The Xbone

[Limited]

From the side, it was one unit, that looked like it was on a little platform that was in cased in the plastic box. They probably use that to allow it to be bolted to the table top its on.

That said, its still a big box, PS4 is extremely slim compared to it. Its about twice the height of the camera-y bit of the Kinect sensor (so the boxy bit, not including stand).

I still cant decide what console to get, I cant stand the PS3 controllers, the sticks and the triggers annoy me SO much and I find it hard to play.

Heres a pic I found online showing the plastic case a bit better

[Zeph]

So, Microsoft has placed an embargo on reviews for the console and its games until after its launch (seems that crossplatform titles have an embargo for 12 hours after their midnight release for the ps4).
Meanwhile, several game journalists are upset that they can't talk about it while alluding to horrible things.

If you've got a pre-order for the console, hold off on opening it until these things show up in the news in case you want to get your money back.

https://twitter.com/HenroidT/status/393800773080862720
https://twitter.com/aegies/status/393947262960693248
https://twitter.com/AdamSessler/stat...45548186611712
https://twitter.com/aegies/status/393788500379594752

It could entirely be related to CoD:Ghosts being 720p, but that in itself is a bad thing for a 'next-gen' console.
I'm going to guess that the DDR3 doesn't have enough bandwidth to feed that super fast block of memory they've got for the frame buffer in the current meta of rendering.

edit: former journalist to the rescue
http://i7.minus.com/iIsZoRiIj4xQD.png
http://i.imgur.com/DxWwSmW.png

So yeah, it's gotta be the different architecture. It'll be amazing when devs can learn to use the small super fast RAM, but until then xbone is an inferior experience.

[Warsaw]

It sounds like the reverse of this past generation, where Microsoft had the simpler architecture and Sony was more complex. In true Microsoft fashion, it appears they didn't learn from that experience. They tried to pinch pennies over time with the new Xbox and are now suffering for it.

[Kornman00]

Invitation...denied.

[Dwood]

/steamOS

[ODX]

Invitation...denied.

Hey, you may have denied the invitation but you've gotta admit the invitation was kinda cool was it not?

I dunno, I liked the commercial. Reminds me of the banned Xbox commercial with everyone pretending to shoot each other. Although it wasn't that cool, it still was neat.

[TeeKup]

That was rather charming actually.

[Kornman00]

Oh yeah, don't get me wrong, the commercial was cool, but...invitation denied.

[Kornman00]

Xbox.com's new face lift can get faced off and into the garbage

[BobtheGreatII]

All this hate from you Korn is just making me want to get one all that much more.