The Official Console Wars Thread

[courtdog]

Every year they added trivial sh1t to try and make it seem as if they're making the game more realistic to each players attritubes. The hitstick, qb vision, etc.

You exposing yourself for the type of gamer you really are. Well, your not a sports gamer. Everything you just said is exactly what people who didn't play madden would say while blindly rooting for the competition.

You guys gotta face the facts, most ppl don't try both. Then they stan the one they got while being clueless on what makes the competition great.
From systems, to games. So if you slow ya rolls and look at things rationally you would see things differently. IN the case of Madden vs 2k, you just repeated a lie I would hear often. But since I played both, I saw how madden's gameplay greatly improved each year and the added features are features you couldn't live without. Like Parrying on defense, that was introduced in Madden during the exact same time period your hating on
I couldn't imagine playing a football game w/out being able to do that... you can't in 2k

And to cement my point, you don't even like REAL LIFE FOOTBALL or sports
You always try to downplay features like ESPN Watch. Admitted you not really into sports like that. So your not even qualified to speak on sports bruh But a place like IGN would hire you as the resident sports gaming review guru (Tru Story)

*looks at Courtdog's join date*

:lookherebruh::lookherebruh::lookherebruh:

Tru Story, BK made the Courtdog username but to my knowledge he never came over to accept it

 

[Rekkapryde]

I'd appreciate it if you stopped trying to talk negatively about what you don't know about my life
I'm not over here discussing how Angel clowned your dumbass.. basically.. OH shyt!!!




THIS fakkit CHEWY IS THE ORIGINAL MANTI TE'O

@ Court using hashtags.... .

Mighty Teo???

 

[Rekkapryde]

Y

Tru Story, BK made the Courtdog username but to my knowledge he never came over to accept it

 

[Mook]

I'd appreciate it if you stopped trying to talk negatively about what you don't know about my life
I'm not over here discussing how Angel clowned your dumbass.. basically.. OH shyt!!!







































































@Rekkapryde @Mook @GoldenGlove @Loose #RecRoomers

THIS fakkit CHEWY IS THE ORIGINAL MANTI TE'O

HOW WE GONNA IGNORE THIS CLASSIC :deadpac:

 

[courtdog]

@ Court using hashtags.... .

Mighty Teo???

*Shots Fired*

HOW WE GONNA IGNORE THIS CLASSIC :deadpac:

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vq_Gm6vE8RM[/ame]

 

[daze23]

 

[2gunsup]

Good thread, now all we need is a phone one.

 

[MightyHealthy]

I fail to see how I was ever like Manti Te'o:

- I had a real girlfriend, and we lived together
- I did have a long distance relationship during that time
- we never ended up meeting, true, but she clearly exists

Court ain't firing shots, he is clearly misinformed and salty

Good thread, now all we need is a phone one.

Is it posts in the official threads? I rarely see extra phone threads.

...if it's that bad, I'd like to see what I can do to help

 

[Rekkapryde]

I fail to see how I was ever like Manti Te'o:

- I had a real girlfriend, and we lived together
- I did have a long distance relationship during that time
- we never ended up meeting, true, but she clearly exists

The only thing I remember the jokes about was that she was a moo moo big block.


Last 2 days been slow on the console stanning front. Maybe next week it'll pick up.

 

[MightyHealthy]

The only thing I remember the jokes about was that she was a moo moo big block.

She got that way, but that was a long relationship

 

[Mook]

I fail to see how I was ever like Manti Te'o:

- I had a real girlfriend, and we lived together
- I did have a long distance relationship during that time
- we never ended up meeting, true, but she clearly exists

Court ain't firing shots, he is clearly misinformed and salty Is it posts in the official threads? I rarely see extra phone threads.

...if it's that bad, I'd like to see what I can do to help

yea it was wack now that i think about it

 

[courtdog]

Killer Instinct 3 Microsoft denied Killer Instinct trademark because of little-known 7 year old TV show • News • Eurogamer.net

Shadow Complex 2

Perfect Dark 3

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And before you knock the site, peep the story, peep the date

Bungie's new game which will be the headliner launch title on the NextBox

The controller will have a touchscreen on it too

Ryse is a lauch title that has been updated to look even better than this...
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dm-_hDRD2mk]Ryse E3 2011 Debut Trailer [HD] - YouTube[/ame]

Timesplitter 3 will be a LAUNCH title (Tru Story)

Bethesda has been working on a game for a minute, not sure if it'll be ready by launch tho...
I'll post it in 3's since its too much info for one post. I know you nikkaz never learned to read too good

Microsoft never "comment on rumour or speculation", so we turned to a panel of industry experts and asked them about the most hotly rumoured features of the next Xbox - Kinect 2.0, Blu-ray, a quad-core CPU, 8Gb of RAM, directional audio, a TV output and input, the customisable controller and those incredible AR specs.

