The Official XBOX REVEAL Discussion

It's officially Xbox Reveal time, duders! Today's presentation is going to be prime real estate for all kinds of news, game announcements, debut trailers, and meme origins. In an attempt to keep the things organized (similar to E3 press conferences) we have instituted this official discussion thread for so that everybody has a go-to place to discuss the news before, during, and after the show.

Keep Discussions On Topic

This thread is exclusively for the general discussion of the Microsoft Xbox Reveal presentation. Please keep in-depth discussions about specific games in their respective forums.

To help you get where you need to go to talk about anything announced or shown during this press conference, we have created a list of them right here:

• Xbox One
• Call of Duty: Ghosts
• FIFA 14
• Madden NFL 25
• NBA Live 14
• UFC (working title)
• EA Sports Ignite Engine
• Forza Motorsport 5

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When & Where Can I Watch?

The event is scheduled to begin at 10:00 AM PDT / 1:00 PM EDT / 5:00 PM GMT

• Giant Bomb with Commentary (starting around 9:30 AM PDT)
• Xbox.com
• SpikeTV
• Xbox Live

Really looking forward to this event. Sony had a great event, but I have a feeling that Microsoft is gonna top it. I'm curious if they will show more of the ilumniroom.

Sweep's list of the best next gen xbox names:

• Nextbox
• Xbox 720
• Xbox Now!
• Ybox
• Xbox 3 (4?)
• The X Box
• Sexbox
• XXXbox
• KineXbox
• NeXbox
• Gex: Undercover Gecko-box
• Scarlet Witch: Hexbox
• Tyrannosaurus ReXbox
• Quas Exort Wexbox
• Urdnot Wrexbox
• XBawks
• Xbox Bing
• Deus Ex Box

I'm hoping for Eczemabox.

Anyway, when's the chat going to be up?

Very much looking forward to this!

XXXbox is a better name than Sexbox.

Expert use of caps.

XxxBoxxX

@nakattack: XxxXBox420[BROS]XxxX

Psyched for this event. I can't wait to finally have a name and some basic info so that we can start talking about things that matter like games.

@sweep: Xbox IV - The Next Generation: A New Hope

@chaser324: Bad things deserve to happen to us now for suggesting those names

It won't happen, but Ybox is by far my favourite name for it.

In regards to the keynote though, after several years of increasingly tedious E3 displays, I've resigned myself to the idea that it's going to be split evenly between dancing six-year-olds, some ESPN bullshit, and the Call of Duty part. I'd like to be proven wrong, but I'm not going into this one with a lot of optimism.

How about Xbox U? Ridin off the success of that Wii U !

Things to bring over from our other thread

@morbid_coffee said:

Get your bingo cards ready:

@selfconfessedcynic said:

Things to bring over from our other thread

@morbid_coffee said:

Get your bingo cards ready:

@selfconfessedcynic said:

Here's the direct stream without any other web elements, in case people want a backup:

Xbox Live Events Web Player

Hahaha, I hadn't seen his before, I love the idea of actually playing this. It wouldn't work as a game of course but I still want to do it.

It should be called the XX-Box to get more of the female audience

Gametrailers stream seems to be up;

http://www.gametrailers.com/netstorage/xboxcountdown/live.html

I'll probably be watching there, since that's where Jeff'll be, and they have the exclusive official post show.

Will definitely catch the GB archive though.

Probably doing the same. Gametrailers usually have a quality stream, and I'm going to watch the GB commentated version afterwards.

I'm so sick of making predictions for this, but here is my last one. Steve Ballmer drives onstage in a McLaren P1 half way through the show, nearly killing someone. Announces Forza Motorsport 5.

Is there going to be a way to see the live stream on my mobile?

Yup, for the last couple of big events and E3s Gametrailers has been the most solid for me by far (I'm in Sydney, AUS).

Beyond that, the GB commentated archive was the 2nd best thing about the PS4 announcement, right behind Cerny.

I'll check out Jeff on GameTrailers and then switch over to the Giant Bomb stream for the rest of the show.

Hoping for confirmation of native Twitch compatibility.

I'm looking forward to this. E3 this year is going to be great!

Is the chat on the live stream working for anybody? The stream itself is working, but I don't think the chat is.

Nope, the entire thing broke at minute 1 for me. Refreshing gives me a "no show here" page.

Link to the chat is giving an internal server error or Sweedish Chef video... I like the video.

Maybe the Bomb servers got stomped by all the people trying to connect at once?

I refreshed the page and lost the feed. Before that the chat was down.
Double streams though. Get hype.

The chat is all the way busted.

The stream is still functional at twitch.

http://www.twitch.tv/giantbomb

GiantBomb was probably not prepared for thousands of people to hit that one page at once.

I have resorted to watching it on twitch.tv I can't get to it on the site.

I think the stream broke.... I just get the Swedish Chef. yessss

Chat is up and down.

The stream (so far) is fine.

Xbox one, wow just wow. Its better than Wii U I'll give them that, it stilll sound shitty though.

they havent talked about "one" game yet

Nope, stream just won't work properly for me, neither will the chat. Twitch or not.
I'm waiting for it to be archived.
Worked just fine to begin with.

God damn it.

So Xbox One wants to be your set top box, your "all-in-one" solution. Biggest problem with that is that there are a bunch of other devices that already do most of that stuff already...they are throwing their hat into an already crowded ring.

If the PS4 continues to concentrate on games first, they might have a good chance at being successful. I find it promising that these two companies, while offering a very similar product, are actually targeting slightly different audiences. It means both systems cold potentially be "successful."

VHS One or Philips CDI One

It really reminds me of a VHS player

Man is this underwhelming so far.

Halo tv show? :/

Sports, TV, sports, one game teaser, TV, sports...

Really pushing the whole TV and sports things. As someone who lost interest in actual actual television oh so long ago, I'm not sure I'm feeling it.

Time is the fire in which we burn #ignite

I'm sure for people who like things that I don't like, that conference was exciting.

Is this the biggest disparity there has ever been between PCs and consoles for a console launch?

I think the title is a huge mistake.

They never said they would. This event was dedicated to hardware. They said they would be focusing on games at E3.

@herbiebug: I get WHY it's called the Xbox One, I just think it's a really really shitty name. I don't think we're alone in this.

Dog mocap man! The future is here!

:rorie

So far, not much I want out of the Xbox One. The closest thing that appealed to me was Call of Duty, with which I've always had an on/off relationship.

Arm Hair One