Pretty much only three things would work on this homescreen if you're a non-US user:

1) Internet Explorer
2) Skype
3) Forza

Looks placeholder to me. I bet Microsoft can't resist at least putting some Kinect branding shit on there.

Haha, even if the Xbox 360 sells like gangbusters in China, I doubt Microsoft wants them as piracy machines. I doubt even more that those pirated games can get on Xbox Live (which would cut out a major Microsoft revenue stream).

But, then again, Chinese pirates have surprised me before.

(I put this on a previous post, but it's probably relavent here)

Part of the reason the PS3 was so popular overseas instead of the 360 was because the 360 experience was so truncated. We would pay similar Xbox Live fees, but have no access to certain features (Netflix, for example) as opposed to PS3 being free for…

Most people I know in SE Asia are PS3 and PC users. I, of course, can't speak for China.

40 countries sound impressive until you realize there's 196 of them around the world. Plus, a lot of those countries are either in the Western hemisphere or in Europe, which doesn't bode well for the rest of us.

Part of the reason the PS3 was so popular overseas instead of the 360 was because the 360 experience was so truncated. We would pay similar Xbox Live fees, but have no access to certain features (Netflix, for example) as opposed to PS3 being free for online.

Now that the Xbox One has even MORE media features, I wonder…

How is not showing or showing the actual system even part of this discussion. It's a big black glossy box, Sony's will probably be the same.

My issue here is that Microsoft spent more time trying to convince me it can play TV on my TV, instead of showing that it was a console. Sony at least did that much.

The next generation is barely here and it's already full of grizzled soldiers in the dark shooting and stabbing at things until they stop moving.

Because a shitload of crows were chasing them? Also, Sam was never the most competent of the Night's Watch.

Someone should turn this into a Starcraft 2 marine.

While I think next-gen should be defined by more than a graphics bump, it is a little unfair to judge graphical quality between current gen and next gen based on screenshots alone.

I... don't see any particularly enormous heads, except for maybe one person.

That is the smile of a man with other thoughts in his mind.

Looks like they're bringing in ALL of Cirque du Soleil this time.

Nothing is inconceivable, ImThePirate

I guess that's 1.5 full assed rpgs total?

That house ain't happy.

He promised quite more than that too: Smoking pigs who would age and progressively wither from cancer, and detectives so gritty they would've been cast in Noir films.

I misread this as a prequel to Fable. Which confused me, since I don't remember Fable having gritty detectives or smoking pigs, only Molyneux's unrealized promises.