GameStop: 250,000 Customers Interested in Xbox One

[antilycus]

comment system is completely broken. You should fire whatever web designer/developer and PHP scripter you have. They obviously can't do their job. <3 every commentor ever on this site (and THG)

 

[pezonator]

I wonder if these people know about the always on connection and second hand games issue.... It's also dodgy that they are bundling Kinect with the console since over half the people won't need it, they just want Halo... Now halo with a big toy gun requiring the Kinect Sensor makes me a little more "interested".

 

[bigshootr8]

^Agreed, I believe it will come to e3 as well.

 

[redeemer]

Sony and MS have to entirely different strategies, the PS4 is more focused on the HC gamer where as MS is trying to grab the wider audience. Looking at the specs of both console this is obvious, I will buy both console anyway. Watching Linus's stream thanks to bigshootr8 for the link, Linus was speculating the Kinect can tell how many people are watching a PPV event in a room or something of that effect.

 

[xerxces]

Hmmm, check their bank account. Surely there will be a deposit from MS, lol

 

[g-unit1111]

What? After all the complaining about the XBOX DRM, people are still going to buy this thing? Stockholm syndrome, perhaps?

 

[Mike Friesen]

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[redeemer]

What? After all the complaining about the XBOX DRM, people are still going to buy this thing? Stockholm syndrome, perhaps?

Ha console gamers gonna get a taste of what we PC gamers are used too

 

[rohitbaran]

It says there is zero comment. Then I make a comment and I see tons of comments. Fix your garbage comment system Toms.

 

[kinggraves]

And here is the cancer killing the industry. Consumers who already preordering a product they know nothing about and is surrounded by bad press. Some of them are surely going to resale for the holiday, but even they could get trolled by a Dec 26th release. Make smart purchasing decisions and perhaps learn more about it first. Hope it costs $899 you chimps.

 

[g-unit1111]

What? After all the complaining about the XBOX DRM, people are still going to buy this thing? Stockholm syndrome, perhaps?

Ha console gamers gonna get a taste of what we PC gamers are used too

Pass the popcorn, this is going to be fun to watch.

 

[alidan]

they basicly killed the used market, and without the used market, there is little to no reason for the new games to ever come down in price

pc competes with piracy
consoles compete with used sales

what happens when there is no competition...

with that said... they are both useing x86 platforms... for the exclusives i hope the 0ne gets an emulater fast so i can still buy the games i want and play them, as i have NO intrest at all in owning that system...

that said

ps4 1.89 tflops
one 1.2 tflops.

take out 1-200gflops for the cpu, and you are left with

one - 1tflop
ps4 - 1.69

so the ps4 is about 69% more powerful than the one.

here is hopeing the pc becomes lead platform and stuff is downscaled to ps4 or the one, and for god sake if a console is lead please let it be the ps4

 

[cobra5000]

I'm just gonna stick w/my PC. Heck, maybe I will build a new one, just to celebrate the console wars!

 

[cknobman]

I HAD interest.
After all the news about the XBox One and realizing just how f'd up it will be
I now have NO INTEREST in the Xbox One.

 

[Ronnie Green]

Quote:
I'm no rocket scientist...but 250,000 for both North America and Europe doesn't seem like a lot.
It's just the UK along, not with the US pre-book

 

[velosteraptor]

I am also "interested", in the sense that i want to know more about the console, and am curious how many of these "rumors" are actually true. But that doesn't mean i am even considering to buy it.

 

[redeemer]

they basicly killed the used market, and without the used market, there is little to no reason for the new games to ever come down in price

pc competes with piracy
consoles compete with used sales

what happens when there is no competition...

with that said... they are both useing x86 platforms... for the exclusives i hope the 0ne gets an emulater fast so i can still buy the games i want and play them, as i have NO intrest at all in owning that system...

that said

ps4 1.89 tflops
one 1.2 tflops.

take out 1-200gflops for the cpu, and you are left with

one - 1tflop
ps4 - 1.69

so the ps4 is about 69% more powerful than the one.

here is hopeing the pc becomes lead platform and stuff is downscaled to ps4 or the one, and for god sake if a console is lead please let it be the ps4

The good old teraflop argument doesn't mean jack the PS3 was also put out more tflops over the Xbox 360 and the better looking games never really materialized. That being said the Xbox 360 being less powerful had excellent games, better services and online experience. Apparently the Xbox One can reach into cloud to gain even more performance (300,000) servers.

 

[bigshootr8]

They'll be very similar feeling I mean whether one is stronger then one or the other may or may not matter I mean we are talking about consoles. Consoles historically have had frame limiters. Plus this time around they are both using blu ray drives however given that blu ray is more of a sony deal I would want something from them if blu ray mattered.

 

[mobrocket]

Gamers and Tech geeks will like the PS4
Causal Audience the xbox one
Its like iphone vs android
one is easy to use, the other offers better hardware

 

[bigshootr8]

Gamers and Tech geeks will like the PS4
Causal Audience the xbox one
Its like iphone vs android
one is easy to use, the other offers better hardware

I agree with you there however given the negative press and even countries ambassadors getting in the mix saying that there is a privacy issue with the kinect always being on people will go towards the PS4. I feel even if the PS4 is 100 dollars more people will buy it.