Don't expect the next Xbox to be called Xbox 3 or Xbox 720. Apple has changed the rules on branding, so when the next generation arrives it'll almost certainly just be 'Xbox'. That part is speculation, but everything else you're about to read has come from industry experts and from Microsoft's own leaky boat.

The next Xbox will hit shelves in November 2013 and the best developers in the world are already working on it. Rare has Kinect Sports 3, Bungie has Destiny, Lionhead has the long-rumoured Fable MMO, 343 has Halo 5, DICE has Battlefield 4, and Turn 10 has Forza 5, and you won't have to wait long to see them

KINECT 2.0

Kinect 2.0 tracks up to four players and can read even the smallest movements of your fingers thanks to advancements in the camera technology and the additional processing grunt, rumours suggest, but there are other Microsoft technologies which will feed into the next generation of Microsoft's often dubious motion sensor.

"For the last couple of years we have explored how to use depth-sensing cameras to enable interactions on surfaces in the environment," says Microsoft researcher Hrvoje Benko.

His device, Omnitouch, turns any surface into an interactive touch screen using a projector or - potentially - augmented reality specs. "Coupled with a pico projector, one can turn anything into an interactive surface. It's possible to track fingers in mid-air and reason about their collisions with other objects, thus simulating the multi-touch interactions from smartphones and slates."

Coupled with a miniature projector and Benko's tech, the next Xbox could project a board game right onto your coffee table or give you a virtual keyboard at any time. But even that's thinking small compared to what Microsoft has in mind...

 

[courtdog]

AUGMENTED REALITY

Microsoft's leaked planning document detailed plans to turn the next Xbox into a full augmented reality system with a new peripheral planned for 2014. The new AR specs would work alongside Kinect or Omnitouch to turn your living room into a virtual reality environment in which game characters could appear, and even interact with objects in the real world.

Xbox 720 / Durango Screenshot
"Most of the time, we don't directly pursue the productisation and miniaturisation steps, but on demonstrating the capabilities of the technology," says Omnitouch researcher Hrvoje Benko. "But I see no reason Omnitouch couldn't eventually end up in a pair of glasses. I'm very hopeful that within a few years we'll see more augmented reality technologies in widespread use.

"I see many opportunities, ranging from simply translating the existing games to make them work on many other non-digital surfaces, to completely new games that leverage your personal view, location, body or environment to create more compelling games. In our Beamatron project, we have already demonstrated driving virtual RC cars around a living room, making jumps off a couch, and behaving just like a real car."

The next Xbox could do something as small as place Master Chief's HUD right in front of your eyes, or even bring the action off the screen right into your living room.

3D SOUND

Augmented reality is powerful, but to build a real virtual world you'll want characters who appear to speak to you with location-specific audio. Impossible? Nope; the technology already exists for specialists.

"The effect of 3D sound is astonishing," says Tuyen Pham, CEO of A-Volute: 3D Sound Projects. "You're in the axis of the speaker and you hear sound; you move your head a little bit and the sound disappears. The hardware components in our technology are still too expensive to be used in consumer products, though with mass production having a device on top of or under your TV set can be something accessible for a major brand."

"After checking with our legal department, I can't disclose anything"

Microsoft are that major brand, and Microsoft Research has already demonstrated its own directional sound prototype - a rack of 16 speakers all working together to 'project' sound into a small area.

Coupled with Kinect head-tracking, the speakers could project audio only you can hear, making headphones a thing of the past. Might the tech be intended for the next Xbox? We put the idea to Pham, who has some ideas about how it could work.

"The consumer device looks like a 10x20cm panel with a thickness of one centimetre. It could be placed anywhere, and I think the application of such technology for game consoles is clear. However, after checking with our legal department I can't disclose that. We're working with a gaming company but the information I could give is under NDA..."

