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XBox One; Because Microsoft couldn't think of a better name.
Topic Started: Feb 12 2012, 10:55 AM (13,248 Views)
-Havoc the Tenrec-
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Eh, I wont bother until the price falls to $300/$350. I bet a used console in 1.5 years on Amazon might be around that. It would be a rare find even for that time, but that's just my prediction.
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500 GB hard drive? WRONG. You only get to use 362 GB of it. The rest of it is claimed by the system partitions.

I still think this way of bragging about storage space is fucking stupid and reeks of false advertising. If I buy a storage device that's advertised as XX GB, I fucking well expect to be able to use all of that space myself. Not be told upon using it that I can't have all of it because lol firmware.

I mean sure, if some of that space inevitably gets taken away by system updates in the future, that's cool. It's just when that space is taken away from you on the very first use that shits me.
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Dec 11 2013, 08:51 PM
500 GB hard drive? WRONG. You only get to use 362 GB of it. The rest of it is claimed by the system partitions.

I still think this way of bragging about storage space is fucking stupid and reeks of false advertising. If I buy a storage device that's advertised as XX GB, I fucking well expect to be able to use all of that space myself. Not be told upon using it that I can't have all of it because lol firmware.

I mean sure, if some of that space inevitably gets taken away by system updates in the future, that's cool. It's just when that space is taken away from you on the very first use that shits me.
A 500 GB hard drive will never have 500 gb, some is taken by the file system.

Just not /that/ much of the hard drive.
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I've heard that argument fifty times tonight and it doesn't make it any less bloody irritating. At the very least cram an extra 50 GB in there or something and continue advertising it as a 500 GB device. It shouldn't be that hard, honestly.

There's not much else I can say without repeating myself, but again, everyone is lying about their storage devices. Fucking stop it.
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Dec 11 2013, 09:09 PM
I've heard that argument fifty times tonight and it doesn't make it any less bloody irritating. At the very least cram an extra 50 GB in there or something and continue advertising it as a 500 GB device. It shouldn't be that hard, honestly.

There's not much else I can say without repeating myself, but again, everyone is lying about their storage devices. Fucking stop it.
Oh I know. If my math is right (it's not) a "500gb drive" should have 450 available at least, technically you could put a bigger base drive and sell that, but that makes too much sense
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That drives me nuts too. It also drives me nuts having to decide on FAT32 and NTSC or whatever it's called and figuring out if I want it to be cross compatible with win/mac, or not restricting the actual file sizes. If you work on big projects and need to switch from your pc to your mac, it's impossible.

I'd like to see them add in extra gb for that the same way I wish overall prices would figure in taxes.
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You know, it's incredibly hilarious, in hindsight, how Microsoft is a company that was based in PCs, yet every single screw up they've managed to make is indicative of otherwise. This is their third videogame console and they're kind of going on record to compete with the 3DO, Jaguar, CD-I and Virtual Boy as worst console of all time...and it's only JUST launching now.
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I don't think it's going to be the worst of all time in execution.

However it's marketing does like to dig the grave.
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And yet the system sold well so far, which just baffles me.
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And yet the system sold well so far, which just baffles me.
Oh yeah, it can still be a good console, but I don't understand the flood to buy it
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I don't think it's going to be the worst of all time in execution.

However it's marketing does like to dig the grave.
Now this is a statement I can truly stand behind. I don't mean this in the most negative limelight, but it seems that it is easy to say all this about Microsoft, yet the company does have more than enough money lining it's pockets to do something different and not go under, just simply in the games division.

It's not like with Nintendo's president who claimed he would resign if his system didn't sell X amount of units, which would seriously hinder the company which hasn't put anything out for me to get their system either.

So yeah, the Xbox hate wagon deserves the hate it generates, but this system is nowhere near as bad as deserving the "Worst System Ever". That strictly belongs to Philips CD-I, which Nintendo should have slaughtered the very thought of it.

Now, granted, when we get a new Zelda, you be damn right I'm gonna' get me a Wii U to play it, but I also would do that for Halo as well. Sony has no IP's that I can't live without.

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Whatever the press or public relations is doing, from what I can see, it's a stable enough console. I still plan to wait a year to get it, but I will still get it.
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I like it when people use the word "gay" in any context other than a homosexual one - it only proves that they have the maturity of a five year old, as if their obsession with shooters didn't already do a good job of pointing that out. It's also pretty amusing that he pointed out Skyrim considering the fact that, y'know, it's set in the bloody medival era and doesn't even have muskets, let alone generic modern firearms.

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Xbone shunts users to desktop during a live Killer Instinct tournament, demands authentication that they actually own the game.
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Hey Microsoft, would you like my social security number and my license and registration while you're at it?
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