Xbox One getting background music :banderas:

[Kidd Dibiase]

Xbox One, the all-in-one games and entertainment system from Microsoft, is still lacking in one handy way to bring you both games and entertainment: playing background music. And though Xbox 360 has allowed you to play music from an mp3 player or the system's hard drive while in-game for years, Xbox boss Phil Spencer told a fan on Twitter that it will be months at least before Xbox One catches up.

Phil Spencer

✔@XboxP3
@TheEjderha83 Won't be before summer sorry to say.

9:35 PM - 13 Jan 2016

Xbox director of program management Mike Ybarra told The Inner Circle Podcast in November that Microsoft wants to deliver background music "in a way that surprises fans," rather than simply patching in a barebones version. Ooh, maybe it could make a little disco ball roll down from the top of the screen! Or something more useful, I guess.

Microsoft added a bundle of new features to Xbox One in November via the "New Xbox One Experience," including backwards compatibility and an underlying operating system upgrade to Windows 10. The company still has a slate of suggested features up for vote on its official user voice page, such as support for playing games with mouse and keyboard.

 

[Tunez]

Okay

 

[Tenchi Ryu]

Finally

 

[DaddyTime]

Can it send voice messages like Xbox 360 yet?

 

[Liquid]

Nice to see, but Spencer and the crew have a very long uphill battle leading all the way till next generation.

The good thing is that they realized it before it spun out of control. The XBOX One however, probably won't be able to handle any form of VR since the GPU won't be up to the task. You also have to consider the few people that still have the Kinect plugged in (like myself).

Pretty bad, but at least Microsoft will be able to sit back and see how Sony, Facebook and Valve handle this whole VR thing and see if it is indeed here to stay.