[Xbox One]: The Once and Future Console

Mr. G

The Xbox is a home video game console and the first installment in the Xbox series of consoles manufactured by Microsoft. It was released on November 15, 2001, in North America, followed by Australia and Europe in 2002.[2] It was Microsoft's first foray into the gaming console market. The sixth-generation console competed with Sony's PlayStation 2, Sega's Dreamcast, and the Nintendo GameCube. It was the first console produced by an American company since the Atari Jaguar ceased production in 1996.


Moving away from the Xbox 360's PowerPC-based architecture—back to the x86 architecture used in the original Xbox—the console features an Advanced Micro Devices processor built around the x86-64 instruction set. The Xbox One places an increased emphasis on cloud computing and entertainment integration, offering the ability to overlay live television programming from an existing set-top box with an enhanced program guide, split-screen multitasking of applications, and improved second-screen support. The console optionally includes an upgraded Kinect sensor, providing richer motion tracking and voice recognition for use in its graphical user interface (GUI) and games. The Xbox One also offers the ability for users to record and share highlights from or live-stream gameplay. The console's controller was refined over that of the Xbox 360, with a redesigned D-pad and triggers capable of delivering directional haptic feedback.


Xbox's successor, the Xbox 360, was launched in November 2005. The Xbox was soon discontinued beginning with Microsoft's worst-performing market, Japan, in 2005. Other countries would follow suit in 2006.[8] The last Xbox game in Europe was Xiaolin Showdown released in June 2007, and the last game in North America was Madden NFL 09 released in August 2008. Support for out-of-warranty Xbox consoles was discontinued on March 2, 2009. Support for Xbox Live on the console ended on April 15, 2010.[6]


Xbox One games are distributed at retail on Blu-ray Disc, and digitally as downloads through Xbox Games Store.[110][111] All Xbox One games must be installed on the console's storage: users can begin to play portions of a game (such as opening levels) once the installation or download reaches a specific point, while the remainder of the game is downloaded or installed in the background. Updates to games and system software are also downloaded in the background and while in standby.[124] If the game is installed from physical media, the disc is still required for validation purposes.[125] If the game is installed on another console, and that console owner no longer has access to the disc, the owner has the option of unlocking the install on their hard drive by purchasing it through Xbox Live; the installed game then acts as a game installed on the hard drive.[125] An active internet connection may be required for some games, particularly those that integrate cloud computing.[125]


Xbox One's user interface is modeled on Metro design language. Similarly to Windows 8, its dashboard consists of a tile-based interface sorted into categories, including "Pinned" apps and games, a "Home" section for currently active, and recently used software, a "Friends" tab showing recent activity, online users, and a Gamerscore leaderboard, and a "Store" tab serves as a consolidated portal to the games, movies, music, and app marketplaces. Apps can be snapped to the side of the screen as a form of multitasking.[91][92][93] The Activity Feed allows users to view their friends' in-game activities, videos, and post status updates. Users can "like" and comment on other users' status updates.[94]

Moriveth

I have one of these

Hurr hurr hurr

My gamertag is Moriveth if anyone cares to friend me on it

cB557

cZb557, myself. I was rather surprised to find cB557 was already taken.

Mr. G

Halo 5 will be the first mainline Halo game to not be rated M

DJ Eebs

my roommate bought a copy of assassin's creed unity for this basically on the day it came out and he still hasn't removed it from the packaging

the other day he asked me when the new one was coming out so I propped his copy of unity right up next to the tv so he'd have to stare at it every time he watched tv

Moriveth

Mr. G wrote: »

Halo 5 will be the first mainline Halo game to not be rated M

Fucking CASUALS, ugh

DJ Eebs

gonna be honest, kind of blanking on all the reasons why halo was rated m in the first place

but that might definitely be because I never got super huge into halo

Mr. G

I wonder if it was a business decision or just an accident

Cause if it was a choice I think it's a super smart one

Moriveth

Yeah, I mean maybe the blood in it did it? It's not a particularly bloody game but there's weird thresholds for that sort of thing.

