Showing posts with label XBox One. Show all posts
Showing posts with label XBox One. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Microsoft Xbox One in Singapore


The long wait for Microsoft Xbox One in Singapore is finally coming to an end. Almost 8 months after Sony Play Station 4 release in SingaporeMicrosoft Xbox One will be launched in Singapore on September 23,  2014. The new XBox One will be retailed from $639 here. Motion sensing Xbox One with Kinect will cost $739.

Xbox One video game console was announced on May 21, 2013 and it is already released across North America, several European markets, Australia, and New Zealand on November 22, 2013. Singapore will be among 26 markets (others being Argentina, Belgium, Chile, Colombia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Hungary, India, Israel, Japan, Korea, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Slovakia, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and UAE). This successor of the iconic Xbox 360 directly competes with Sony's PlayStation 4 and Nintendo's Wii U.

Xbox One is a real hardware beast : it has an 8-core CPU and GPU SoC (system on a chip), 8GB DDR3 RAM, a Blu-ray drive, and a 500GB onboard hard drive, HDMI in and out. One of the most important new features of the Xbox One is the x86 architecture, which is shared by the PS4, and could lead to a proliferation of console-purposed apps thanks to the wide development community.

In Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), Microsoft also announced a spectacular lineup of games for Xbox One such as "Halo: The Master Chief Collection", "Sunset Overdrive", "Forza Horizon 2", "Fable Legends" and "Dance Central Spotlight":

Xbox One E3 Briefing
A photo from Xbox One E3 Briefing
Flanked by some of video gaming’s most celebrated creators, Microsoft unveiled an incredible games lineup, including new iterations of its most popular franchises. 343 Industries lifted the curtain on “Halo: The Master Chief Collection” for Xbox One, which includes the complete story of the Master Chief on one console for the first time ever (“Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary,” “Halo 2 Anniversary,” “Halo 3” and “Halo 4”), including an entirely remastered version of the iconic classic that revolutionized online console gaming, “Halo 2 Anniversary.” A massive collection that lets you experience “Halo” in an all-new way, at higher visual fidelity running at 60 frames per second (fps) on dedicated servers, “Halo: The Master Chief Collection” features curated campaign and multiplayer playlists across all four games and features more than 100 multiplayer maps — authentic to their original release. In addition, “Halo 2 Anniversary” will include six all-new maps built from the ground up for Xbox One.
Source : Xbox Delivers Winning Lineup of Exclusive Games for this Holiday Season

 
“Halo 5: Guardians” will be released in fall of 2015, but followers can satisfy themselves for a while from 
November with "Halo: The Master Chief Collection" which puts more than a decade of first man shooter
blockbuster into one disc.


Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Xbox One available to pre-order on Amazon, release in Asia is in late 2014


Bad news for gamers in Singapore and Asia looking forward to buy a Microsoft’s forthcoming Xbox One console: although the new gaming console will launch in November 2013 in the West, it will not be released in Asia until late 2014!

XBox One is currently available for pre-order in online retailers like Amazon.com. It will be available in 21 countries by November 2013. Xbox One will be available for $499 in the United States, 429 pounds in Britain and 499 euros in Europe. According to Wall Street Journal, Asia Regional Sales & Marketing Manager Alan Bowman said that Microsoft Xbox One is scheduled to release in Asian region by late 2014 about a year after the launch in the United States and other countries. The markets to receive it will be Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore and South Korea.

Speaking with TODAY on the sidelines of the E3 gaming convention, Mr Alan Bowman, Microsoft Xbox 360 Regional Vice-President for Retail, Greater Asia region, confirmed reports that the Xbox One would be launching much later in Asia.
"We have a deliberate strategy in terms of when we launch a product, I think traditionally with previous versions we have a staged approach,” said Mr Bowman. “One of the things that is key for us is to make sure we have the right localised experiences for customers."
Source : Xbox One to launch in Singapore ‘late 2014’
Xbox One Day One Edition is available to pre-order on Amazon.
So Sony will be left without a main competitor for PS4 in its native Japan:
"While the 3DS continues to see strong sales, and promises of upcoming titles for the Wii U will likely bolster the struggling home console’s performance, Nintendo’s approach to gaming and hardware in general puts it and Sony on a quite different playing fields, with either company’s products often appealing to markedly different consumer bases."
Source : Xbox One delayed in Asia until late 2014, no release date for Japan
Here are the 21 countries where XBox One will be released in November 2013:
  • Australia
  • Austria
  • Belgium
  • Brazil
  • Canada
  • Denmark
  • Finland
  • France
  • Germany
  • Ireland
  • Italy
  • Mexico
  • Netherlands
  • New Zealand
  • Norway
  • Russia
  • Spain
  • Sweden
  • Switzerland
  • United Kingdom
  • United States