Current Events > You know, it still baffles me that Microsoft tried to sell us...

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the xbox one at launch for $500, with kinect attached, with no second-hand copies and with always online. I mean, holy hell, didn't no one in that massive corporation at the time stop and say "whoa guys, this shit we're trying to pull is fucking crazy and it'll never work!" before the public outcry?
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They probably did that because they felt like they could get away with anything, since they were completely dominating last gen.
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the funny thing is that now when you look at how tech has changed in the last 4 years, voice assistants are one of the biggest trends in tech now and everyone has Siri/Bixby/Ok Google/etc or an Amazon Alexa hooked up to their living room - now Kinect seems even MORE natural of a fit if anything.

IMO the Xbox One was kind of ahead of its time with a lot of the features they announced at launch. However, bad PR and gamers kind of overreacting to everything led MS to have to basically cut all their planned Xbox One features and now we are at where we are now, with a machine that had a lot of potential trying to play catch up
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Here we are with Xbox One X , what 3 years later? $500, but this time it's actually worth the money. I can't contain my excitement.

Typically I go to bed around 11 every night, so I'm well-rested and energized for work the next day.

Last night, I got into bed at 11 as usual, but when I closed my eyes, I just couldn't fall asleep. My mind was racing. The Xbox One X is not only the most powerful console ever created, but it is also the smallest console on the market.

I tossed and turned in bed. I could not get comfortable. How could I expect to just drift off to sleep knowing that this November, just 4 months from now, gamers will get to experience true raw power, right from their living rooms?

I called up my girlfriend, who goes to bed at 8pm (as women are wont to do). "Hey babe," I said. I could hear her shifting from her sleep. "I can't sleep. I keep thinking of how powerful Microsoft's latest console, the Xbox One X is. Never before has a home console been a 6 teraflop powerhouse before and contained 12GB of RAM."

"Babe," she said, "it's 11pm. I need my 16 hours of sleep so I can face a full day tomorrow of being indecisive about what I want to eat for every meal. Why are you so concerned with such raw power so late at night?"

I howled with disgust. "Woman, listen to me," I screamed into the phone. "It is not every day that such a powerful console comes out. There has never been a console with such speed, yet such elegance, and there never will be again, at least until Microsoft makes the next Xbox. If you cannot understand this situation then perhaps we should see other people."

With that, I hung up on my ex-girlfriend and chucked my iPhone across the room. It smashed against the wall and landed into a pile of my other broken iPhones. Now I am exhausted at work and the Xbox One X is still the most powerful and smallest console on the market.
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lol
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Lol MS got rekt
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giantblimpN7 posted...

Here we are with Xbox One X , what 3 years later? $500, but this time it's actually worth the money. I can't contain my excitement.

Typically I go to bed around 11 every night, so I'm well-rested and energized for work the next day.

Last night, I got into bed at 11 as usual, but when I closed my eyes, I just couldn't fall asleep. My mind was racing. The Xbox One X is not only the most powerful console ever created, but it is also the smallest console on the market.

I tossed and turned in bed. I could not get comfortable. How could I expect to just drift off to sleep knowing that this November, just 4 months from now, gamers will get to experience true raw power, right from their living rooms?

I called up my girlfriend, who goes to bed at 8pm (as women are wont to do). "Hey babe," I said. I could hear her shifting from her sleep. "I can't sleep. I keep thinking of how powerful Microsoft's latest console, the Xbox One X is. Never before has a home console been a 6 teraflop powerhouse before and contained 12GB of RAM."

"Babe," she said, "it's 11pm. I need my 16 hours of sleep so I can face a full day tomorrow of being indecisive about what I want to eat for every meal. Why are you so concerned with such raw power so late at night?"

I howled with disgust. "Woman, listen to me," I screamed into the phone. "It is not every day that such a powerful console comes out. There has never been a console with such speed, yet such elegance, and there never will be again, at least until Microsoft makes the next Xbox. If you cannot understand this situation then perhaps we should see other people."

With that, I hung up on my ex-girlfriend and chucked my iPhone across the room. It smashed against the wall and landed into a pile of my other broken iPhones. Now I am exhausted at work and the Xbox One X is still the most powerful and smallest console on the market.

<3
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giantblimpN7 posted...

Here we are with Xbox One X , what 3 years later? $500, but this time it's actually worth the money. I can't contain my excitement.

Typically I go to bed around 11 every night, so I'm well-rested and energized for work the next day.

Last night, I got into bed at 11 as usual, but when I closed my eyes, I just couldn't fall asleep. My mind was racing. The Xbox One X is not only the most powerful console ever created, but it is also the smallest console on the market.

I tossed and turned in bed. I could not get comfortable. How could I expect to just drift off to sleep knowing that this November, just 4 months from now, gamers will get to experience true raw power, right from their living rooms?

