Anyone else Underwhelmed by the Xbox One?

Being a bit of a die-hard Xbox fan I watched the Xbox One reveal with anticipation but I have to say I was seriously disappointed.

It seems the future is Kinnect? So waving your arms about like a loon is easier than moving your thumb 5mm on a remote control? As I have never been a fan of talking to inanimate objects the whole approach of voice control has left me cold and is a serious put off for me. Let's hope it is better than Siri as anyone with a colloquial dialect is going to have issues (and I am one of them).

The TV integration is a welcome addition but I need more info on subscription services, will it just pick up Freeview in the UK? That is good but still wouldnt make it the 'One' box for most households which have subscriptions to Virgin or Sky TV. I need my next console to record live TV, I had expected that as a given in the spec as the PS3 has had it with an add-on for years - but it wasn't mentioned which is kind of worrying.

And I was expecting more from the games on show, having seen BF4 gameplay videos for the PC I had expected the Xbox One footage to be  its equal if not better. Again I was a bit disappointed. The CoD footage was tasty but the other stuff wasn't spellbinding.

There was certainly nothing in the presentation  to make me rush out and pre-order - which is the opposite of my reaction when the 360 was announced. Last time I got both a PS3 and 360 and the PS3 became just a blue-ray player after a while as the 360 was leaps and bounds ahead. This time I think Microsoft have seriously got it wrong by putting so much stock into kinnect as a control mechanism. Didnt they think that might isolate their core audience, or anyone who wants to relax when watching TV? Makes me wonder if the focus groups were made up entirely of Microsoft employees friends and families. What if someone is snoozing in the chair and you have to shout Xbox Snap Bing Apart from looking and feeling like a loon you would give them the shock of their lives.

Sorry the above is mostly negative but I'm pretty disappointed in what I have seen so far. I will have to reserve judgement until E3 to decide which console I will get next gen and until last night I had fully expected that to be the Xbox again.

I wouldn't say underwhelmed....more like shocked that MS gave the core-base the finger!! "BUT" lets just wait until E3...hopefully they can make it up to us then.:)

Being a bit of a die-hard Xbox fan I watched the Xbox One reveal with anticipation but I have to say I was seriously disappointed.

It seems the future is Kinnect? So waving your arms about like a loon is easier than moving your thumb 5mm on a remote control? As I have never been a fan of talking to inanimate objects the whole approach of voice control has left me cold and is a serious put off for me. Let's hope it is better than Siri as anyone with a colloquial dialect is going to have issues (and I am one of them).

The TV integration is a welcome addition but I need more info on subscription services, will it just pick up Freeview in the UK? That is good but still wouldnt make it the 'One' box for most households which have subscriptions to Virgin or Sky TV. I need my next console to record live TV, I had expected that as a given in the spec as the PS3 has had it with an add-on for years - but it wasn't mentioned which is kind of worrying.

And I was expecting more from the games on show, having seen BF4 gameplay videos for the PC I had expected the Xbox One footage to be  its equal if not better. Again I was a bit disappointed. The CoD footage was tasty but the other stuff wasn't spellbinding.

There was certainly nothing in the presentation  to make me rush out and pre-order - which is the opposite of my reaction when the 360 was announced. Last time I got both a PS3 and 360 and the PS3 became just a blue-ray player after a while as the 360 was leaps and bounds ahead. This time I think Microsoft have seriously got it wrong by putting so much stock into kinnect as a control mechanism. Didnt they think that might isolate their core audience, or anyone who wants to relax when watching TV? Makes me wonder if the focus groups were made up entirely of Microsoft employees friends and families. What if someone is snoozing in the chair and you have to shout Xbox Snap Bing Apart from looking and feeling like a loon you would give them the shock of their lives.

Sorry the above is mostly negative but I'm pretty disappointed in what I have seen so far. I will have to reserve judgement until E3 to decide which console I will get next gen and until last night I had fully expected that to be the Xbox again.

 

RocKtheCasbaH

Very underwhelmed here.

I watched like 3 minutes of the lauch and then went straight to bed, seeriously.

It feel like too small a jump from the Xbox360 and I'm still struggling to adjust to the design of the One. Remineds me of lagging frames.

Very underwhelmed here.

