I still have my money on just “Xbox”, taking a page from Apple’s book.
XCube or something stupid.
I hope they learn from the horrible choices they made with the Xbox 360 interface and hardware choices.
It’ll be called the 720. Not just for consistency’s sake, but because that’s what everyone already calls it. They want people to know it and remember it.
Nope, we’re both wrong.
XBOX ONE.
what the hell is that crap? lol
Does that mean I win? I think that falls into the “something stupid” category.
I believe so, yep.
Well yeah, that makes sense… name the third XBox… XBox One… 
I’m wondering if they were worried about confusion with 720 and 1080 resolutions.
Or if they just realized that their numbering system would be out of control at XBox 1080! XBox 2160!!! XBOX 43- you get the idea.
Star Wars effect.
Not sure to understand the heart beat detection thing.
Does this feature will have a direct impact in the game? To control your stress or else? O _o…
New controllers allow for cardio fitness games to exercise ; not to mention home health diagostics.
If they were to add a TV tuner and DVDR/BRR HW they’d really could make the xBox a one stop living room device.
With HDMI and controls you could use SW to turn on TV and remind folk to take their medicine with load messages / videos and nice things like that.
Monitor for incoming tornados and other inclement weather and turn on the TV loud and load a video recording with proper safety procedures. You could make software that you could feed blueprints (or good photographs to) and create muster points in emergencies. You could have the software pull up a Bings Map and send people to the nearest underground bunker or safest place in a tornado.
With just a bit of extra HW it’s possible to be very creative helpful to people with the XBox One.
Now where are those folk that are always complaining that ideals are worthless and that the game market is flooded with crap in the same sentence?
Ideal people are very important. Steve Jobs was an ideal person. Bill Gates is an ideal person.
In some cases it’s better to try and publicize ideals free because it’s the right thing to do when it involves safety despite the urge to keep it secret and attempt to make money for myself for the ideal. Microsoft and others are better positioned to use the ideals to help people with resources I don’t have. And if that helps there marketing angle, well I’m all for marketing safety.
LOL, Microsoft you can click my website link at http://thundercell.co/ and help my SEO traffic at my floundering hobby.
Actually I do like the safety aspects of how the XBox and other consoles can be utilized, especially with SW / HW timers and HDMI links being able to turn on and play safety related videos and plans for the typical home user.
So if you like that ideal, take it and run with it. Just send a note to jagrogan SPAM thundercell SPAM co and I will save it and if I get enough emails: say, 10,000 I will forward the emails to the console makers to try and get the needed HW and SW timers and HDMI autolinks programmed to create this kind of weather / disaster monitoring and safety instructions and plans possible.
Newer HW Consoles probably already allow this type SW for all I know. I just don’t have the resources to pursue this.
The original Xbox is commonly known as the Xbox 1, so Xbox One is going to be confusing.
If it were me, I’d just screw with people and call it the Playstation-U Box
haha not backwards compatible.
Good way to screw over the fans.
/sniggers as he sits at his pc
PC’s have been backwards compatible for 30 years, people need to get with the program already.
PC’s are also forward compatible!
yay pcs!
I haven’t had a chance to read up on it yet - any news on the always-online DRM stuff? Is that going to be a part of it?
No
Hmmm, Is it still the law in the US that DVD / BR players use region codes? I must have close to 1000 region 2 DVDs.
My suggestion was always for them to call it “Xbox5” just to piss off Sony.
Well, that’s not entirely true. Developers still have the option to require games to have a constant internet connection.
I’ve heard that it will sign on to the internet every 24 hours, but not require a constant connection. However, the “no used games” part is hilarious.