New Generation Xbox Event Announced

[Kalker3]

You don't know Sony's price yet either, though.

You'll pay more than Sony's price with monthly fees to play online...

 

[Taleweaver]

So...with all the console news being blown out early and developers usually leaking or downright telling it DIRECT to the audience, I propose that E3 consists of Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo bashing the shortcomings of the others.
(yes, nintendo...you can do it! Remember that sneer Iwata did by telling that the wiiu comes with a HDMI cable? Get some more of those snappy comments! ).

 

[Maxternal]

So...with all the console news being blown out early and developers usually leaking or downright telling it DIRECT to the audience, I propose that E3 consists of Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo bashing the shortcomings of the others.
(yes, nintendo...you can do it! Remember that sneer Iwata did by telling that the wiiu comes with a HDMI cable? Get some more of those snappy comments! ).

... and then one of the first things they say when announcing the PS4 is something like "the living room is no longer the center of gaming, the gamer is". At that point I'm thinking "hmm, that's subtle isn't it?"

 

[FAST6191]

Why don't these corporations realize that by not giving a name when they obviously have them already they damage the system?

I am not sure here. On the one hand a bit of dissonance (never mind the Wii<->revolution nonsense) probably wants to be avoided and having a name to focus on is potentially useful. On the other hand these companies spend millions cooking up the names, managing the names once they are out there and otherwise perpetuating things to the point that saying "oh yeah it is called the xbox 720" might not be the best idea; I will bet you good money that they dedicate a least a couple of minutes to playing with the name a bit, doing some general wordplay and some word association nonsense (the Wii U had a particularly good one- E3 2011 - Wii U announcement).

 

[Clydefrosch]

Suddenly, RRoD occurrences increase by 5000%.

 

[The Milkman]

Can we actually see the console? I don't get the point of building hype for a conference by posting one screen.

 

[Rizsparky]

Shuda been earlier.... way too close to E3

 

[Eerpow]

I predict an on stage rrod.

 

[Foxi4]

Microsoft will be revealing its Full Game Line-Up at E3 on Jun 10, 2013

inb4 TearsOfWar, Gaylo, FartzaMotorspunk, FaTerriBle, PranceCentral ;O;

 

[ShadowSoldier]

My hopes:

"When you pay for Xbox Live, you don't get ads in your face."
"You don't have to pay for Xbox Live for online gaming and using apps you're already paying for."
"You pay for Xbox Live and we'll give you free content"


What I think will happen:

"You need Xbox Live for everything. You need Kinect hooked up otherwise you can't use your console. Xbox Live costs 70 bucks a year. There are no added benefits."
"And we seem to be having technical difficulties with our console here, oh, and it just started a fire."
"And the now the fire is shooting lasers at your unborn babies and killing them.
"The fire is now shooting out gas that's turning ants into giant 100 foot tall Octopusses that's now terrorizing the entire planet."
"And I see we've all become slaves of the new gods of this earth"
"And here's a trailer for Halo 5. Thanks for coming!"

 

[FAST6191]

My hopes:
"When you pay for Xbox Live, you don't get ads in your face."

Now I take every pain to block every ad I can everywhere I can (to the point where I waste more time, bandwidth and effort doing it than I ever would have wasted on ads if I even paid attention to them) but I have never quite figured out why some consider it quite so distasteful to have ads on a paid service.

 

[DSGamer64]

Microsoft is sending Invitations

The fact that it's on Spike TV shows that they are trying to buy their way to console sales by exposing whatever piece of junk they have to offer.

 

[Rydian]

Now I take every pain to block every ad I can everywhere I can (to the point where I waste more time, bandwidth and effort doing it than I ever would have wasted on ads if I even paid attention to them) but I have never quite figured out why some consider it quite so distasteful to have ads on a paid service.

Well in some cases it's because the original premise was to pay to avoid ads. See cable TV back in the day and modern Android apps (paid apps don't give you "ads", they give you "rewards" which are ads in disguise) for examples.

In other cases it's generally because people don't like paying to see ads, since many companies split their ad-supported and subscription services.

 

[Foxi4]

Personally I think that the very idea of having to pay for Multiplayer in games I already bought, using online services which don't even belong to Microsoft such as Netflix or simply browsing the web is ludicrous in this day and age and Microsoft really needs to drop this. We're not in Dial-Up land anymore, these things should be free.

 

[FAST6191]

Well in some cases it's because the original premise was to pay to avoid ads. See cable TV back in the day and modern Android apps (paid apps don't give you "ads", they give you "rewards" which are ads in disguise) for examples.

In other cases it's generally because people don't like paying to see ads, since many companies split their ad-supported and subscription services.

Too many years simultaneously ruined or altered by being around UK TV I guess then; free over the air has two channels (now many more) and most radio worth a damn without a single ad save for upcoming shows and on satellite/cable (no distinction worth making really*) you get ads even if you pay for some extra channels (indeed they are about the closest thing to American style ads too- I remember I first gave up on TV after I got Sky1 and saw the length of the ads compared to the terrestrial stuff that had them).

*my link of choice in these situations is about 2:30 although the whole show is good as the US TV setup is insane to most people that have not experienced such a thing elsewhere (which is to say basically nowhere else).

 

[Tom Bombadildo]

I hope this one HAS games.

True, if it can play them it best have them, too.

LOOKING AT YOU, WII U ;O;

 

[jonesman99]

My popcorn is ready... I wonder how this is gonna go. I'm excited nonetheless.

 

[FAST6191]

My popcorn is ready...

Ew four week old popcorn.

 

[BORTZ]

XboxReveal is a terrible name for a console.

 

[ShadowSoldier]

Well in some cases it's because the original premise was to pay to avoid ads. See cable TV back in the day and modern Android apps (paid apps don't give you "ads", they give you "rewards" which are ads in disguise) for examples.

In other cases it's generally because people don't like paying to see ads, since many companies split their ad-supported and subscription services.

Well look at android apps. Stuff like Angry Birds for example (although I hate the fucking game, but I do sorta like the Star Wars one). Paying for the game, you get no ads. Not paying for the game, you get the full game, but ads which have been proven is a big cause of battery life going down.