 

I watched like 3 minutes of the lauch and then went straight to bed, seeriously.

 

It feel like too small a jump from the Xbox360 and I'm still struggling to adjust to the design of the One. Remineds me of lagging frames.

sapphire54

The reveal was basically this and every other piece of news that has come out about the system has been terrible. It would take one crazy fanboy who doesn't even care about video games to stick with them at this point.

i was left disapointed so they better shoow us some games at E3.

XBox One looks horrible.. hopefully they have lots of awesome games lined up to counter act the useless features they focused on during the announcement.Rattlesnake_8

i was left disapointed so they better shoow us some games at E3.

sukraj

TV, TV, TV, TV, Halo TV Series, NFL cost us alot so we will advertise that, TV, TV, TV... a couple of games, one of which has a good looking dog. And that's what we have to offer on our new GAMING console. Yes, Disappointment is an understatement.

I wouldn't say underwhelmed....more like shocked that MS gave the core-base the finger!!

MarcRecon

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I wouldn't say underwhelmed....more like shocked that MS gave the core-base the finger!!

The_Last_Ride

[QUOTE="The_Last_Ride"][QUOTE="MarcRecon"]

I wouldn't say underwhelmed....more like shocked that MS gave the core-base the finger!!

XxAK47xX

It was... not good. 

[QUOTE="The_Last_Ride"][QUOTE="MarcRecon"]

I wouldn't say underwhelmed....more like shocked that MS gave the core-base the finger!!

XxAK47xX

Well, giving someone the finger is enough....anything more then that is overkill:|

[QUOTE="The_Last_Ride"][QUOTE="MarcRecon"]

I wouldn't say underwhelmed....more like shocked that MS gave the core-base the finger!!

XxAK47xX

[QUOTE="XxAK47xX"][QUOTE="The_Last_Ride"] That's what was so insulting. So that's why i am not getting this at launchLegolas_Katarn

[QUOTE="XxAK47xX"][QUOTE="The_Last_Ride"] That's what was so insulting. So that's why i am not getting this at launchThe_Last_Ride

[QUOTE="Legolas_Katarn"][QUOTE="XxAK47xX"] stop being a girl. you haven't paid them anything yet and they haven shown everything. Grow up. XxAK47xX

I'm not interested in the Xbox One, at least not yet- gotta see what it can actually do first. Best part of all this that I can see is the price of 360 and all its related accessories will drop way down and make it all just that much easier to buy. That part works just fine for me.

I feel like Im the only one who heard them say they were announcing 15 exclusives,8 of them new games,at E3.

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[QUOTE="XxAK47xX"] stop being a girl. you haven't paid them anything yet and they haven shown everything. Grow up. XxAK47xX

Well given the topic creater you are living in the UK as i am, it seem's you haven't completely got it, the whole conference of a games console consisted more about tv and inter linking your xbox one and other apps coming at a subscription price, was all aimed at???? yep you guessed it just america, no where else as of yet, 

I've had enough of these silly people telling me to wait for E3 not being funny but them being in the console market, and the only people who were going to sit and watch a conference about the new xbox one were going to be gamers and they decide to set there whole presentation around tv, is beyond me, 15 new exclusive of which 8 are new ip's and still non of them could of been shown except 2 of them forza5 and quantum break non of which even had a small snip of gameplay for fans to get excited about. and how many of these are going to be kinect. it's a given halo, gears of war, and maybe even fable are going to try come save the day but i don't see it happening. i wish i could be more positive but i honestly believe they are moving away from the games market to the multi media market and trying to compete there the only problem is they may have the same problem like the Wii U did and the fact non gamers don't care about new hardware aslong as they have a console what does fun things for them, they wont care about upgrading to a brand new kinect when they already have one, non gamers have better things to spend there money on. 

no not really, pretty much what i expected at the ps4 reveal. don't get why everyone's so disappointed, really.

I'm underwhelmed by everything I've heard about the next consoles, regardless of company.

I'm underwhelmed by everything I've heard about the next consoles, regardless of company.

