It hasn't been fully demonstrated in a real-world environment. Insiders are all saying to expect bugs and crashes from the UI.
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Xbox One Kinect and Gameplay Video (UI stuff)
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It hasn't been fully demonstrated in a real-world environment. Insiders are all saying to expect bugs and crashes from the UI.
Iacobellis
Junior Member
I'd rather be given a timeframe for the HDCP removal, background, Bluetooth via chat, and Suspend mode updates than a UI tour.
UI walkthroughs can be done by ourselves on launch day, or seen across dozens of videos on YouTube.
That is that crimson dragon game people have been talking about? Holeeeey shit that looks terrible.
I agree. I just want to see what the finished product COULD look like.
You are right though. HDCP, bluetooth and Suspend mode are MUCH more important.
Loading Screens: The game. That is awful. At least now it's easy to see why Sleep/Resume is such an important feature.
CBOAT and bish hinted that the 720p stuff is only the beginning. Could you imagine the shit storm on launch day if people's games randomly crashed to the dash board, had insane load times and ran at like 15-20 fps too? GAF would go nuclear.
GrizzleBoy
Banned
Bugs and crashes aren't the equivalent of non-existent/impossible functionality.
Bugs and crashes in brand new software releases aren't something only an insider would know to expect either.
There'll be bugs, fewer at launch. None of that looks impossible though.
Iacobellis
Junior Member
We've seen enough Crimson Dragon footage (live demos on Twitch) to know it never runs like that normally. I would assume that drop in framerate precedes the crashes that Proelyte hinted at long before Cboat did.
Yes it's edited. Just like any video of any OS created in the past decade, the screens were simulated.
You could argue that they shouldn't be doing that, but of course that's what the purpose of the video was. And they can easily do that, as long as they put a disclaimer somewhere. You can't have watched a product video from either MS, Sony, Google, Apple, Samsung etc.. over the past few years and only now come to the realisation that they're almost always simulated in some way? It's standard practice.
I never said anything about non-existent functionality. Where did you read that?
I take what we've seen of it running for real, over an advertisement any day. If you prefer to believe an advertisement over real world demonstrations, well... good for you?
Derpcrawler
Member
The only thing I gathered from this video is that the guy has really short attention span.
SniperHunter
Banned
Looks great
3rdamention
Member
Wait a minute, isn't speed one of the most important factors when accessing the functionality of a user interface? It's very important, that's why they simulated the speed, to make it look more attractive since speed of the OS's functionality means a lot to many people.
I assume you mean assessing. And sure, if their goal was to show off the speed of their UI they wouldn't have to give you a "simulated" disclaimer. They'd actually have to show you. Speed is essential in an advertisement when your goal is to show off as much functionality as possible.
BruiserBear
Banned
haha
While I definitely feel like I won't be multitasking with that sort of frequency, I have to say, I find the look and feel of the OS very appealing.
Nope. I'm expecting fewer bugs than the in beta dashboard at launch.
That's still not good.
Pretty much. Looks good, and it's an example of what's possible but the activities were faked. So as a result the speed is possibly not representative.
Proelyte's words were something along the lines of, "I'd prefer CoD in 720p over CoD in 720p that crashes the console every other minute."
Iacobellis
Junior Member
This generation is going to be too fucking good.
rain elbows
Member
Didn't see this posted yet, Xbox One crashing at London event. There's a few seconds of the debug/beta startup OS. According to desciption it crashed and couldn't reconnect to Internet and they tried to get the YT poster to stop filming.
http://youtu.be/ua6TWhPXhqs
http://youtu.be/ua6TWhPXhqs
Lol. That PS4 UI is a mess. It is FAR, FAR too busy. Too many different styles going on and the image in the background makes reading different navigation items difficult. When the Xbox uses full screen background images they generally place the UI on flat blocks of colour so that you can actually read it from 3+ metres away - Sony just expects people to read fine text (which is far too small btw) with crazy detailed imagery sitting underneath it.
I feel bad for all of the hard working engineers at MS that are getting trampled on by the suits. It's unfortunate that the Xbox brand doesn't have an exec that can act as a protective conduit for the gamers - basically another Allard. I just hope they recover and don't give up on consoles.
This ad seemed like a target demo that would not be achievable and is presented to a board room for the purpose of showing what it could be and not what it is.
This ad seemed like a target demo that would not be achievable and is presented to a board room for the purpose of showing what it could be and not what it is.
It's very unfortunate. RROD aside, the 360 was an amazing gaming machine.
Be that as it may, I would rather have a busy somewhat unattractive UI that functions well instead of a sleek clean UI that crashes.
Looks great - people seems to be as slow as Wii U OS on here. This is a representation of the functionality available, the gamer speaking out "Pacific RIm" is to demo you can be anywhere and say that. Him flicking though everything is again to show whats available via Kinect/UI within a short amount of time, do you need a disclaimer for something this obvious?
Cant believe i have to spell that out, lord have mercy.
Cant believe i have to spell that out, lord have mercy.
They had it on input 2. Xbox One likes to be connected to all-in-one Input One.
Gordon0Freeman
Member
Holy shit did anyone else just read @Famousmortimer's tweet?
Dat tease of teases
Dat tease of teases
Yes, exactly why I am sad about the dreadful state of the Xbone. The 360 was and still is my primary game console. It's right up there with the PS2 and the Dreamcast.
We have no idea if that's true though.
This! I'm okay if an advertisement isn't how it works in reality. The advertisement is meant to convey the idea and it does that in spades.
Does everyone complaining in this thread complain about the burger you get at McDonalds because it doesn't look exactly as advertised? You read the fine print, take it with a grain of salt, temper your expectations and enjoy what you get, right?
If the UI is a mess in reality, that's a different issue that deserves criticism, not the ad itself. Most ads in the world suffer from this problem, and we can either wag our fingers till the cows come home, or take the essence of what they are trying to communicate and move on.
No. Post? Link? I don't use Twitter.
rain elbows
Member
He said he has confirmed the CBOAT bombshell, bigger than 720p, he's typing something up now
This might be a problem greater than 720p. I'm not sure though. I just saw this on Mort's Twitter timeline thing.
Edit:
Oh yeah, you are definitely correct. I was just offering another viewpoint.
*Mods, if for some reason I don't need/shouldn't post twitter screenshots about speculation and/or rumors please let me know and I will remove this asap. Thanks.
This seems pretty cool and all but I don't understand why they need to burden the Xbox One with it. I don't know if this has been answered before, but why can't just TV manufacturers build this, or similar, technology into every TV in the near future and thus render a big part of XB1 useless?
Even if they really, really, really want to make their way into every living room, they should make a standalone box called Xbox TV at a 100-150$ pricepoint. This box would have much of this mulitmedia stuff and be easily connected to the Xbox One, which could have achieved a far better market share due to the lower price point it would have achieved by the exclusion of much of this stuff.
Even if they really, really, really want to make their way into every living room, they should make a standalone box called Xbox TV at a 100-150$ pricepoint. This box would have much of this mulitmedia stuff and be easily connected to the Xbox One, which could have achieved a far better market share due to the lower price point it would have achieved by the exclusion of much of this stuff.
Uno Venova
Banned
Are they in the take home beta that MS is doing?
He needs to fucking post it ASAP.
Gordon0Freeman
Member
The junior did my job I'm on my phone
Nice try but those pics were photoshopped by a gaffer. As a matter of fact there is no background customization on PS4 (at least at launch).
Winterblink
Member
xbox, post a reply to Majine telling him that this it's unbelievably lazy.