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^^Given that you could spend around the same amount of money to build yourself a decent PC...
^Also the old headsets wont work as the headphone jack is a different size now
So to play online properly you need XBL gold (first year is not free despite a popular rumor), need to buy a new headset separately as well.
Thats easily over 600$ just to play online normaly lol.
Oh. From what you were saying I thought you meant that it would cost 600 dollars just to get the rig playing online
Also, I dunno. No-one's had the chance to try the new Kinect 2.0 (or the new PS Eye for that matter) in an actual gaming environment. The consoles are supposed to be built around them this time around, so maybe it'll surprise us.
Which ever way you slice it the XBone still needs the internet to work, I know most people have the internet these days but still.Want to boot up your new console right after coming back from the midnight launch? Maybe spend some time fixing yourself a late night snack while waiting for the mandatory download.
In an updated interview with Marc Whitten, the chief platform architect of the Xbox One, IGN learned that a first day patch will take about 15 to 20 minutes to install once the system is turned on for the first time.
"We are optimizing Xbox One so that the day one update is as fast as possible," said Whitten. "While we're still finalizing the details, we expect that the download will take between 15 and 20 minutes for most users."
Given that gamers have had ample time to become accustomed to, if not necessarily accepting of, day one patches, it's probably not a deal breaker for most fans. However, given a recent consumer poll by Reuters , where consumers stated they were more likely to buy a PS4 than an Xbox One, this likely isn't going to help bring people over to Microsoft's camp. On the other hand, considering the ridiculous number of pre-orders for both consoles, maybe they don't need it.
(Hard to believe the last post in this thread was 8 months ago, where does the time go? It doesn't seem that long ago we were talking about the Xbone 180.)Oh, good. Because having a few million people all hit a server for the same files at the same time has never gone wrong before.
Maybe I'm being petty, maybe it will go just fine, Microsoft is certainly a company that ought to be able to pull that kind of network infrastructure together, but seriously- and especially given the kerfuffle about requiring Internet access in the first place- is a machine that actually does what it's supposed to do out of the box too much to ask?
I think you're confused, Russell, at the silly American Month/Day/Year system that's in place here.(Hard to believe the last post in this thread was 8 months ago, where does the time go? It doesn't seem that long ago we were talking about the Xbone 180.)
I think you're confused, Russell, at the silly American Month/Day/Year system that's in place here.
We write the numbers this way because we say dates like this: October Second, Two Thousand Thirteen. I always get confused when I seen numbers greater the 12 as the first number in dates.I think you're confused, Russell, at the silly American Month/Day/Year system that's in place here.
Yeah it's not that big of a deal, I just hate how everything HAS to revolve around the internet these days.
I feel like an old man, but I remember when games and consoles worked right out of the box.
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Nevermind then.