The XBOX One

forgeforsaken · 2013-11-19T04:57:16.000Z

Jake Plane:

Dead Rising 3 gets reviewed and get some serious love:
http://www.destructoid.com/review-dead-rising-3-265769.phtml

Come on Jake, you cherry pick the one review that utterly adores it? It wasn’t even the first review out, it’s getting ok reviews overall but destructoid is the high end outlier.

jpinard · 2013-11-19T05:02:13.000Z

So for Forza 5 - what steering wheels will it support?

forgeforsaken:

Come on Jake, you cherry pick the one review that utterly adores it? It wasn’t even the first review out, it’s getting ok reviews overall but destructoid is the high end outlier.

Toronto Globe & Mail gave it at 100% :)

Brad_Grenz · 2013-11-19T05:54:34.000Z

jpinard:

So for Forza 5 - what steering wheels will it support?

Only new Xbox One specific models. I don’t know that any will even be out for launch.

jpinard · 2013-11-19T05:56:15.000Z

Brad Grenz:

Only new Xbox One specific models. I don’t know that any will even be out for launch.

So it won’t use USB steering wheels that work on PC? :(

Brad_Grenz · 2013-11-19T05:56:20.000Z

jpinard:

So for Forza 5 - what steering wheels will it support?

Only new Xbox One specific models. I don’t know that any will even be out for launch.

Brad_Grenz · 2013-11-19T05:57:24.000Z

Nope.

Telefrog · 2013-11-19T07:02:09.000Z

jpinard:

So it won’t use USB steering wheels that work on PC? :(

Just like the 360. It’s all proprietary, so third parties have to get approval and pay the licensing.

Brad_Grenz · 2013-11-20T05:11:20.000Z

Amazon has opened up a few more preorders for anyone interested. Shows unavailable on the main page for me, but you can click through to the buying options and the side and preorder.

sharaleo · 2013-11-20T06:08:59.000Z

Brad Grenz:

Amazon has opened up a few more preorders for anyone interested. Shows unavailable on the main page for me, but you can click through to the buying options and the side and preorder.

Even worse, it is a different proprietary that the X360, so existing 360 wheels don’t work either.

MS are basically changing protocol for the sake of it so they can license peripherals. Fuck that.

sharaleo · 2013-11-20T06:09:33.000Z

Telefrog:

Just like the 360. It’s all proprietary, so third parties have to get approval and pay the licensing.

Even worse, it is a different proprietary than the X360, so existing 360 wheels don’t work either.

MS are basically changing protocol for the sake of it so they can license peripherals. Fuck that.

Telefrog · 2013-11-20T06:51:51.000Z

To be fair to MS, by all accounts so far, the chat voice quality on the XBONE is much better than the 360.

forgeforsaken · 2013-11-20T06:57:05.000Z

For future XB1 owners with a home theater setup, you may not want to use the cable/satellite pass-through as, as of right now, surround sound is not supported via it.

http://support.xbox.com/en-GB/xbox-one/live-tv/digital-sound-not-working

sharaleo · 2013-11-20T07:17:34.000Z

Marvel at the awesome power of multi-person Kinect. Well, sort of…

Murbella · 2013-11-20T07:17:50.000Z

forgeforsaken:

For future XB1 owners with a home theater setup, you may not want to use the cable/satellite pass-through as, as of right now, surround sound is not supported via it.

http://support.xbox.com/en-GB/xbox-one/live-tv/digital-sound-not-working

That is pretty stupid if they really want to make this a tv enhancing box. For their sake i really hope they fix this soon.

sharaleo · 2013-11-20T07:22:51.000Z

Reviews of Forza 5 are starting to trickle in as well. Significantly less content than 4, no more cars for winning races/events making it (perceived as) more grindy. But don’t fret, the grind is eased by micro-transactions and there is already $50 worth of DLC announced.

Looks pretty though. But while it is still scoring ok, it is shaping up to be the lowest rated of the franchise, if you put much stock in such things.

Metacritic

Forza Motorsport 5

Forza Motorsport 5 for Xbox One game reviews & Metacritic score: By learning how you and your compatriots drive, the utility of the cloud delivers real human behavior. Drivatar technology creates an evolving network of oppone...

Somehow I can’t see Tom being super enthused about this iteration.

Jason_Becker · 2013-11-20T07:41:35.000Z

Less content than before but plenty of paid DLC to make up for it. Welcome to the future boys!

Telefrog · 2013-11-20T07:50:41.000Z

The game was obviously pushed for launch. I’m sure Forza 6 or whatever will be better.

I wasn’t planning on buying this one because I expected it to be a step back in terms of content.

Spam · 2013-11-20T07:54:46.000Z

Yikes! Kinect kinda iffy, loads of IAP in $60 games, $100 more… I’m starting to see why they weren’t optimistic about next gen.

Gendal · 2013-11-20T08:08:34.000Z

From this review: http://boingboing.net/2013/11/19/xboxone.html

Rob@BoingBoing:

The first thing that really greets the new Xbox One owner, unfortunately, is a mandatory system update. This happened once again this morning, and it all had me drinking unusually early. These updates take quite a long time to download and install, too–they were about a gigabyte each!–and the system is a high-def loading bar until it’s done.

So that’s a nice reversal from the xbox vs ps3. My PS4 took a few minutes to download a 300MB file and all in all I was up and running in 10 minutes or less from a brand new console. Of course Sony might be delivering min. 300MB each time where as MS might be able to get down to ~10MB in the future. Not sure if Sony has partial updates in place yet or not?

I only ordered DR3 for the xbone but I might pick up a Kinect game if everybody keeps raving about them, I skipped the Kinect on the 360. Wish I would have skipped the Wii U…

sharaleo · 2013-11-20T08:39:01.000Z

Xbox One has no storage management thanks to the [virtually unlimited] power of the cloud.

Microsoft:

Xbox One was designed to make storage management automatic. For saved games, settings, and other information that Xbox One customers save to the cloud, space is virtually unlimited. On the internal hard drive in each Xbox One, games and apps can be uninstalled or reinstalled instantly with the click of the Xbox One menu button. Saved games and settings information is retrieved from the cloud for any game as its being reinstalled. By being smart about how storage is managed, Xbox One keeps everyone playing, watching, and sharing their entertainment content rather than worry about limitations. You can also see how much storage any app uses by pressing the menu button on that app.

I smell PR spinning incomplete features.