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thranx on 05 June 2013
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pokoko said:
Darth Tigris said:
I'm letting this marinate and I think I'm starting to see what you're getting at here. If so, this is ambitious. Heck, it's DISRUPTIVE, seriously!

Folks, please, put away your fanboy goggles and think about the possibilities of this. This isn't what the others are attempting, and that doesn't matter. Don't fight this just because it's MS or you want to hate the X1 or because Apple, Sony and Google aren't attempting it (yet). This is about the future of technology and entertainment content provisions. This is ... everything ala carte. Movies, TV, music and ... games, ala carte. No more searching or trying to decide where to find it, just that you want it, asked and received. This is creeping toward the computer on ST:TNG.

Thanks for this, dis. It makes me feel more confident that we'll see something disruptive this gen instead of iterative. I'm actually starting to get excited even.

Uh, yeah, moving on from that.  Anyway, I don't see how this is going to be disruptive when only gamers, for the most part, are going to buy it.  If it does some things well, then it will get copied, just as it has copied some features from existing services.  The majority of people are going to go with a much lower cost alternative.

 

superchunk said:

Meanwhile Apple and Google will perfect the same service they've been slowly building up and sell it for $99, blowing MS out of water mostly due the fact that they can build of the established massive iOS and Android bases. In order for this to be truly MSs super feature (which it is a great feature I think), MS will need to put out that rumored TV only box... for cheap.

So to the OP, yes its a very awesome feature, however the delivery mechanism is going to cause it to fail for MS.

Yep, pretty much this.  We aren't going to see the average person run out and buy an XO so that they won't have to switch TV inputs.  However, they might buy a $99-$150 box that does everything the XO does--except the games, of course, which they won't care about, anyway.

Edit:  Actually, though, I think we're going to see all this integrated in with the TV itself, which would make the XO superfluous for non-gamers.

 


It is being aimed at the minstream audience for sure. The regular media has been all over the xbox one, even if the gaming media hates it. Other companies can try and copy it, but they may have patent or licensing issues. Microsoft has made some great partnerships over the years in the TV and Media world. They have an exclusive partnership for rebox instant(will most likely be the service to take down netflix, and gamefly) for home consoles, which they have also partnered with verizon(a huge cell phone, home phone, internet, and cable company) . They have a deal with pandora also right now I believe. People may be forgetting that MS started all of this with the 360, it will be hard for others to play catch up with all the deals that have to be made for this kind of stuff. With all that said, I dont think any company can provide all of those features, and voice control hardware and software for 99-150 dollars. At least we haven't seen it yet, do google or apple tv have voice controls or gesture input? Yes TV will eventually have all of this built in, but that will be down the line and will not be cost effective for most consumers who already have a TV they like.  Sony is actually at a disadvantage in this area as they also compete with other media producing companies. If I made movies I wouldn't want my compititors company to control the distribution of my media.