Xbox One Keynote Recap!

The Xbox One: A Console of Unprecedented Power and Potential

As we gaze upon the sleek and imposing form of the Xbox One, it's hard not to feel a sense of awe at its sheer scale. The console's design looks remarkably similar to its predecessor, but beneath its surface lies a wealth of innovative features that promise to revolutionize the gaming experience. According to Microsoft's representatives, the Xbox One boasts an astonishing 40 design changes, each one carefully crafted to enhance performance and connectivity.

One of the most exciting aspects of the Xbox One is its Dynamic Impulse Triggers. These triggers allow users to customize feedback on their controllers, providing a level of precision and responsiveness that was previously unimaginable. The inclusion of Wi-Fi Direct radio stack in the console ensures seamless connectivity, while the Precision Directional Pad is built into the device itself, eliminating the need for additional accessories. Additionally, the Xbox One features an integrated battery, which should provide users with hours of uninterrupted gaming.

The Xbox One's capabilities extend far beyond its hardware and software, however. The console boasts a dedicated game DVR, allowing users to save their progress in the cloud and access it from anywhere. This feature is particularly useful for competitive gamers, who can use it to quickly review and share gameplay footage. Furthermore, the Xbox One's servers have been upgraded dramatically, with the number of available servers increasing from 15,000 to a staggering 300,000. This should result in faster loading times and more seamless online multiplayer experiences.

Microsoft Studios' representatives showcased a plethora of exciting new games at the keynote event, including Forza Motorsport 5, which will be available at launch. Additionally, they announced Quantum Break, a game that promises to deliver cutting-edge graphics and gameplay mechanics. The Xbox One is also set to feature 15 exclusive titles in its first year, including eight entirely new franchises.

The announcement of the Xbox One's integration with NFL games is sure to delight sports fans everywhere. The console will be able to pull up fantasy stats and other relevant information, making it an essential tool for fans who live and breathe their favorite sport. EA Sports' representatives demonstrated the console's capabilities, showcasing a range of exciting new features and gameplay mechanics.

However, not all of the news from the Xbox One keynote was positive. The console's price remains a mystery, with Microsoft refusing to disclose its cost until closer to launch. Additionally, there is still much uncertainty surrounding backwards compatibility, which could be a major concern for gamers who are hesitant to upgrade their hardware. Nevertheless, it's clear that Microsoft has put an enormous amount of effort into creating a truly revolutionary console experience.

The Xbox One's reveal was rounded out by the announcement of Activision's latest Call of Duty installment, Ghosts. This game promises to deliver improved graphics and gameplay mechanics, as well as new features like dog companions and dynamic maps. The inclusion of character customization options and downloadable content should provide gamers with hours of additional playtime.

The Xbox One's reveal was a resounding success, showcasing an astonishing array of innovative features and exciting new games. As the console's release date approaches, gamers can only wonder what other surprises Microsoft has in store for us. Will the Xbox One live up to its promises, or will it fall short? Only time will tell.

In conclusion, the Xbox One is a console that promises to change the gaming landscape forever. With its cutting-edge hardware and software, innovative features like Dynamic Impulse Triggers, and an impressive lineup of exclusive titles, this console is sure to delight gamers of all ages. As we eagerly await its release, one thing is certain: the Xbox One is going to be a wild ride.

Microsoft Credit for Years of Development

It's worth noting that Microsoft has had years to work on the Xbox One, and it shows in the console's impressive design and feature set. The company has demonstrated an enormous amount of commitment to creating a truly revolutionary gaming experience, and it's clear that this will pay off in the long run.

The Large Console: A Necessary Evil?

While some may be put off by the Xbox One's imposing size, Microsoft representatives assure us that the console is designed to keep costs down. The company has clearly prioritized performance and features over aesthetics, which could ultimately lead to a more affordable gaming experience for consumers.

Takeaway

The Xbox One is a console of unprecedented power and potential, with a wealth of innovative features and exciting new games. As we eagerly await its release date, one thing is certain: this console is going to be a wild ride. Will it live up to its promises? Only time will tell, but for now, it's clear that Microsoft has created something truly special.

