I'm pretty sure MS said it wouldn't be for a year or 2.
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I'm pretty sure MS said it wouldn't be for a year or 2.
struggling to see what is awful about it...works well and is super quick now
Lol I’ve had mine for over a month now.
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I think the difficulty is in trying to create an efficient and aesthetically pleasing interface whilst dealing with a billion features on offer. That said, like other posters have said, many spend as little time looking at it as possible (I'm one of them), so I probably don't know all the tricks on how best to navigate it. Case in point, it takes me eight button presses to change the headset volume lol. Personally I'm not a fan of the basic squares with ms paint style icons in the middle.....but that's me, and everyone has their own take on good UI design. Personal preference and all that.
Maybe it's because I'm so used to the playstation and switch interfaces, so obviously it's going to take time to adjust.
I'm a big fan of the xbox and games in general though....so no, I won't be selling it just because the dashbaord is a bit crap
I mean it's not THAT bad.Excuse the cables, I'm mid transition
I don't understand the argument against the dashboard. You can set it how you want it and then you're good to go? I hardly had any games on the PS4 in comparison to my Xbox, but I could see how that UI style could quickly become messy unless you sat and categorised everything or moved stuff around. Something I don't need to do with Xbox. Once you know where it is, there's no issue and can be lazy with it too.
I still have what feels broken behaviour when instant on is enabled, but on energy saving mode it is fine.
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My wife has taken over and is hooked on Tetris. It’s certainly a visual/audio experience.
Yeah got to say mightly impressed with the game pass, even roped the wife into playimg unravel 2 last night
Officially, Optimised games need to be installed on the internal storage. But a small few don't actually need to be. Alongside Sea of Thieves, there's MCC, We Happy Few, Vermintide II (and possibly more).
There is no options for games built using the GDK as they are forced to run from the internal/expansion drives.
Games built using the old XDK and just patched to use some of the power of the series consoles can run from any drive.
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Now and again seems to not turn on via controller. Have to hold console button down to power off and restart. 
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Currently playing Skyrim and restarting Mass Effect. I don't think that's an issue with the series X itself but goes to show just how poor developers are now. All graphics and no gameplay.
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Tetris Effect? I'm a big tetris fan, and loved Tetris 99 on the switch. I'm not sold on Tetris Effect yet unfortunately.
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It can for a few. Depends which optimisations they have. They warn you now before moving them.
Yes, that’s the one I think, the game pass optimised version.
good news, I expect most of you know this anyway but just incase some dont.
Attaching a usb cable, puts the controller in wired mode, it is not just for charging. So in effect you could use duracell batteries (or maybe none at all), and then just play wired if you sit close to the console, but the main reason I have connected it right now, is I am doing auto farming in tales of vesperia (leave running when asleep), and I tried it last night, woke up the controller is disconnected message with the game paused lol. Then I plugged in my phone charging cable (my only usb type a to usb type c cable, since one isnt supplied with console), and it is now in wired mode.
Attaching a usb cable, puts the controller in wired mode, it is not just for charging. So in effect you could use duracell batteries (or maybe none at all), and then just play wired if you sit close to the console, but the main reason I have connected it right now, is I am doing auto farming in tales of vesperia (leave running when asleep), and I tried it last night, woke up the controller is disconnected message with the game paused lol. Then I plugged in my phone charging cable (my only usb type a to usb type c cable, since one isnt supplied with console), and it is now in wired mode.
I am considering selling mine. Played some D2 and Fenyx, but it just isn’t clicking for me. It’s a general issue I have with games, they just don’t hold my interest.
Good news is I can get back what I paid and sell as a bundle. Will mull it over.
Good news is I can get back what I paid and sell as a bundle. Will mull it over.