Adinnieken said:
thranx said:
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.
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I honestly believe Microsoft will be offering a partnership with Gamefly for instant game rentals via Xbox Live. If not, offering their own rental service.
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No need. Instant game rentals would be done through MS and the cloud, no need for gamefly there. Game rentals are already done by redbox and MS is already partnered with them. I see gamefly going down, and netflix too(tehy have a hard time with licsening deals and I dont think they can fix it, other streaming services are owned by the content creators so they are slowly pulling out of netflix)
