, fail.
Ha ha. FIFA is still very populat stateside but just to clarify its a digital download anyway not a disk!
To any tech heads out here... Is the fact that Crytek dropped the Triangle count in RYSE from 150,000 to 85,000 any reason to be worried? I tried to understand all this tech jargin but I just cant find a clear enough explanation and its importance.
To any tech heads out here... Is the fact that Crytek dropped the Triangle count in RYSE from 150,000 to 85,000 any reason to be worried? I tried to understand all this tech jargin but I just cant find a clear enough explanation and its importance.
So I just realized you must have an HD Ready TV for both the PS4 and Xbox One.
I know for most people that will not matter but a lot of people still have old style TV's (I visit about 20 Customers house's per week performing Removals quotations and I will say its about a 50/50 mix)
I wonder why the boxes are HDMI only. Would it make much difference for it to have an HDMI and Component socket?
So I just realized you must have an HD Ready TV for both the PS4 and Xbox One.
I know for most people that will not matter but a lot of people still have old style TV's (I visit about 20 Customers house's per week performing Removals quotations and I will say its about a 50/50 mix)
I wonder why the boxes are HDMI only. Would it make much difference for it to have an HDMI and Component socket?
Well, at a certain point, you have to see that the new tech just isn't for (non-specific) you.
So I just realized you must have an HD Ready TV for both the PS4 and Xbox One.
I know for most people that will not matter but a lot of people still have old style TV's (I visit about 20 Customers house's per week performing Removals quotations and I will say its about a 50/50 mix)
I wonder why the boxes are HDMI only. Would it make much difference for it to have an HDMI and Component socket?
Well, at a certain point, you have to see that the new tech just isn't for (non-specific) you.
Yeah I know most people who dont have a HDTV wont bother about the PS4 or Xbox.
One of the lads who work at my yard has been saving all year for a PS4 and I have just been talking to him about the HDTV only stuff and it has crushed him, as he only has a 32inch CRT TV.
So I just realized you must have an HD Ready TV for both the PS4 and Xbox One.
I know for most people that will not matter but a lot of people still have old style TV's (I visit about 20 Customers house's per week performing Removals quotations and I will say its about a 50/50 mix)
I wonder why the boxes are HDMI only. Would it make much difference for it to have an HDMI and Component socket?
My guess you be a couple of things. One to cut down on the production cost, only having to use an easily obtainable standard and not have to make a proprietary cord for component stuff. The other might be the "electronic handshake" that allows data transmission back a forth on hdmi cords. They want to be able to have the xb1 be able to kickout high resolutions and be able to transfer data back and forth if necessary. You can do 1080P on conponent, but it cannot transfer data from one sourse back to the other one.
Again just a guess on my part, I have no official post describing that.
New technology introduction (HDTV standards for example) will result in diminishing economic returns for accommodating old tech compatibility. Who does it benefit to fit SD technology output? In 2007 say, it is beneficial. Not to do so reduces your market potential. In 2013 say, it no longer is, as you 1. Increase product costs by making it backwards compatible to a rapidly dwindling market and 2. May have an economic interest in forcing late adopters of technology to make the move.
There is a third force at work too. Mean product failure time. Those SD sets will rapidly drop off the radar. Sure, some will run another 10, 20 years, but why support those?
Aren't the new TV's themselves dropping the older connections as well? Harder to buy a TV with anything but HDMI isn't it?
yes, because everything these days has an HDMI connection and with HDCP it makes copy protection easy. So why wouldn't they? Best quality, less copying.
Let’s start off the week with a look at how the friends list will work on Xbox One. Watch the above video where I walk you through how followers will work on Xbox Live. Don’t worry, the friends lists is still there…but we’ve also added the ability for you to have thousands of followers as well.
I explain more below (which I have cross posted on Xbox Wire) :
Xbox Live has always been about building an amazing community. When we first launched the service back in 2002, our vision was to create a premium online place where friends could come together to play games. With your support we’ve created the world’s largest, most-active gaming and entertainment community and now, as we look ahead to the launch of Xbox One on Nov. 22, we want to pause for a moment to celebrate our community and tell you about what we are doing to make it even better. With that in mind throughout the upcoming days in this “Week of Xbox Live,” we will share more news and information about what is coming to Xbox Live.
