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ktay95 on 18 June 2013

i prefer the PS4 one, but thats just because i dont like over/on ear headsets. plus i barely play online MP so it dosent bother me much



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Adinnieken on 18 June 2013
Goddbless said:
Adinnieken said:
One of the significant changes made to the Xbox One Wireless Controller is the switch in the frequency band the controller operates on. The wider bandwidth allows not only better performance for the controller, reducing its latency, but greater bandwidth for voice data.

As an example, the Xbox One will support up to 8 controllers (yes this is official). Though, that's ONLY controllers. Headsets, connected to the controller or not, will reduce that number.

As for the Plug-N-Charge kit. The specifications of it have not been released, however it IS (officially) a Lithium-Ion battery. The Play-N-Charge kit comes with the Micro USB cable with an LED on the end, and the Lithium-Ion battery pack. Most likely this will be around $20.00 like the current Play-N-Charge kit is.

You'll be able to charge the pack while playing using the controller as a wired controller (i.e. the wireless connection turns off). It takes approximately 4 hours to charge the battery using the Play-N-Charge kit, which is 50% less time than it took the Xbox 360 to charge a battery using the Play-N-Charge kit.

The way the Xbox One works should result in longer battery life, not simply a longer charge life.

Although it hasn't been announced, I'm guessing Microsoft will officially release the battery packs in a stand-alone retail package. Thus making it only necessary to buy one Play-N-Charge kit, unless you want a new Micro USB cable.


WTF are we going to do with 8 controllers on one console? That would be great for a wrestling game I guess, or maybe football!

OT: It looks way more functional and practical than the PS4 earbud. I'm probably gonna get some Turtle Beaches for my XO.

In an Interview on Reddit, I believe it was, Larry Hyrb, Major Nelson on Xbox LIVE, was talking about the headset. 

The Xbox 360 was sort of the same, in that you had one wireless controller, matched to one wireless headset.  This allowed 8 wireless devices to connect to the Xbox 360.  The difference is that the Xbox 360 still restricted the number of wireless controllers to four, not eight.  Apparently, based on what he said, the Xbox One will allow up to 8 wireless devices to connect to it.  That could be 8 wireless controllers (the game must support it) or four controllers and four headsets.  I'm guessing the headset, while connected to a wireless controller, takes up an additional wireless channel, therefore giving it an entire channel to itself and reducing the number of channels available for other controllers or headsets.

So, in other words, an Xbox One controller takes up one channel.  An Xbox One controller and wired headset connected to the controller, takes up two channels.  I tend to doubt any game developer will make an 8 person game, that tends to go on the insane side of things when you're all playing from one console, but it'd be interesting to see what games someone came up with. 



Deyon on 18 June 2013

This looks way better than PS4's cheap headset. wat were u thinkin' Sony?



Carl on 18 June 2013

This is a great headset.

Is it confirmed though, that they wont be bundling it with the One?



                            

LemonSlice on 18 June 2013
Adinnieken said:

So, in other words, an Xbox One controller takes up one channel.  An Xbox One controller and wired headset connected to the controller, takes up two channels.  I tend to doubt any game developer will make an 8 person game, that tends to go on the insane side of things when you're all playing from one console, but it'd be interesting to see what games someone came up with. 

But how will they hear each other without headsets?

OT: Nice headset, but it's a stupid idea to sell it separately. Kinect makes for a very poor voice communications device.



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DirtyP2002 on 18 June 2013

Well you don't need one, because you will have Kinect.



Imagine not having GamePass on your console...

Cleary397 on 18 June 2013
PeterSilenced said:
Is it packed with the console?


Nope, at least not the package which is available for pre-order at the moment.



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slowmo on 18 June 2013

I think both look cheap and tacky, loved the 360 wireless headset this gen so hopefully they'll do a similar device. I'm not sold on using Kinect as its just easier and more convenient to mute a headset with the press of a button without interrupting your game. I'm sure Kinect will be fine for multiplayer sessions but when cross game chatting in single player a headset is a must imo.



Cobretti2 on 18 June 2013

hmm what I want to know is if the new consoles come with a HDMI cable.



 

 

HeroeDeLeyenda on 18 June 2013

I like it



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