 

[redeemer]

Gamers and Tech geeks will like the PS4
Causal Audience the xbox one
Its like iphone vs android
one is easy to use, the other offers better hardware

I agree with you there however given the negative press and even countries ambassadors getting in the mix saying that there is a privacy issue with the kinect always being on people will go towards the PS4. I feel even if the PS4 is 100 dollars more people will buy it.

Definitely both consoles have their large fan base and price wont matter too much, as far as marketing goes I feel that the Xbox One can appeal to a wider consumer base with it media capabilities. 90% of the games on both console with look identical but exclusives will most probably differ. The Sony SOC is more in line with what AMD has been talking about in regards to HSA, the Xbox One is obviously more PC.

 

[redeemer]

Quote:
I'm no rocket scientist...but 250,000 for both North America and Europe doesn't seem like a lot.
It's just the UK along, not with the US pre-book

wait till heavily advertising campaigns hit the scene this will change

 

[cj_online]

wow the PS fans are coming out of the woodwork already?

We have no idea which console is more powerful till at least E3 and probably not until they are both released. I remember the bullshit PS fans kept spouting about the cell processor being the most powerfull thing on the planet and yet when they analysed screen shots there was no difference, some review sites even edged towards the xbox at the start. Saying that one or another is more powerful or will be better at this point is pure fanboyism as no one really knows.

Also for those citing numbers of interest for the playstation, thats been up for pre-order for like a month where as the xbox was only officially announced a few days ago.

also you say they are putting media first and gaming second but, they already admitted that more people are using their 360 to view media while connected instead of games. Hardcore gamers are a slim majority, if they aimed a console at just them they would lose hands down. You can keeping slating one console or another but at the end of the day until we can get our hands on both its all speculation

that said i wont be getting either as i just spent £900 on my PC so that i wont have to buy a console at the end of this year, i just dont like people spouting facts when they are just opinion or speculation

You're an idiot. The PS3 vs Xbox 360 was a COMPLETELY different battle. The PS3 was more powerful (as is the case with the ps4), but it was very cumbersome and tough to code/optimize for (not the case with the ps4 as it uses an x86 architecture).

 

[alidan]

they basicly killed the used market, and without the used market, there is little to no reason for the new games to ever come down in price

pc competes with piracy
consoles compete with used sales

what happens when there is no competition...

with that said... they are both useing x86 platforms... for the exclusives i hope the 0ne gets an emulater fast so i can still buy the games i want and play them, as i have NO intrest at all in owning that system...

that said

ps4 1.89 tflops
one 1.2 tflops.

take out 1-200gflops for the cpu, and you are left with

one - 1tflop
ps4 - 1.69

so the ps4 is about 69% more powerful than the one.

here is hopeing the pc becomes lead platform and stuff is downscaled to ps4 or the one, and for god sake if a console is lead please let it be the ps4

The good old teraflop argument doesn't mean jack the PS3 was also put out more tflops over the Xbox 360 and the better looking games never really materialized. That being said the Xbox 360 being less powerful had excellent games, better services and online experience. Apparently the Xbox One can reach into cloud to gain even more performance (300,000) servers.

yea it didnt help that even now the ps3 is still said to push 3 tflops.

HOWEVER
and this is a VERY big however

amd is handling the gpu and the cpu of each console.
that makes the flops something that you can easily compare and actually have a meaningful number from.

if i remember the numbers correctly, the ps4 has the equivalent of a 7850 or 7870 and the one will have the equivalent of a 7750 or 7770

now, the ps3 having better graphics... it does, hands down, when the game is ps3 exclusive, and when the game is ps3 first.
sadly most games lead on the 360 and got a crappy port to the ps3, i have a fairly decent understanding of the architecture, i know what it was a pain to program for, and because it lacked on the gpu side, some developers tried to shift the weight over to the cpu with didn't help much.

however this time around, ps4 learned from its mistakes, and with the horrible press the one is getting, devs may lead on the ps4 over the one, ideally they would lead on the pc but thats a pipe dream, and with publishers forcing developers to work under the assumption that users only have 2gb of ram... yea... id rather it be on a console with 8gb and ported to pc rather than hands tied on the pc.

 

[redeemer]

wow the PS fans are coming out of the woodwork already?

We have no idea which console is more powerful till at least E3 and probably not until they are both released. I remember the bullshit PS fans kept spouting about the cell processor being the most powerfull thing on the planet and yet when they analysed screen shots there was no difference, some review sites even edged towards the xbox at the start. Saying that one or another is more powerful or will be better at this point is pure fanboyism as no one really knows.

Also for those citing numbers of interest for the playstation, thats been up for pre-order for like a month where as the xbox was only officially announced a few days ago.

also you say they are putting media first and gaming second but, they already admitted that more people are using their 360 to view media while connected instead of games. Hardcore gamers are a slim majority, if they aimed a console at just them they would lose hands down. You can keeping slating one console or another but at the end of the day until we can get our hands on both its all speculation

that said i wont be getting either as i just spent £900 on my PC so that i wont have to buy a console at the end of this year, i just dont like people spouting facts when they are just opinion or speculation

You're an idiot. The PS3 vs Xbox 360 was a COMPLETELY different battle. The PS3 was more powerful (as is the case with the ps4), but it was very cumbersome and tough to code/optimize for (not the case with the ps4 as it uses an x86 architecture).

I may be wrong but aside from exclusive all games will be developed for the Xbox One first then ported over to the PS4??