CLOUD GAMING

In the same leaked document which set out the five-year roadmap for the next generation of Xbox, Microsoft listed cloud gaming provider Onlive as an acquisition target. Onlive's service let players stream games over the internet for a monthly fee with minimal lag, but the company went bankrupt in August and Microsoft didn't opt to buy. Instead, it hosted a mixer for Onlive's staff on August 27, with the aim of 'adding key players who want to make a real impact in creating groundbreaking new products and services'.

Sony already has its own cloud gaming provider, having dropped $380 million (£237m) on Gaikai, with the intention of bringing Gaikai's cloud streaming tech to PlayStation.

Microsoft usually prefers to build from scratch whenever it can, so expect Microsoft's home-grown effort to appear on the next-gen Xbox and every other device you own, effectively turning your phone, TV, PC and tablet into an extension of your console. Any device could become a host for your games and your saves, played locally on the next Xbox or streamed straight from Microsoft's cloud.

 

[courtdog]

LIVE 3.0: NEW USER FEATURES

The next Xbox should introduce a new version of Live, with better support for social networking and free-to-play or subscripton-based games. Those are essentials, but online developers have ideas too.

Xbox 720 / Durango Screenshot
"Microsoft has the best digital distribution network on a console with Xbox Live, but it's not very flexible in the rapidly changing environment," says Chandana Ekanayake, executive producer on Monday Night Combat at Uber Entertainment.

"I'd like to see better discoverability for games on the Dashboard, as well as faster methods of updating a game with more control given to the developer. Removing the 100-friend limit is a must, and Microsoft have to better integrate Xbox Live features across multiple platforms, whether it be console, mobile, tablet or desktop PC."

"I think that increasing the size of the Friends List only helps," says Ubisoft's Stuart White, PvP producer on Ghost Recon Future Soldier. "If you raise that cap, then more people can share what they're playing. And I would love to see a hard drive for all models of the next generation of Xbox so we can do what we can do on the PS3. We're currently limited at times when it comes to the amount of information we can push in a title update or DLC.

^^^ Expect something Similar to Windows 8 type interface, but different and more console friendly ^^^

TOTAL MULTIMEDIA

With the latest version of the 360's Dashboard, Microsoft has already taken steps to turn the Xbox into a complete hub for their own music and TV services. "I think with the next-generation Xbox we'll see a shift towards Microsoft tightly integrating the software and services that power Windows Phone and Windows 8," says The Verge's senior editor, Tom Warren.

"The end result will likely be a greater focus on presenting Skype and Kinect as a competitor to Apple's FaceTime, and Xbox Music to take on Amazon and Apple's iTunes."

Microsoft's leaked doc hints at an 'always on' console. Taken to its logical extreme, imagine your next Xbox taking the place of your Sky+ box, with a TV input and output. What if saying "Xbox BBC 2" or tapping a button on your mobile phone's SmartGlass app let you change channels or record video straight through your console?

"Microsoft has a strong footing in the living room right now, primarily from Xbox 360 and Kinect, and SmartGlass is a clear play by Microsoft to control the living room with its content partners," says Warren. "The cross-platform support will aid it in the short and long term."

ALWAYS-ON GAMING

However, Microsoft's most powerful feature for next-generation Xbox might be... no switching off. The next Xbox should be an always-on console where key games will be ready to go at a moment's notice.

Throughout the leaked planning document Microsoft constantly references "multiple experiences at once or on their own", be that via Cloud streaming to multiple devices, games with rich online content, or actually using your Xbox to switch between media.

Microsoft wants the kind of speed you get from a mobile device but on the big screen - breaking down the barriers between players and the games, switching between Kinect Sports 3 and Halo 5 as easily as you'd change channels on your TV.

You can't remove loading times altogether so long as games need to load in new assets, but by keeping certain games pre-loaded you can have your favourite titles ready to go at a moment's notice. That takes a lot of power and a lot of RAM - 8Gb of it, rumours suggest. There's no reason a high-end game can't flush the memory to squeeze in huge textures and big worlds, but other games will use memory for always-on gaming.

Apple's iOS has changed things for Sony and Microsoft, and the next gen might be defined as much by immediacy and accessibility as it is by huge worlds, high end graphics and revolutionary online play.

^^^ ^^^
(now we know why they need so much RAM, but its for much more than just instant gaming)

Add in this and the next Xbox is gonna be like going to a rock concert

 

[Just like bruddas]

its 4:50 in the morning breh, tuck them bed bugs in and go to bed