Eclectic Jabber Monkey
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Pete Dodd (aka FamousMortimer) and Kevin Dent (aka FamousSexistAsshat) are not the same person, dawg.
Yup, thats right. Someone else firing some shots, dawg.
Pete Dodd (aka FamousMortimer) and Kevin Dent (aka FamousSexistAsshat) are not the same person, dawg.
It's not about getting a PS4 instead of an Xbox, but I just think that unless you REALLY need to play the Xbox launch games, being an Xbox One early adopter is very risky bet.
Even before all the 180s, there were rumours that the Xbox development was behind schedule. Once you throw the major changes from the 180s into the mix, it would have completely fucked with everyone schedule. If they were behind then, they'd be utterly (x)boned now.
Unless MS can crunch like no-one has crunched before, the Xbox One will either launch with a bunch of issues, or just have major features not present at launch. But you'll still be paying the Live tax for these broken/missing features if you're an early adopter.
Not recently. Windows 8 is not good, and neither is the latest Office. Even with 8.l it's inferior to windows 7.Are they?
Like others said keep reading and don't quote the next one because there are more... a lot more.lol! 6 posts?
We already have insiders saying PSN have some connection issues.
There you go have fun.
This seems very reasonable to assume, and yeah, when it comes to online services getting hammered on day one with new accounts, account edits, mass settings changes, cloud storage being set up and synched, background patching, media sharing, and day one digital downloads of several 40GB+ games... well yeah, I'd advise lowering expectations a bit.i am not saying everything will be so smooth. but if everyone thinking the ps4 will be smooth online day one, then he is highly mistaken.
usually it takes some time to sort things out/bugs etc. specially when there is no public beta test for the software.
This delay stuff gets brought up in every thread. Can we stop and be reasonable?
This is very edgy.
lol! 6 posts?
Check again...
So all these insiders sitting on info they aren't sharing. Spill the beans!
So all these insiders sitting on info they aren't sharing. Spill the beans!
So all these insiders sitting on info they aren't sharing. Spill the beans!
I always find it funnier when people who really have no interest in the platform have huge post counts.
Who's this clown and why people so quick to believe this? See him everywhere now, with everything anti microsoft and arguing with Penello.
This is huge and I doubt Microsoft, can slip up on something they already had.
Go to the thread here on GAF about the Xbox Tour. It's within the last few pages. Guy shot his own videos of several of the games.
Are you reading more than GAF? They're dev units that are on the tour.
Not recently. Windows 8 is not good, and neither is the latest Office. Even with 8.l it's inferior to windows 7.
Silly monkey. That was a million posts ago. Do try and keep up.
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I always liked Schreier. Even in my pre-Gaf days. He and Totilo were two of the writers I respected the most even as I stopped frequenting Kotaku.
P.S. I haven't posted in this thread yet because I've been trying to catch up with every page over the last hour and a half. That dream is a fallacy methinks.
PM'd you the link so you can grab it later.
Yup, thats right. Someone else firing some shots, dawg.
If the crashing is to believed that is a broken console. Crashing the console while playing MP every few minutes is broken. It's the suits high up that are hell bent on getting this console out at the same time as Sony that should be getting the blame. They probably don't care, just get it out the door and we will deal with the rest later. It's going to bite them in the ass big time I think.Well let's not go crazy now, bugs and other issues doesn't make it unusable, just a tad frustrating to very frustrating. Also sometimes admitting there is a problem before release can be very damaging. Every news outlet would pick it up and drive the message to consumers that the Xbone is a troubled device in need of more time in the oven, not exactly a vote of confidence. However, if people have issues with the UI and online features it will spread on message boards and word of mouth and such, but it won't get nearly the same attention as admitting there is a problem and then delaying it. Also never underestimate a buyer's willingness to defend the $500 spent on a device, even if there are grand issues there will be those that will justify their purchase in some form.
All this tip of the iceberg and cryptic fear mongering just reeks- to me at least- of self promotion. Seriously, I read Tea Party blogs all the time for fun, it's the most basic technique. "you won't believe XYZ" and then, it's fucking nothing.Scheier alluded to an upcoming article. Be patient.
You have gone too far. Let's calm down. Nothing warrants such a drastic response.
