Samsung TV with Voice and Gesture Control Rivals Xbox One's Kinect

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yo_john117 said:

S.T.A.G.E. said:

Mad55 said:

Man the amount of hate lol.

Its not hate, I am just pointing out the efficient nature of a product that is really taking things forward. TV's connecting to the internet make more sense than a set top box that does. Matters not that it plays games if you're pandering to casuals.

Why? They both make plenty of sense. It's especially handy with the snap feature in The One. I can be playing a game, and if I ever get stuck I can quickly snap Youtube or internet and see how to do that part without any effort. It's all perfectly seemless and there's nothing wrong with that at all.

Vita does that already! :P

But seriously, I think people underestimate Samsung quite a bit. They are by far the most powerful tech company today. Brand recognition is a key factor in the industry and Microsoft is in a bad position when it comes to this. Think about it, there are endless people with Galaxy Phones, if only 10 % of them are attracted to a Samsung Smart TV, sales are gonna be huge. They sell way way more units than Microsoft does with the 360. In just 4 years they more than tripled sales of the Xbox. And that's not counting Tablets and other devices like Galaxy Note or Galaxy Camera. Just the mainline from Galaxy S to Galaxy S4. 

Now, Microsoft on the other hand doesn't attract consumers at all recently. Windows Phone struggles to keep up with Blackberry and only got ahead of Bada and Symbian, because those systems are dead and no more devices with those systems are produced. Windows 8 didn't sell all that well and nobody wants it. Windows RT is a joke, nobody buys it. 

So there are likely far more people considering a Samsung Smart TV than there are people looking for a new Xbox. Granted, it's a wild guess and I could be wrong, but Samsung is one of the biggest players when it comes to TVs and I think they know what they're doing. Sadly, sales of TVs are not tracked as far as I know so we'll never know for sure. 

Especially in europe people will struggle to see any advantages from Xbox One, as it is common around here that the TV-receiver is built right into the TV. With such a setup, you can't even use the TV features from Xbox One, as most TVs don't have a HDMI-Out. Besides, the TV features are not even yet announced for europe. Until they arrive, Microsoft will be far behind of the competition - again. I think we don't even need to talk about Japan.

So the US of A really is the only market that could be attracted by all those TV features. Everything else can be done by virtually any other device. The whole internet stuff can be done by an android Box that you can get right now for no more than 50 €. No need to buy a Xbox One for that. That's why I think Microsoft should really focus on games, it's the key selling factor for the Xbox, not Kinect, not TV. Those a just features most people won't use anyway. It's just somewhat silly to rely so heavy on them. What games Microsoft has in the pipeline remains to be seen. But Sony seems to be doing everything right as of late so they are in for some serious challenge. 

At the very least, this year should become very interesting for gamers. This is not intended to be a bash post by the way. I can't deny I'm a little Pro Sony but I don't hate the Xbox. It's just that Microsoft as a company is always just playing catching up with the competition if you ask me. They lack true innovation, something you can't get anywhere else. But in the end, I hope for success for the Xbox One because it's the competition that drives this industry.