So, basically the same as the console price? Otherwise known as, “time-limited until we’re winning.”
They also changed the Xbox 360 store to let you buy the Xbox One GWG games on there.
I think that’s new? I haven’t seen it before, but I was able to pick up Rayman at the same time as Tomb Raider.
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Some news out of GDC…
[ul]
[li]Elite: Dangerous coming to Xbox One
[/li][li]Future wireless Xbox peripherals will support both PC and Xbox
[/li][li]Wireless adapter coming for existing Xbox One controller
[/li][li]ID@Xbox and Windows 10 will let devs make Live-enabled games that will run on different devices: PC, Xbox One, Hololens, etc.
[/li][/ul]
First entry in that list is the one that has me most excited! Love it on my PC, but it’d be awesome as a couch game.
More stuff here: http://www.quartertothree.com/game-talk/showthread.php?72831-The-XBOX-One/page195
[/li]
So future Xbox One controllers won’t need an adapter to connect to a PC wirelessly?
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Zero inside knowledge, but because of the wireless technology used by the Xbox One controllers, I would imagine that controllers will always require some kind of USB wireless adapter (mentioned in the link), but that future new peripherals will use technologies that exist on both PC and Xbox, such as USB, Bluetooth, etc.
prolix
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I don’t see a Kinect extension cable listed. Why does XB360 get this but XB1 does not? I am not the only one asking… [insert obligatory Kinect sneering here.]
(I know, I know, there are workarounds.)
Folks at GDC are assaying that Phil Harrison is leaving Microsoft.
GamesIndustry.biz understands that Harrison grew frustrated when Mattrick’s departure and Spencer’s subsequent promotion did not result in him moving up the corporate ladder and decided to move on.
Is this a big deal? (I really don’t know.)
— Alan
Well, he started in 2012 as the head of the MS interactive entertainment division, so he was a big part of the “TV TV TV” and Kinect 2 push for the Xbox One. So it’s a big deal in the sense that this guy gets a lot of blame when it comes to some of the less popular strategies in the Xbox One rollout.
If he leaves, that’s pretty much it for the “old guard” of the Xbox One’s original focus.
Harrison is most famous as the Xbox executive who accidentally kept telling reporters true things about Xbox One’s DRM and online only shit. I suppose that did not endear him to the management at MS.
Shake-up time!
Kudo Tsunoda, the guy largely seen as the “face” of Kinect at E3 presentations, is now in charge of Rare, Lionhead, Twisted Pixel and Lift London.
Hanno Lemke is moving from Gears of War studio Black Tusk to oversee the U.K. game studios and Danish studio Press Play.
John Needham, is leaving Lionhead and moving to Redmond to work on HoloLens development. (One of the key leads on HoloLens was killed last weekend in a hit & run.)
Finally, Wil Mozell is leaving BigPark, and going over to Black Tusk.
Whew! Here’s the announcement video:
Not sure which is a positive or negative move, though among other things Black Tusk represents a big (okay, maybe not Rare big, but still) investment in both people and IP for Microsoft.
— Alan
Er, so you have to watch a video to see screenshots?
You can take screenshots on the Xbox One now.
After having a Xbox One for a few months now I really like how it will update itself. Having to sit through PS4 updates(that usually just add “stability”) gets old now.
Guy’s kid racks up $4500.00 worth of FIFA purchases. Who’s fault is it? He thinks it’s kind of Microsoft’s.
https://medium.com/@jeremyhillman/microsoft-x-box-and-a-family-problem-8da1b57c7a74
What he had been doing was purchasing FIFA player packs. He tearfully told me that he’d tried to buy a player pack for $100 but it hadn’t worked and so he tried a couple more times. Knowingly trying to spend $100 would have been bad enough but if he was telling the truth then this was a one-off aberration — and Microsoft would surely compensate us for the failed purchases.
A while later I managed to start a Live-chat with a Microsoft agent and explained the situation. The agent was helpful and said she’d log the incident and someone would get back to me, but as we were finishing the chat she dropped the bombshell. ‘What about the other charges?’ she asked. ‘Which other charges?’ I replied. “If you click through at the bottom of the page (she had helped me log onto my son’s account during the call) you’ll see all the other charges”. With horror I started scrolling through pages of charges — $109, $109, $109 — sometimes two a day. More than $4,500 of charges for virtual FIFA players going back several months.
A couple of things:
- He admits outright that part of the responsibility is his for not monitoring his son’s activities on Xbox Live better.
- He’s a former employee of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation!
- As much as many would like to say “Tough!” and move on, keep in mind that Apple and Google had to change their in-app purchase policies after enough outcry.