How do you normally get to that?
I have an Xbox1 on pre-order, but I'm starting to think paying $500 for the privilege of being a beta tester may not be the smartest thing I can do with my money (getting a PS4 as well when some of the Sony exclusives hit, likely when The Order drops). I still like a lot of the ideas behind the Xbox1, but its starting to sound like every division in Microsoft saw the Xbox Live and 360 installed user based and decided they wanted their piece of that sweet, sweet incremental services revenue.
- Hey you guys have voice chat right, lets use Skype instead
- Well we've built out Azure for cloud services, lets integrate that for...stuff
- Entertainment division - Well we're already selling movies like iTunes, what if we could integrate with the TV services they are already hooked up to, then we could integrate web ad tracking with tv ad tracking
- Why build a dedicated OS when we already have Metro for Windows 8?
- What if we could use Kinect to sell conference call services to businesses?
- etc...
...But I'm getting a ton of tweets and I'm sure you guys have questions and I'm still talking to my contact and I wanted to share this exchange.
Him: I can explain why this would be a challenge to fix, if you need some clarification.
Me: Yes, please!
Him: Alright, the problem stems from the fact that it's both launching on the 22nd, and each team has had to write their system to write their party system to handle party hand-offs from the OS side. So if you change the way the way the system handles matchmaking or parties or voice chat in parties or voice chat in games, you run the risk of breaking every released game's individual API, because you have to account for how each individual game's XBL functionality is written. However, the way it is now is a huge cluster mess of probs.
So, in a weird way, they can't fix it on the OS side. What you could do is you could write an all encompassing XBL-API and hand it to each dev. But then you'd have to make that the standard, the OS side would have to be patched to recognize only api handshakes from the game to the OS with that particular code. Meaning some games would still end up breaking, but it'd be fewer. And it'd be more future proof.
No word on what MS is going to do about it though, and with the trouble they are having pushing online clients to Thunderhead to begin with.
They have bigger fish to fry if they want their next 6-months of titles to launch on time.
someone find ja rule so i can make sense of all this. where is jaaaaa.
All this tip of the iceberg and cryptic fear mongering just reeks- to me at least- of self promotion. Seriously, I read Tea Party blogs all the time for fun, it's the most basic technique. "you won't believe XYZ" and then, it's fucking nothing.
Not saying their cant be problems, and I'm definitely glad I'm getting a PS4 at launch- buuuut it seems silly to put all these dudes on a platform and get worked up about stuff they won't even reveal.
How do you normally get to that?
I have to say, it was really awesome to see Jason stick his neck out for GAF like that. Especially since as you said, he often gets reamed here whenever he posts for his Kotaku affiliation.I respect Jason. I think Jason is a good guy. He throws himself in the lions den frequently and even brushes off the LOL Kotaku people. I don't know how he does it. Gies, I don't have anything personal against him, hates us I guess and wont' show up. To be fair, it's probably better for him. I think he's probably a nice person in real life. It's probably hard for him to be the but of so many jokes here. Brad is like the Dark Knight and shows up just to smack some fools. Jason is good people. Really, he's good people.
Go to the thread here on GAF about the Xbox Tour. It's within the last few pages. Guy shot his own videos of several of the games.
MS should delay the launch instead of having a bucket load of people returning the consoles and create an angry user base. But when did common sense last prevail in the corporates.
A storm is brewing, cat & dogs, sodomy, the whole works.
The hell are you even talking bout now?I also find gafs constant use of this vague, evil sounding term "suits" hilarious, if not totally off the mark. I am one of these people, technically, (work corp. finance), and I will say that these people making decisions are waaaaaay more savvy than y'all give them credit.
It has the same problem though the XB1 could potentially have, which its really two OSes with a communication layer between, and that layer doesn't work all that well. So you get shit things like two versions of IE that sort of talk together but are in no way seamless.That's UI design (cough Metro) that's bad, by most accounts windows 8 is faster than 7. Anyways it's entirely possible their OS design as is is terrible because who knows if they sent in their best and brightest from the windows team. From the accounts of confusion/clusterfuck at MS I wouldn't be surprised if it was composed mostly of xbox software developers with direction from higher ups, hence why it may be fucked.