With the new generation of game
consoles coming out for the Wii, and PlayStation, Microsoft decided to also
release a new game console called the Xbox One. The Xbox One will be releasing
sometime in November, the actual release date has not yet been confirmed. When
Microsoft first announced that the Xbox One was coming out a lot of users
complained because at first the system didn’t actually have disk games. You
could only purchase games by downloading them off of Xbox Live. Xbox supporters
made a big fuss about this. Some supporters even talked about buying the
PlayStation 4 instead of the Xbox One because PlayStation 4 allowed users to
purchase the actual disk. A few weeks
later after Microsoft received many complaints about not being able to buy the
actual disk for the game so Microsoft then announced that they would now allow
users to purchase the actual disk game. Once they announced this the amount of
preorders they received for the Xbox One skyrocketed. The Xbox also has many
amazing features a few of them are, voice command, the ability to tune into
your home’s TV services, and the ability to video chat. The new Kinect that comes with the Xbox One
tracks the motions you make as well as a very good voice recognition feature
that allows you to do things like turn on the Xbox or Switch to and from your
TV. The Xbox One allows you to connect
your Xbox to your cable box which allows you to play your Xbox and go back to
watching TV while your are waiting for an online match to load. If you switch
to the TV while you are in an online lobby waiting for a match to start the
Xbox will notify you when the match is about to start. This is a very good
feature that will be used a lot. Xbox
one also allows your to use Skype. This is another very good feature because
now more and more people are starting to use video chat as a form of
communication so it was smart of Microsoft to incorporate this into their new
system. There are many more features that the new Xbox will have; we will all
just have to wait until November to see what those features are.
http://www.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-one/innovation
http://www.techradar.com/us/news/gaming/consoles/xbox-one-release-date-news-and-rumours-937167
http://www.techradar.com/us/reviews/gaming/games-consoles/xbox-one-1153153/review
I own the Xbox 360, but when the next generation of consoles release, I plan on switching to the PS4. I think there is going to be a tight battle for who sells the most consoles. To me, Xbox over-did it with the proposed DRM restrictions ( no sharing games, etc), the 24-hour check in, which they have now reversed, and the mandatory Kinect sensor . Both systems have just about the same specifications, but I feel Xbox One is geared towards entertainment whereas PS4 is still focusing on games.
ReplyDeleteFor the next gen i think microsoft has done a little bit to much with there consumer marketing , to the point where as of now they are actually apologizing to gamers on what they have been doing , ive had a xbox 360 for the longest but i cannot and will not support those practices , and to add to all that playstation 4 has been quite impressive so far and lower in price even
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