[XONE] Xbox One

Allez, Sony n'a plus qu'à avancer sa date sortie au 21 ocotbre pour un dernier gros coup de com et bye bye Microsoft! :-D lol

During our conversation, Penello touched on the possibility of backwards compatibility coming to Xbox One, how the company feels about being the most expensive console this holiday, and why Kinect is bundled with every system.

Another thing that comes along with digital games is…something that holds them back is you can't resell them right now. There's no kind of commerce between users. Is this something Microsoft is potentially interested in? Well, actually I think if you go back and you look at some of the things we said, that was one of the places that we were actually trying to pioneer. We were trying to implement the ability to trade [and] loan digital games with your friends which is something that no one else was doing. I believe, in retrospect that people have calmed down and gone back and actually looked at what we said, people are starting to understand, ‘Wow, they did want actually to allow me to loan and trade’ which other digital ecosystems don’t want to do. And so, yeah, I think we need to do that. That has to be part of the experience. Right now, we’re focused on launch and we switched the program back to discs, because that’s what customers wanted.


Kinect is something that, you've talked about it as a core component of the Xbox One; that the Xbox is Kinect. There is no difference. But it's still something that I've seen as kind of a sticking point for people online. Why is Kinect such an integral part of the Xbox One?
[...]Today, you can't use your voice on Kinect for Xbox to buy a movie. Eventually, you stop and you have to pick up a controller. On Xbox One, we've architected the whole UI. I can literally just talk to it, ask it for different genres, ask if for new releases; and I can change whether I want it in SD or HD, purchase it, start it, play it, pause it, fast forward it, rewind it, all with my voice. The idea, today, if you want to switch games, you've got to make a commitment. I have to get up. I have to take the disc out. I have to boot back to the dash. I have to put a new game in. On Xbox One, 'Xbox go to Ryse.' New game starting.

The Xbox One taps into the power of the cloud quite a bit. We're seeing one of your competitors, Sony, doing backwards compatibility through streaming. Does the cloud-powered nature of the Xbox One leave it open for things to change in the future for something like that?
Yeah, absolutely. That's one of the things that makes [the cloud] at the same time both totally interesting and hard to describe to people. Because what the cloud can do is sort of hard to pin. When you say to the customer, we want the box to be connected, we want developers to know that the cloud is there. We’re really not trying to make up some phony thing. But there are so many things that the servers can do. Using our Azure cloud servers, sometimes it’s things like voice processing. It could be more complicated things like rendering full games like a Gaikai and delivering it to the box. We just have to figure out how, over time, how much does that cost to deliver, how good is the experience.