Thursday, 23 May 2013

Xbone

The Xbox one reveal conference was quite surreal. Words like 'kintecting' and 't.v.' were thrown around a lot while the the only mention of games came 25 minutes in and were only about sports and Call of Duty. Call of Duty now has innovative features like dogs. The Xbox is trying to sell itself as an 'all-in-one' machine that can do everything at once, however this approach only serves to limit the its consumers.
The services that it uses, like accessing t.v. or the internet, are already accessible through other means and people will favour those over the Xbox. These services are being pushed as innovative and are being used to sell the system rather than the games which people will buy the machine for. The whole conference felt like they were selling a sports machine that might also play games.

The other features that Microsoft are implementing are also quite worrying. The Xbox One won't be able to play used games and will have to be connected to the internet once a day. These features threaten the used games market, you won't even be able to lend a friend a game without Microsoft charging them to play it as all games you play will be tied to your account. It is also alienating anyone without a great internet connection.
Both the conference and the new Xbox have been rightly critised and hopefully Microsoft will listen and either come up with some amazing games at E3 or remove some of these horrible features.


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