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Video chat is better than gaming! 25 15.72%
 
I got 86 channels, and you?! 9 5.66%
 
I send devices home! 6 3.77%
 
What are you looking at!!! 22 13.84%
 
??! 97 61.01%
 
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pokoko on 24 May 2013

What if I don't watch television? Is it still "better"?



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enditall727 on 24 May 2013

The Future of Consoles is being monitored



UnitSmiley on 24 May 2013

Lol at some of the comments from the article

"The future of gaming isn't gaming
LOL!!! Damage control at it's finest.
The article was created by not a gamer."

"Why Xbox One Is Better Than PS4 - Hint: The Future of Consoles Isn't Gaming"
Pathetic statement! Go home like x-box...Tv,tv,tv,tv,tv,tv,tv,tv x-box go home,tv,tv,tv,tv,"

"So... How much did MS pay you in order to give this blowjob review."

"WTF......lol who the hell wrote this, how can you write this. Saying that the future of gaming consoles isnt "GAMING" are you serious. ill bet this person isnt even a gamer"

"Whom so ever wrote this article seriously has no idea what the main function of a console is"

A few people also seemed to think it was a parody article

"Website loves hits. I thought this was a parody piece, and I think it is in one way as the author clearly understands the lies he just told. Still dumb as a bag of sticks though."



Munkeh111 on 24 May 2013
Wagram said:
I'm fairly certain that the Xbox One is going to run into a problem that the PS3 has been facing since it launched. It's focusing heavily on that media hub. There will be a lot of people out there that purchase it solely for the ability as a means to watch movies or such as the cable box focus. The PS3 in contrast was bought by many people who wanted the machine solely for a blu-ray player.

In the console market, the money is found in the attach ratio. I personally own about 55+ PS3 games, whereas the average is around 6 I believe? Centering on that media hub focus may be a factor that hurts the Xbox One more then it helps it. The PS3 for the entirety of this generation has had a poor attach rate in comparison to the Xbox 360 which was more focused on gaming for the majority of its lifetime.

Time will tell, and it will surely be interesting too see.

it's about 9 -10 for both of them I think and I beat you 55+ with about 100! (I will actually count them soon...)

But I'm not convinced. The PS3 offered a blu-ray player cheaper than anywhere else. The Xbox offers a nice way to control your cable box and video on demand... The only thing it does above a 360 is the HDMI pass through. Maybe the situation is different in America, but in the UK, all these boxes offer video on demand and many TVs do directly.

The future of games consoles is gaming. People are not going to spend $400 on this box just for its non-gaming elements, the games are what are going to make the difference



Busted on 24 May 2013

NFL!!!



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gatito on 24 May 2013

Who wants an expensive ugly box to play the same function as many other devices, only worse?. Oh and you could probably play some videogames with it if Big Brother lets you.



weaveworld on 24 May 2013

Yes, yes it is!



Augen on 24 May 2013
non-gravity said:
The future of gaming is not gaming


My brain hurts...



famousringo on 24 May 2013
RenCutypoison said:
famousringo said:

 

The problem with trying to be "smart TV" or whatever Microsoft wants to call it is that there are at least a dozen companies trying to do that now, hundreds more that have tried and failed in the past (including Microsoft), and cable providers perceive every attempt as a threat, so they work super hard to make sure nobody ever does succeed. So far they've been very effective.

Honestly, it's not even clear that the general public even wants computing in their TV. Paraphrasing Steve Jobs, people go to computers to turn their minds on, people go to TV to turn their minds off.

 


So it's gonna fail like ouya, because they try to alienate an overcrowded market ?


I wouldn't dare compare XBone to Ouya. Ouya is a hobbyist pipe dream.

If there's a similarity, it's that both are trying to solve problems that nobody really has. People just want to engage content on their TV, either a video or a game. I don't think they want it to be a "watercooler" or communications platform. That's a job that tablets and smartphones are already doing, and doing rather well.

Also, if integration is the goal, it's already failed. To use all the XBone's features, you need a TV, likely laden with all its own smart features, and a cable box, ditto. Y'know, just like everybody else's AV setup.



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VGKing on 24 May 2013

Good thing the PS4 is more than just a gaming device huh? Here's a pic of multi-tasking on the PS4. The PS4 will have a clean, simple user interface just like the Xbox One. It really just will come down to the marketing and if the people being marketed to will care enough to drop the $500.