First, we want to thank you for choosing and for spending more time with us. In the last 12 months, we delivered more than 20 billion hours of gaming and entertainment on Xbox, over 17% growth over the previous year. We’re proud and humbled to be the top online gaming service – according to NPD’s August 2013 Online Gaming report, close to 50% more online console gamers use the Xbox 360 for playing online than the PlayStation 3.
With your increasing engagement with and growing community, we’re able invest in new features and future innovations that bring more amazing experiences to you and the community on Xbox Live.
Your New Friends App on Xbox One Designed around you and your friends, Xbox One will have plenty of room for all your favorite people in the brand new Friends system on Xbox One. Your Xbox 360 friends will automatically be added to your Friends list. With Xbox One you can have 1,000 friends, connect with people instantly by following them and have infinite followers yourself. You can also see all of your Xbox One and Xbox 360 friends and their activity in your Activity Feed.
Similar to the other social media networks, Xbox One allows you to share the latest in games and entertainment with fellow gamers, friends and family, or even celebrities and gaming personalities by following people. For example, on Xbox One you can search for me by my gamertag and follow me to see what I share publicly, such as my latest game scores and achievements.
On your Xbox One, there are now more ways to connect than simply sending a friend invite. For example, the one-way follow model of Xbox One allows Xbox Live members to connect with the people they care about in an easier way than ever before.
Friends and Followers So what’s the difference between a friend and a follower? They are all considered your friends on Xbox One, but the levels of privacy between the two are different. You can follow anyone you want and it’s completely up to them if they follow you back. You can also decide what information your followers can see about you.
When you and another gamer mutually follow each other, it creates a more interactive relationship that unlocks the ability for you both to see information like when each other are online, what achievements you earn in real time and what you’re up to on Xbox One.
The Friends app is also an awesome way to find out about new games and activities to take your Xbox One experience to a whole new level.
“A great driver in ‘Forza Motorsport 5,’ for example, could have a huge group of thousands or even millions of followers all tracking their performance in-game,” Rob Lehew, Xbox Live Program Manager, said. “Those followers can have this driver on their personal leaderboard so that they can constantly keep track of how they stack-up, and they can potentially connect online with the driver to get into a race with him.”
Your Gaming Community on Xbox One Xbox Live on Xbox One was rebuilt from the ground up so that we could combine the hardware and the power of the cloud in completely new ways. Because of this, the new generation of Xbox Live puts you at the center of all your entertainment and games, with the community you built.
Along with the community, the gaming experience you know and love has evolved and gotten even better on Xbox One. A great example of this is Achievements. There are now two types of Achievements: achievements and time-based challenges. The former is similar to the achievements you earn on Xbox 360. Challenges on the other hand are only available for a certain period of time. What you accomplish during that timeframe will count towards unlocking the challenge.
As a nod to our stellar community, many challenges require a community to work together towards a common goal. Imagine, for example, a game releases a weekend objective that requires players to cumulatively secure an objective “X” number of times in a three day period. And every person who participates and helps build towards the challenge’s goals unlocks that Achievement and earns its reward.
Achievements only scratch the surface of what you can do with gaming on Xbox One. We also continue to make major investments to make multiplayer gaming on Xbox One even better. The video above highlights some of the work our team has done to continue advancing multiplayer on Xbox Live. We are the only premium gaming service in the world to offer Smart Match, which makes it easier, faster and more enjoyable to get into best-in-class multiplayer gaming. Over time the system gets even better as it learns more about you and your friends. Plus no more waiting in lobbies – Just a better multiplayer experience. You can read more details on Smart Match and the Xbox One reputation system.
We have always been laser-focused on those who make our community what it is. This is the community that you built, and we could not be more excited to take this next step with you in the coming months. During the next few days in this “Week of Xbox Live”, we will continue to share news and more information about what is coming soon to Xbox Live.
Lol oldschool and Johnny!!
http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/26/4774418/microsoft-demonstrates-halo-4-streaming-from-the-cloud-to-windows-and
cloud streaming.
