Insane Xbox One Midnight Launch + Steam’s Streaming + Minecraft Twitch

What’s up guys I’m Ashley Jenkins and Richard teeth is here at times square in new york city where fans have been lining up all day for the midnight launch of xbox one as the date takes over across the globe lucky fans are already getting their hands on their

Shiny new consoles New Zealand no not only friends hobbits but also for being the first major country across the dateline was the first to begin selling the console and kiwi den Livingston has become the first official Xbox one buyer in the world congratulations Dan back when the console was announced in May it

Was widely criticized for acquiring a daily online check-in an early pre-order figures had playstation 4 outpacing it by nearly two to one Xbox one has since closed to the gap with the latest figures of showing ps4 leading it by only ten percent now Sony had an enormously successful launch selling

More than 1 million PlayStation 4’s in the first 24 hours but connects Fox won’t match that I guess we’re about to find out EA certainly believes the xbox one will sell just as well as PlayStation 4 they estimated that the shoe consoles will sell a combined 10

Million units by the end of march next year now if they match the projections made by Sony’s Andrew house a 5 million playstation 4 sold in the same time period and they believe that xbox one will also sell 5 million Ubisoft has also stated that they believe for Xbox

One will be a big seller and that their pre order numbers on games before that system have improved drastically we see lots of improvement in the pre orders that are coming on Xbox one shares Ubisoft CEO Eve gimo when microsoft announced a reversal of their online check-in policy they also announced that

The console to require a day one system update via Xbox Live to bring the console in line with our new policies yesterday a support page on the Xbox site was discovered that made the day one update available for download and installation via a USB Drive as an alternative for consoles that couldn’t

Connect to the internet however that page has now been removed with Microsoft saying the site was not an alternative way to take the day one update and customers still need to connect to xbox live for the update they also cite the complexity of the update process and urge customers who aren’t able to

Connect their console to the internet to contact support who will walk them through the update process directly moving on valve has detailed there in home sharing process which will be a key component of accessing their entire 3,000 plus games Steam library via steam machine steamos their game centric

Operating system will be linux-based so it’ll native run any game that supports Linux but that’s only about ten percent of the current library and they want to enable you to play the other ninety percent that’s where in-home streaming comes in essentially you’ll be able to take the

Most powerful mac or windows based PC in your house and turn it into a workhorse to process the game which will then stream over your in-home network to the Machine you’re actually interacting with like say your living room based steam machine one important thing to note is

You won’t be able to use the machine that’s actually streaming the game for anything else while it’s processing the game essentially locking it down also if you don’t already have access to a powerful PC in the house you may have trouble running some of the more system intensive games available on the

Platform finally if you’re an avid minecraft fan you’ll be glad to know that one click twitch streaming is now available for the PC version of the game in the latest snapshot to enable it go dear mojang account connect your twitch account to it and then you can adjust

Your broadcast settings to download the snapshot create a new profile from the launcher called snapshots and enable experimental development snapshots but buyer beware a number of prominent twitch streamers have reported being banned in their channels shut down after they complained about the ban of a fellow streamer who made it just about

One of the admins and found himself locked out of the platform and if you can keep all that straight you’re way ahead of us and that’s the news today do you think xbox one will sell a million units in its first day like PlayStation

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