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View Poll Results: What are you buying?
Xbox One 66 15.46%
PS4 189 44.26%
Changed from Xbox One to PS4 8 1.87%
Changed from PS4 to Xbox One 6 1.41%
Getting both (eventually) 30 7.03%
Waiting for more info 60 14.05%
Not getting either 68 15.93%
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Old 08-27-2013, 08:28 AM   #361
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If XBox One and PS4 games are developed at 60 FPS does that mean you have to turn on the cinemotion/enhanced motion/smoothness options on your TV or can one leave it at regular 24Hz mode?
Any modern TV already runs at 60hz, the bull#### trumotion garbage does image tweening at 120/240hz, but virtually nothing supports that refresh rate save a really pimped out PC (as in, puts out a VSynced 120/240 FPS signal).
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Any modern TV already runs at 60hz, the bull#### trumotion garbage does image tweening at 120/240hz, but virtually nothing supports that refresh rate save a really pimped out PC (as in, puts out a VSynced 120/240 FPS signal).
Okay. Thanks for clearing that up for me. I forgot that the image manipulation was for 120Hz/240Hz processing rather than 60Hz.
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Old 08-27-2013, 11:03 AM   #363
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http://www.joystiq.com/2013/08/27/ga...eive-xbox-one/

Turns out, in addition to a PlayStation 4, GameStop managers will also receive an Xbox One this holiday season.
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Old 08-27-2013, 02:03 PM   #364
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We should have a poll on here:
- Getting an Xbox One
- Getting a PS4
- Was getting an Xbox One, but now getting PS4
- Was getting a PS4, but now getting Xbox One
- Waiting till the dust settles
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We should have a poll on here:
- Getting an Xbox One
- Getting a PS4
- Was getting an Xbox One, but now getting PS4
- Was getting a PS4, but now getting Xbox One
- Waiting till the dust settles
- Buying PS4 after price drop
- Buying XBone after price drop
- Buying both after price drop
- What the hell is a console? I just bought 2x780s and I can't hear you over my 5760x1080 resolution!
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Old 08-27-2013, 02:53 PM   #366
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- What the hell is a console? I just bought 2x780s and I can't hear you over my 5760x1080 resolution!
FFS, 780's eh? I'm falling behind! Must hurt to jam one of those cards in each ear.

I have pre-orders on both consoles myself.
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FFS, 780's eh? I'm falling behind! Must hurt to jam one of those cards in each ear.

I have pre-orders on both consoles myself.
Haha no I still only have 2x680-4GBs, but I do have a PS4 on preorder.

I'll be waiting for 8xx Maxwell series cards before I do another SLI-pairing (ARM chips on each card! Wooooo!).
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Old 08-27-2013, 03:20 PM   #368
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Haha no I still only have 2x680-4GBs, but I do have a PS4 on preorder.

I'll be waiting for 8xx Maxwell series cards before I do another SLI-pairing (ARM chips on each card! Wooooo!).
Why two? A single 880 will be more than powerful enough for quite awhile. I'm looking forward to the 800 series so that I can finally dump my dual 460s and go back to a single card
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Why two? A single 880 will be more than powerful enough for quite awhile. I'm looking forward to the 800 series so that I can finally dump my dual 460s and go back to a single card
Higher-resolutions typically require multiple cards, but we'll see when the first benchmarks come out.

Also, I want to be absolutely sure I can run Star Citizen at the most stupid settings imaginable.
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We should have a poll on here:
- Getting an Xbox One
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- Was getting a PS4, but now getting Xbox One
- Waiting till the dust settles
You also need to include the choice for getting both
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- Getting an Xbox One
- Getting a PS4
- Was getting an Xbox One, but now getting PS4
- Was getting a PS4, but now getting Xbox One
- Waiting till the dust settles
I have both pre-ordered but here is my plan. Right now it's looking like it'll be #3 unfortunately:

1. If I'm making decent money by November I plan on getting both.
2. If I'm not I'm just getting the PS4 since I like their launch lineup better and it's cheaper.
3. If money is tight I'll have to cancel both and wait.
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Early to times, but it looks like the activist investor who wants the XBOX division sold/closed just got an open invitation for a board seat. Looks like their push for Ballmer to leave has already worked. I'm sure the terrible Microsoft Xbone messaging hasn't helped but it would be sad to see consumer choices be reduced. Kinda crazy that Xbone could theoretically be their last console.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08...ueact_ballmer/

By July, ValueAct was pushing for a seat on the Microsoft board, and also allegedly succession planning for a post-Ballmer world, Reuters reported. At the end of that month, Microsoft announced revenue figures for its Surface consumer slabs that were so poor El Reg termed them "shockingly hideous".

Now, Steve Ballmer is on the way out, and ValueAct Capital has the offer of a seat of the board.

http://www.eyeonwindows.com/2013/08/...xbox-division/

Along with pushing for Steve Ballmer’s exit, ValueAct is also said to be trying to get rid of the Xbox division. The new shareholder actually believes that Microsoft would do better without it, and selling it to another technology company would allow Redmond to focus on its key products like Windows:
“Xbox is cool, but by our estimates Microsoft has not made money at this.”
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Old 09-01-2013, 05:07 PM   #373
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Looks like Ryse is at PAX but it hasn't improved much since my hands on time with it. Not much time left but hope to heck they can fix this gongshow.

So much potential and it's going downhill.

"Press A for Awesome" X 9999 (and WTF is the guy doing flying off screen?)





IGN impressions - pretty damning.

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I'm thinking Nov 5th or the 8th.

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Old 09-04-2013, 07:38 AM   #375
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Just got an email from EB Games, Xbox is out November 22.
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Yup, the 22nd it is. One week after the PS4 in North America and one week earlier in the reduced countries that they are targeting in Europe. Surprised they couldn't get their ducks in a row to go way earlier. I was wondering why they didn't announce the date during PAX, I guess that's why.

Would have been massive to line up with COD release.

It would have been neat to release on 11/12/13 as well.

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Old 09-04-2013, 10:01 AM   #377
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More information being learned about it as well.

-CPU will be 1.75 GHz and not 1.6
-GPU clock speed to 853 MHz (up from 800)
-external storage will not be ready at launch but expect it soon after
-while not ready at launch developers will be able to run development code on any unit...not something new but I only recently read that.
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Looks like Ryse is at PAX but it hasn't improved much since my hands on time with it. Not much time left but hope to heck they can fix this gongshow.

So much potential and it's going downhill.
I'm really now regretting pre-ordering that game during the E3 sale rather than something like Watchdogs.
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PAX 2013 attendee polls - PS4 versus Xbone 180. About the typical 3:1 shown everywhere else. Honestly a little surprised given that this is in the US but certainly small sample size. Couple PC master race drops too.

These are just the hardcore nerds though, the unwashed Call of Duty dudebro hordes will massively swing the tide.




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Sony set to put an Oculus Rift type VR headset out of PS4

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...-playstation-4
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