That was very informative everyone thank you. Now I have another question. I heard rumours that a free year of Live was going to be included with the xboxone to off set the PS4 price differential. Anyone have any reliable info on this one? I know they are giving FIFA14 free in Europe for sure and potentially something in NA.
Haven't read anything of the sort. They did just announce The Kinect Fitness App which will have 10-60 min workout routines such as P90X, Insanity, videos from Jillian Michaels and other such fitness guru's. It will be free from launch til November 2014 if you are a gold member, but after that it is a pay service on top of your gold membership.
I'm trying to think where I heard it. It may have been in the post E3 analysis where the argument was made that if MS give a free year the difference between PS4 is only €50, assuming consumers will pay for PS+ Google isn't throwing up any sources right now though.
Or Forza. So far, it just sounds like games that start with "F" that are doomed to...well, fail.
Now you're just telling Fables.
Edit: Or you're having a Final Fantasy.
Ha ha. FIFA is still very populat stateside but just to clarify its a digital download anyway not a disk!
Ugh, beaten.
Look up a few posts ;)
http://leviathyn.com/games/playstation/2013/04/02/should-we-be-excited-for-the-ps4/attachment/amount-of-polygons/
Yes. It matters. Does it matter a lot? Eh. It'll still blow your rocks off.
So I just realized you must have an HD Ready TV for both the PS4 and Xbox One.
I know for most people that will not matter but a lot of people still have old style TV's (I visit about 20 Customers house's per week performing Removals quotations and I will say its about a 50/50 mix)
I wonder why the boxes are HDMI only. Would it make much difference for it to have an HDMI and Component socket?
Well, at a certain point, you have to see that the new tech just isn't for (non-specific) you.
Yeah I know most people who dont have a HDTV wont bother about the PS4 or Xbox.
One of the lads who work at my yard has been saving all year for a PS4 and I have just been talking to him about the HDTV only stuff and it has crushed him, as he only has a 32inch CRT TV.
I may be down a HDTV in a month or two
My guess you be a couple of things. One to cut down on the production cost, only having to use an easily obtainable standard and not have to make a proprietary cord for component stuff. The other might be the "electronic handshake" that allows data transmission back a forth on hdmi cords. They want to be able to have the xb1 be able to kickout high resolutions and be able to transfer data back and forth if necessary. You can do 1080P on conponent, but it cannot transfer data from one sourse back to the other one.
Again just a guess on my part, I have no official post describing that.
Functional obsolescence.
New technology introduction (HDTV standards for example) will result in diminishing economic returns for accommodating old tech compatibility. Who does it benefit to fit SD technology output? In 2007 say, it is beneficial. Not to do so reduces your market potential. In 2013 say, it no longer is, as you 1. Increase product costs by making it backwards compatible to a rapidly dwindling market and 2. May have an economic interest in forcing late adopters of technology to make the move.
There is a third force at work too. Mean product failure time. Those SD sets will rapidly drop off the radar. Sure, some will run another 10, 20 years, but why support those?
Short version - design philosophy and economics.
Sorry for my massively dull contribution.
Must get out more.
eventually you have to get new tech, or choose not to get other new tech.
HDTV's are super cheap now. If you can afford a $500 game box, you can afford a $179 walmart HDTV.
Nah. What he's really saying is that both consoles are too expensive for him. He's sitting out this generation until he gets a new TV, it seems.
Careful Dixon, you don't want to light my "Fuse."
Aren't the new TV's themselves dropping the older connections as well? Harder to buy a TV with anything but HDMI isn't it?
yes, because everything these days has an HDMI connection and with HDCP it makes copy protection easy. So why wouldn't they? Best quality, less copying.
http://majornelson.com/2013/10/14/new-friends-app-and-multiplayer-features-for-xbox-live-on-xbox-one/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktpqoJfTR3g
Let’s start off the week with a look at how the friends list will work on Xbox One. Watch the above video where I walk you through how followers will work on Xbox Live. Don’t worry, the friends lists is still there…but we’ve also added the ability for you to have thousands of followers as well.
I explain more below (which I have cross posted on Xbox Wire) :
Xbox Live has always been about building an amazing community. When we first launched the service back in 2002, our vision was to create a premium online place where friends could come together to play games. With your support we’ve created the world’s largest, most-active gaming and entertainment community and now, as we look ahead to the launch of Xbox One on Nov. 22, we want to pause for a moment to celebrate our community and tell you about what we are doing to make it even better. With that in mind throughout the upcoming days in this “Week of Xbox Live,” we will share more news and information about what is coming to Xbox Live.
