New Xbox

[Kane]

I really get the feeling Microsoft is going to push hard on the media side of things with this new console...games will still be a focus but I don't think they'll be the primary focus. It'll contend with media related content.

[John Galt]

[Kane]

Well, we don't know the exact specs of these new consoles but they're both x86 architecture with gobs of memory, cores, and are also APUs.

So essentially the consoles are just turning into subsidized computers (At least at launch as they eat initial losses to gain marketshare).

[John Galt]

i don't know how someone can make it proprietary to retrieve data from something. can they do that? because a system for like 600 dollars that could read all three discs and you'd buy appropriate controllers for, would that not win? i mean, i'd get that.

[fstarcstar]

Rumor has it the Xbox can transfer cable through the HDMI cord. How? I have no damn clue.

http://www.engadget.com/2013/04/10/xbox ... ssthrough/

[Kane]

They aren't exactly the same so that system would have to optimize itself for three different builds and therefore not be as easy to develop for. I think the large difference this time around is that the architecture at its core is essentially the same making cross platform games much easier to produce. The second a console is built that supports all other consoles is the second the market goes dead. Internal studios would shutter from the loss of revenue. It'd be all third party at that point and basically be the end of consoles.

[Kane]

[John Galt]

if sony managed that it would be huge for them

people want content, they don't want content providers. i might like certain content providers, but that's only because i like their content. i don't buy subscription to all the content a single game company comes out with. why would i want to buy all the content a single channel comes out with? or all the content a group of channels? "bundle and save!!" you only bundle because you want one thing out of 200 and it's the only way to get it. if it was content-centric, i think we'd see better content and the shit wouldn't get free rides like it basically does today

[PoS]

With Windows 8 floundering the Xbox is microsoft's last gasp.

[Spider]

Even with Win8 sucking, their stock keeps going up. Tis weird.