Microsoft heralds NXE’s imminent “new era of entertainment”

[Infamous]

Torillian said:

Infamous said:

Torillian said:

truthiness said:
I guess they've gotten creative with the meaning of leading?

I don't mean to troll, but are they heralding the ability to download HD movies and play online games? I guess it's sort of new that a console can do both, but this isn't exactly something new otherwise.

 

I can actually do that on my PS3 right now, so I don't think that's the shift that they are talking about, though I admit I don't know what is.

 

No, you can't. He's talking about Netflix. And Netflix is just like icing on the cake, NXE offers so much more. Tomorrow's the big day ;)

So I imagined the movie store with all the HD movies?  Or playing online games?  I am commenting solely on those two abilities, I have not kept up with NXE and do not know the other capabilities, but those two things are already possible through other means so I find it unlikely that they are huge innovations.

 

 

First of all, I don't even know why he mentioned online games because we've all been playing online games for years. And being able to download, what is it, more than 10,000 HD movies at launch whenever you want and go in an 8-person chat and have them all watch it with you for free, is that comparable to anything else at the moment?

And I can't really direct you to more information about NXE's capablilities, but I'm sure tomorrow and so on there will be countless topics about it (when it launches).