The Official Xbox One Thread

[American Gunner]

Well if xboxone.com was registered for the sole purpose of squatting, then Microsoft deserves to have it. That would take an incredible amount of insight by the purchaser but it should be Microsoft's regardless.

Microsoft doesn't deserve shit. They should have registered the name if they wanted it.

 

[zerocool84]

Microsoft doesn't deserve shit. They should have registered the name if they wanted it.

This

Plus there was already an Xbox One, it came out before the 360.

 

[Nintendesert]

Microsoft should go after and buy out xbone.com instead.

 

[American Gunner]

Microsoft should go after and buy out xbone.com instead.

Or they could just stop being a bunch on d-bags. I know, that is probably a tough thing to do with Steve Ballmer at the helm.

 

[Arkaign]

Well if xboxone.com was registered for the sole purpose of squatting, then Microsoft deserves to have it. That would take an incredible amount of insight by the purchaser but it should be Microsoft's regardless.

They should pay the dude. For all we know, he might have had ideas about opening an xbox-centric website for all of the various Xbox models, and XboxOne might have sounded like a cool name.

I get sort of shady feelings when big corps can sue for domain names and try to bankrupt someone who got it legitimately before them. Sure there are also plenty of squatters, which sucks as well. Maybe a solution would be to limit the maximum number of domain names any one person or corporation can have to a particular number.

Anyway, 'it should be Microsoft's regardless', .. ehh, not necessarily. Did the original guy get it legally? If so, then they need to properly compensate him, and if he wants XX dollars, that's his right to ask.

 

[Arkaign]

Or they could just stop being a bunch on d-bags. I know, that is probably a tough thing to do with Steve Ballmer at the helm.

Short and sweet, but yes. They're just looking like a bunch of bullies in this case. Would have been a lot better PR management to just do the acquisition on the quiet, find out what the guy wants, and as long as it's not 'one ... beeeelion dollars', pay him off and everyone's happy.

 

[Mushkins]

Anyway, 'it should be Microsoft's regardless', .. ehh, not necessarily. Did the original guy get it legally? If so, then they need to properly compensate him, and if he wants XX dollars, that's his right to ask.

If it was a physical thing, say a piece of land Microsoft wanted to build an office on, i'd completely agree with you.

However, the difference with a domain name is that it's not owned, it's *leased* from the domain registrar. You stop paying, it goes back in the pool for someone else to lease. And as such, you need to abide by the terms of that lease, which typically has a squatting clause buried in there these days. If the guy is clearly squatting (which is debatable), Microsoft is absolutely in the right to call him on it and file a complaint with his virtual landlord.

 

[blurredvision]

They should pay the dude. For all we know, he might have had ideas about opening an xbox-centric website for all of the various Xbox models, and XboxOne might have sounded like a cool name.

I get sort of shady feelings when big corps can sue for domain names and try to bankrupt someone who got it legitimately before them. Sure there are also plenty of squatters, which sucks as well. Maybe a solution would be to limit the maximum number of domain names any one person or corporation can have to a particular number.

Anyway, 'it should be Microsoft's regardless', .. ehh, not necessarily. Did the original guy get it legally? If so, then they need to properly compensate him, and if he wants XX dollars, that's his right to ask.

IF he was planning on doing something with it or has done something with it, then I'm fine with him keeping it. If it's a plan to extract money out of Microsoft (which again, would've taken a great amount of foresight), then fuck him. Just my opinion.

 

[Mushkins]

My big question about the XBOne, and by extension the PS4, is just how well they're going to support the "your only media center device" idea. They both sold the 360/PS3 as big on media center features, but local playback on both totally sucked. They each supported one or two basic containers, had no video player features beyond stop/start/pause/rewind, and just generally sucked for local or network playback. If you wanted to use them as a media box, you pretty much had to rely on a backend media server like Twonky/Plex/etc to do transcoding of everything, or re-encode your entire library to low quality big filesize crap.

It's 2013, Microsoft *OWNS* Windows Media Player and is putting a windows kernel in the XBOne. If this thing doesn't play every format and container right out of the box streamed from a network share on top of Netflix/Amazon/etc to put every Roku and WDTV to shame, frankly they're doing it wrong. A media center is more than just a device that can halfassedly stream Netflix and Hulu.

My Receiver is full up, and so is my TV stand. Microsoft and Sony aren't just trying to win real estate this time, they need to be giving me a compelling reason to be *replacing* the other devices that are already there.

