The Xbox One Revealed

All very nice (except the box Retro 80's anyone?), and I'm sure it's magnificent if you have cable TV anyway, but what if you have SKY (or DirecTV for those in the colonies)? Do you still have to pay for Sky/Directv ? or Comcast etc. as well? What if the bills come up on the wrong days, as happens, and you can only pay one that week? Does your TV stop playing your shows because your MS Live account is overdue, even though your cable bill is paid, and vice-versa? Sounds like a bullshit plan. Also, don't want an active web-cam in my front room. What if I'm getting it on with the missus, she'd be mighty upset to find some-one hacked that and put it into the almighty "Cloud". Backward compatibility is also a concern. (referring to 360, not missus, although she'd be concerned also ;-) )

Why does Microsoft assume gamers will care about anything besides games? I don't even watch a whole lot of tv.

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Call of Duty? Beautiful? State of the art? When? 1999?

The new one still looks muddy in all the wrong places. And the characters in Crysis 1 still look a whole lot "holy-shit-I-can't-believe-that's-not-real" better than this "next-gen" stuff.

When will people understand that "crispness" in graphics is SO damn important to making it look beautiful!

A few months ago I signed up for Netflix and was greatly underwhelmed by the entire service. When I talked about it over Facebook, a few of my friends told me that Netflix is mostly focused on North America, and that the collection of available on TV shows here via Netflix were lousy. And it was true, there were maybe 20 items in each catagory, and I went through everything I was interested in within a fortnight.

I'm afraid that with all this talk about the Xbox One being your TV's new best friend is going to follow a similar pattern, and that all this talk about great TV shows is only relevant to American consumers and not us in the UK or Europe. I'll keep an eye out for any kind of word on this, but the whole reveal has not yet one me over.

Aaand the rest: EA was first to kiss microsofts ass, Laughed at the Halo for selling out to Spielberg, Call of Duty looks nice graphic wise but still Call Of Duty.

The only thing that really got me excited was Kinect strangely enough. The fact that they mentioned the ability so recognize full sentences and better A.I sounds promising for interactivity with games. It sounds promising enough but how well they can actually intigrate this has yet to be seen. I'm hoping to be able to talk to Alyx in Half life 3 through my TV as opposed to being a mute protagonist. Something like that could be revolutionary. Also the illumiroom has yet to be shown. There is alot to be seen still

I'm kind of happy. I loved my PS1 and PS2, but left Sony for the 360. Obviously, I'm not going to buy this ugly black box. No wonder its called the Xbox One, it looks more archaic than the original! It will be nice to be back on Sony's side. I miss Metal Gear and the PlayStation World. God knows my childhood company Nintendo is heading nowhere fast with the Wii U. Sony! Shut up and take my damn money!

Well all i can say is: BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

I think adding live tv, skype, dvr and the internet explorer is just an excuse to raise the price.

hmm not impressed

"Xbox One hardware is not compatible with Xbox 360 games." No thank you.

The Xbox One is an entertainment system. The PS4 is a gaming system. The one you choose depends on where your priorities lie. I know which one I would choose.

There is no denying that xbox one is an impressive system but i felt they strayed away from what made xbox 360 a good system and i also felt it was US based which might not click in asian countries saying all these i am still looking forward to e3 where they might show off some of the exclusives after all exclusives are what that matters

I watched the first like... 15 minutes, then when he all of a sudden started using sign language and showing all the great TV shit, I went and printed out the article about the PS4 and hugged it.

I'm exaggerating of course, but I was thoroughly unimpressed. I wish Microsoft luck, I'll be playing PS4 for the next decade.

I really like the forward thinking MS does with their consoles. They've been the ones that have pushed the industry forward, and they continue to do so. Interactivity was the next logical step, and its MS that's going to be pushing that the most out of all 3 consoles. I like all the consoles, and will likely get them all, but I am liking what MS is doing pushing this aspect of home entertainment in a hard way.

I'm with many of you on the design, but it does have a certain charm because it harks back to the original Xbox, giving a weird retro vibe. What no one can question, regardless of some of the reactionary negativity, is that the hardware is damned impressive.

Seems the PS4 wil be better both in terms of hardware and game offer.. MS is building an all-purpose device while PS4 focuses on what developers and gamers really want: Games.

PS4: 8 core 1.84 Tflops CPU, 8 GB GDDR5 RAM,

Xbox One: 8 core 1.2 Tflops CPU, 8 GB DDR3 RAM

Wonder how the GPU's of the two consoles compare.. Since they pretty much didnt say anything about the specs I bet it will be less powerful than Sony's.

Was not at all impressed about the things they showed.. They pretty much began with the TV stuff. Only thing slightly interesting was Quantum Break IMO.

Sony's shares went up 8 percent after this!

So is the casual audience you hope to gain with this all-in-one garbage going to offset all the customers you're losing to Sony because they buy consoles for games? I already have a blu-ray player and a 4-tuner DVR with AT&T and I HATE kinect. Don't need this other crap. RIP my gamerscore, PS4 here I come.

Just build a darn game console MS! Is that too hard?

I don't care about having my heart rate monitored while watching TV, reading some fool's facebook page, and doing some crazy clap-on clap-off schtick.

Give me a break.

Another disappointing aspect about this 'reveal' was that this supposedly NEXT gen console looks a lot like the original XBOX which is dull. In fact, the Xbox ONE looks like a cable box.. "hint hint !".. which means most Americans are expected to throw away their cable boxes and fall in love with this sh*t. Also, SONY's stock value got a rise of over 1.5 dollars just a few hours ago. SONY will get a rise in everything following this disaster from Microsoft. I had so much expectation and it has all come crashing down.

What a disappointing presentation they had... All of those gameplay videos were CGI and they sucked. It just looks like it could be a nice OS for the PC more than anything. The design is so old school and lame and in general I just have a bad feeling about it. Sony has no competition in my view unless Xbox1 would replace your Virgin/Sky box.

I will HONESTLY admit I am NOT a SONY fan boy. But, this conference was BORING. It was underwhelming, and had nothing to interest me as a gamer. I don't f**king care about Comcast or the NFL cause I ain't from the USA. I wanted to hear about GAMES ! Sadly, they did talk about A game and it turned out to be Call of Duty with DOGS. Sadly Microsoft, I won't be buying your piece of TRASH box come the holiday season. Sony has gotten another customer now.

Looks like gamers are a second thought in this console.

My only gripe about this reveal is that few questions were answered. Other than that, I'm not surprised at how the reveal went, 19 days away from E3, save that event for the games

Time to go preorder my ps4.

Sony, shut up and take my money!

SO I guess people were expecting a bunch of games??

This was purely about the capability of the console

Seems very America-centric again. Most of that TV stuff won't even be able to be used where I'm from.

Time to Feedbackula?

I live in Madisonville, KY and the best internet I can get is AT&T 3 Mbps. Unless I want Satalite. SUCKS

I live outside of town.

SONY! Take my money! this MS stuff is Bullshit!!

you have to admit that it's a very sexy console. i'm even more curious to see the ps4 now.

Someone should teach m$ how to count

You know why they call it Xbox One? Cause it takes 359 steps backwards from the previous one. This was crap.

wait for the e3 the xbox one will electrify your neurons with illumiroom and Kinect 2.0.