The Ready Up Podcast – Season 2, Episode 19 – “Un-Xbox-ing”

This one is a bit of an epic, but with good cause as Tony, Producer John, Simon and Duncan discuss, dissect, debate and, in some cases, deride the reveal of the new Xbox ONE.

A brief list of topics covered:

• The name
• The console itself and the new Kinect
• The controller
• TV and also TV
• Is it a games console, less than, more than?
• Specs, graphics and whether 5 billion transistors is important or not
• The mega-extended Live server estate and what it means
• The CoD Dog
• And also TV

The Big Question:

Did the new Xbox deliver, will it deliver in the future?

Things we talked about:

To just have a squint at the hardware :

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TP_E6Bn6fWM[/youtube]

The full reveal video is available :

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bFVptu6QbY[/youtube]

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Ready Up Podcast theme music courtesy of Tommy Tallarico.