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Forums - Microsoft - Xbox One consoles no longer double as dev kits (VG24/7 Article) - Refuted by Microsoft

Blood_Tears on 09 July 2014

Now that this news is confirmed to be false, some users can get out of damage control mode and go back to secretly caring about this so they can use it again in the console war bullet check list...



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Dr.Henry_Killinger on 09 July 2014

Looks like PC development is gonna be my focus for a while.

I was under the impression that they were already dev kits.



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Serious_frusting on 09 July 2014

It was a silly promise to make in the first place. So many security reasons as to why they should not do this. Especially now you dont have to connect online to play your games.



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Noshowers on 09 July 2014
Serious_frusting said:
It was a silly promise to make in the first place. So many security reasons as to why they should not do this. Especially now you dont have to connect online to play your games.


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Dgc1808 on 09 July 2014
kowenicki said:
vivster said:
Wow. Someone is awfully defensive about something that no one gives a fuck about ;)

Wow. Someone is awfully on the offensive about the loss of something that was useless and pointless and not a big deal when it was announced ;)

Saying a feature like this is "useless/pointless" is just wrong.



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jonathanalis on 09 July 2014

what?
no more interested on xbo.

 

ok, refuted, so interest back.



TheSting on 09 July 2014
Blood_Tears said:
Now that this news is confirmed to be false, some users can get out of damage control mode and go back to secretly caring about this so they can use it again in the console war bullet check list...


Why didnt you do a reverse of the situation also? There are ppl with no interest in the XBO waiting like ninjas to attack.

Machiavellian on 09 July 2014
Shinobi-san said:
Machiavellian said:
Shinobi-san said:
Probably not a big deal...however another 180 for MS is more bad press. something they still haven't managed to fix entirely yet.

Really??  The only people who would care about this type of stuff are fanboys fueling their list to go to battle against the opposite fanboys.  When all said and done this means nothing to the average consumer and would not change the viability of the X1 as a product.


This is what people were saying about the decisions MS made back when the X1 first came out. But considering that almost every piece of gaming news gets much more publicity these days, especially on youtube, id say this will get added to a long list of MS 180's with regards to the X1 and further the bad image of the console and the company. All these 180 decisions might be small but they add up.

And like i said in my initial comment...probably not a big deal.

@Bolded:  The only people who care about MS 180s are fanboys on both sides of the fence.  Sony Fanboys use it as a negative, MS fanboys use it as a positive.  In the middle are the consumers who just care about how much a console cost and will it have the games I want to play.  Even today, only fanboys remember about 180s MS, Sony and even Nintendo has made during the previous generation.  These types of things only add up on the fanboy battlefield then anything else.

From what I have seen, if its a positive 180 your average consumer take it as such.  Fanboys on the other side of the fence try to spin it as a negative.  Negative 180s are only revelant if you are affected which in this case will be a very small group.



binary solo on 09 July 2014

So I can imagine that either opening it up as a devotional kit makes it too easy to pirate, or run non-xb one apps or even be vulnerable to hacks. Or the amount of processing power they can make available is so much less than what's available on proper dev kits that it would be impossible to make nexgen looking games on it.



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Dr.Henry_Killinger on 09 July 2014
Dgc1808 said:
kowenicki said:
vivster said:
Wow. Someone is awfully defensive about something that no one gives a fuck about ;)

Wow. Someone is awfully on the offensive about the loss of something that was useless and pointless and not a big deal when it was announced ;)

Saying a feature like this is "useless/pointless" is just wrong.

Its not stupid, just impractical for Casuals and Gamers, basically anyone who doesn't want to make a game. It might mean more indie games for the XB1, but with the Parity Clause still in effect, PCs and PS4 will still take the indies,

its hardly a negative or a selling point.

Specially, when people like to call the PS4 the indiestation, when this devkit thing would make the XB1 explode with the level of shovel and crapware that plagues steam right now.



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