La presentazione della nuova Xbox (nome in codice Durango) al prossimo E3 di Los Angeles è ormai certa. Proprio in queste ore stanno infatti iniziando a circolare in rete tantissime indiscrezioni sulla nuova console di Microsoft.
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Per iniziare, i colleghi di The Verge riportano che fonti molto vicine a Microsoft avrebbero parlato di un’esperienza utente notevolmente migliorata grazie a un sistema molto simile a quello che è attualmente Apple Siri. Per capire la naturalezza dei comandi vocali vengono riportati alcuni esempi. Ad esempio sarà possibile accendere la console entrando nella stanza e pronunciando le parole “Xbox ON!“ oppure richiedere la lista degli amici connessi dicendo semplicemente: “Xbox, quali amici stanno giocando?“. Questo tipo di interazione con l’utente permetterà una veloce composizione dei messaggi e ciò lascia presupporre che Skype possa essere portato anche su questa nuova console.
“Most of what’s in there today really is Windows, right? I wouldn’t be surprised if the next round of interface comes even closer to Windows 8 than it is today.[…] On the [Xbox hardware] itself there is no profit, so the profit comes from all the other sources; royalties from game developers, maybe the next Halo version, maybe a new Kinect system and what have you.
So when you look at that…God…it is such a small portion for their company. It would really be better if they would just spin that whole thing out and let other people run it on their own and not get distracted by it. For me that whole environment is a distraction for the company.
They need to find out how to get this whole PC environment into the 21st century and to have an interesting, modern interface like they have on Windows 8 isn’t enough. It just isn’t. You have to make these devices work together.
You can breathe some oxygen into that very stressed PC environment by doing it right, but nobody does, or at least not Microsoft so far. It’s frustrating. Think about it; they spend 10 billion bucks a year on research and development but what do you really get for it? A new version of Windows and Office? Hallelujah! And maybe once every three years there is a new version of Xbox. And Halo, you know, is normally a year and a half or something like that and is that good enough? I don’t know…“
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