@quibit: Not sure what you were expecting: they've said for weeks that the games-focused presentation would be at E3.
This past event wasn't even about competing with Sony. It was very obviously about competing with Apple and Google.
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@ScottWelker:I urge you to read the next sentence of that post as well.
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Consumers are not okay with this, and will vote with their wallets. Just look at Steam, it would have been a huge success if only people were able to resell their games.
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2 hours ago, PopeDai wrote
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It sucks that the demographics of the game-buying public have changed so much since then. Remember, this was when schools purchased games (Oregon Trail, SimCity, Treasure Mountain, etc) - now there's no such market. Sad.
Huh? The educational and serious games market ismore substantial than it ever was..
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7 hours ago, Vaccano wrote
I get where they were going with the "Xbox One" name. (It is the only device you need.)
But people are used to a version number after the name.
It is going to be confusing for a while:
"Mom, I want an Xbox One for Christmas"... Mom goes and looks for Xbox V1.
Xbox is big enough that people will get it eventually. But I think that right at the first it will be confusing.
As if mom will have a clue what an Xbox V1 even is. Or will be able to find one in the shops. And somehow miss the massive "XBox One" display.
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8 minutes ago, algorith wrote
MS and Sony switched positions from 360 and PS3, now Sony focuses on games with very top-end hardware dedicated solely for games
...except for all the other entertainment media the PS4 plays.
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1 hour ago, evildictait​or wrote
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Oh look! There are nine different Xbox Ones on sale on Ebay:
http://www.ebay.com/sch/Video-Game-Consoles-/139971/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=xbox+one
Oh wait. No. Those are Xbox1s, not Xbox Ones.
Congratulations Microsoft. This company literally couldn't market their way out of a paper bag.
None of those say "Xbox One".
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So, was that it, or is there some sort of press only thing going on right now? The "You can check back shortly" thing is sort of ambiguous.
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14 minutes ago, evildictait​or wrote
Eugh. Xbox One. Which idiot in Microsoft Marketing came up with that?
The Xbox series is now:
Xbox1 --> Xbox 360 --> Xbox One.
Hence managing to simulteniously confuse users between this product:
and this one:
And also confusing users who think that numbers that are bigger are better, since Xbox One > Xbox 360 (> Xbox 1).
Wow. Short of calling it "PlayStation 2", I fail to see how they could have sucked so hard at naming this thing.
Absolutely nobody will be genuinely confused by any of this.
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@spivonious: Indeed. We need more details. That one slide said it had HDMI in, but they didn't mention how that worked.
