Microsoft press conference: What's the bottom line?

[josemlopes]

I thought that it was one hell of a press conference, sadly for a crappy product.

You cant deny that it was a press conference just like we want it, its games after games, a talk about key feature changes here and there and almost no shit talk with the over use of the word "experience".

But since this is the XBONE everyone will just shit on it because its the cool thing to do. Please, tell them that a conference based entirely on games is a bad conference, that wont make things worse for next year will it?

 

[Colt47]

Yeah at this point the only people who pre-ordered the Xbox One are the game reviewers and people who put way too much faith in this company. $500 for the privilege of playing another halo game, a game that requires windows glass, and Sunset Overdrive, while having to deal with needing a 1.5 Mb/s constant internet connection, subs from xbox live, and television adverts all over. This is on top of the whole fiasco with lending games to friends and the always watching kinect.

I thought that it was one hell of a press conference, sadly for a crappy product.

You cant deny that it was a press conference just like we want it, its games after games, a talk about key feature changes here and there and almost no shit talk with the over use of the word "experience".

But since this is the XBONE everyone will just shit on it because its the cool thing to do. Please, tell them that a conference based entirely on games is a bad conference, that wont make things worse for next year will it?

How was this conference good? The best games were not even exclusive and one of the exclusive games appears to require windows glass. A Windows 8 tablet costs more than the xbox one does.

Also, apparently you want to support the Xbox One because it's the cool thing to do. =p

 

[FieryTrainwreck]

Also, apparently you want to support the Xbox One because it's the cool thing to do. =p

Don't mind him. Just the standard issue internet contrarian. If some dude were flinging kittens off a skyscraper, the internet would deliver at least one guy trying to defend it.

The Killer Instinct announcement stings a little bit, but there's always a decent chance it'll be terrible anyways. Everything else I'm interested in is or will be multiplatform. If there's one saving grace regarding the horribly inflated cost of making games, it's that publishers really can't afford not to bring almost everything to PS4 eventually.

 

[search_rip]

$499 price tag for US. $666 price tag for the UK. How fitting of a price.

I feel your pain, living in México and with previous consoles experiences I can tell the $666 equivalent will also apply here (yeah, we are next USA but add importation taxes and retailers "cut") anyway, there wasn't anything in the Xbone presentation that make me think "hey, I do want that" currently waiting to see what PS4 will offer

 

[Zeh Don]

Microsoft's press conference wasn't the disaster that had been predicted. They were true to their word, and only showed games - though a few instances of useless SmartGlass features found their way onto the stage.

Having said that, it didn't do enough. Not even close.
The games that were shown were mostly higher resolution PC versions - Battlefield 4 being the best example. They didn't come out of left field with something special, and there certainly weren't any "killer apps". The best games are also the ones not exclusive is Xbox One, save for Forza 5 and the Halo teaser.

The price announcement was nice, but the details were terrifying; as has already been covered, it is way over-priced for what it's delivering, and of course on top of that you have the basic requirement of an Xbox Live Gold membership as is reliant on Xbox Live.

They ignored all of the hot-button topics and focused on the games. Smart business move, but, apart from Dead Rising 3 and Halo, not a single game shown really wowed me, or even made sad I wouldn't be getting it.

Ultimately, it was a good conference for a shitty product. And, my god, the price...

 

[BearShark]

Personally, I was hoping for them to talk more about the console itself, hopefully debunking some of the dreadful rumors that have been circulating since the announcement. But, as of now we have about as much to go on as we did before the conference, just with some exclusives to talk about.