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat's up everyone John rer from TechnoBuffalo here Microsoft's Xbox event just wrapped up and they went through a ton of stuff in just about a 55 minute time frame so if you missed the announcement I'm going to take you through step by step of everything that got announced some things that didn't get announced there but came out afterwards and all kinds of Xbox goodness stick around let's go through it together all right so let's start at the beginning Microsoft's own Dawn matrick took the stage and he said and I quote we spent the past four years working on this so that was kind of cool they gave a brief Xbox history and they finally said the name of the Next Generation console it's not the Xbox 720 Xbox Fusion the official name is the Xbox One poor HTC and they called it the Xbox one because it's an all-in-one Entertainment System we'll get talked about that more as we go along but it does a lot of things in one console hence the name Xbox one uh so they talked about a new controller and connect was also announce talk about that a little bit later a ton of new stuff with connect uh really heavy emphasis on TV there's a totally new TV experience and you can access that TV experienceing some pretty baller voice commands that worked really well you know TV on switch to music and all kinds of other stuff it uses your voice just incredibly well and voice commands allow you to instantly switch between games TV music movies full Internet Explorer and other apps so that was kind of cool they announced something called Snap mode you can snap back and forth different things allows you to view two things at once like like watching a movie and doing a quick web search kind of neat also one thing that was really excited about is Skype for Xbox totally built in so you can Skype your friends while you're playing a game you could talk some trash or you can just use it for Skype on your TV uh a lot of ESPN Centric stuff was also announced you're going to get notifications of your favorite players and teams so that's kind of cool if you're a big into sports you can also snap various stats next to live supported game so kind of cool too uh next thing Xbox One guide it's a full TV Guide what it's going to do and they didn't announce this at the keynote they announced afterwards essentially going to work on top of your cable Box's DVR so it access all the content but it'll put the Xbox UI on top of it kind of neat uh you get trending and favorite options there um but the big deal here the system specs what is the Xbox One going to pack so 8 GB of RAM USB 3.0 a Blu-ray Drive which T's the head of that Blu-ray Consortium uh kind of cool to see a Blu-ray Drive in there so bigger games more storage of course HDMI in or out 8 core GPU 500 GB hard drive no that solid state or not uh there are three separate operating systems which are kind of cool first there's the Xbox OS there's a full windows kernel and finally there's an OS that allows you to switch between the other two instantly so that's kind of cool so the windows kernel hopefully there'll be some cross compatibility between Windows games and Xbox games uh so let's talk about connect first of all good news it's going to be included with every console it's now a 1080p HD camera voice commands are now totally more conversational with it it can read your heartbeat also which is crazy uh just resense uh separate movements movement of the wrist and just more details it could give a much better connect experience uh onto the controller it looks the same but underneath that shell there are 40 design changes Dynamic impulse triggers let you put feedback on the triggers which are kind of cool um it's got Wi-Fi Direct radio stack in there uh it's got all kinds of cool Precision directional pad stuff um built into it integrated battery of course obviously more support for all the smart glass stuff that Microsoft announced uh I guess last year's uh 3 um so natively part of the platform there's all kinds of other stuff that's natively in there uh so Xbox Live so that's kind of cool um for the servers to support that they're going from 15,000 servers to 300,000 servers which is crazy I love stores for music movies games and all of it's going to save in the cloud kind of cool speaking of cloud it's a dedicated game DVR built in uh which will save games to the cloud it's better for you know queuing up multiplayer games as well they told to talk a lot about games EA FIFA Madden NFL NBA Live UFC EA came and talked about a lot of it all of those are going to be powered by EA's new sports engine called ignite so that's kind of cool um they talked about the gaming engine sort of 10 times more animation depth of detail they showed 3D crowds Dynamic Sidelines and daily streams of new content so kind of cool uh then Microsoft Studios came up talked about all the rest of their games so Forza Motorsports 5 I'll be available at launch that was kind of cool and they showed a new game called Quantum break which looked pretty awesome the 15 exclusive titles in the first year eight will be totally new franchises uh there're going to be a Halo TV series which Steven Spielberg is going to be involved in so that's kind of cool um a lot of NFL stuff so I'm appropriately