I can't even recall much swearing or anything in Halo.

cB557

I'm pretty sure the Flood were what usually pushed Halo into M territory, what with the dismemberment and all.

Nikolai

I got an xboner. GT is Phoberomy.

Peen

I have one of these and the glorious Xbox handle tw1tch0rz, which I will never change. Please friend me and watch me play something every so often.

I am legit excited about the DVR functionality, which is dumb because I won't use it, but one of these days I'm going to get the tv tuner and run my antenna through it anyway because I am a dork. A cord-cutting dork.

Mr. G

My Xbox is coming on Thursday, and I'm gonna run my cable box through it

Not cause I want to or am interested in the features

But because my TV is out of HDMI ports

DeMoN

xbox thread eh. I don't have one yet but i will at some point because

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEIR1DqEGZM

JebusUD

Peen wrote: »

I have one of these and the glorious Xbox handle tw1tch0rz, which I will never change. Please friend me and watch me play something every so often.

I am legit excited about the DVR functionality, which is dumb because I won't use it, but one of these days I'm going to get the tv tuner and run my antenna through it anyway because I am a dork. A cord-cutting dork.

This does DVR NOW! SINCE WHEN! man I am out of the loop.

I'll hit you up on da xboner though.

Peen

It's coming sometime next year, it's not out yet.

I heard people didn't like the Scalebound trailer, I'm not sure why but I can tell you that I am for damn sure buying it.

Mr. G

Yeah I keep hearing that people are not keen on Scalebound and I'm not getting it

The numbers come out of guys when you hit them!

Etchwarts

Xbox thread! I spent hours on my 360, but now am pretty exclusively PS4. I'm thinking of changing that soon for stuff like Sunset Overdrive, though

In the meantime I might grab an old 360 so I can play all of the games I already have for it

The Betgirl

i have one of these! I bought it so i can play all my rock band dlc later!

i think my tag is "The Betman", but i'll check again when i get home because i can't remember if i have the space in it or not.

Mr. G

As of this week, I will own all 3 consoles

Which I am pretty happy about

I'm gonna pick up Rare Replay when my Xbox shows up and borrow Dead Rising 3 and Sunset Overdrive from a friend

Plus it comes with the Master Chief Collection

did they fix that yet

Speed Racer

I'm bummed that beyond eyes kind of looks not very good

Peen

I think Mr. G should start a gamertag list in the OP if people volunteer them HINT HINT

I am an enormous Platinum fan and will play whatever they put out (on the consoles I already own because I am not buying a WiiU for Bayonetta 2, sorry Bayonetta 2).

JebusUD

Mine is WonderMink. We can be friends.

...maybe.

Jasconius

i've had an xbone for about six months now... the first 4 months of ownership were utter darkness

but now I've got Dark Souls 2 and Shovel Knight and Dragonage for it and it's pretty good

I also got Project Cars but its unplayable without a wheel (and possible unplayable WITH a wheel)

JebusUD

That Binding of Issac Rebirth just rolled out on xbox one and I'd say it is really at home on console more than on PC. at 15 bucks I couldn't pass it up.

Speed Racer

after talking up sunset overdrive so much yesterday, i went ahead and deleted my safe so i could play it again

Speed Racer

only knock i'll give SO's character creator is i wish it gave you more options with the body types

your options are skinny petite woman, tall curvy woman, lean athletic dude, and super tall bulky dude

just like sliders for height and muscle and fat woulda been better

Maximum

I'm MaximumJ49

If anyone wants me to crash into them when Forza 6 comes out next month, I'm your man!

Ninjabear

I'm DinoTeen.

Looking forward to playing some Gears Remastered multiplayer in a few weeks.

rhylith

I just bought one of these because of this ridiculous sale at best buy:

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/xbox-one-halo-master-chief-collection-bundle-with-40-tv/9999251700050003.p?id=pcmprd250200050003&skuId=9999251700050003

So updated my 720p 37" TV and got the Xbox to boot.

Speed Racer

maybe the nicest thing i can say about sunset overdrive's visuals

is that they look partially inspired by the scott pilgrim movie