Xbox Series |OT|

[Legend]

XBOX ARRIVED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[the-pi-guy]

XBOX ARRIVED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pics or it didn't happen.  

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Welcome to next gen!!! &nbsp;<br>

[Legend]

Pics or it didn't happen.  

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Welcome to next gen!!!  

It has been 7 years since I played on xbox!

[the-pi-guy]

It has been 7 years since I played on xbox!

I didn't realize you worked at windows central.  

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Congrats on the prototype! <br>

[Legend]

I didn't realize you worked at windows central.  

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Congrats on the prototype!

Glad my joke was obvious. Don't need angry emails from Xbox.


My retail system is still in the box. Finishing up some work first lol.

[Legend]

I played a few minutes of portal bridge thing before throwing it in the trash.

That might be the only game I play today lol. The really cool games I want to save till I'll actually enjoy them, and I'm really tired/work focused. Maybe I'll play Forza Horizon since it's just a simple fun game.

Probably my most anticlimactic new console ever lol. It sucks being an adult with "responsibilities."

[Xevross]

I played a few minutes of portal bridge thing before throwing it in the trash.

That might be the only game I play today lol. The really cool games I want to save till I'll actually enjoy them, and I'm really tired/work focused. Maybe I'll play Forza Horizon since it's just a simple fun game.

Probably my most anticlimactic new console ever lol. It sucks being an adult with "responsibilities."

Lol, portal bridge is such a terrible game to start a new console with.

[Legend]

Lol, portal bridge is such a terrible game to start a new console with.

You're telling me!

I've moved over to Outer Wilds. This sure isn't a next gen showcase, but at least it's an incredible game.

[Legend]

The xbox ui is so incredibly confusing for me. I have accidentally started Alien Isolation 3 times because that button took me to the download list up till Alien reached a specific download threshold.

[the-pi-guy]

It doubles as a gamecube stand:

[the-pi-guy]

A new friend in my room :D pic.twitter.com/iLouZBTpES

— Shuhei Yoshida (@yosp) November 11, 2020

[kitler53]

It doubles as a gamecube stand:

if you want your console to overheat...

[Legend]

Day 1 Xbox Series X review


Pros:
I love the box. It looks small even and is just cool.
Gamepass is well integrated so it's easy to search for things to play.
Individual controllers can be synced to specific accounts.
Trigger rumble is nice.
3D avatars are fun and nostalgic. It brought over my old avatars from 360 and I was horrified lol.

Mixed:
The home screen is confusing but is highly customizable.

Cons:
It's sluggish. Don't know if it's day one network issues or something else, but the menus sometimes hang and loading bars are not uncommon. Downloads are way worse than what I'm used to on PC and PS4. In game loading is not instant.
It's seemingly a single player system? Can log additional people in but all controllers control the homescreen at the same time and unless I'm missing something, it has PS3/360 levels of user management.
Doesn't feel like next gen. This is specific to me since I don't have a 4K tv and have yet to play a series x optimized game, but it feels like a PS4. There is no flagship game to play.
The shape of the box is not user friendly. It's ugly on its side and while my entertainment cabinets are large enough to fit it vertically, I fear the upper vent needs more than an inch of clearance.
Doesn't seem to download while in rest mode. Might be a glitch.


I'd sum it up as a great place to play great games, and a meh place to play meh games. Hopefully most of my issues are just from me being an idiot. Otherwise I really hope they patch some things.

I've only played Outer Wilds today. Downloading has been too slow to try out other games.

[Legend]

Looking online it seems servers are having issues and rest mode downloading was disabled.

Also way way too early to know if series x has good or bad rates of failure, but seems there are a variety of issues plaguing people. Craziest is this:

Buddy of mines new xbox came with a campfire feature. : XboxSeriesX

[Xevross]

Day 1 Xbox Series X review


Pros:
I love the box. It looks small even and is just cool.
Gamepass is well integrated so it's easy to search for things to play.
Individual controllers can be synced to specific accounts.
Trigger rumble is nice.
3D avatars are fun and nostalgic. It brought over my old avatars from 360 and I was horrified lol.

Mixed:
The home screen is confusing but is highly customizable.

Cons:
It's sluggish. Don't know if it's day one network issues or something else, but the menus sometimes hang and loading bars are not uncommon. Downloads are way worse than what I'm used to on PC and PS4. In game loading is not instant.
It's seemingly a single player system? Can log additional people in but all controllers control the homescreen at the same time and unless I'm missing something, it has PS3/360 levels of user management.
Doesn't feel like next gen. This is specific to me since I don't have a 4K tv and have yet to play a series x optimized game, but it feels like a PS4. There is no flagship game to play.
The shape of the box is not user friendly. It's ugly on its side and while my entertainment cabinets are large enough to fit it vertically, I fear the upper vent needs more than an inch of clearance.
Doesn't seem to download while in rest mode. Might be a glitch.


I'd sum it up as a great place to play great games, and a meh place to play meh games. Hopefully most of my issues are just from me being an idiot. Otherwise I really hope they patch some things.

I've only played Outer Wilds today. Downloading has been too slow to try out other games.

Seems okay so far then, like you said the download issues are due to the server overload on launch day.

The rumble triggers were the best part about the xb1 controller, I was jealous of them the entire gen.