Blueresident87

Really what did you want from them

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I'm underwhelmed by everything I've heard about the next consoles, regardless of company.

bezza2011

Really what did you want from them

It's more being disappointed with the direction of the industry, not necessarily one company/console or another. I was perfectly happy to have video games exist in a niche, not seeing ridiculous advertisements (Dead Space 3 to Phil Collins was nearly a breaking point for my sanity...) of big budget games on tv and a focus on multimedia and gimmicks that seem to distract from what these machines were created for in the first place. I want a system that literally will not turn on properly unless I am playing a game, or if there must be a menu make it one that shows me things about games, not one that tells me when the next Kesha album or Walking Dead Season comes out or whatever. The commercialism bothers me and that commercialism will not go away, it will only get worse.

PC gaming is not separate from this either, it's just far more prevalent on consoles. What's funny is PC gamers brag about graphics and talk about how their method of gaming is superior, but that's exactly the problem. Who cares? Once people begin to act pretentiously about something as arbitrary as another's method of playing video games, that's venturing into being pathetic.

I don't like the constant attempts to 'one-up' each other between all the companies and developers. A good example of this aside from the consoles themselves is when games label themselves as 'JUST LIKE CALL OF DUTY' and 'JUST LIKE SKYRIM' as though some minor similarity guarantees success because those games sold well. I understand that this is just the nature of marketing, but marketing also causes this over-saturation with comparisons and establishment of a 'pinnacle' for games to strive towards.

It's not the same as the Nintendo/Sega war stuff; there is plenty of room in gaming for multiple companies to share, but greed ruins most things and gaming is headed down that road. 

I enjoy gaming too much to write it off entirely, and I will be buying a console at some point. But it's discouraging.

In short , i was expecting way more .. Im more into PS4 atm , lets see E3.AzatiS

no not really, pretty much what i expected at the ps4 reveal. don't get why everyone's so disappointed, really.

destinhpark

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no not really, pretty much what i expected at the ps4 reveal. don't get why everyone's so disappointed, really.

i-rock-socks

[QUOTE="Legolas_Katarn"][QUOTE="XxAK47xX"] stop being a girl. you haven't paid them anything yet and they haven shown everything. Grow up. i-rock-socks

Yea, because MS is the only company to ever reveal info about a new product like this. Get real.

I've seen nearly every system launch/announcment since the begining. I can sit here and say that the Xbox One is boarderline the most underwelming welcoming of a console yet, next to the Sega Saturn.

The reveal was basically this and every other piece of news that has come out about the system has been terrible. It would take one crazy fanboy who doesn't even care about video games to stick with them at this point.

Legolas_Katarn

Because Sony has showed so many awesome games....

-billion dollar commitment to games and opening new studios

-15 exclusives

-cloud gaming connected to 300,000 servers

-dedicated servers for every online game

-improved controller with some pretty cook rumble features

-improved kinect with one of the coolest TV integrations I have ever seen

-biggest third party publisher backing their conference, not Sony's.

-intriguing new title in Quantum Break that's actually trying to do something different than CoD/Killzone 4/racer

Yeah...so much bad news. What? What exactly is so bad about that? Only one freaking thing was negative. Used games. Which will be the case for both. Everything else sounds great to me!

[QUOTE="Legolas_Katarn"]

The reveal was basically this and every other piece of news that has come out about the system has been terrible. It would take one crazy fanboy who doesn't even care about video games to stick with them at this point.

alexwatchtower

Because Sony has showed so many awesome games....

-billion dollar commitment to games and opening new studios

-15 exclusives

-cloud gaming connected to 300,000 servers

-dedicated servers for every online game

-improved controller with some pretty cook rumble features

-improved kinect with one of the coolest TV integrations I have ever seen

-biggest third party publisher backing their conference, not Sony's.

-intriguing new title in Quantum Break that's actually trying to do something different than CoD/Killzone 4/racer

Yeah...so much bad news. What? What exactly is so bad about that? Only one freaking thing was negative. Used games. Which will be the case for both. Everything else sounds great to me!

[QUOTE="alexwatchtower"]

[QUOTE="Legolas_Katarn"]

The reveal was basically this and every other piece of news that has come out about the system has been terrible. It would take one crazy fanboy who doesn't even care about video games to stick with them at this point.

Geminon

Because Sony has showed so many awesome games....

billion dollar commitment to games and opening new studios

-15 exclusives

-cloud gaming connected to 300,000 servers

-dedicated servers for every online game

-improved controller with some pretty cook rumble features

-improved kinect with one of the coolest TV integrations I have ever seen

-biggest third party publisher backing their conference, not Sony's.

