There's talk over at NeoGaf that a new Xbox One sku is on it's way and could be the reason behind these latest price cuts!!
Now that would be a real kick in the teeth to the early adopters!!

In reply to a post by jorkila:

There's talk over at NeoGaf that a new Xbox One sku is on it's way and could be the reason behind these latest price cuts!!
Now that would be a real kick in the teeth to the early adopters!!

Xbox One Sku,is that a dance like Ska or What ! One step Beyond

Faster navigation, voice works, gesture not so sure about yet. Did read QR code from card though.

Battlefield 4 - maps are larger and the controller feedback is interesting. The game feels a lot smoother (higher frame rate is the feel) and more detail and effects, e.g. blur/focus stuff. Aim is a bit off as getting used to the new sticks. Downloading map packs now - these added stuff on the 360 so will be interesting to see how things like the dust storm effect work. Transfer of stats and premium was slick.

What sucks is the download speed, not even maxing out my ADSL2+ which runs at 7 Mbps.

SmartGlass better than 360, not tried in a game yet.

Oddly the extra game detail means a larger screen needed so down to playing on the floor I guess now.

Think we more interested in what you think of Titanfall and not the Battlefield game to be honest,I know Jorkila thinks it's brilliant and I tend to agree with much of what he says only I don't seem to be able to get the urge to play it ,and I haven't played it for weeks.

Will let Titanfall download over night and report on Sunday

Oh I thought you were downloading that as soon as you got your Xbox One....

What do you think of the look of the Xbox One,not exactly revolutionary in design is it,and we still have the huge brick adaptor to accompany the Huge Square black plastic box

Jorkila composing his words as I speak and I bet he's saying that Time2die doesn't stop complaining about his Xbox One .

Ok but make sure your reports on time else it's detention for you and 1000 lines

Ah - now it is all starting to make more sense. Jorky's rumours of a new Xbox One SKU could mean the power transformer will be built into the main box so no more ugly external power brick.

And usually, with new redesigns you'll either have product differentiation for setting a broader range of price points: basic, the norm and luxury/elite ends or there's hardware redesign internally - a new chipset design with a smaller die and more efficient etc requiring less cooling and power. But it's early days yet so I guess the new SKU/s will be an attempt to flog a better XBO and a cheaper one (a cheaper one might make sense at the moment).

Do you think the XBO could be sold without the Kinect thing? Is it still functional? My bet would be we'll see a cost cutting version first. Then a premium edition? Then a smaller one with built in power transformer. Then one with new chipset/hardware design. A range of storage options. La li la. Same old excrement just a different day.

I was but swapped the order around to get some BF4 maps and updates done

Design is fine for me, blends in with the black glass

Did have the companion smart glass for BF4 crash on the transformer tablet, so not that great. Finding the left button for grenades harder to hit in frantic play. What I would like is on smart glass the ability to view the download queue progress

Yes it could mate,personally nobody gives a rats [censored] about Kinnect and Microsoft should wise up to that fact,they have little to no software for it and it's basically just a pointless gimmick.

Motion controlled gaming took of with Nintendo Wii and it got the casual gamers/ party and kids all excited and interested and sold millions,then Sony and Microsoft came to the party 2 years later and the fun and initial impact was falling away.

Now look at the poor sales of the the Nintendo Wii U console ,nobody cares about motion controlled gaming and when Virtual reality comes to the market it will die a death quicker than motion controlled gaming.

It's fun for 10 minutes gaming for me is about relaxing ,chilling in a city chair,feet up and not having to be in a room lit up like a Airport runway and having to stand up to get this motion controlled so called gaming to function correctly".....it's totally a complete waste of space and the hardcore gamers don't care about it and never will.

Edited by time2die (Sun 13-Apr-14 01:01:32)