One would think that if they haven’t already added these types of things, that they will given what happened at the reveal.
Apparently some people watching the unveiling through xbox where having issues where Kinect was interpreting the commands being said by the people on stage 
Microsoft not so good at maths… explains Vista!
Seriously do a Google search on Xbox One and look at how many pictures of the first Xbox “classic” display. :smack:
Its annoying now when people don’t have their Kinect microphone muted. Otherwise, you hear all sorts of weird things in the home in the middle of games, from amorous significant others to borderline child abuse and everything in the middle.
Mute your mic. I assume those folks that had their Kinect going nuts during the presentation didn’t have their mic muted.
There might be one or two providers who cut a deal and let you ditch your Cable box for IP streaming, but what is going to happen with most providers is that you hook cable->cable box and then Cable Box HDMI->Xbox One->Xbox One HDMI->TV
and the Xbox will control the cable box via HDMI CEC (or fallback to IR blasters?) HDMI - Wikipedia
That means most of the disadvantages of your current box such as crashing, poor speed, etc, although Xbox can and might overlay their own channel guide and such depending on your country.
Edit to add, as a purchaser of 6 Xbox 360’s this generation and 3 original xboxes, I have seen nothing that makes me want to buy this one (burned by bad CD drives in the current generation - had 3 - only had one Red Ring). I don’t have cable TV or Satellite (cord cutter), and as streaming options increase the Xbox walled garden + the need for a bazillion live memberships to watch say, Netflix on all 3 TVs made me go with Roku boxes, a computer hooked up to one TV, etc.
This article says they’re going to include IR blasters:
So yup, unless your cable box is pretty damn new, you’re going to be taping a small device to the front of it. And when you want to do anything way out of line, like WATCH A RECORDED SHOW, you’ve got to drop into the cable box interface anyway.
There wasn’t during the broadcast. There were a number of people who were watching on Xbox 360 and had their systems respond to the guys’ commands. They said Kinnect would always be on.
Which also means that they may be read to apply this patent.
Cracked’s take on it:
NeXbox.
The montage video at the end of that cracked article was amazing. Not quite as funny as the “giant enemy crab” thing from the ps3 reveal, but yeah, still pretty damn good.
Tv, tv, tv, tv, tv, tv, tv, tv, tv… 
I just assumed XBox upgraded from degrees to radians.
I find the stand on the difference in graphics from last gen to this gen by the mainstream gaming media hilarious.
When comparing the PC vs the console version of say crysis 3 it’s all:
“Yeah, it definitely looks a bit better on the PC, a little bit sharper. But the console version STILL look AMAZING please don’t be mad at us console gamers!”
Of course, the difference is exactly the same as some of the next gen stuff they’ve shown so far. Cyrsis 3 on a mid range PC = next gen console games for the foreseeable future. And this is certainly the case for COD. It looks like a 2007-2008 PC game. But with the new COD, the mainstream media is all:
“OH MY GOD. IT LOOKS AMAZING ON THE NEXT GEN CONSOLES!!! The difference is SOOO OBVIOUS! please love us console gamers!”
Hate the hypocrisy.
Tv,Tv,Tv,Tv,Tv,Tv,Tv,Tv,Tv,Tv,Tv,Tv,Tv,Tv,Tv,Tv,Tv,Tv,Tv,Sports,Sports,Sports,Sports,Sports,Sports,Sports,Sports,Sports,Sports,Sports,Sports,Sports,Sports,Sports,Sports,Sports,Sports,Sports,TV,TV,TV,TV,TV,TV,TV,TV,TV,TV,TV,TV,TV,TV,TV,TV,TV,TV,TV,TV,TV,TV,TV,TV,TV,TV,TV,TV,COD.
You see something similar, you’ll see PS3 and Xbox fanboys arguing over the tiniest bits of difference between the systems, but if you compare it to the PC version, suddenly they’ll say “oh graphics don’t matter, it’s all about gameplay”
The article says the difference is so stark they don’t have to label them. Actually… they’re so different contextually that I didn’t really grasp which were supposed to be the super great ones.
It’s actually a bit of a cheat on Cracked’s part. With the images shrunk down so much, you really can’t tell the difference. But watching the Spike TV broadcast on my 1080p TV, the difference was obvious.
Never change, Cracked, never change.
…Dog!
I actually thought the dog capturing tech was cool. The Rome II Total War guys should use it!
Yeah, the dog really did look great. But “Call of Duty… now with the cutest dog to ever grace a video game” is not really the way you sell a next-gen system.
I’m feeling kind of disinterested in the Xbox One. I don’t watch much television because I like games instead. Maybe once we see some actual games at E3, it will spark some enthusiasm.
It’s extremely odd that they’ve really only muddied the waters on the whole used game and online required issues. Seems to me that they would have made those crystal clear to clamp down on the rampant speculation that tends to follow these events.
Have they mentioned whether you can use that side bar while playing games? I’m thinking it’d be great to have a walkthrough pulled up in a browser onscreen without having to leave your game.
It’s Call of Duty. You just know that dog is going to in your arms at some point. Right after you were forced to shoot an airport full of children with nerve gas and your character died from a combination of being shot in the head, stabbed in the back and blown away by a nuclear bomb.
Yeah that my first thought as well.
Cute doggie… oh man, we are so going to have to kill it at some point.
That’s the point. They’re saying that they don’t give a crap about the graphics updates at this point. They’re using tricks to make a point.