The Conference Has Finished!
Today is the big day. The first time the world will see the next generation Xbox!At 6pm GMT / 10am PDT, Microsoft will unveil the successor to the 8 year old Xbox 360.
Announced NextBox Features: (FIN)
- Name is 'XBOX ONE'
- ALL IN ONE ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE
- Power on with voice command
- Watch live TV with Voice command
- Instantly switch between games, watch TV, movies, music, web browsing with voice commands - very fast/instant
- Snap mode
- Skype multi video calls
- 3 "Operating systems", Win8 Kernel based
- 40 controller additions/redesigns - new dpad
- Rumble triggers
- Dynamic achievements
- kinect in the box
- xbox video recorder for games
- xbox live "some cloudy stuff"
- EA have fifa, madden, NBA, UFC. EA sports ignite seems to be furthering their earlier stuff
- EA -- daily stream of new content
- Forza 5 for xbox one launch, "more at E3"
- Remedy games new IP -- "Quantum break"
- MS studios -- 15 exclusive games in first year, 8 are new franchises.
- Social
- Exclusive Halo TV series with Mr Spielberg (who needs a better scriptwriter) at the helm
- NFL is back and fantasy football is still a thing
- New Call of duty -- DLC at least timed exclusive to the xbox
- New multiplayer maps with "events" -- not new but possibly quite interesting
- "save us master film director and teach us how to tell a story"
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Xbox One Games Are Tied To The Owner's Account, Must Pay MS A Fee If Bought Used
Xbox One: Your Top Questions Answered
There are many places to watch the event such as Xbox.com, Spike & GameTrailers and if you have a 360 there is a new app that you can download from the dashboard just for watching the announcement. The event is scheduled to last around 2 hours.
We will be watching live and posting news as and when it is announced.
Will you be watching?
More places to watch live:
•http://xbox.com/hub
•http://www.giantbomb.com/chat/ (With commentary)
•http://www.gametrailers.com/next-xbox
•http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/05/08/watch-the-xbox-reveal-event-live-on-ign
•http://www.gamespot.com/features/6408247/