"Xbox One: Your Top Questions Answered"

“Xbox One is a more powerful product compared to Xbox 360, but does it also use more power?”

Don’t you hate it when a company provides answers to your “top questions”?

Especially when they’re not addressing anything you’re actually interested in?

Don’t you hate it when a company thinks they’re handling consumer concerns when in fact they’re just making their concerns worse?

No one is asking how much power this machine is using, Microsoft. But they’ll definitely be asking why the Xbox One does not stand vertically. 

Xbox One: The good, bad, ugly, but mostly enh

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Good:

  • Quiet, apparently. Finally!
  • Voice-activated controls look solid.
  • No “always online” requirement, as rumored.
  • You can still play used games.
  • Running multiple services at the same time is kind of handy.

Bad:

  • No backward compatibility for Xbox 360 games — got to keep your old machine around if you want to play your old titles. Weak sauce.

Ugly:

  • Shaped like a brick. Someone forgot to design the console.
  • Doesn’t stand vertically, messing up many people’s configurations.

Enh:

  • Still not fired up with gaming with a Kinect.
  • Blu-ray player — can’t really care that it’s there.
  • Controller is basically the same.
  • Controller may not have swappable battery.
  • Sharing your game play with social networks — no one cares.
  • Xbox One Guide, but maybe this should go into the “Good.”
  • “Interactive TV” is not sexy.
  • Lots o’ ports.
  • Halo the Television Series. Woo hoo.
  • The NFL and ESPN partnerships.
Well, the Xbox One looks retro in the most boring way possible. Didn’t Microsoft learn anything from Sony’s initial ugly-ass Playstation 3 design? I wonder if you’ll be able to stand it on its side? Because if not, that messes up a lot of peeps’ living room set-ups. Update: Xbox One won’t stand vertically: “New Xbox One hardware is sleek and modern and complements any décor. The console is shaped in the 16:9 aspect ratio and employs a horizontal orientation optimized for its high-speed Blu-ray™ disc player.” Design-wise, this box fails.
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Well, the Xbox One looks retro in the most boring way possible.

Didn’t Microsoft learn anything from Sony’s initial ugly-ass Playstation 3 design?

I wonder if you’ll be able to stand it on its side? Because if not, that messes up a lot of peeps’ living room set-ups.

Update: Xbox One won’t stand vertically:

“New Xbox One hardware is sleek and modern and complements any décor. The console is shaped in the 16:9 aspect ratio and employs a horizontal orientation optimized for its high-speed Blu-ray™ disc player.”

Design-wise, this box fails.

thatscienceguy: This is a simulation of a rotating 4 dimensional Cube, otherwise known as a Tesseract. What you are seeing is it Rotating. It is not being distorted, reshaped, or anything like that. it is simply Rotating - It appears to be distorted because you are only seeing the ‘projection’ of it. similarly if you rotated a 3D cube infront of lamp the shadow you would see would appear to distort.
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thatscienceguy:

This is a simulation of a rotating 4 dimensional Cube, otherwise known as a Tesseract.

What you are seeing is it Rotating. It is not being distorted, reshaped, or anything like that. it is simply Rotating - It appears to be distorted because you are only seeing the ‘projection’ of it. similarly if you rotated a 3D cube infront of lamp the shadow you would see would appear to distort.

(via science-junkie)

Source: youtube.com

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