Next gen Xbox: rumours, speculations, wild pipe dreams!

[Callum91]

What's Avatar House?

Some shit Miiverse type thing? Or whatever it's called on the Wii U.

 

[Crispy]

What's Avatar House?

Some social bullshit where you can walk your Xbox Live Avatar around a virtual house, decorated with promotional items at 100GP each.

 

[Ranbay]

http://www.maxconsole.com/news/XBOX...May-21st-event-RKSID00000000000000000871.html

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Some social bullshit where you can walk your Xbox Live Avatar around a virtual house, decorated with promotional items at 100GP each.

So basically Animal Crossing?

 

[Ranbay]

http://xboxnews.game.co.uk/?cm_mmc=game-_-brand-_-XboxAnnounceLive-_-mainbanner

 

[Ranbay]

NOW

 

[RedDragon]

A few quid more to get their lips in synch would've been well spent.

 

[Crispy]

I'm going to have a relationship with my TV?!

 

[Ranbay]

http://www.gametrailers.com/netstorage/xboxcountdown/live.html

 

[RedDragon]

They're keeping it in the Livingroom

 

[RedDragon]

The one

 

[Ranbay]

Xbox One

 

[Callum91]

Shit name.

 

[RedDragon]

There's an applause sign above the stage - perhaps the front rows are full of staff

 

[RedDragon]

Two finger?

 

[Ranbay]

Wanking and playing COD

 

[RedDragon]

xbox torrent into darkness

 

[Sunray]

This is one boring as fuck presentation.

All talk no action.

 

[Ranbay]

Yay Halo 19

 

[Vintage Paw]

Blocking used games then.

Dealbreaker.

 

[RedDragon]

I wanna be the dog

 

[Ranbay]

Blocking used games then.

Dealbreaker.

Eh? have they said that? missed that.

 

[RedDragon]

Well, there's an hour I'm never getting back.

 

[Vintage Paw]

Eh? have they said that? missed that.

http://kotaku.com/the-xbox-is-not-always-online-but-seems-to-block-used-509077987

They are being a bit cloak and daggers about the exact workings of it - but you pay a fee if you use someone else's disc, your disc is tied to your account. One disc, one account. So I expect that means that if you buy a used game in a shop, you have to pay again through your xbox dashboard to be allowed to install it. Which might just bring the cost back up to close what the full price game is. No word on if you can de-link that disc from your account, thus bypassing the need for the next owner to pay a second time to use it. If the stink is kicked up enough, then they might allow de-linking.

And no backwards compatibility. Which, I'm not sure that's necessarily a surprise, tbh. But might be yet another reason people think twice.

 

[Crispy]

No back-compat on PS4 either, mind

 

[Vintage Paw]

No back-compat on PS4 either, mind

Indeed. Unfortunate all round.

 

[skyscraper101]

discs. lol. what century are they living in.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

No back-compat on PS4 either, mind

I've long thought BC was a red herring, I doubt most gamers really give a shit about that, they want the new games on the new hardware. I won't be buying a next gen console to play Battlefield 3. It'll be to play Battlefield 4.

 

[UnderOpenSky]

discs. lol. what century are they living in.

One where many people don't have fast enough broadband to download multi gig games.

 

[skyscraper101]

One where many people don't have fast enough broadband to download multi gig games.

oh ok, fair enough.