The Xbox One Thread - One X & One SXBOne 

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Not exactly what I was picturing. :lol:

Since both have the "50/50" design, just put wood trim over the glossed half.
 
Dude, tell me this isn't the console to play the next Fallout on (which is rumored to have been shown behind closed doors at E3 this year, with a target release date in 2015) this:
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and btw, just to say it again, in my humble opinion, the Xbone looks better than the PS4... my opinion may change once I have them in my house, but as of now, yeah.
 
The best I could do in a pinch:

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Or a more subtle approach:

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Now I kinda wish that the bit to the right of the disc drive actually was a clock. It looks a lot better like that, I think.
 
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dice1998
All of the consoles copied Atari/Commodore (I don't remember which one came first).
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One of the first consoles was the Coleco.

Commodore was not a console. It was a PC that happened to be the best gaming machine on the market at the time and the later edition Amiga was just awesome years ahead of other PCs in terms of graphics and sound and decades ahead of consoles. It really is a shame that Commodore became known as a gaming box rather than as a powerful computer, especially the Amiga which ran circles around the IBM machines of the time. I wonder what they would be building now if they were still around.
 
Wardez
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Making it look like something from 1988 is... somehow an improvement. Such a design mod shouldn't be too difficult to make either unless you want a fully functional clock/radio.

Wardez
The best I could do in a pinch:
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It would almost look the part if you add a clock next to the Sony badge, but it doesn't quite pull off the 80s VCR-look though since it isn't a straight and simple box.

Wardez
Or a more subtle approach:
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And that's too subtle. You either make it at least 50% wood or have no wood at all. :lol:

Oh, and the controllers should have a Swing Shuttle function built into one of the analog sticks. :p
 
The white 360 S looks so much better than the regular one (especially the matte one) that it's not even funny. It's a shame that the only way you could get it is by buying Skylanders or that Kinect Sports thing.
 
Speaking of Xbox all Xbox Live services are offline right now. This includes the actual Xbox Live and any official Xbox website like Halo Waypoint and Xbox.com.
 
Tornado
The white 360 S looks so much better than the regular one (especially the matte one) that it's not even funny. It's a shame that the only way you could get it is by buying Skylanders or that Kinect Sports thing.
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Tell me about it..
 
Please, no wood trim on Xbone. We all know how they over heat, insurance wouldn't pay out :P.

How about brushed steel strip across front?
 
Those "oh no, what did we do" articles are garbage. I agree that Microsoft was poised to create something new, and potentially exciting, but I don't think that thing was an Xbox. One of the writers compared the original XBone plan to World of Warcraft. If that's really what Microsoft wanted to make -- a client for an online gaming network -- then MS only have themselves to blame for trying to string the Xbox brandname along. What fault is it of gamers to expect the next Xbox to operate like an Xbox does now??

Especially on a site like GTPlanet, some of us just want to play our favorite game on our own time...offline. The Xbox 360 has too many popular singleplayer-oriented experiences to get away with an online-centric successor. This doesn't mean that the game industry will never move forward (as in those articles; "oh no it's ruined forever!!" :rolleyes: ). It just means that Microsoft would do better to call it the "eBox" or something, or at least find a better way to bridge online connectivity with offline accessibility.

Regardless of where anyone stands on all of this, I think we can all agree that Microsoft made a staggering mess of publicity and communication.
 
The thing is, Steam isn't a good comparable because Microsoft was never going to give up the retail sales. Even if they want to eventually go towards all download, Jean Luc Picard syndrome will keep DVD/Blu Ray copies of games around for a long time after they become impractical. I think people imagining that the PS4 or Xbox One was going to become the Sony/Microsoft version of Steam are a bit optimistic. The reality is Walmart is going to be pissed if Microsoft decides to have a sale on Halo 5 and offer it online for $40 while Walmart needs to sell it at $60 for the margins they're used to.

The DRM and all online marketplace only works when there's market pressure to keep it like Steam instead of what was originally proposed for the Xbox One. If Valve decides they want to squeeze everyone for the last penny then I'm going to buy my games somewhere else. If Microsoft or Sony decide they want to swindle you, you're SOL unless you buy a different console or a PC. Retail disc based sales are still a big part of console gaming, and until people are comfortable enough with downloadable games to abandon discs you won't be able to significantly undercut retail sales, which is the whole point of DRM and online marketplaces.

People live with Steam because games go on sale for 50-75% off all the time. Do you really believe that Sony and Microsoft will have such deep discounts on their games? Black Ops 1 still sells for like $40 on Ps3/360 at Walmart.
 
Didn't Microsoft announce before the 180 that their first-party titles would all be priced $59.99? That kind of sticks a hole in the "cheaper games" theory.
 
Wolfe
Didn't Microsoft announce before the 180 that their first-party titles would all be priced $59.99? That kind of sticks a hole in the "cheaper games" theory.
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Except it doesn't.

Steam didn't start off with cheaper games on day one either. A foundation had to be built before all of that was set in motion.
 
Turns out the gameshare was a timed demo of your games. Hence the hourly check-in. Once times up you get presented with the marketplace

I never thought for a moment they would allow you to share full games to anyone around the world. Publishers would have a fit.

Also when a company has something positive, they let you know, something like gameshare seemed too good to be true and it was. MS never really explained what it was and this would've been the final bad pr news to come but MS pulled the plug before it was really explained.

Also ties in with how the Xbox was planned, ie each step was restriction/feature, makes sense to be true and confirmed by someone who has been 100% correct about Xbox One and its trend bucking plans.
 
Terronium-12
Except it doesn't.

Steam didn't start off with cheaper games on day one either. A foundation had to be built before all of that was set in motion.
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As long as retailers were still selling physical discs for the standard MSRP, Microsoft was never going to be able to drop prices.
 
chromatic9
Turns out the gameshare was a timed demo of your games. Hence the hourly check-in. Once times up you get presented with the marketplace

I never thought for a moment they would allow you to share full games to anyone around the world. Publishers would have a fit.

Also when a company has something positive, they let you know, something like gameshare seemed too good to be true and it was. MS never really explained what it was and this would've been the final bad pr news to come but MS pulled the plug before it was really explained.

Also ties in with how the Xbox was planned, ie each step was restriction/feature, makes sense to be true and confirmed by someone who has been 100% correct about Xbox One and its trend bucking plans.
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That blows. How'd you find this out?

Tornado
As long as retailers were still selling physical discs for the standard MSRP, Microsoft was never going to be able to drop prices.
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Of course not, but that's my point. The One would have/could have been the foundation for an entirely new Live service where you could opt into digital-only downloads that would see something close to or near 100% of the profits going back to the developers. Is it optimistic? Absolutely, but something tells me that's the direction they wanted to head toward in the long-term.
 

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