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OneKartVita on 21 February 2016
Mr Puggsly said:
Fear_Me_All said:
At that point rather go with my PC.

This "who needs a Xbox, I got a PC" thing is getting old. Advice for the mods, lets consider calling a form of trolling. Its becoming an issue in many threads.

Anyhow, a mouse and keyboard would make using things the web browser more appealing. Maybe some games will even use it like Halo Wars 2.

It's definitely a valid point though.  A lot of people will want multiple consoles but could end up going pc / ps4 and just leave xbox out altogether now 



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Jazz2K on 21 February 2016
Azuren said:

Except there really isn't many kbm games on PS4, and PS4 didn't lose a big exclusive to PC with rumors of more on the way out. 

Yeah so about losing... what makes you suddenly a PC gamer and lose a game on console because it is announced on PC? I fail to understand that logic really! Like unless a game is exclusive it's not worth playing it on your device of choice because it's also available elsewhere?

There I thought you got these devices to play games but so many just want to play on one specific console, no matter the game it has to be exclusive or the console somehow loses it's ability to play it properly... smh!



Azuren on 21 February 2016
Jazz2K said:
Azuren said:

Except there really isn't many kbm games on PS4, and PS4 didn't lose a big exclusive to PC with rumors of more on the way out. 

Yeah so about losing... what makes you suddenly a PC gamer and lose a game on console because it is announced on PC? I fail to understand that logic really! Like unless a game is exclusive it's not worth playing it on your device of choice because it's also available elsewhere?

There I thought you got these devices to play games but so many just want to play on one specific console, no matter the game it has to be exclusive or the console somehow loses it's ability to play it properly... smh!

Let's get a few things clear: People who already or are planning to own an XB1 aren't wasting their money. There are still games to play here. The issue here is that, as a console, it is waning in significance. There becomes only a few scenerios in which XB1 is the right choice for a gamer: Someone whose friends all play on Xbox, someone who likes Microsoft exclusives but doesn't want to play on PC, or someone who is simply an Xbox faithful.



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darkenergy on 22 February 2016

 

OneKartVita said:
Mr Puggsly said:

This "who needs a Xbox, I got a PC" thing is getting old. Advice for the mods, lets consider calling a form of trolling. Its becoming an issue in many threads.

Anyhow, a mouse and keyboard would make using things the web browser more appealing. Maybe some games will even use it like Halo Wars 2.

It's definitely a valid point though.  A lot of people will want multiple consoles but could end up going pc / ps4 and just leave xbox out altogether now 

It's only "definitely" when there are people who never planned on getting one.

Azuren said:
Jazz2K said:

Yeah so about losing... what makes you suddenly a PC gamer and lose a game on console because it is announced on PC? I fail to understand that logic really! Like unless a game is exclusive it's not worth playing it on your device of choice because it's also available elsewhere?

There I thought you got these devices to play games but so many just want to play on one specific console, no matter the game it has to be exclusive or the console somehow loses it's ability to play it properly... smh!

Let's get a few things clear: People who already or are planning to own an XB1 aren't wasting their money. There are still games to play here. The issue here is that, as a console, it is waning in significance. There becomes only a few scenerios in which XB1 is the right choice for a gamer: Someone whose friends all play on Xbox, someone who likes Microsoft exclusives but doesn't want to play on PC, or someone who is simply an Xbox faithful.

Yet there are people who actually make up these audience, most are casuals and don't really care for graphics or metacritic.



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PenguinZ on 22 February 2016

What I've taken a way from this thread:

Somehow, when the Xbox One gets an added control option, it becomes more worthless...

That's some good logic there. /s



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Natsu on 22 February 2016
Azuren said:
Jazz2K said:

Yeah so about losing... what makes you suddenly a PC gamer and lose a game on console because it is announced on PC? I fail to understand that logic really! Like unless a game is exclusive it's not worth playing it on your device of choice because it's also available elsewhere?

There I thought you got these devices to play games but so many just want to play on one specific console, no matter the game it has to be exclusive or the console somehow loses it's ability to play it properly... smh!

Let's get a few things clear: People who already or are planning to own an XB1 aren't wasting their money. There are still games to play here. The issue here is that, as a console, it is waning in significance. There becomes only a few scenerios in which XB1 is the right choice for a gamer: Someone whose friends all play on Xbox, someone who likes Microsoft exclusives but doesn't want to play on PC, or someone who is simply an Xbox faithful.

Or like me and mostly play halo :P



darkenergy on 22 February 2016
PenguinZ said:
What I've taken a way from this thread:

Somehow, when the Xbox One gets an added control option, it becomes more worthless...

That's some good logic there. /s

Only for a few, it's "worthless".



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darkenergy on 22 February 2016
GribbleGrunger said:
darkenergy said:
This was already known a long time ago. Were you living in a cave?

Try reading the tweets again. The first one was when Spencer mentioned it and the second one is more recent and verifies it. Clearly I wasn't 'living in a cave' otherwise I wouldn't have dug up the original tweet to help frame the second tweet.

It's hard focusing on this thread when you notice that the first sentence in the OP is remove(barney quoted this), I wonder if it's an actual "opinion".



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Jazz2K on 22 February 2016
Azuren said:

Let's get a few things clear: People who already or are planning to own an XB1 aren't wasting their money. There are still games to play here. The issue here is that, as a console, it is waning in significance. There becomes only a few scenerios in which XB1 is the right choice for a gamer: Someone whose friends all play on Xbox, someone who likes Microsoft exclusives but doesn't want to play on PC, or someone who is simply an Xbox faithful.

Tell me one thing... is my laptop irrelevant because it does the same thing my PC does? To me it's just another device to play my games on. The right choice for a gamer is to get the device that plays the games he/she wants. Most people buy GTA, COD, Fifa etc but would you tell them that they made the wrong choice because these games are also available on PC?

The most important thing for a gamer is supposed to be the games he's gonna play not the device they're on. If the console he bought can't play the games he/she wants then they made a bad choice. What MS seems to provide here is a choice. Like you don't have to buy a desktop rig to browse the internet. You can do so on multiple devices. Are tablets losing significance because PCs can browse?



LudicrousSpeed on 22 February 2016

What an excellent discussion this thread was. My favorite part was how by maybe eventually adding a control option, Microsoft is actually giving gamers less reason to buy an Xbox One. And of course you can't have a thread like this without someone gushing about hundreds of "Sony exclusives".

Keyboard and mouse support is no big deal to me, but cool old news for those interested.