Yeah, i came in here and died a little inside. :/

Actually, XO has only 786 shader cores with 12 CU with an output for 1.2TF. This is 99% accurate. Officially though Microsoft will not reveal it.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/6972/xbox-one-hardware-compared-to-playstation-4

The 8x, 6x times of 360 is a PR talk. It can do some thing 8 times more or 8 times faster than 360 or may be both some tasks, benchmarks but that is just a way to sell the box. The specs are pretty gimped TBH. PS4 specs are not that good either when you can get Geofrce gtx 760 for 250$ and play all games, max 1080P with aa,af.

sweet god shut up already.

keep expecting something new and exciting you know... and its always vs or fucking stats.

I don't even know why are we discussing stats. They already been set on paper, and there is no way at this time on development they could make some changes. The only changes they could made is an increase or decrease on clock speed, but that's it.

People need to stop talking how powerful next gen is ... Which obviously is not the case as per specs goes. I am afraid.

So it looks like Julie Larson-Green the head of Microsoft Windows division will now be the head of Microsoft's new Devices and Studios Engineering Group and will replace Mattrick as the head of the Xbox division.

http://www.videogamer.com/news/julie_larson-green_...

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-07-02/microsoft...

http://uk.gamespot.com/news/julie-larson-green-set...

I really don't know her that much, but hopefully she can bring some sense to the Xbox division.

You're just going to buy every single launch title aren't you? I've seen you say you will now buy RYSE (easily the worst looking game at E3, mind you), Killer Instinct (snore), and now Dead Rising 3 (based on what i know about you, you have litereally no interest in this genre at all). You will have $0 in your bank account after launch :P

Right, so you're basically just slating something you know nothing about? Noted.

I'm slating a mechanich that has never been good in any game ever. The parries in SF3 is how you do it right, becasue while they nullifie combos, they also require a lot of skill to pull off, where as a combo breaker is just a quick buyout from a shitty situation that you as the player should be playing to avoid. So rather than having the players manage spacing and really consider their moves, just give em a combo breaker so taht the retarded 85 hit combo that drains 80%+ of your HP just becomes pointless. Geniious game design, truly the modern day era equivalent of chess.

The entire idea of the combo breaker is just flawed and shows how poor the fundamental mechanics are.

I'm kinda stupid that way.

Looks really terrible to me, i don't see what the fuzz is about.

---the novelty of digital rock'em sock'em robots? yay.

It just looks to lack any kind of substance. You might as well play rock, paper, scissors. They have the same features. Incredibly limited move sets, lacking strategy and one hit deaths :P

They didn't even have a kit, how do you make a final hardware analysis when you don't actually have hardware in your possession? Bah, it doesn't matter. lol!

As for the 7790, it's well within the realm of possibility. It has practically the same footprint and a lower TDP than the unofficial spec'd GPU. Considering how concerned MS is over efficiency and stability, it shouldn't suprise anyone if the 7790 was selected. Microsoft has been busy testing silicon and hundreds of boards at the the Xbox Labs, even after the May 21st reveal.

See the woman sitting at the table on the left? She has dozens of boards in front of her. Microsoft doesn't have to redesign another board, they already had multiple configurations-








Hundreds of variations on the X1 Prototype-

I watched people play Dive Kick at PAX. Looked like shit but it was a pretty popular booth none the less

Zero interest in an open world title? Me? Seriously? I don't go crazy for Zombies titles in general, I'll give you that much, but I loved the original Dead Rising, and this game seems like it could be even more ambitious and an even better game. I just wasn't originally sure that I would end up liking what they were offering, but their vision for the game is seriously growing on me. I initially wrote it off thinking that maybe going too serious may not be the way to go, but I like that they aren't trying to force the issue. It's reasonably serious, but at the same time when you do some of the more ridiculous stuff in the game, it'll end up looking even more bizarre, and thus funny on your own terms. Saying I have literally no interest in the genre is far from accurate. I'm also well known for liking a variety of wacky games, and I'd say this certainly falls into that category.

Ryse easily the worst looking game at E3? Couldn't disagree more. That honor handily goes to the version of Drive Club that appeared at E3 (And I understand why that was, but if we're being fair, Driveclub looked like total ass at E3). Ryse gets title of one of the most misunderstood games at E3, and perhaps one of the more cheesy, I'll admit that. However, it's basically got the same combat system as the batman games, just with a Roman twist. And it's confirmed that all battles in the E3 demo were sped up (enemy hit points purposely lowered) just for the purpose of E3, hence why those executions were being triggered left and right, which made it look like some kind of QTE fest. The same exact type of finishers happen with plenty of regularity in the batman arkham games, except there's no button prompt accompanying them. You may not get what they mean when they say it isn't a QTE, but its pretty easy to figure out. Crytek just added a mechanic to get bonus rewards as you're finishing off opponents. I don't have a problem with that. You can't fail them because there's nothing to fail. It's essentially "Spartacus arkham asylum," and that's quite a bit better than what I was originally expecting the game to be. There's plenty of proof here that Ryse was the last game I personally expected to like or be interested in going into E3. I'm not a fan of their games, but this game is their first third person action game, and I was originally expecting a first person title from them based on swords and with too much Kinect. What the game actually turns out to be is quite a pleasant surprise. Plus they say there is a coliseum MP portion to their game, which I'm dying to see.

If the rest of the major battles in the game look as cool as that scene or better, then its not a game I mind owning at launch.

Forza 5 is basically an automatic buy. Killer Instinct has grown on me tremendously, and it's partially free, so that can't really be called a purchase. I've seen much worse launch titles than what the XB1 looks poised to debut with. In fact, it'll be a fairly solid looking launch, all things said. New Killer Instinct Glacius walkthrough. http://www.gametrailers.com/videos/58t96w/killer-i... Game looks pretty cool. Only thing I don't necessarily like so far is Glacius's design, but other than that, the game looks like fun. Also, I tend to always have an itchy trigger finger at launch for any new console, so no doubt I'm experiencing a bit of that. I really don't mind owning the games that I'm looking forward to at launch, however. And there's some pretty cool third parties releasing alongside the new consoles.

Ryse is the equivalent of lair on the PS3. It'll be reviewed horribly, and be £5 in bargain bins within the first year.

Ryse will be a graphical showpiece that's for sure, will it be a good game, that I'm not so sure off?

Ryse was dumbed down for E3, people should know that by now, Lair was just tremendously bad