Are there any more impressions?
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Xbox One Kinect and Gameplay Video (UI stuff)
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Are there any more impressions?
Poker Face
Member
Whitta likes what he's seen:
lol @ people telling him he's wrong.
Agreed with all of this.
If every rumor was true, I'd already be playing my PS4.
SlickShoesRUCrazy
Member
Whitta likes what he's seen:
but gaf said it's all shit.
uncledonnie
Banned
Whitta likes what he's seen:
Nice, hype rising.
Gary Whitta
Member
I should clarify I spent all of 10 minutes with it, mostly just bouncing around the OS and launching stuff. Not a deep dive by any means. But my initial impressions were that navigation is very slick, as is launching in and out of games/apps and the TV integration.
This is good to hear.
Did you use the snap functionality?
Did you actually snap anything? Or just open and close applications?
Oh and was it on a dev kit?
Edit: Also were you navigating by voice or controller? If voice, how snappy was it?
Indications by our "insiders" are that it is a buggy mess. Are you refuting this?
Did you find the jumping from different apps and stuff nice and slick? I am hoping their is little to no lag with swapping things around, kinda like how Win 8.1 feels.
Poker Face
Member
I know there's a slew of questions about to pop up but i'll ask anyways.
When opening more stuff did the console slow down, or still work fine?
Gary Whitta
Member
No.
Well if you used the snap feature it should of crashed. If it didn't must have been a buggy version you were using.
But the webs say you're wrong! Thanks for the input. Was it similar to this is video xbox shared the other day?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EMm6hYafNM
You do realize that the rumors about the UI being buggy are about the snap feature, correct?
Good to hear. It certainly look slick as hell.
uncledonnie
Banned
True, but people have also been calling the demo video they released an outright lie and claimed there is no way it's that smooth. IIRC that didn't even show snap much if at all.
That rumor thread made it seem like the box straight up didn't function.
That's some really insane amount of revisionist history (for the past few days).
I'm at work Senju, so difficult to post gifs but you sir take the cake for spreading BS.
Was it available to use??
Did you do any multitasking at all??
(thanks for the impressions gary)
The truth usually lies in the middle.
That is why I asked Gary if he was using voice nav or just the controller. Now if Gary says it is just like the video, then we are on to something.
You will have to learn how to ignore the Chicken Little's if you are going to survive here for the next 2 years.
Maninthemirror
Banned
You should have
OOOOoooo this just popped into my head. Since you are here Gary, are you helping write some of the new Walking Dead season?
Look at the wink.
Look at the wink.
godhandiscen
There are millions of whiny 5-year olds on Earth, and I AM THEIR KING.
NotXbox one
Banned
How much did microsoft pay you to say that?
0$
gamechanger87
Member
I have a feeling that the UI will work fine. The UI is handled on the MS side and I highly doubt most devs would really be looking at current UI code.
If the hands-on is happening right now, expect to see some early impressions.
It was a joke.. I mean I put a smiley after it.
TheLegendary
Member
Great to hear.
Wouldn't devs want to test snapping while running their games to make sure it won't crash it?
I wonder when the previews start popping up.
Gary Whitta
Member
No, no involvement.
gamechanger87
Member
I'm a novice on how this happens, but I think the Snap and UI functions are separated from the gaming side of the console so that there won't need to be issues like this. That is why MS built the console they way they did so that the functions could operate separately. Otherwise you could run into issues in testing where you need to snap every second.
Think of it this way, if you are a dev for either console do you want to be forced to download the daily beta updates to check for compliance?
I really don't care about the rumors. From either camp. They have till Nov 15 and 22nd to sort things out, so until then it's all talk.
I feel like the smiley winky emoticon doesn't mean what it used to mean. It feels like it's now something that you put at the end of a post in order to be smug or sardonic. I'm not complaining about yours specifically, just an observation I'm making.
Awww bummer.
Yeah, I don't know how it works either and that is why I brought up what I did. Just have to wait and see.
Of course, but that is what this place is, a place to talk. And the rumors about the snap function not working properly pre-launch (who knows in 3 weeks) is something to talk about.
That wasn't my intention anyway, I apologize.
gamechanger87
Member
Well I don't think he was offended. We should ask Albert if he has any idea when we may see some of the previews?
Even Cboat agrees with you. Unlike the doomsayers spreading the rumors saying that it will be "months before it's fixed". For all we know, Sony and MS could have their OSes running smoothly day 1.
I doubt this very much. I'd wager they expect the OS to handle all of that. As it should.
Oh no need to apologize. No, no, no, no. I was just making an observation about
in general. No, I wasn't offended by what you posted at all. I was just making an observation and wanted to see if anyone agreed or not.PairOfFilthySocks
Member
The buttmad in the description of that Youtube video is pretty hilarious.
"You're not going to grovel in appreciation at this blatantly fake and utterly unproven presentation of the UI? Well fuck you, comments disabled! Also, you all need to grow up!"
"You're not going to grovel in appreciation at this blatantly fake and utterly unproven presentation of the UI? Well fuck you, comments disabled! Also, you all need to grow up!"
SeaOfMadness
Member
assuming that's true, i'm sure there is no possible way MS could fix a crashing bug in the snap feature before launch.. *rollseyes* I mean once broken, always broken, right?