First, we want to thank you for choosing and for spending more time with us. In the last 12 months, we delivered more than 20 billion hours of gaming and entertainment on Xbox, over 17% growth over the previous year. We’re proud and humbled to be the top online gaming service – according to NPD’s August 2013 Online Gaming report, close to 50% more online console gamers use the Xbox 360 for playing online than the PlayStation 3.
With your increasing engagement with and growing community, we’re able invest in new features and future innovations that bring more amazing experiences to you and the community on Xbox Live.
Your New Friends App on Xbox One
Designed around you and your friends, Xbox One will have plenty of room for all your favorite people in the brand new Friends system on Xbox One. Your Xbox 360 friends will automatically be added to your Friends list. With Xbox One you can have 1,000 friends, connect with people instantly by following them and have infinite followers yourself. You can also see all of your Xbox One and Xbox 360 friends and their activity in your Activity Feed.
Similar to the other social media networks, Xbox One allows you to share the latest in games and entertainment with fellow gamers, friends and family, or even celebrities and gaming personalities by following people. For example, on Xbox One you can search for me by my gamertag and follow me to see what I share publicly, such as my latest game scores and achievements.
On your Xbox One, there are now more ways to connect than simply sending a friend invite. For example, the one-way follow model of Xbox One allows Xbox Live members to connect with the people they care about in an easier way than ever before.
Friends and Followers
So what’s the difference between a friend and a follower? They are all considered your friends on Xbox One, but the levels of privacy between the two are different. You can follow anyone you want and it’s completely up to them if they follow you back. You can also decide what information your followers can see about you.
When you and another gamer mutually follow each other, it creates a more interactive relationship that unlocks the ability for you both to see information like when each other are online, what achievements you earn in real time and what you’re up to on Xbox One.
The Friends app is also an awesome way to find out about new games and activities to take your Xbox One experience to a whole new level.
“A great driver in ‘Forza Motorsport 5,’ for example, could have a huge group of thousands or even millions of followers all tracking their performance in-game,” Rob Lehew, Xbox Live Program Manager, said. “Those followers can have this driver on their personal leaderboard so that they can constantly keep track of how they stack-up, and they can potentially connect online with the driver to get into a race with him.”
Your Gaming Community on Xbox One
Xbox Live on Xbox One was rebuilt from the ground up so that we could combine the hardware and the power of the cloud in completely new ways. Because of this, the new generation of Xbox Live puts you at the center of all your entertainment and games, with the community you built.
Along with the community, the gaming experience you know and love has evolved and gotten even better on Xbox One. A great example of this is Achievements. There are now two types of Achievements: achievements and time-based challenges. The former is similar to the achievements you earn on Xbox 360. Challenges on the other hand are only available for a certain period of time. What you accomplish during that timeframe will count towards unlocking the challenge.
As a nod to our stellar community, many challenges require a community to work together towards a common goal. Imagine, for example, a game releases a weekend objective that requires players to cumulatively secure an objective “X” number of times in a three day period. And every person who participates and helps build towards the challenge’s goals unlocks that Achievement and earns its reward.
Achievements only scratch the surface of what you can do with gaming on Xbox One.
We also continue to make major investments to make multiplayer gaming on Xbox One even better. The video above highlights some of the work our team has done to continue advancing multiplayer on Xbox Live. We are the only premium gaming service in the world to offer Smart Match, which makes it easier, faster and more enjoyable to get into best-in-class multiplayer gaming. Over time the system gets even better as it learns more about you and your friends. Plus no more waiting in lobbies – Just a better multiplayer experience. You can read more details on Smart Match and the Xbox One reputation system.
We have always been laser-focused on those who make our community what it is. This is the community that you built, and we could not be more excited to take this next step with you in the coming months. During the next few days in this “Week of Xbox Live”, we will continue to share news and more information about what is coming soon to Xbox Live.
Cool XB1 stuff. I don't see anything ominous in it and I am prepared to open my arms to it. :)