IGN News - Microsoft Resigns Itself to 'Xbone' Nickname

Microsoft has acknowledged the the Xbox One's "Xbone" nickname is probably here to stay.

[andregon]

Ok step 1 completed

Step 2: Call Xbox One users "Xboners" In progress

[Zwerggoldhamster]

The console will be remembered as "the what?"

[huitui]

Agree with you here. From a developers stand point, when making a multiplatform game, you would have to put special work in to the Xbox One version to take advantage of the Cloud. When pumping out a game as quickly as possible like madden ect, your executives at the company dont want that extra time spent coding, testing, debugging, and future patches for a speicific feature like that. It really could be a good thing, but I think its too soon to use cloud gaming unless its for steaming classics.

[shawnconner]

Look this conversation could go on forever. Let's just accept the fact that we look at things differently.

[HylianKilljoy]

This is really cool of them! Accept the criticism, and some will just stop because they see that their jokes aren't affecting them.

[raeassassin]

Thank u for respecting my decisions <3

[jordannoell]

I did and do you know that Sony's conference was a day after MS's. Sony would have no time to change policies in the course of the day. Both companies reveal which were a month apart had no indications of policies.

[klouddsurferful]

Thank you, officialdabeast, thank you.

[NShomebase]

I doubt that, seeing as how the part of their press conference they would have had to address boiled down pretty transparently to "We aren't doing that thing that Microsoft is doing."
It doesn't take months of planning to do that.

[JustRevolutionary]

Both clouds will have their features, but yeah people need to calm down calling it a gimmick. A cool side note: I remember a few years ago I bought and played homefront on Onlive, and played multiplayer on their cloud.
It streamed multiplayer matches through their cloud! The quality wasn't the best and there was input lag, but it's was still pretty damn cool. I found that Onlive is still up. Can play video games/demos online without download. Cloud is the future! Great things are coming :D

[CRAZYGUNDAMOTAKU]

Thank you as you summed it up perfectly

[CRAZYGUNDAMOTAKU]

There is no xbone package available that doesn't come without kinect in fact MS has specifically said they have no plans to release a kinect-less xbone and considering how kinect costs almost as much as the xbone itself to develop it makes sense so...

[jordannoell]

and more powerful, and has more triple A games in devs, has f2ps, has indies, has an awesome controller and UI, and has more games at launch.

[BroWithTheFro]

I was simply giving one positive to DRM, I'm not saying that is the only reason to get the One. The only reason I am not getting a PS4 (and believe me, I was contemplating on which one I wanted to get first because eventually I do want both) is because I have never been much of a Sony fan so I am not excited about Infamous, Killzone, etc... I have played and beaten a lot more Microsoft games so I will be more excited for the X-One releases. They are both going to be awesome systems.

[shawnconner]

There is an article in GameInformer issue 242 and it's an interview with Shuhei Yoshida saying that they never considered an always-online internet connection.

[CRAZYGUNDAMOTAKU]

"Sony never planned to implement DRM or used game restrictions on the PlayStation 4.I have to say that we were slightly perplexed, because we had no intention of changing from a model that I think has served us really well for several platform life-cycles."
Andrew House, President and Group CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment,
As i said sony thought about DRM and talked about but never planned to use it and there's no source that states otherwise.

[Darkbeatdk]

First impressions last. I put together that TVTVTV video and it *still* gets comments every day, despite Microsoft having changed their policies and tried to focus more on games.

[jordannoell]

Yes but this would include altering a massive press conference with many key points having to be changed in the press conference that took months of preparing.

[berserkeroo]

If both consoles had DRM as you say then I'm pretty sure they would go through the same procedures to get rid of it. And the xbox one shipping with DRM clearly shows that it would take time to get rid of it for "EVERY" console. I mean we are talking millions here man.

[berserkeroo]

Once you search sony and Drm go to the first article and there in that article I want you to click on the high lighted part that says "Sony changed it's stance on DRM after hearing all the negative feedback stemming from the xbox one" once you click on that you will see what Shuhei Yoshida actually said.