Xbox One

[Cronozilla]

I just thought about this earlier today when I heard about the issues people were having watching the Xbox1 conference on their 360. If they had a Kinect, when the presenters would shout kinect commands during the conference, the viewers Kinect would pick up on it and cancel the stream.

I would this very funny for people playing the CoD on their new Xbox1. They have the voice chat enabled, but they aren't wearing headphones so the audio is piped through their sound system. All of a sudden you hear some guy scream, "XBOX TURN OFF!" and you and half of the other people in the game disconnect and power down.

I made the same joke in IRC!

Seriously, there is one really big difference between Xbox One and PS4 ... and that's the policy behind the things they're putting out. On PS4, it's not clear whether or not a PS Eye is required for function. They said the social aspect of the system is entirely optional. And there's no mention of any sort of licensing buy back program.

In Xbox One's defense, they did finally say something different about used games http://www.joystiq.com/2013/05/24/repor ... s-voice-c/

But this also means if you take the disc to someone's house ... your Xbox would then be de-authenticated for using that game.

This is like a light version of SecuRom, and PC games are already moving away from that nonsense. (Unless they use Games For Windows Live :\)

More DRM that just hinders people really isn't the answer. I think most developers have seen that. Let's hope they don't make the same mistakes in the console space.

[disorderlyvision]

[MrEco]

All hail our new Kinect overlords.

http://www.gamesradar.com/How-new-kinec ... -xbox-one/


Man, GR has changed since the Talkradar guys left...

[Pulsar_t]

Some one mentioned the morpheus conversation from Deus Ex in that eurogamer article

Morpheus: "I was a prototype for Echelon IV. My instructions are to amuse visitors with information about themselves."
JC Denton: "I don't see anything amusing about spying on people."
Morpheus: "Human beings feel pleasure when they are watched. I have recorded their smiles as I tell them who they are."
JC Denton: "Some people just don't understand the dangers of indiscriminate surveillance."
Morpheus: "The need to be observed and understood was once satisfied by God. Now we can implement the same functionality with data-mining algorithms."
JC Denton: "Electronic surveillance hardly inspires reverence. Perhaps fear and obedience, but not reverence."
Morpheus: "God and the gods were apparitions of observation, judgment and punishment. Other sentiments towards them were secondary."
JC Denton: "No one will ever worship a software entity peering at them through a camera."
Morpheus: "The human organism always worships. First, it was the gods, then it was fame (the observation and judgment of others), next it will be self-aware systems you have built to realize truly omnipresent observation and judgment."
JC Denton: "You underestimate humankind's love of freedom."
Morpheus: "The individual desires judgment. Without that desire, the cohesion of groups is impossible, and so is civilization."

Google Glass is also worrisome.

[Pulsar_t]

What? Have we run out of trashtalk?

[Opa Opa]

What? Have we run out of trashtalk?

It's obviously on Tatooine before it became a desert planet.

[BogusMeatFactory]

What? Have we run out of trashtalk?

It's obviously on Tatooine before it became a desert planet.

[Hobie-wan]

*catching up after camping*

Well I assumed, like you would with a webcam, that if you were using the system you would take the cover off and just cover it when you're done.

The correct procedure for this sort of thing is always disabled unless turned on, not the other way around.

[CRTGAMER]

What is with all the animated GIFs? Slows down the page load and really has no contribution to the discussion.

[MrPopo]

What is with all the animated GIFs? Slows down the page load and really has no contribution to the discussion.

But the animated gifs are so witty! They have very long "conversations" that demonstrate how silly some idea is that targets the lowest common denominator.