dressed here for it essentially it let integrate with NFL supported games it'll pull up fantasy stats and all kinds of other cool stuff uh there as well so you're big fantasy sports buff like me you're going to like it uh so the Xbox one is going to launch we don't know the date but sometime later this year presumably by the holidays we'll get much more info uh at E3 and then Activision came up and talked about the next Call of Duty Call of Duty ghosts it's going to be built on a whole new engine there's new dog companions Dynamic Maps uh character customization download book contents it's going to be coming in Xbox One first and sort of a lot of other cool stuff uh that came out of it so let's talk a little bit more uh about the games and what sort of came out of that um so I give activation credit they demoed games they said on a totally uh Xbox One console it wasn't generated on a PC and simulated it was actually run on referenc Hardware a lot of stuff came out though after the after the keynote they really didn't get announced so use games games are tied to a console so essentially when you put your disc in it's going to install the game on your hard drive and if you want to give that disc to a friend uh they're or sell it for example they're going to have to pay a fee in order to use that game don't know what the fee is how that's going to work if you're not take it to the internet but you know kind of interesting so you can give internet we also don't know if it requires always on stuff so that's another big question mark we don't know the price which is a big question question mark as well we also don't know backwards compatibility but hopefully we will know all of that come E3 which is now just a few short weeks away so we got a ton of news on the Xbox One i' love to hear you guys thoughts what you think about it if you're excited not excited uh just they announced crazy amount of stuff in a 50-minute period so I give Microsoft credit they've had years to work on this uh the console looks super big uh but hopefully that bigness uh will keep the cost down you know they didn't have to pay that much to strength components but it's definitely a large console um but you know take that for what it's worth it doesn't look bad but certainly is going to take up a lot of space in your component cabinet anyway guys I'm excited about it it looks very cool U can't wait to get our hands on it take a look at some gameplay of course at E3 we will be there covering it in force again want to hear your thoughts please give this video a big fatty thumbs up we most definitely appreciate it I am John reter from tcho Buffalo see you guys next videowhat's up everyone John rer from TechnoBuffalo here Microsoft's Xbox event just wrapped up and they went through a ton of stuff in just about a 55 minute time frame so if you missed the announcement I'm going to take you through step by step of everything that got announced some things that didn't get announced there but came out afterwards and all kinds of Xbox goodness stick around let's go through it together all right so let's start at the beginning Microsoft's own Dawn matrick took the stage and he said and I quote we spent the past four years working on this so that was kind of cool they gave a brief Xbox history and they finally said the name of the Next Generation console it's not the Xbox 720 Xbox Fusion the official name is the Xbox One poor HTC and they called it the Xbox one because it's an all-in-one Entertainment System we'll get talked about that more as we go along but it does a lot of things in one console hence the name Xbox one uh so they talked about a new controller and connect was also announce talk about that a little bit later a ton of new stuff with connect uh really heavy emphasis on TV there's a totally new TV experience and you can access that TV experienceing some pretty baller voice commands that worked really well you know TV on switch to music and all kinds of other stuff it uses your voice just incredibly well and voice commands allow you to instantly switch between games TV music movies full Internet Explorer and other apps so that was kind of cool they announced something called Snap mode you can snap back and forth different things allows you to view two things at once like like watching a movie and doing a quick web search kind of neat also one thing that was really excited about is Skype for Xbox totally built in so you can Skype your friends while you're playing a game you could talk some trash or you can just use it for Skype on your TV uh a lot of ESPN Centric stuff was also announced you're going to get notifications of your favorite players and teams so that's kind of cool if you're a big into sports you can also snap various stats next to live supported game so kind of cool too uh next thing Xbox One guide it's a full TV Guide what it's going to do and they didn't announce this at the keynote they announced afterwards essentially going to work on top of your cable Box's DVR so it access all the content but it'll put the Xbox UI on top of it kind of neat uh you get trending and favorite options there um but the big deal here the system specs what is the Xbox One going to pack so 8 GB of RAM USB 3.0 a Blu-ray Drive which T's the head of that Blu-ray