Xbox One: Brave New World?

The new console from Microsoft presents a technological innovation, but is actually ultimately limit the user?
Playing cards for the coming years were exposed. After Nintendo launched the Wii U for its year, and Sony Playstation 4 announced earlier this year, Microsoft also showed how the eighth generation of home consoles should look for her. Xbox One (not to be confused with the first Xbox), revealed last night at a festive event on campus now.
We saw a lot of innovation - the next generation of Kinect controller should detect our body to the level of detection pulse, and the machine itself has no less than three operating systems that run parallel to one another to allow rapid transition between the games and the console's multimedia capabilities. And, there is also a direct connection to your TV set-top box, so you can go without touching the remote broadcasts, as well as recording capabilities and smart program guide.
Like Sony, Microsoft is betting the ex - Box is not as Machine Games - This is perhaps the main function, but its really not the only one. The goal is to make this machine the multimedia center of the living room, a lot better than the previous generation. United States and a handful of other countries (or Israel, in violation of service agreements), the new console can exchange the TV.
Want to see a movie? Enter the Netflix. TV series? Is on Hulu or specialized applications, as neither Microsoft itself sells you a series and films. These are also ex-Box 360 and Playstation 3, but this combination in the next generation will be faster, more comfortable and more rich - with many more experiences that exploit the interactivity of the machine to provide more information about the things you look at.
But along with innovation, come concerns. Bucks - Box Van, more than poop eighth generation console, some innovations are likely to deter the potential user base. The name of innovation, speed and convenience you are asked to give up some things that, you can assume you've thought quite basic.

Do not you buy a game, you buy a license

Even the previous generation of the ex - Books, as well as PlayStation, it was possible to install games on the hard drive of the console to play. When the game is installed on the drive, the steps are loaded faster. In-One comes with a 500 GB drive, all games are installed on the drive, and do not even need the disc to play. Great? Not exactly.
Until now, the disc was a confirmation that you have bought the game. You do not have the disc that the game online, digitally, your account at Microsoft. Only your account. Want to bring the disk to a friend? The game does not just install him as you are using. What will happen? Microsoft did not say exactly, but they are working on a system that would allow to transfer a license to another user. And can appreciate it will not be free.
Gaming companies are trying for years to find a way to make the sale of second hand games. To them, and listed as conditions of use that no one reads, they are not a game but a license to play it on a console one. U.S. law prevented them ban the sale of second hand games because of the doctrine of "first sale," which claims that a person who bought a product may sell it again, but now it seems that Microsoft has found a solution. Want to sell? Sell, we let you, but we will get a share of your profit.

Always Connected? How to

Difficult without the Internet
Before the announcement of Xbox One spread rumors that the new console will require players to be always connected to the Internet, and that the grid will not work, the games will not work. This rumor turns out to be correct. About.
Microsoft does not require you to always stay connected to the network, but does game manufacturers may require it. This is actually a welcome - Microsoft has given developers access to cloud its calculation, in order that they not only allow to keep playing in the cloud but also enrich the experience - to create permanent worlds constantly running on the server (similar to Planetside), organize multiplayer games without the need This console of one of the players will be a server, or even "throw" one player game calculations to the cloud when the console has trouble dealing with them.
The result is, but games makers will decide their title requires an Internet connection when it comes to single-player game. Israel, where many young people spend years in the army, bases citizens without Internet connection, it may frustrate even his face is a positive step.

Big Brother keeping an eye

Microsoft wants you call the console with voice commands, to enable the console to the TV. It says Kinect, according default is always listening. He hears what is going on in your living room.
Does that bother you? It should not bother you. Microsoft is not interested in listening to your living room, and someone breaks the script remote console to record you is relatively conspiratorial and far-fetched, at least at this stage, the security researchers have not put their hands on the One. Does it still bother you? There is not.


Price?

No price, just wait for E3, or even the end of the summer. It is unclear when Microsoft will unveil pricing for its new console, and can only hope you do as part of its press conference at E3, to be held on June 10. We, however, will be there to update you.