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game_on on 11 June 2014

So much secret sauce in the Xbox One, combined with the infinite power of teh cloud this must be the ultimate gaming machine.



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deskpro2k3 on 11 June 2014

Removing the kinect from your system does not magically make your xbone more powerful. Its up to the developers to use the extra power if they choose not to use kinect with their games. Again MS is backtracking and not sticking to their guns.



Too_Talls on 11 June 2014
S.T.A.G.E. said:
Too_Talls said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
Too_Talls said:

The OS will shut down kinnect when needed, plugged or unplugged shouldn't matter at that point.


The Kinect doesnt shut down. Its always listening unless you're on Netflix. For some god awful reason ive calibrated it and it doesnt hear a damn thing once I press play on a movie.

I know, I have a bone of my own. I meant after the new games roll out using the extra GPU, kinnect will probably have to shut down to run those games.

 

and yeah, I gave up talking to it mostly


Thats cool. I mean, its not like I ever really used the Kinect with my games anyway.


I honestly tried with nba 2k14, but the game succesfully calls timeouts on it's own more often thn when I say time out.......the intergration was an absolute fail their, it's slightly better if I play with headphones but I don't want to wear headphones for anything not named call of duty.



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^Yes that's me ripping it up in the GIF. :)

Porcupine_I on 11 June 2014

So their new slogan is: "Better without Kinect" ?



“It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grams a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grams a week. Was it possible that they could swallow that, after only twenty-four hours? Yes, they swallowed it.”

- George Orwell, ‘1984’

OttoniBastos on 11 June 2014

QUESTION:

 

If devs use this 10% extra power this means that people with kinect can't run their games?



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Putin on 11 June 2014
OttoniBastos said:

QUESTION:

 

If devs use this 10% extra power this means that people with kinect can't run their games?


They can, kinect go offline when game starts. Making it pointles to use at that point...



walsufnir on 11 June 2014
OttoniBastos said:

QUESTION:

 

If devs use this 10% extra power this means that people with kinect can't run their games?


*sigh* no. Use Kinect ingame - devs have same power as before. No use Kinect - devs can now use up to 10% more computing power. This has nothing to do with you using or not using Kinect.



generic-user-1 on 11 June 2014
Too_Talls said:
DakonBlackblade said:

This sounds rather strange, why would Kinect be spending GPU bandwidth ? I get why itd spend processing resources and memmory but GPU bandwidth ?

Since 10% extra power is a completly ephemeral thing here cause XOne hasnt been utilised to full potential yet, Ms can simply clain games that look better next year are a result of the Kinectless secret souce.


Think about what makes xbox one's voice comands special compared to other places voice comands are featured. It's always ready to be used no matter what you're doing. Phones and computers usually have to shut down all other parts of their respective operating systems in order to focus on the voice comands.

so in the upcoming games that benifiet from this, Kinnect functions will most likely be fully disable while the game is running as a sacrifice for the boost.


what? i can skype and play games with my smartphone and my pc doesnt care if skype is running or not.(and i can play in 1080/60 with skype on)