Xbox One [With Poll on preferred console]

crunc · Jun 6, 2013

PS3 has just as many FPS and I don't really see all that many games with cute characters, so I don't really get it. All the big titles do not have cute characters. Maybe you are joking?

MidianGTX · Jun 6, 2013

I'm pretty sure the PS3 has more JRPGs than the 360 though... a lot are Japan-only.

crunc · Jun 6, 2013

With that "racism" thread, I'm starting to think he's a troll....

LOLavi · Jun 6, 2013

I'll use my Xbox at least until next year. Then I'll buy the Xbox one. I hate the PS3 UI and I doubt PS4 will be no difference. Xbox is just so much more gamer friendly IMO.

saansilt · Jun 6, 2013

crunc said: ↑

With that "racism" thread, I'm starting to think he's a troll....
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You know what?
Lets drop the convo and ignore him.
Anyway, I liked the xbox ui, until the last update. Now its filled with ads.

Gryphon · Jun 6, 2013

http://news.xbox.com/2013/06/main

Microsoft providing answers on Connectivity, Licensing and Privacy Features

MidianGTX · Jun 6, 2013

I like how desperately they're trying to re-word the bad points to sound positive again.

"A Modern, Connected Device". Sorry, you can't just put "modern" in front of it and fix the problem. Let me play games offline or go to hell.

Kotaku are covering this pretty well BTW:

http://kotaku.com/xbox-one-games-can-only-be-given-to-one-person-ever-511754913

saansilt · Jun 6, 2013

In the future, this console will be a decent paperweight.
Edit: Never read the comments on a kotaku thread again.
Ow.
Ow.
Ow.
Brain, I'll take you away from the bad place.

Kajune · Jun 7, 2013

The xbox one will be another failure at least in Japan and most other places in Asia, cuteness are preferred in Asia especially in Japan.

Gryphon · Jun 7, 2013

saansilt said: ↑

In the future, this console will be a decent paperweight.
Edit: Never read the comments on a kotaku thread again.
Ow.
Ow.
Ow.
Brain, I'll take you away from the bad place.
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Why did I look?

saansilt · Jun 7, 2013

Gryphon said: ↑

Why did I look?
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Its just so painful to read there. The articles are decent but the comments, e gad.
Sorry I made it a big red button.

Kajune said: ↑

The xbox one will be another failure at least in Japan and most other places in Asia, cuteness are preferred in Asia especially in Japan.
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Deja Vú. I tought I already read this post in an earlier one.

MidianGTX · Jun 7, 2013

People like me post in the Kotaku comments section.

So yeah, not a nice place.

Gryphon · Jun 7, 2013

A summary

Shadowking2214 · Jun 7, 2013

There are so many draw backs to this crap. I have always loved Xbox but I'm going PS4 on this,but I have heard that you need to pay for psn on ps4,has that been confirmed?

MidianGTX · Jun 7, 2013

Shadowking2214 said: ↑

There are so many draw backs to this crap. I have always loved Xbox but I'm going PS4 on this,but I have heard that you need to pay for psn on ps4,has that been confirmed?
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With the sheer amount of online features the PS4 has (streaming, video upload, remote assistance, instant trials, etc) I wouldn't be surprised if they needed a bit of cash to keep it running smoothly. There's enough fun stuff involved that I actually want to use that I'd be happier paying a fee than I was when I paid for XBL Gold.

I suspect they might have different levels of memberships as the PS3 does. A basic package which pretty much just covers multiplayer gaming and then a premium service for all the perks.

Don't think anything has been officially announced yet.

Haruhi · Jun 7, 2013

After today's news, I think the poll needs an "anything except for Xbone" option.

Gryphon · Jun 7, 2013

http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/1fv5yj/i_saw_microsoft_employees_monitoring_this/

Hi everyone,

Just thought I'd share something interesting that happened to me this week. I work for a marketing firm in Redmond that has a contract with Microsoft. I can't say specifically which division, but suffice to say we are not involved with the Xbox.

We had a pretty large meeting this week at one of the offices off 31st and, because this was the first time we had visited the Microsoft complex, we got a tour of some of the buildings. It's a quite amazing place. We won't the only visitors either; there were contractors from quite a number of other firms visiting, and presumably meeting to discuss projects related to our own.

