The Slavic Inferno

What did we learn today? I should have bought some Sony stock at 12:55…

XBOX ONE will NOT function without a Kinect…

hmm…Why did Sony’s stock just skyrocket? And Microsoft’s stock dropping…

You’ll have to install games before you play them. When you install a game, it connects to your Xbox Live account. You can connect it to a second account, but you’ll have to pay a fee. In other words, the traditional concept of “used games” is obsolete for Xbox One.

XBOX ONE

XBOX ONE

Release Date: Late 2013

(Source: gametrailers.com)

XBOX ONE is NOT backwards compatible with XBOX 360 games (F U Microsoft!)

If you were hoping to play your vast collection of Xbox 360 games on Microsoft’s latest creation, we’ve got a spot of bad news. Microsoft Xbox Live VP Marc Whitten confirmed to The Verge that the new Xbox One console will have no backwards compatibility whatsoever.

“No, there’s not,” said Whitten, when we posed the question. “The system is based on a different core architecture, so back-compat doesn’t really work from that perspective.”

Technologically speaking, it’s not wholly a surprise that backwards compatibility is off the table. Today, the company confirmed months of rumors that the new Xbox would use an x86 CPU. Games designed for the Xbox 360’s Xenon processor simply won’t run natively on the new hardware, since the Xenon used a PowerPC architecture instead. Of course, Sony’s PlayStation 4 has the same problem: Sony also chose to move to x86 from PowerPC, and the PS4 also won’t directly support PS3 games.

But while Sony is promising that PlayStation 4 users will indeed be able to play PlayStation 3 games at some point, by streaming them from the cloud, Microsoft is not promising any such thing for Xbox One. When we specifically asked Whitten whether the company had any streaming option or download option for existing Xbox 360 games for the Xbox One, he confirmed that there was no such thing in the works at Microsoft.

Microsoft does, however, plan to keep selling the Xbox 360 alongside the new console for the foreseeable future. “This isn’t about getting rid of the Xbox 360,” Whitten said. Perhaps the lack of backwards compatibility will be good for business there.

http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/21/4350662/new-xbox-has-no-backwards-compatibilty

annthology:

I’m not sure if I like the new shape of the controllers. I wonder if you can use the controllers we use now on that, or if we have to use the controllers that come with the xbox one.

I’ve never seen a system where you could use older controllers.

XBOX ONE Impression:

So it’s a computer?