DrDel
5051
I find this astounding:
During the earnings call, Hood said that Microsoft “expect[s] to work through some inventory in Q4 [April 1st - June 30th],” mentioning “channel inventory drawdown for Xbox consoles.” From Gamasutra’s perspective, Hood’s statement implies that Microsoft may slow or even stop Xbox One production altogether until demand picks up. We know that the company has shipped 5 million consoles to retailers since launch, but Microsoft hasn’t been as forthcoming with actual end user sales data.
I can’t remember the last time I turned on my Xbox One to play a game… Boxing Day maybe?
The MS arrogance continues to bite them in the arse.
For me, that’s easy. This week (Thief, Plants vs Zombies:Garden Warfare and Powerstar Golf). I also watched some Amazon Prime and Twitch.
As for MS arrogance, you are talking about the company that’s doing a low of work patching the OS to respond the user complaints. If you haven’t switched it on since Boxing Day, you’ve missed a couple major software updates.
But to each his own. Too many games across all the systems, too little time to play them all anyway. :)
Wendelius
DrDel
5053
Part of my lack of Xbox One use is likely due to the Boxing Day gaming rig I picked up, Alienware 2x 30" monitors… yum… I have fallen in love with Steam again…
The problem with that quote is that the bolded bit is pure speculation and is the basis for their click bait article title. The earnings call itself made no statements about the status of production.
Which is another one of their problems. MS is still trying to get their console OS working, meanwhile Sony is talking about their new game streaming service and VR headsets.
Woah there, this isn’t the case at all. Sony are busy making the same changes as MS, and they’re playing catch up in some areas (shared video editing facilities, for example). I’ve only got a PS4 (and 360, obviously) but the OS still has a way to go.
Yeah, it will be a while before either console will be as feature complete as a 360. At least mp3 playback is finally coming to the PS4 in the next update. One less reason to switch on the 360 for my wife when she is cooking and wants some musical accompaniment.
(Technically this is possible on the Xbox One already, but it’s so much easier on the 360 to play media from your PC).
As someone who owns both a PS4 and an Xbox One (and a Wii U, FWIW) the PS4 may have less features than the Xbox One, but what is there is solid, works well and has good user interface/user experience.
The One has more checklist features but also way more bugs – controller disconnects, random slowdowns when snapping, the bug that makes me have to power the entire system down with an unplug or hard reset to get Titanfall’s framerate out of single digits, the TERRIBLE regression in user interface for the chat party system compared to the 360, etc.
I’ll take the PS4 route anyday, though YMMV… I don’t watch live TV at all so all of those Xbox One features that revolve around it are lost on me.
Cyrano
5059
Unfortunately, the PS4 update is out today and I don’t see anything about mp3 playback in the news articles about it. If a PS4 update includes pulling music from a network PC before an Xbox One update does, I will be in danger of losing $400 to Sony.
Editer
5060
You can play MP3 music on Xbox One from a PC right now, but it’s a “push” setup rather than “pull” – you have to select the music on your PC and “Play to” the Xbox One. Would love to see the ability to access the music on my PC’s hard drive directly from the Xbox One eventually.
Cyrano
5061
Sure, about half of my use of my Xbox One playing lossless music from my Windows 8.1 laptop. I’m probably exaggerating my need to “pull from” instead of “push to”; searching by keyboard in the Xbox Music app is probably a whole lot quicker than scrolling thru a list of 1400 albums with a controller. The best part of using the Xbox One to play music is how silent the box is, even more quiet than my 360S.
I should have known. God help me, I should have known better. After 5 different 360’s, you would think I would know better than trust Microsoft. My Xbox One that I got for Christmas (less than 5 months ago!) is belly up. It won’t load a disc, meaning whatever device grabs the disc and pulls it in is broken. Won’t load a movie, a game, nothing. It’s my own fault for trusting Microsoft.
Now I can look forward to weeks and weeks of not playing anything while I send it off and wait for some refurbished box to come back and break yet again.
There have been no widespread reports of xbone failure. Obviously nothing is defect-free, you just got unlucky. Doesn’t necessarily point to poor quality control on the MS side.
Moore
5064
I would have expected the ONE to let me voice control music playback by saying track/artist/album names…
Is there a setting somewhere in the menu structure that prevents or allows in-app purchases?
I’m having an issue in PvZ: Garden Warfare. I don’t see any way to buy coins which are used to open sticker packs and unlock stuff. Not that I need to or plan to as of now, but I’m concerned I don’t see the option to.
wumpus
5066
Are there any good Kinect 2 games for this console yet? It is the only reason I would ever buy.
Kadath
5067
Nope not that I have seen, no breakout hits anyway.
Were there any breakout kinect 1 hits?
Heck, aside from Wii Sports, were there any breakout motion control hits period?
