Two years ago, the Microsoft pitched the Xbox One as the ultimate entertainment set-top-box. They boasted off multiple new features that seemed to revolve around TV and sports. The Kinect 2 was also revealed and enabled powerful voice commands. Unfortunately, Microsoft seemed to have forgotten what the Xbox was all about in the first place: gaming. After E3 2015, it seems like Microsoft finally made up their minds and want to focus on video games.
The shift in attitude all started with the Kinect. The Kinect 2.0 was launched as a mandatory peripheral to deliver a full Xbox One experience. Many gamers, however, had little use for the glorified microphone and didn’t want rely on the device to navigate the UI. Microsoft acknowledged this during
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This past week at E3, Microsoft devoted their entire conference to gaming. What really seemed to change was not only the discussion of games, but their attitude towards gaming. Many could argue that Microsoft is starting to desire a PC-esque experience on the console.
One of the biggest announcements that came from the conference was the games preview program. This new program brings in-development games to the hands of consumers. This sort of thing has already been on Steam, with Early Access, for quite some time. The biggest difference, however, is the fact that all preview games are required to have an hour trial. This allows people to evaluate the game before buying it.
There are many different ways to look at the preview program. Some may argue that is just a way for lazy developers to make money off incomplete games. It can’t be denied that there have been some really great titles that have come out of Early Access though (namely Arma III and Wasteland 2). Regardless, this new program shows that Microsoft is willing to take leaps of faith and try to deliver features gamers have been asking
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With a majority of their titles, they were happy to announce that they’d be coming to Windows 10. There were even some titles that were thought to be Xbox One exclusive, such as Gears of Wars: Ultimate Edition and Killer Instinct, that were announced for Windows 10. There was also a lot of talk about features that closed the gap between a Windows 10 PC and Xbox One. Such features include cross-platform multiplayer and the ability to stream games from an Xbox One to a PC and Oculus Rift. While these Windows 10 announcements may not be fully relevant to all Xbox One gamers, it shows were Microsoft wants to take the Xbox One brand in the
Microsoft has been only been in this industry for fourteen years. They’ve only created three consoles so far, Xbox, Xbox 360, and Xbox One. Their huge success with the Xbox 360 put them at the forefront of the battle. Their newest console, the Xbox One, was announced at the Electronic Entertainment Expo or E3 in March of 2013 and released later that year in November. They told the world how revolutionary their console was with all of its innovate features. The console, weighing in at 6.3 pounds, is a monster of a device with 5 vents on each side of the console, it runs almost silent and experiences almost no overheating problems. Looking like a retro, 1960’s VCR, many people believe it is an ugly piece of hardware. Personally, I like the design of the console. It is big and heavy which makes it feel like a sturdy piece of technology. Inside the beast is an 8 core 64x AMD processor which runs at1.75GHz and features a Direct X 11.1 graphics card running at 1.2 Teraflops. It also comes with 8 GBs of GDDR3 RAM and a 500 GB H...
In the near future, Xbox One will be incorporating the Oculus Rift, a virtual reality device that goes over the head and provides a first-person visual display and headphones for an immersive experience, into their features and gameplay.
Atari was the first commercial video game company with hits like ‘break out” and “pong”. For many people pong was the first video game they have ever played. The idea of pong is that there is two rectangles that only move up and down and a little square that bounces around the screen until one of the rectangles miss, once the rectangle miss’ the game is over. This game may seem simple now but it sold 19,000 units so you can say what you want but back then this was the greatest game ever.
It was released in November 22,2013 in North American. It was released all ar0nd the world after a few months. The company of XBox is competing with Sony’s PlayStation 4 and Nintendo’s Wii U as part of the eight generation of video game consoles. May 21,2013, Xbox one has a large emphasis on internet-based feature. It is now one of the best and most popular game in the
In conclusion, after reviewing all the facts and information about both the Xbox One and PlayStaion4. The PlayStation4 is clear winner in all categories of hardware, games, and price. The hardware for the PlayStation4 is slightly better than the Xbox One, the games for the PlayStation4 are better, and the price is better than the Xbox
Do you or any of your friends play video games on a console? If you ask gamers the question, “gaming console you like the most?” they will probably say Xbox One or PlayStation 4. Xbox and PlayStation are known as the most popular gaming consoles of all the time. These two consoles have been competing for a very long time for the throne of the best game console since 2001 until now. In this article, we are going to find out which console has the best advertisement, We are going to determine this not by the console’s hardware, not by its cool features, and not by what exclusive games they have. It is because to grade the games and features are good or bad is kind of difficult because everyone can has different games
Microsoft has devoted huge amounts of effort to marketing in developing their products and services, as well as to the integration of their software products with one another in an attempt to create a seamless and consistent computing environment for the user.
