Lozmaster Wrote:Unless that is store policy, you won't have that job for very long.

Edit: Oh yeah, guys, you know those cool instant voice commands microsoft showed at the presentation?

Yeah, they might have faked the whole thing. I can't believe I'm shocked by this revelation after they did it every other time they showed kinect too.
*removed ign link*


Edit again: K nevermind, watched some of it, at least some of the commands he has his hands out of his pockets. IGN is trolling for hits, so I'm removing the link.

Lozmaster Wrote:Unless that is store policy, you won't have that job for very long.

Lozmaster Wrote:Because we don't live in pre 2006. Nintendo has had full BC support for two generations of consoles now, and every generation of handhelds since the Game boy colour (being the second major handheld...), so there is no good reason that everyone can't offer it.

The fact you have to quote so far back in nintendos history just proves the point. Short of a complete change in input media (N64-> GC) or PSP-> Vita, there is absolutely no excuse.

Especially not for digital purchases. Holy cow, how did we end up in such a position that only nintendo feels its worth the consumers time to completely carry purchases over??

Dark Link Wrote:Microsoft applies for patent on TV achievements

Microsoft. What are you doing? Microsoft. Stahp!

Dark Link Wrote:Microsoft applies for patent on TV achievements

Microsoft. What are you doing? Microsoft. Stahp!

Curtiss Wrote:Dear lord Microsoft, if I were not typing this out on a Windows 7 laptop I might have to distance myself from all your products in case I get infected by the stupid idea virus.

Curtiss Wrote:Be right back, going to tell my dad that he can finally get validated for TV marathons and show it to my mom as proof that he's doing something other than chilling out while watching 24 for the 24th time.

Which clown even thinks up of these things? The idea that tying advertisement viewing to achievements doesn't work because people have better things to do during that time, that's why people need to change their ideas of how advertising on TV should work other than to make it look like you can accomplish anything by watching commercials.

Dear lord Microsoft, if I were not typing this out on a Windows 7 laptop I might have to distance myself from all your products in case I get infected by the stupid idea virus.

Microsoft Wrote:The system can make sure the user is simply in the room while it plays, or it can tell the user to hold up a specific product. The camera would then scan the item held up and reward the user with an achievement.

Microsoft Wrote: tell the user to hold up a specific product

Polantaris Wrote:Unfortunately we'll never distance ourselves from Windows, because of most games only supporting Windows. It's getting better...but I doubt gaming PCs will ever switch over to Linux exclusively, even with WINE, Steam Support, and everything like that.

We're f**ked with Windows for a very long time. Just don't buy 8.

Curtiss Wrote:Windows 8 was rejected by me well before Microsoft decided to pen in more reasons to not get it (See: Further screw-ups). It's a sad thing that Windows is so prevalent because that means they still get money even if Xbox One crashes and burns but we'd be happy just to see that people are voting with their feet instead of their money.

Moldyvort Wrote:okay.

Microsof Wrote:Two examples given include doling out achievements for watching a single event like the Super Bowl, or for watching an entire series of a single show.

Dusk Wrote:Change in input media just means you need another slot for the other input media. XBox One and XBox 360 run on completely different computer architectures, which means you need to build and support an XBox 360 emulator in x86. That's a lot of pineappleing work (and it may not be possible to get to a desirable performance level). Sony is only making it work by porting individual games over to x86.

Nintendo has done backwards compatibility in the past by emulating the previous generation on hardware that is fairly similar. The more complex stuff gets, the harder it is to do that. There's a reason why you can pretty flawlessly run every GBA or N64 game on PC, but you run into all sorts of problems with more recent consoles, and it's not that modern PCs don't have the specs to run those games.

Dusk Wrote:Change in input media just means you need another slot for the other input media. XBox One and XBox 360 run on completely different computer architectures, which means you need to build and support an XBox 360 emulator in x86. That's a lot of pineappleing work (and it may not be possible to get to a desirable performance level). Sony is only making it work by porting individual games over to x86.

Nintendo has done backwards compatibility in the past by emulating the previous generation on hardware that is fairly similar. The more complex stuff gets, the harder it is to do that. There's a reason why you can pretty flawlessly run every GBA or N64 game on PC, but you run into all sorts of problems with more recent consoles, and it's not that modern PCs don't have the specs to run those games.

Locked Wrote:Partially right.

You are correct in the sense that it has a different architecture. In fact Xbox One went all out and got a "custom" x64 for unbeknownst reasons, couple this in with the fact that the Wii U runs on an x86 and so does the PS4 and you possibly no longer have the neat portability you had the last generation. Was bound to happen I suppose. Sony isn't making it work by "porting" anything what have you. They're using a streaming service that streams the video and takes in your input to a cloud service that plays the game for you. It is their whacked version of the virtual console.

However, this is where you're wrong. Nintendo has indeed done backwards compatibility by emulating them and that is very true. However the reason why emulating post-N64/PS1 consoles on the computer is hard is by no means due to the fact that it's difficult to emulate for the company making the consoles themselves, but rather because it is difficult to reverse engineer them completely. Take into consideration the fact that the companies themselves know all the ins and the outs of the system themselves, this makes the reverse engineering stage with disassembling, OAM, et al all considerably easy on their part. This is why it's hard to emulate -- because it's become harder to reverse engineer them.

IGN Wrote:Microsoft has filed a complaint over XboxOne.com and XboxOne.net in hopes of taking control of the domains.

According to Fusible, Microsoft's dispute is filed with the National Arbitration Forum (case number 1501205, currently listed as “pending” on the NAF database), and the company is seeking to acquire the websites from a single UK resident who owns both. The WHOIS info for both domains suggests that they were registered on December 29, 2011 by a Krasimir Hristov Ivanov who resides in London.

We reached out to Microsoft and a representative provided the following statement to IGN:

“Microsoft's domain name portfolio is a part of its ongoing business strategy, but beyond that we have no comment.”