The lights are on
Microsoft’s Marc Whitton took the stage along with community manager Ashton to show off some of the new online sharing features for the Xbox One. The system has a built-in DVR to record gameplay moments, and you can use the Upload Studio to tweak footage, add bumpers to your video, record commentary, and post it online.
Ashton showed herself playing Ryse, while she waited for a multiplayer game to be queued up in the background. Once her game was available, she switched over to play a round of Killer Instinct.
They also showed the new timeline which shows real-time statistical updates on what you and your friends are doing. You can see exactly what players are doing, where they are, and their progress. All of these Live functions can be relegated to SmartGlass so you can handle those kinds of things off-screen.
Microsoft also announced a partnership with Twitch.com. You will be able to broadcast your gameplay to Twitch followers, and have chat rooms similar to the interface of using Twitch online.
Finally Microsoft announced that with the Xbox One, Microsoft Points will officially be a thing of the past. We can finally use money to buy things on the Xbox One. Imagine that.
What do you think of these new additions?
Head to page two to see the full press release for Twitch on Xbox One.
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i'm glad they got rid of Microsoft points
Sounds awesome. Kind of glad to see MS Points go. It was a rather pointless concept...
This is all pretty interesting, but its not a selling point for me yet.
Fine.
I think Microsoft should keep the points system, simply dilute it and make each point worth an United States penny. Otherwise, reimburse my points or convert them to a prepaid balance like with PlayStation Dollars. Currency changes depending on your registered origin.
Wow twitch sounds cool. I wonder why they didn't tell us the cool new functions when they did the reveal.
I don't understand why they decided to get rid of Microsoft points, for so many of us users who'd purchase them directly from the marketplace or bought points cards. It was a money saving opportunity in buying the latest in threads for our avatars, full XBLA titles after trying out the free-trial versions, etc. After being rewarded from buying Season Passes of some my favorite games. Do you know how much money I've saved without having to purchase the game and season pass at the same time? All of my in game items are tied into the whole points system. When, I lacked the points that I needed I could at least buy, $5.00 worth so that I could then afford my Indie games or add-ons that I wanted. Shoot, for DOA5 alone, I've spent over $20.00 on DLC outfits. At least, I can get some free game downloads for all of my hard earned loyalty this time around. I was just about to have a lifetime total of 3000 points earned for being a Xbox Live Rewards member. This bites.
These were great when they were announced but sony blew them out of th water.
This was the part of the conference where they talked about Xbox Live Gold sharing. Why is no one talking about this?
MS points are ridiculous, but I don't care about Twitch. At all.
How about letting us play our 360games on xbox one. For five hundred bucks is that to much to ask? You say its the all in one gaming console, but can only play one games. I just dont see why its so difficult to make it so when tou want to play older games you dont have to hook your older sytem back up. I mean we spend alot of money on those games. And you sxpect us to drop them for your new system. Well since they arent going to have alot of games offered for it right off let it be backwards compatible. That way for those of us who cant aford multiple expensive ass tvs and dont have room for a gagillion things on our mantle. For your all about options sytem you kind of dropped the ball there. Just saying.