-intriguing new title in Quantum Break that's actually trying to do something different than CoD/Killzone 4/racer

Yeah...so much bad news. What? What exactly is so bad about that? Only one freaking thing was negative. Used games. Which will be the case for both. Everything else sounds great to me!

- actually they split it up pretty good to try to cover everyone because it's a console reveal for everyone, not just hardcore gamers in a forum. you want to be the center of their attention at the reveal when the guys who make the most money for this industry, don't really spend their time bitching and moaning about a company on forums, and you think they should just be told they're stupid, dudebros and should come second to someone like you who sounds so supportive...yah keep waiting.

-they have, you just haven't been paying attention. get informed! been talking about it for a week now in the PG forum.

-they have 300,000 servers now, so I would take their word on it

-you obviously didn't take the time to see improvements made on the rumble

-yes that's actually really good and cool

-what the **** does this have to do with me as a gamer? I don't give a shit about politics when we're talking about developer support. Is this about gaming or are you looking at corporations as some sort of humanitarians? I think you're seriously confused.

-yes it does actually

-COD was gameplay, so that's wrong. FM and QB were confirmed to be in engine.

 And if none of the things I listed originally are what you want, and interest you, what the hell do you want? Consoles are for games, and they announced a big commitment, kick ass new age hardware, better online gaming, a better controller to play them with, and a whole bunch of exclusives. What exactly do you want then?

I felt underwhelmed by the Xbox One as well. It's almost as if MS is conceding the console/gaming war to Sony on the next gen of gaming systems and focusing more on the entertainment/media hub style with added games. But like everyone says, I'll wait for more news to come and see what happens...

Being a bit of a die-hard Xbox fan I watched the Xbox One reveal with anticipation but I have to say I was seriously disappointed.

It seems the future is Kinnect? So waving your arms about like a loon is easier than moving your thumb 5mm on a remote control? As I have never been a fan of talking to inanimate objects the whole approach of voice control has left me cold and is a serious put off for me. Let's hope it is better than Siri as anyone with a colloquial dialect is going to have issues (and I am one of them).

The TV integration is a welcome addition but I need more info on subscription services, will it just pick up Freeview in the UK? That is good but still wouldnt make it the 'One' box for most households which have subscriptions to Virgin or Sky TV. I need my next console to record live TV, I had expected that as a given in the spec as the PS3 has had it with an add-on for years - but it wasn't mentioned which is kind of worrying.

And I was expecting more from the games on show, having seen BF4 gameplay videos for the PC I had expected the Xbox One footage to be its equal if not better. Again I was a bit disappointed. The CoD footage was tasty but the other stuff wasn't spellbinding.

There was certainly nothing in the presentation to make me rush out and pre-order - which is the opposite of my reaction when the 360 was announced. Last time I got both a PS3 and 360 and the PS3 became just a blue-ray player after a while as the 360 was leaps and bounds ahead. This time I think Microsoft have seriously got it wrong by putting so much stock into kinnect as a control mechanism. Didnt they think that might isolate their core audience, or anyone who wants to relax when watching TV? Makes me wonder if the focus groups were made up entirely of Microsoft employees friends and families. What if someone is snoozing in the chair and you have to shout Xbox Snap Bing Apart from looking and feeling like a loon you would give them the shock of their lives.

Sorry the above is mostly negative but I'm pretty disappointed in what I have seen so far. I will have to reserve judgement until E3 to decide which console I will get next gen and until last night I had fully expected that to be the Xbox again.

RocKtheCasbaH

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PS, AMD Radeon HD with 768 stream processors = AMD FirePro W5000.

I feel like Im the only one who heard them say they were announcing 15 exclusives,8 of them new games,at E3.

xgraderx

It didn't get me excited. For one that already means almost half are franchises we've seen already - so expect more Halo, Gears, and Forza with maybe Fable in the mix as well. Of the 8 new exclusives, I'd say probably at least half are entirely Kinect-focused, leaving maybe 3-4 games with "core" potential. Whether these will be any good, only time will tell. But as it was, the promise of these new exclusives and then not seeing any gameplay and just one live-action trailer didn't do it for me.