What an absurd take. Do you actually expect every company to publicly announce ever single decision or idea they have?

So in the regards of any future plans, titles, and such being leaked, I say “you reap what you sow.”

They genuinely worked great in home theater setups (proper CEC support for things like universal remotes, soundbar/receiver audio return, HDR auto detect and HDCP passthrough), but the majority of people didn’t care or couldn’t be bothered to dive into the extra capabilities. It was a box that played games.

The Kinect itself was way ahead of it’s time, and still is for a consumer grade camera with the sensor suite it’s got. especially since you can pick them up for under $20 regularly.

I thought the HDMI passthrough was great at the time and really created an elegant all-in-one interface and freed up a much-needed HDMI port on my TV. Unfortunately, there were occasional glitches that became very frustrating to my non-techy wife who would constantly need me to “fix the TV” (I think it usually involved…

I use my Xbox One X to this day for all entertainment needs plus the hdmi in for my cable. If the Series X had the hdmi in I would be using it instead.  But for now the One X is my entertainment central.

I was very sad when they removed Cortana intigration frm Xbox.  I loved having voice control over my cable box, TV and game console.  

It was a lot of cool ideas and a genuine push for innovation. I really liked everything about it on release, including the kinect, which really flourished with some studios. Playing Alien and having the alien find me because I made too much noise in my living room was such a cool and immersive idea. The tv integration…

Spoiler Alert this is exactly what killed Toys R Us in the USA. The vulture capitalists saddled the company with debt that TRU couldn’t pay back, and when the company went into bankruptcy protection, they figured the brand was more valuable to them dead then alive and killed it.

...I liked working there, despite it all.

Part of me wonders if we’ll ever reach a point where the greed gets the better of them. They’ll keep increasing prices because a 10% reduction in sales volume is easily offset by a 20% increase in margins, and once they’ve gone past the tipping point and the product is too expensive for anybody to afford, they’ll just …

It’s really not fine. The exploration in Starfield sucks because the planetary POIs are heavily recycled (due to the scope of the game) and traveling between them is tedious because there’s nothing interesting to see or do on barren planets.

“The moon is empty and barren, do you think Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were bored when they risked their lives achieving one of humanity’s greatest achievements going to the moon!? Exploring another one of our barren empty worlds is like, totally basically the EXACT same thing!”

I don’t doubt they could, in years to come, turn things around. Maybe one day they will release a patch that makes the game something more accessible and easier to play and enjoy, but that’s speculation for now. If anyone can do it it’s Bethesda, they have the resources and time, we’ll see, only time will tell, if…

*definitely not a Bethesda paid customer service rep*: “Actually the worlds AREN’T lifeless and pointless, you’re just playing the game wrong! Why don’t you like fun?”

I don’t know. I feel like, at its very core, there’s a fundamental lack of interesting things to discover in Starfield that no amount of “improved traversal options” can fix.

So I have a theory that he cut it short for most people out of fear of them saying something “political”

The thing that struck me as the most insane about this year’s show was the total lack of any rhyme or reason for the awards that got the Keighley shotgun treatment, and the awards that got an actual presentation.

vs Kojima showing up to once more show off that he knows people in Hollywood.

The way they kept, almost instantly, playing people off was terrible. It really felt like they don’t give a shit about the awards when they have to bring out Kojima to announce nothing for eons. Geoff even ‘thanking’ the first winners for keeping it short felt less like the joke he, no doubt, intended it to be and…

Except that you can easily get a subjective experience from professionals who do this sort of thing for a living. Rtings.com has excellent guides for TV and monitor calibrations, even for specific conditions (bright rooms/dark rooms).