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I was wondering about Xbox live. Will your account work on both consoles? I mean,just renewed my subs and if I get a Xbox one,will I have to get another live subscription?One account works across all playstation platforms,so we'll see I guess.
Quote from: NeuroticAlias on August 09, 2013, 02:58:50 PMI was wondering about Xbox live. Will your account work on both consoles? I mean,just renewed my subs and if I get a Xbox one,will I have to get another live subscription?One account works across all playstation platforms,so we'll see I guess.It'll work across both systems.
The console will still function if Kinect isn’t plugged in, although you won’t be able to use any feature or experience that explicitly uses the sensor.Asked just how "off" the Kinect can be, Whitten answered totally off.You have the ability to completely turn the sensor off in your settings. When in this mode, the sensor is not collecting any information. Any functionality that relies on voice, video, gesture or more won’t work. We still support using it for IR blasting in this mode. You can turn the sensor back on at any time through settings, and if you enter into a required Kinect experience (like Kinect Sports Rivals for instance), you’ll get a message asking if you want to turn the sensor back on in order to continue.
We still believe in Kinect. We aren’t interested in splitting the development base. The more demos I’ve seen, the more I’ve used it – the more impressed I am. The team feels strongly about Kinect, and I hope we’re able to prove that when you use it. We also have a ton of privacy settings to allow people to turn off the camera, or microphones, or put it in a state just for “Xbox On” and IR blasting – there will be a lot of user control for that. The thing we all understood, and hence this change, is that there are some scenarios where people just may not be comfortable. We wanted people to be 100% comfortable, so we allow the sensor to be unplugged. And clearly the “it dropped” scenario is possible. The most obvious thing is watching a DVD/BD, or streaming a movie, or HDMI pass-through, your experience isn’t impacted (except you miss voice and IR blasting)There is no “gotcha”, but obviously, if there is a game that REQUIRES Kinect (like Rivals), or something where Kinect IS the experience (like Skype), those won’t work. That said, for people who have privacy concerns there are user control settings, which we believe are great.
Good old M$, you now don't need Kinect but we'll force you to have it anyway by only releasing the console with it bundled!Drop Kinect, knock £100 off the price and they'll be on to a winner, can't see them doing it yet though.
Quote from: GamerMan316 on August 13, 2013, 04:22:28 AMGood old M$, you now don't need Kinect but we'll force you to have it anyway by only releasing the console with it bundled!Drop Kinect, knock £100 off the price and they'll be on to a winner, can't see them doing it yet though.That's the key word there...they've still got a few months.
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