Official Xbox One Thread

[Timber]

Pinball FX2 is now live with table transfers.

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Very cool. I will play that heavily when I get back from Gen Con Sunday.

[Korly]

Not all of the 360 tables have made it to the One though.

[Chux]

Preview Dash 1409 should be rolling out. Unadvertised feature, plug in a USB Storage device to get the media player.

MKV support isn't in yet, but most other formats work.

[Korly]

Where's my Street Fighter II Pinball FX table for next gen?

[Yoshi]

On PS4

[Chux]

Speaking of, that Guardians table is EMBARASSING. I cringe when fake Star-Lord talks.

[ChaoofNee]

I hear that it's one of the better tables gameplay-wise, though.

[Yoshi]

It's Origin all over again. The douchiest of publishers (meaning Ubisoft follows EA) will want their own SaaS subscription just like they wanted their own digital store front and horrible DRM "platform." Since Ubisoft is slightly less douchey than EA, they'd probably not lock their games up into their own exclusively, but it's still a slippery slope.

I'd like to talk about the EA Access issue. Sony put out a strongly-worded statement that suggested it wasn't good value for PlayStation customers. The reaction from some was, we'd like that decision for ourselves. We'd like the choice. How do you feel about that reaction?

Shuhei Yoshida: The statement might look aggressive. But the thinking behind it is, we just do not look at one proposition, like EA Access. We look at the whole offering of the titles or services on the platform, and we thought about the impact of having something like that as a new symptom. If every publisher follows suit, and as a consumer you have to choose by publisher which service to subscribe to, that's not something we believe is best for consumers.

So we are not just looking at that one proposition. We were thinking about the impact that might have for the future offering of products and services on PlayStation.

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That’s not to say that Ubisoft isn’t willing to explore different business models. The company is keeping a watchful eye on EA’s new Access program on Xbox One, and Guillemot sees benefits beyond the revenue.

“I think it makes the publisher more important in the player’s mind,” he says. “Often, people are only interested in one brand from a publisher, so they don’t look for other brands. When you buy into something like Access, you can try other things for free and discover other things you like. It’s a way to make sure gamers can get more info on what we do and the diversity of our portfolio.”

Guillemot likens the idea of publisher “Access” subscriptions to television channels. “When you look on your console, you have many channels and you want that diversity,” he says. “Instead of saying everything’s in one place, we can say ‘Okay, try these channels: EA, Ubi, Activision.’

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How predictably awful.

[EvilMog]

It's not that bad of a deal. Why are you bitching anyways? Go back to your glorious PC gaming.

[Chux]

Alone it's not a bad deal. When everybody starts doing it, it certainly kills what PS+ has going for it, so I can see why the Sony camp would be salty about it.

I haven't subbed, FWIW.