When did Larry become such an obnoxious shill?
When did Larry become such an obnoxious shill?
They had to spend money on these headsets and include them into the 499usd pricing, so if anything it hurt their wallet to include them. MS did what any smart company would do by listening to the consumers and providing something they wanted at no additional cost to them.
No. Not "Really?" that people wanted it. It was more like "Really? What were we thinking?"
It's a long story.
No. Not "Really?" that people wanted it. It was more like "Really? What were we thinking?"
It's a long story.
MS PR working overtime lately. Sony has been relatively quiet.
Overly aggressive and very loud. Comes off as a used cars salesman.and what does he do specificly to make you think this?
No. Not "Really?" that people wanted it. It was more like "Really? What were we thinking?"
It's a long story.
Oh did he?! He works for Microsoft, please just stop that bs.He's always sort of moved closer and closer to becoming one, and finally transitioned completely during the DRM crap. He's pretty much just a talking head doing advertising for MS now. His objectiveness is absent.
Overly aggressive and very loud. Comes off as a used cars salesman.
Be more casual about it, take your time and have a conversation with the customer.
Also, why does the Xbone have an external power supply when it is 1/3 bigger than the PS4 and is less powerful? Not only that... PS4's PSU is internal.
When did Larry become such an obnoxious shill?
The guy is an MS employee, I expect to hear information about MS products from him. I don't understand how anyone would expect objectiveness in such a scenario. It's not like he hides it or anything, he's a promoter for the Xbox brandHe's always sort of moved closer and closer to becoming one, and finally transitioned completely during the DRM crap. He's pretty much just a talking head doing advertising for MS now. His objectiveness is absent.
Be nice to Larry. I know you guys hate him, but he really is a great guy. Doing what he does is hard being filmed, trying to be concise, trying to be personable and official. Its rough. I guarantee if any of you could spend 10min with him face-to-face, youd get what Im saying. Thats my plug for Larry.
When did Larry become such an obnoxious shill?
He's always sort of moved closer and closer to becoming one, and finally transitioned completely during the DRM crap. He's pretty much just a talking head doing advertising for MS now. His objectiveness is absent.
EDIT: And I mean to say he managed to put on an almost-journalistic mask in the past, but not too much nowadays. I hear he's a nice man in person though. A job's a job.
This is a great video. I won't use the DVR functions because I'm a cord cutter.
Does anyone know when Microsoft will clarifiy their stance on recording features being a part of Gold subscriptions? Is it recording and uploading or just recording?
I'm not a fanboy or paid shill for etiher company and just want to know.
I think he might have meant that people internally were surprised that it wasn't originally going in in the first place. Especially considering it was there with 360
Those posts are both hilarious and sad. The offensiveness some of you put toward that man is really embarassing.
IR Blaster. Kinect has and IR blaster array built in. Can turn on your TV, Cable Box, etc. so when you say “Xbox On” it will actually power your equipment, switch inputs, etc. (I know, TV TV TV but when you get to see it, you’ll understand.)
If that's offensive to you, I really don't know what to say :/.
I love Twitter.
I think after this E3... some of those interviews and responses to all of Xbox's shit, man. Especially the "are you an engineer?" response to the "Why can't you just turn the DRM off" question... then of course, the DRM gets turned off. I just can't even begin to take him seriously anymore.
I love Twitter.
I know right. Major Nelson is a paid shill, that's basically his job description as MS main PR guy. And there's nothing wrong with that imo.The posts about Major Nelson being a "shill" are embarrassing to read. It's his job people.
Why does this even need to be explained?
Glad this is finally out. Headset going in wasn’t really a backpedal so much as a collective “Really?” internally. At some point I hope to share the story behind that, but it’s not a 180 the way you guys think about. Doesn’t matter – I’m just glad we put it in.
IR Blaster. Kinect has and IR blaster array built in. Can turn on your TV, Cable Box, etc. so when you say “Xbox On” it will actually power your equipment, switch inputs, etc. (I know, TV TV TV but when you get to see it, you’ll understand.). As someone pointed out, if for some reason your setup doesn’t work with Kinect IR blasting, you can get a cable and connect to the port in the back.
Storage is about HDD space. This is a generic disclaimer. You lose some of the 500gb in formatting (just like every HDD), and we reserve some space. No different than 360 or PS3. It’s just a legal disclaimer, no shenanigans going on.
Be nice to Larry. I know you guys hate him, but he really is a great guy. Doing what he does is hard – being filmed, trying to be concise, trying to be personable and “official”. It’s rough. I guarantee if any of you could spend 10min with him face-to-face, you’d get what I’m saying. That’s my plug for Larry.
4K rated HDMI cable – you can blame me for that. My point was, we have in fact tested this cable against 4K, and made sure we didn’t get EMI interference with our internal radios. So I wanted people to be confident it wasn’t a POS generic HDMI cable – to make it work great, you need to test it with the system you ship, to make sure at full resolution you’re not getting any interference.
By the way – wouldn’t it technically be Xbox ONE EIGHTY?
I know right. Major Nelson is a paid shill, that's basically his job description as MS main PR guy. And there's nothing wrong with that imo.
Dude, he works for MS. He's gonna make apologies for what MS is doing, or avoid questions, and talk up the product. That's what employees do. Though I can say I don't like the way he comes off in presentations, but I would probably come off that way too if I had to work with what he has had to work with the last few months.
Anyways, I haven't taken him "seriously" for a while though, and I mean pretty much since the beginning of this gen (just look at the ps3 vs 360 stuff he released back before the ps3 came out). But I'm sure he's a good person (heck even Angry Joe was saying that Larry's a good guy and all, he actually met the person rather than just watched him on 3-5 minute videos like most of us).
This guy Larry.
If you are not American, he just makes the whole Xbox brand even more alienating. I don't understand where he is coming from or have any reference point with guys that are similar to him.
He makes Xbox seem a million miles away from what I am as a gamer.
Nothing works with Harmony Remotes/Legacy receivers...Thanks for posting. So does that IR blaster thing mean Xbox One will work with Harmony remotes?
The ir blaster is an absolutely awesome feature for the kinect
The personal attacks on Larry are so juvenile.
People need to grow the hell up! Major Nelson seems like an nice guy.
I know it's frowned upon on these forums, but I can't wait to get my hands on my X1. Would love to see a Video on the UI now.
Overly aggressive and very loud. Comes off as a used cars salesman.
Be more casual about it, take your time and have a conversation with the customer.
Also, why does the Xbone have an external power supply when it is 1/3 bigger than the PS4 and is less powerful? Not only that... PS4's PSU is internal.
IR Blaster. Kinect has and IR blaster array built in. Can turn on your TV, Cable Box, etc. so when you say Xbox On it will actually power your equipment, switch inputs, etc. (I know, TV TV TV but when you get to see it, youll understand.).
thats a good exchange!
This guy Larry.
If you are not American, he just makes the whole Xbox brand even more alienating. I don't understand where he is coming from or have any reference point with guys that are similar to him.
He makes Xbox seem a million miles away from what I am as a gamer.
Oh did he?! He works for Microsoft, please just stop that bs.
Product design choices. Simple as that. They don't want another RROD-like problem.
I really hope they do a vídeo about it really soon...