If we get an announcement for Nier Automata could we get Nier (360 version) added to the BC list, maybe as a e3 gift?
Microsoft At E3 2018
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Or do like they used to do and include the old game when you buy the new game.
I never played the first Nier.
Interesting...check the VR/AR stuff. This is a list of everything X1 related at E3 without specifics:
https://mp1630k065.mapyourshow.com/...f3ce25476-2BC1E0C8-EDE5-CD67-C0B195E28CC15403
https://mp1630k065.mapyourshow.com/...f3ce25476-2BC1E0C8-EDE5-CD67-C0B195E28CC15403
One of the publishers is nDreams. From their website:
"We are the UK's largest developer and publisher solely focused on creating virtual reality (VR) games and experiences.
We’ve honed our dedicated VR skills by creating multiple games and experiences for all the leading platforms, including The Assembly, Danger Goat, Perfect, Perfect Beach, Gunner and SkyDIEving."
They also make Shooty Fruity for VR platforms.
All signs pointing to a surprise Xbox Mixed Reality unveiling at the show.
Edit: I'm not sure if this really means anything. If you click on Atlus, you get:
- Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality > Nintendo Switch
- Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality > Sony Playstation 4
- Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality > Xbox One
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What if instead of a video trailer for halo 6 they tease it through cryptic AR game to the press/Rollins something like they had at e3 a few years ago. Before one could play warzone, they'd be in this briefing area and get visual descriptions, but here it could just be a tease to events that lead up to H6. It would just drive fans mad but surely get people hyped, sorta
Sorry, but I think it's rather important whether or not Xbox jumps into the VR game. The only clue we've really gotten so far from Microsoft about Xbox and MR was from a job listing from 343i for Creative Director for a Halo VR game only a couple of months ago.
https://www.bleedingcool.com/2018/03/26/a-new-343-industries-job-listing-gives-hint-to-halo-in-vr/
https://www.bleedingcool.com/2018/03/26/a-new-343-industries-job-listing-gives-hint-to-halo-in-vr/
I would have to think that the OG Xbox One and the S would be a hindrance to a quality VR experience.
And what if the reason that Microsoft waited was to let VR become MORE ready? What if this version of VR contains 1 or more elements that has never been done at all?
In case anyone else is interested about a possible MR headset for Xbox, Korea Times had an interesting article the other day where they mentioned that Microsoft was further partnering with Samsung for a wireless AR/VR headset. It could just be another WMR headset... but maybe this is a bigger story. We know that the word wireless was dropped by both Phil Spencer and Alex Kipman, as what they were after first...
http://m.koreatimes.co.kr/phone/news/view.jsp?req_newsidx=248527
http://m.koreatimes.co.kr/phone/news/view.jsp?req_newsidx=248527
I'm confused, is mixed reality the same as augmented reality?
If MS got Hololense to a friendly mass consumer price point and started hitting augmented reality instead o f--lost all hype and nobody seems to car anymore- VR, then that could be huge. Hololense was such a fantastic device with massive potential in gaming and beyond, but MS seemed to kill it with a ridiculous price.
It's not just you. Microsoft seems to have everyone confused with their terminology, and it's largely their own fault. Windows Mixed Reality is their blanket term for their OS, which covers everything... but they also extend the term to all compatible hardware.
This is confusion started when they first touted Hololens as Mixed Reality, as opposed to AR. Next they released a variety of compatible 'MR' headsets from a variety of manufacturers, but those are really nothing but VR headsets with inside-out tracking.
Now, it's highly possible that the next version of compatible Windows Mixed Reality headsets has TRUE Mixed Reality. True MR (in my opinion) would be either something like Hololens that also does VR, or a closed VR device that also has a passthrough camera, mimicking what Hololens can do. That article from Korea Times specifically mentions both AR and VR capability, which is also what Apple has been working on. I'm of the opinion that the later version would be much cheaper than Hololens, which also is rumored to get a consumer release date soon, as MS does not consider current Hololens a consumer device.
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Microsoft have recently registered a trademark for MIXER REALITY.
https://trademarks.justia.com/879/10...-87910491.html
https://trademarks.justia.com/879/10...-87910491.html
Even if they have better tech I certainly don't have confidence in the software side of it. It's completely believable to me that MS would release a VR headset that's quite a bit better than Sony's VR offering......but at the same time lacking games for it.
VR are the electric cars of the digital/game and entertainment industry, but the current version out are definitely no Tesla
VR needs more competition to build audience, top player Sony says
https://uk.reuters.com/article/us-s...d-audience-top-player-sony-says-idUKKCN1BX10M
Also, some think playing on a flat screen is a waste of resources, when we have the capability to be IN that world.
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Well they only sold 2 million units 6 months a go, with a console install base of 60 million. Seems to me that competition isn't the issue. Either VR doesn't have the audience they expected or the devices lack compelling software.
I said this when all the VR craze was going on, but VR came a decade too soon atleast.
It's a platform within a platform. It's going to take time. It's also got to keep improving, which will not happen unless they keep manufacturing it.
Put it this way. There is a reason that Apple, Google, Samsung, and Microsoft are spending so much R&D on AR/VR right now. When is the right product at the right time? I don't know, but there's nothing anyone can do to stop it when the floodgates open. Nothing, short of a technology collapse.
As much as I want Microsoft to compete soon, I believe they only should do so if they bring something new to the table...not just affordability, but new abilities.
I've always said it was a waste of resources that could be better spent on something else, at the same time I can understand why they are trying something "new" but just about every peripheral that's come out for a console has failed over the long term.
Kinect sold well at first but after the novelty wore off it died, sadly MS tried to make it the center of the X1 and it hurt them big time. Sony has pushed peripherals in the past like Move but they've never gone beyond niche status. Nintendo seems to be the only one with any real success at this kind of thing with the Wii but that console (like just about every other Nintendo console) only did well for Nintendo, 3rd parties which are the backbone of the industry would have died if they relied on sales from Nintendo console owners.
I'm sure the thinking is/was that VR is going to open the doors to new experiences and most people I know who have a PSVR like it even in it's limited state but I just don't see something like that having broad enough appeal to "be the future of gaming" there may be room for it as a sort of secondary market but that's about it, same goes for AR in my opinion as well.