Consortium uh kind of cool to see a Blu-ray Drive in there so bigger games more storage of course HDMI in or out 8 core GPU 500 GB hard drive no that solid state or not uh there are three separate operating systems which are kind of cool first there's the Xbox OS there's a full windows kernel and finally there's an OS that allows you to switch between the other two instantly so that's kind of cool so the windows kernel hopefully there'll be some cross compatibility between Windows games and Xbox games uh so let's talk about connect first of all good news it's going to be included with every console it's now a 1080p HD camera voice commands are now totally more conversational with it it can read your heartbeat also which is crazy uh just resense uh separate movements movement of the wrist and just more details it could give a much better connect experience uh onto the controller it looks the same but underneath that shell there are 40 design changes Dynamic impulse triggers let you put feedback on the triggers which are kind of cool um it's got Wi-Fi Direct radio stack in there uh it's got all kinds of cool Precision directional pad stuff um built into it integrated battery of course obviously more support for all the smart glass stuff that Microsoft announced uh I guess last year's uh 3 um so natively part of the platform there's all kinds of other stuff that's natively in there uh so Xbox Live so that's kind of cool um for the servers to support that they're going from 15,000 servers to 300,000 servers which is crazy I love stores for music movies games and all of it's going to save in the cloud kind of cool speaking of cloud it's a dedicated game DVR built in uh which will save games to the cloud it's better for you know queuing up multiplayer games as well they told to talk a lot about games EA FIFA Madden NFL NBA Live UFC EA came and talked about a lot of it all of those are going to be powered by EA's new sports engine called ignite so that's kind of cool um they talked about the gaming engine sort of 10 times more animation depth of detail they showed 3D crowds Dynamic Sidelines and daily streams of new content so kind of cool uh then Microsoft Studios came up talked about all the rest of their games so Forza Motorsports 5 I'll be available at launch that was kind of cool and they showed a new game called Quantum break which looked pretty awesome the 15 exclusive titles in the first year eight will be totally new franchises uh there're going to be a Halo TV series which Steven Spielberg is going to be involved in so that's kind of cool um a lot of NFL stuff so I'm appropriately dressed here for it essentially it let integrate with NFL supported games it'll pull up fantasy stats and all kinds of other cool stuff uh there as well so you're big fantasy sports buff like me you're going to like it uh so the Xbox one is going to launch we don't know the date but sometime later this year presumably by the holidays we'll get much more info uh at E3 and then Activision came up and talked about the next Call of Duty Call of Duty ghosts it's going to be built on a whole new engine there's new dog companions Dynamic Maps uh character customization download book contents it's going to be coming in Xbox One first and sort of a lot of other cool stuff uh that came out of it so let's talk a little bit more uh about the games and what sort of came out of that um so I give activation credit they demoed games they said on a totally uh Xbox One console it wasn't generated on a PC and simulated it was actually run on referenc Hardware a lot of stuff came out though after the after the keynote they really didn't get announced so use games games are tied to a console so essentially when you put your disc in it's going to install the game on your hard drive and if you want to give that disc to a friend uh they're or sell it for example they're going to have to pay a fee in order to use that game don't know what the fee is how that's going to work if you're not take it to the internet but you know kind of interesting so you can give internet we also don't know if it requires always on stuff so that's another big question mark we don't know the price which is a big question question mark as well we also don't know backwards compatibility but hopefully we will know all of that come E3 which is now just a few short weeks away so we got a ton of news on the Xbox One i' love to hear you guys thoughts what you think about it if you're excited not excited uh just they announced crazy amount of stuff in a 50-minute period so I give Microsoft credit they've had years to work on this uh the console looks super big uh but hopefully that bigness uh will keep the cost down you know they didn't have to pay that much to strength components but it's definitely a large console um but you know take that for what it's worth it doesn't look bad but certainly is going to take up a lot of space in your component cabinet anyway guys I'm excited about it it looks very cool U can't wait to get our hands on it take a look at some gameplay of course at E3 we will be there covering it in force again want to hear your thoughts please give this video a big fatty thumbs up we most definitely appreciate it I am John reter from tcho Buffalo see you guys next video\n"