 

[American Gunner]

NM

 

[BladeVenom]

Microsoft Cancels E3 Post-Press Conference Roundtable with Media - http://n4g.com/news/1272329/microsoft-cancels-e3-post-press-conference-roundtable-with-media

More rumors from NeoGAF,

Two of our most trusted neoGAF insiders have said that Microsoft is reacting hard to what has went down, and so they're going to try to dismantle PS4's image as a "for gamers" console by paying publishers and devs to not show their multiplatform titles during E3 on a PS4. In other words, even if the multiplatform version is coming out for the PS4, they won't be able to show them at E3, thus contributing to the perception that somehow Sony is getting significantly less support for PS4 than Microsoft is "for gamers."

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=61504857&postcount=3110

 

[Pheran]

Official info on the Xbox One controller

Interesting that it mentions AA batteries, I thought they said it used an internal battery before. I'd be just as happy to keep using my Eneloops if I get one.

 

[KaOTiK]

More rumors from NeoGAF,
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=61504857&postcount=3110

If that is true, that is just downright sleazy.

 

[smackababy]

Official info on the Xbox One controller

Interesting that it mentions AA batteries, I thought they said it used an internal battery before. I'd be just as happy to keep using my Eneloops if I get one.

It works similar to the current 360 controller. You can use either AA batteries in an empty shell, of their rechargable battery pack (and their charger which is subject to destroy said battery pack).

 

[American Gunner]

If that is true, that is just downright sleazy.

Yeah, it makes MS look petty.

 

[Doppel]

Microsoft Cancels E3 Post-Press Conference Roundtable with Media - http://n4g.com/news/1272329/microsoft-cancels-e3-post-press-conference-roundtable-with-media

More rumors from NeoGAF,
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=61504857&postcount=3110

That would be rude of them, but really without something else corroborating that it sounds like a very possible fiction.

Interesting that it mentions AA batteries, I thought they said it used an internal battery before. I'd be just as happy to keep using my Eneloops if I get one.

Me, too. I'd prefer it in fact, they are ubiquitous and cheap.

 

[Skel]

More rumors from NeoGAF,
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=61504857&postcount=3110

Bullshit. The more likely thing that's happening is MS is locking down games to show in their presentation, which is done by both sides. That's why you rarely see the same games in both conferences. Of course we're in the stage of twisting anything possible into making MS look bad.

 

[American Gunner]

Bullshit. The more likely thing that's happening is MS is locking down games to show in their presentation, which is done by both sides. That's why you rarely see the same games in both conferences. Of course we're in the stage of twisting anything possible into making MS look bad.

This thread has nothing on the one over at AVS that is full of paranoia about hackers getting in on your pc and staring at you while you jerk off.

 

[KaOTiK]

This thread has nothing on the one over at AVS that is full of paranoia about hackers getting in on your pc and staring at you while you jerk off.

They will have to pay just like everyone else that watches me!

 

[American Gunner]

They will have to pay just like everyone else that watches me!

I'm....going.....to leave now......

 

[Skel]

They will have to pay just like everyone else that watches me!

well done sir, well done

 

[SAWYER]

I was able to snag ps4sucks.com but too late on xboxonesucks and wiiusucks.com

 

[Dominato3r]

Once a day online check, Kinect can be completely (100%) turned off, no used game fee - up to publisher, and game gifting to friends (Apparently can only gift one way?)

That all got confirmed

http://www.theverge.com/2013/6/6/4403936/xbox-one-online-requirements-details

edit: And digital download available day1, though no word on if these will be cheaper or not.

 

[ImpulsE69]

they will have to pay just like everyone else that watches me!

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/soapbox
On the note of the 24hour thing. Deal breaker. You fanbois can buy into it. I'm not having it. My use case for consoles is not at all the same as a PC. They want to treat it like a PC? Then make it open like a PC. If I want to take my console with me to a place I don't have internet, that's MY choice.

Closed controlled systems. This is what having internet connected consoles has brought us. I'm out. That shit costs way too much to be told how to use it in such a manner that they dictate when I can use it. Apparently they don't really care at all if I actually want to play games. It's all about them being able to market to me the entire time. @!%*@ them.

Blah blah, I don't want to hear your lame excuses revolving around it and how everyone should have 300Gb connection that never goes down because you live in some big city on the moon. The people buying into this kind of stuff is exactly why we're at this point. Get over your lazy self absorbed asses and see whats really happening. Games would never have taken off if they started out the way they are headed.

/soapbox

having said all that, I probably wouldn't have bought it anyway. I didn't buy a 360. The point being things have taken a very anti consumer turn and anyone getting suckered into this next gen deserves everything they get in the coming years. There are so many more choices now than there used to be, no one should stand for things like this...of course, I know there's many people out there that are confused thinking "but what is the problem?". The answer is you.

 

[Rage187]

After all this news on phone tapping and Internet data mining our government is doing, I'll be damned if I am going to put an advanced camera in my home. I'm sure our government is already involved in the Xbox One World Order.