The Microsoft Xbox has powerful components within that overpower any other console, including its CPU or it’s Central Processing Unit. The Xbox runs an Intel Pentium III 733-megahertz (MHz) processor. This is a lot more powerful than Nintendo Gamecube’s IBM Power PC 485-megahertz Gekko chip processor and even lower the Sony Playstation 2’s 128 bit “Emotion Engine” which is clocked around 294-megahertz. A few more components that make this console far superior to any other is its graphics processor, or GPU, which stands for Graphic Processing Unit. Microsoft had teamed up with Nvidia to create a chip that was made especially for the Xbox. The computer-based company ‘s 250-megahertz chip gives the console an amazing resolution of 1920x1080 pixels and 125 Million Polygons per Second. Sixty four- (64) megabytes (Mb) of DDRam back all this up, for great non-glitch games and smooth running. Nintendo also has a computer-based company teaming up with them to create the 162-megahertz ATI Flipper GPU Chip. This chip can only handle around 6-12 Million polygons a second and is only backed up by 43-megabytes of DDRam.
ames have been played before we began to record time. Almost 50 years ago, games changed into a new form. Magnavox Odyssey can be debated to be the first game console. Throughout 50 years ago and now, video games have become essential to every living room and a pastime to every young child. Companies have risen from this new industry, to produce games to young investors and dominate the game world. With new technology, graphics, and software: gaming franchises run mostly by public support. Each decade that passes, games are changed by America’s public these games change based on how the public perceives them.
What a game it was! The ultimate first person shooter had the qualities to be the best video game on Xbox 360. Everyone loved Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare from the designer Infinity Ward. It was thought by many people that it will take a long time before another addition was made to the Call of Duty series; however it took only a week for the publishers, Activision to announce the new Call of Duty: World at War. Although, the new game was announced, it was quite disappointing when it was said it was going to be created by Treyarch, the other creators of Call of Duty games. Fortunately, it wasn’t as bad as most Call of Duty fans expected, although it didn’t really match up to the standards of the creations of Infinity Ward but it turned out to be a worthy game to all those first person shooter fans out there.
The Halo series has surpassed many gaming records and is a favorite among all gamers. The Halo series has been one of my favorite game series ever since I started on Xbox. Even though the developers have changed the game hasn’t and will never change.
They know that even if the newly released gets mauled by critics (which they aren’t, most likely due to bribery), the game will still sell tremendously well just because of the title itself, and people will still play it, because it is CoD. Each of these games produced have no room to improve on previous flaws. Instead, Infinity Ward and Treyarch only have enough time to take what they already created and lightly paint over it. One example would be its god awful engine which has not changed in almost seven years. Physics literally do not exist in their engine. Heck, even the next-gen installment looks little different from the one on the previous generation of consoles.
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Microsoft made a wise decision by choosing to outsource the manufacturing of Xbox to Flextronics. They are not as competent in making the components for Xbox as they are in constructing software. Flextronics, on the other hand, is a large enough company with ample funds and experience in the manufacturing of hardware, like Xbox. They have the expertise and logistics to produce efficiently and cost effectively, while maintaining the level of quality that Microsoft demands as a well-known brand.
Microsoft has always been known as a software company, and not well known for its hardware. In fact, the only hardware that Microsoft sells to the retail market is branded peripherals. In its heyday, Microsoft was a market leader, bring an operating system to the masses, and leading in internet search. In recent years, however, most of the moves that Microsoft has made have not been in a market leader position, but have been in response to competitors threatening Microsoft’s positions.