I called up my girlfriend, who goes to bed at 8pm (as women are wont to do). "Hey babe," I said. I could hear her shifting from her sleep. "I can't sleep. I keep thinking of how powerful Microsoft's latest console, the Xbox One X is. Never before has a home console been a 6 teraflop powerhouse before and contained 12GB of RAM."

"Babe," she said, "it's 11pm. I need my 16 hours of sleep so I can face a full day tomorrow of being indecisive about what I want to eat for every meal. Why are you so concerned with such raw power so late at night?"

I howled with disgust. "Woman, listen to me," I screamed into the phone. "It is not every day that such a powerful console comes out. There has never been a console with such speed, yet such elegance, and there never will be again, at least until Microsoft makes the next Xbox. If you cannot understand this situation then perhaps we should see other people."

With that, I hung up on my ex-girlfriend and chucked my iPhone across the room. It smashed against the wall and landed into a pile of my other broken iPhones. Now I am exhausted at work and the Xbox One X is still the most powerful and smallest console on the market.

pls

Romulox28 posted...

IMO the Xbox One was kind of ahead of its time

It was only ahead of its time if we're on a timeline slated to become a dystopian future.
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Tmk posted...

Romulox28 posted...

IMO the Xbox One was kind of ahead of its time

It was only ahead of its time if we're on a timeline slated to become a dystopian future.

yea i can kind of see that, i think this is probably the worst gen for gaming ever

but lets be real here. we had people whining about used games, always being online, a focus on multimedia and not just games, etc.

now it's 2017 and when was the last time you went into a Gamestop and bought a used game (there's a reason they're closing a lot of stores)? most people seem to be downloading shit.

all the top video games are now either online-only (PUBG, MOBAs, Overwatch, Destiny, etc) or games where online play is overwhelmingly the most important part of the game (CoD, Battlefield, GTA Online, sports games, etc).

Multimedia is also huge now, much larger than in 2013 IMO. in 2013, Netflix's first big series, House of Cards, had just released its first season, and now 4 years later Netflix has greatly expanded its original content and is one of the leaders for TV shows and movies, same with Hulu, Amazon, HBO GO, etc.

my point being that for better or worse, the 2013 Xbox One seems to have pretty much predicted most of the major trends in gaming and media consumption but i think consumers were kind of deluding themselves about the direction things were going in.
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That whole lead up to the generation was one of my fav times as a gamer. PS4 was doing everything right. Xbox One was failing at basically every aspect, losing every poll by 90 points. Then they had to retract everything they had planned lol.
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They were doing it because Sony had planned to do the exact same thing but noped the fuck outta there like a bitch when Microsoft got shot out of the sky.

I don't really see the big deal about their old plans, but I but all digital so nothing would change for me. I'd rather keep my games all in one easy to use hard drive
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Yeah it is pretty sad the fanboys shat all over it. Especially since most of the biggest, non-Nintendo, games are online only now.
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lilORANG posted...

That whole lead up to the generation was one of my fav times as a gamer. PS4 was doing everything right. Xbox One was failing at basically every aspect, losing every poll by 90 points. Then they had to retract everything they had planned lol.

It truly was a sight to behold
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It didn't help that they had previously gotten away with paid online. After getting free money, they got cocky like how WMH said.
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giantblimpN7 posted...

Here we are with Xbox One X , what 3 years later? $500, but this time it's actually worth the money. I can't contain my excitement.

Typically I go to bed around 11 every night, so I'm well-rested and energized for work the next day.

Last night, I got into bed at 11 as usual, but when I closed my eyes, I just couldn't fall asleep. My mind was racing. The Xbox One X is not only the most powerful console ever created, but it is also the smallest console on the market.

I tossed and turned in bed. I could not get comfortable. How could I expect to just drift off to sleep knowing that this November, just 4 months from now, gamers will get to experience true raw power, right from their living rooms?

I called up my girlfriend, who goes to bed at 8pm (as women are wont to do). "Hey babe," I said. I could hear her shifting from her sleep. "I can't sleep. I keep thinking of how powerful Microsoft's latest console, the Xbox One X is. Never before has a home console been a 6 teraflop powerhouse before and contained 12GB of RAM."

"Babe," she said, "it's 11pm. I need my 16 hours of sleep so I can face a full day tomorrow of being indecisive about what I want to eat for every meal. Why are you so concerned with such raw power so late at night?"

I howled with disgust. "Woman, listen to me," I screamed into the phone. "It is not every day that such a powerful console comes out. There has never been a console with such speed, yet such elegance, and there never will be again, at least until Microsoft makes the next Xbox. If you cannot understand this situation then perhaps we should see other people."

With that, I hung up on my ex-girlfriend and chucked my iPhone across the room. It smashed against the wall and landed into a pile of my other broken iPhones. Now I am exhausted at work and the Xbox One X is still the most powerful and smallest console on the market.

Yooo lmao, shit kills me every time
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Sony was going to do the same thing, until the backlash MS got.
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