The XBOX ONE
Quick heads up for parents with kid/s under 17
check the ESRB here before you buy a game!
Here we are again and we are moving
on to the XBOX ONE. This has the same Triple A titles offered on Sony's
PlayStation4, Assassins Creed 4, Battlefield 4, Call of Duty Ghosts, Fifa 14,
and many more. These games are sold separately at a price of $60 USD each and
expansions to these Triple A games are available at addition cost.
There are six Day One exclusives
for the XBOX ONE they are, Deadrising 3, Fighter Within, Forza Motorsport 5,
Ryse: Son of Rome, Zoo Tycoon, and Zumba Fitness: World Party. XBOX Launch
Window exclusives are Kinect Sports: Rivals, and Titanfall. There are the games
available for Digital Download, the games available Day One are: Crimson Dragon,
Loco Cycle, Killer Instinct, and Powerstar Golf. In the Launch window there is,
Minecraft XBOX ONE edition, Peggle 2, and Project Spark. The “Launch Window”
that Microsoft refers to is an undetermined length of time.
There will be more titles coming
out within two to six months after the game developers have time to work with
the new platforms more.
The XBOX ONE comes with the Kinect
and one controller and to play online requires a XBOX Live Gold membership at
$60 USD MSRP for twelve months.
If you would like to get a second
controller it is $60 MSRP.
A cool feature that the XBOX ONE
and the XBOX 360 have is SmartGlass that allows a Windows Phone, Windows 8, iOS,
and Android devices to be used as a second screen.
The XBOX ONE will be able to stream
to Twitch only if you have a Gold membership and the Upload Studio app lets you
edit and share clips from the past five minutes of game-play footage that is
automatically recorded by the console.
To sum this up it is about the same
as the PlayStation 4. It has some good features like the SmartGlass and the
Kinect which has voice activation.
The base cost of the consoles will
come down in price six to twelve months after the launch. Games will be the same
price across all of the platforms and the controllers will stay the same for a
while. You will probably be able to find sales on them in a few months.
The final price of the XBox One Console, one game, a second controller, and the XBOX Live Gold 12 Month membership is
$680 USD.
Something else to consider is that
you can not upgrade either console to get more performance out of it. There is
also a limit on the hard drive for the XBOX ONE but the PS4 can be changed out
for a larger one.
[Of course, this is subject to change!]
[Of course, this is subject to change!]
In the next blog I will cover the
PC and I will let you know the pros and cons of
choosing to use it for gaming purposes.
choosing to use it for gaming purposes.
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