Yesterday I bought the Xbox One.
I love the console. The controller feels great, almost too light for comfort … like if I gave it a good sweaty-palmed rage-clench it would shatter, but the contours feel lovely.
I haven’t gotten any full games yet because there aren’t any that appeal to me (at full price). I’m waiting for Destiny and every future Halo title, mainly. So the 360 is still my primary console.
Anyway, here is the point of this topic:
Any Xbox One owners, is there anything I should know or be on the look out for? Any issues?
I looked online for any and only saw resolved LIVE issues, so it seems like a pretty solid machine. The Red Ring of Death got me with the 360 and I didn’t get a new one until the “slim” came out and only after several sources verified the RRoD didn’t affect those. So I was a little apprehensive.
I got the warranty for the One so I’m not too concerned, I just wanted to hear what you guys thought of it.
I’m still on the fence with the controller. It feels like the 360 controller after some major dieting and is certainly more comfortable. It just seems so frail. I also noticed the 360’s has visible screw-holes in the back to mount the face-plates, whereas the ONE’s apparently pop-on. It looks a lot better, but I don’t know how well it’ll hold up. (I got two, so I should be good for a while).
Anyway, what do you guys think? Likes & dislikes about the Xbox One, etc.
One issue from the top of my head you can fix is the Kinect voice chat mic. being on. It’s automatically set so that people can hear you through the kinect mic. when playing any online games. You can turn it off just by going to your settings. I still hear people online who still don’t realize that their kinect mic. is on.
And one more thing. Many Xbox Ones, including mine, had a problem where the console wouldn’t take in the disc correctly, resulting in a scary clanking sound. For that, I had to send my Xbox One in and get it replaced. However, the good thing is, I got Dead Rising 3 for free because they promised people that had this problem that they could choose an Xbox One game and get a code for it. Although, I’m not sure if Microsoft is still doing that promotion. So just make sure that your console takes in Xbox One discs correctly.
Overall, I really like the Xbox One a lot. I hope those tips helped.
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I don’t have a smartphone and NSA can spy on me much as they want cause I got nothin. Plus its way off topic since we’re talking about the XB1 and not other electronics.
I never bothered setting the up the kinect. It’s still in the box. One reason is the reason you mentioned, but not for me. My fiancee doesn’t like the idea of having a camera on all the time.
Also, I don’t want to be that guy sitting there yelling at my Xbox like a lunatic. There’s nothing I can do or want to do with a kinect that my controller can’t do just fine.
There’s also nothing going on here worth seeing …
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Implying they need a smartphone to spy you with.
And, you might not have anything right now, but, in the future, NSA might use the info they got from you against you if you have something in the future.
What ever happened to good-old-fashioned sitting in a tree with binoculars spying through a window? Laziness these days.
ON TOPIC:
I just found out you can play a game while it’s installing! I’ll trade some privacy for that. It took nearly an hour to install all of Halo 4. And LA Noire? Forget about it!
Laziness these days, I tell ya.
> What ever happened to good-old-fashioned sitting in a tree with binoculars spying through a window? Laziness these days.
Um…perverts? What you think the Kinect is if it’s on 24/7 on the XB1?
> ON TOPIC:
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> I just found out you can play a game while it’s installing! I’ll trade some privacy for that. It took nearly an hour to install all of Halo 4. And LA Noire? Forget about it!
> Laziness these days, I tell ya.
If someone would sit there and watch me I would feel quite humbled, the fact that someone waits 24/7 just to see in me in my underwear 50% of the time is flattering. Now I feel like dancing infront of the kinect for my admirer gets oil
> If someone would sit there and watch me I would feel quite humbled, the fact that someone waits 24/7 just to see in me in my underwear 50% of the time is flattering. Now I feel like dancing infront of the kinect for my admirer gets oil
> > Also, I don’t want to be that guy sitting there yelling at my Xbox like a lunatic.
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> I dunno, I think it’s pretty -Yoinking!- hilarious to hear K5 yell at his Xbox because it thinks he said something he didn’t.
"I just snapped his neck!
NO! NOT XBOX SNAP! NO. STOP LISTENING! No. STOP listening. Stop LISTENING! STOP IT! Just…STOP! Stop listening! Unsnap!"
> > > Also, I don’t want to be that guy sitting there yelling at my Xbox like a lunatic.
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> > I dunno, I think it’s pretty -Yoinking!- hilarious to hear K5 yell at his Xbox because it thinks he said something he didn’t.
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> “I just snapped his neck!
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> NO! NOT XBOX SNAP! NO. STOP LISTENING! No. STOP listening. Stop LISTENING! STOP IT! Just…STOP! Stop listening! Unsnap!”
“Wait…what? Xbox, what are you doing? No! Stop! Xbox! Stop listening! What the -Yoink-? Stahp! No! Xbox STOPPPPPP! No! Not snap! STOP LISTENING -Yoink!-! Oh -Yoink- me.”
> If someone would sit there and watch me I would feel quite humbled, the <mark>fact that someone waits 24/7</mark> just to see in me in my underwear 50% of the time is flattering. Now I feel like dancing infront of the kinect for my admirer gets oil
EXACTLY! If every Kinect and smart device actually had someone sitting and watching everything that happened in real time, there would be no unemployment. It would be quite impossible. You would have to have a work force the size of the population of people using those devices to monitor them.
Or a computer that was programmed to flag certain … things.
Scary thought, no?