We had a semi-formal meeting in one of the larger meeting rooms, followed by lunch and some more touring. In some of the buildings they have offices for a whole range of different divisions all mixed together (e.g. I saw Skype offices, Windows Phone offices and more all in just one building). At one point we visited one of the Xbox offices, and our guide went off to find a particular manager for us to meet. He was gone for a while, so we were left hanging in the middle of a fairly hectic office for several minutes.

While we were waiting, various marketing employees said hello to us/shook our hands - it was a pretty friendly place. Just nearby were two guys chatting at one of their PCs, and they caught my attention because they were on Reddit! I thought that was pretty cool, and presumed they were having a late lunch break and were just goofing around online. I kind-of started to eavesdrop (I honestly couldn't help it, they were talking about Reddit!) and realized they were actually talking business. One of the exchanges went like this:
"I got a few more on pics and some of the smaller subs"
"Honestly just don't bother I think, stay focused on gaming. We really should be spending 90% of our time there." [Note: I presume they were referring to /r/pics and /r/gaming]

His coworker went back to his own computer, and he continued Redditing while we waited. He must've really been hyped up on caffeine or something, because his typing was like a machine gun and he was switching tabs like crazy (or maybe that's just because Microsoft hires the 'hacker' type of guys?) Anyway I noticed he was mass-downvoting a ton of posts and comments, and he kept switching to other tabs to make posts and comments of his own.

I couldn't make out exactly what he was posting, but I presumed he was doing RM (reputation management) and asked my boss about it later. According to my boss, MS have just brought in a huge sweep of SMM managers to handle reputation management for the Xbox One. If you're unfamiliar with reputation management (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reputation_management), it is basically what it sounds like. Social media managers doing RM focus on providing positive posts, likes and shares to promote the brand on social media sites and forums - usually posing as the 'happy customer' archetype through a multitude of accounts. In the last year or so, Reddit has become more and more important to an overall RM strategy.

It also often involves 'debunking' people who make negative or critical comments about the brand online. I've done this myself for numerous clients before (even on Reddit once, sorry!). It is fairly standard procedure, although usually not so much for huge companies like Microsoft. I don't know why such a huge company needs to devote energy to this, because their brand is already extraordinarly well-known. But in any case, they seem to be putting a BIG focus on it for the Xbox One. Not only in-house; they're also dishing out the big bucks for some pretty high-profile marketing firms to do the work for them. Reddit will absolutely be a part of that strategy, and the couple of guys I saw were probably just the tip of the iceberg.

I'm a fairly die-hard gamer and Redditor who frequents this sub a lot. After seeing all the massive debates about the Xbox lately, I thought you guys would probably find that little morsel to be interesting. There's a good chance that many of the positive posts/comments we're seeing about the Xbox One have been posted by employees from one of those marketing firms. It's fairly standard to diss your competitors too, so I'm guessing some of the negative posts about it might even be from Sony. That's just a hypothesis, though it wouldn't be the first time a seeming-crapstorm among "Redditors" was actually just a proxy war between marketing employees.
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Kamil_GoodnightGames · Jun 8, 2013

Im a little heart broken at the policy of sharing used games or not being able to sell them. There are plenty of games in the past that I can't find anywhere except ebay and other random places such as garage sales. Taking this away will make it even more difficult to find hidden gems.

Gryphon · Jun 9, 2013

http://news.softpedia.com/news/Microsoft-Paying-Third-Party-Publishers-to-Not-Show-PS4-Games-at-E3-2013-Report-359264.shtml

Microsoft is allegedly paying many third-party publishers so that they won't show off their PlayStation 4 games at E3 2013, according to a new report.

E3 2013, the most important games convention out there, is set to begin next week, and both Microsoft and Sony are expected to focus heavily on their next-gen consoles, the Xbox One and PlayStation 4, respectively.

In order to gain the upper hand on Sony, Microsoft is apparently resorting to some unorthodox practices, like paying a lot of money to third-party publishers so that they won't show their PlayStation 4 games either on stage or at their actual booths.

The report arrives from a source on NeoGAF, which posted a lot of true rumors in the past, so it's possible that Microsoft really is resorting to such tactics ahead of E3 2013.

The company emphasized that at the event it's going to focus only on games for the Xbox One, so it could try to create a false sense that more games are coming to Xbox One than PS4.
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