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I was too late to pre-order and first shipments were sold out. I'll Join this club at the end of the month.

At this very moment my brother is texting me how awesome his X1X is 😣 he's playing Shadow of War & Gears 4.



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Piers Harding-Rolls, Director of Research and Analysis Games at IHS Markit, told GamesIndustrythat the research firm is almost doubling their 2017 Xbox One X ( Amazon, $499.99) sales forecast. This seems to echo Microsoft’s Albert Penello’s statement that the console will be a must-have item during the Holiday season.

Feedback on pre-order volume for both the limited edition Project Scorpio Xbox One X and for the standard version of the X console has led us to increase our 2017 sell-through forecast for Xbox One X. The Project Scorpio limited edition pre-order strategy has been particularly effective in driving what is expected to be a robust launch week in key sales territories. IHS Markit has therefore increased its 2017 forecast from 500,000 to 900,000 units. At this level, Xbox One share of total Q4 2017 Xbox One console family sales will be close to 20 percent, similar to the performance of PS4 Pro at launch. If Microsoft outperforms and delivers sales in excess of this forecast it will be considered a major launch success.

Harding-Rolls still doesn’t believe Xbox One X sales will be enough to change the tide in Microsoft’s favor against their main rival PlayStation 4, but it should offset the lower revenue from Xbox One S( Amazon) due to decreased average price.

Xbox One X is poised to give the company a boost in its ambition to compete more effectively with PS4 Pro in strategically important markets of the USA and UK. Other select markets, such as Germany in Europe with its PC gaming heritage, are also forecast to deliver solid launch traction. Overall, however, IHS Markit does not expect Xbox One X to have a dramatic impact on market share between Sony and Microsoft in continental Europe as the market’s current momentum is well entrenched. IHS Markit currently forecasts the Western Europe installed base of PS4 family of consoles to reach 26 million by the end of 2017 compared to 8 million for the Xbox One family of consoles.

Sales of the more expensive Xbox One X console will also help mitigate the fall in Xbox One S hardware average sales price which in recent fiscal quarters has undermined the positive impact felt by Microsoft of increased revenues from software and services. As such, Microsoft’s games business-related revenue is expected to increase year-on-year in Q4 2017.






Sigh, I dont know what got messed up, but my scorpio edition will not be here until Thursday according to amazon. Gratz to those who have one already!

I am very eager for it though and cant wait to run through Gears of War 4 again along with Halo 1-5 and forza horizons 3 and grab some more games with the black friday sales coming up, good times ahead



 

UPS could not find my street address.... They will deliver it on tomorrow (called them to give them my work address so they don't get lost...).
Those suckers...

I receive packages from Amazon almost on a daily basis (Fedex, Post Canada usually), this is the second time this happens with UPS...

Oh well, tomorrow it for me.



Ordered from GameStop. At the beginning of the month, I got an email saying my X was ready to ship and it would be here on the 8th. If I paid a little extra, I could have had it on launch day.

I scoffed. I ordered my Switch from them and it was here on day one. Why should I pay extra on top of the $545 I already paid? Anyway, I got my UPS tracking number. I watched as my console traveled from state to state, only to get near my home at 10am this morning and not go any further. If I didn't know better, I'd say they delayed it on purpose to get money out of me!



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How do I put my profile on my external Hd.



Halo MCC will sell 5+ million copies(including digital)

halo 5 will sell 10 million copies(including digital)

x1 will pass ps4 in USA, and UK.

hudsoniscool said:
How do I put my profile on my external Hd.

I don't know. Somebody should be able to help you but, as the owner of multiple Xbones, I can tell you: All you have to do is log in and all of your saves, web history, passwords, etc automatically follow. Only a few specific settings, preferences, and wallpapers are left behind. 



hudsoniscool said:
How do I put my profile on my external Hd.

Mine just downloaded my profile from the internets when I put my email/password in.

Azzanation said:

Its a great priced console, something i hope to see more often in the coming gens. 

I enjoyed Kinect for its features, didnt use it for gaming as much however using it as a Skpye/chat device without the need of a Head set was pretty neat. Shame it couldnt catch on.

Yeah. Never really was a fan of it for gaming.
But I did like telling it to do things like "Xbox go to Netflix" without having to pickup and turn on the controller or "Xbox Record That" whilst I was busy gaming.

They do have an IR Blaster on the front, so I am on the fence on whether I buy a Kinect adapter or a media remote.

KiigelHeart said:
I was too late to pre-order and first shipments were sold out. I'll Join this club at the end of the month.

At this very moment my brother is texting me how awesome his X1X is 😣 he's playing Shadow of War & Gears 4.

I basically did the same thing to my little brother, he missed the window of picking his up yesterday... I swear I could hear him cursing me from the otherside of this continent. Haha

d21lewis said:
hudsoniscool said:
How do I put my profile on my external Hd.

I don't know. Somebody should be able to help you but, as the owner of multiple Xbones, I can tell you: All you have to do is log in and all of your saves, web history, passwords, etc automatically follow. Only a few specific settings, preferences, and wallpapers are left behind. 

There is also the transfer/backup feature if you wanted to transfer everything to an external HDD.



--::{PC Gaming Master Race}::--

d21lewis said:
hudsoniscool said:
How do I put my profile on my external Hd.

I don't know. Somebody should be able to help you but, as the owner of multiple Xbones, I can tell you: All you have to do is log in and all of your saves, web history, passwords, etc automatically follow. Only a few specific settings, preferences, and wallpapers are left behind. 

I figured it out. The reason I needed to was because I did not have my secondary email or phone number correct.  So to bypass the secondary email verification I had my profile backed up on my external. Otherwise they would have asked me for it. And ms makes u wait 30 days to change security info(found that out last week).



Halo MCC will sell 5+ million copies(including digital)

halo 5 will sell 10 million copies(including digital)

x1 will pass ps4 in USA, and UK.

Pemalite said:
cmay227 said:

Xbox one x has 1440p support. 

I'll have a play around with it later to see what is up. I might need a better HDMI splitter.


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Looking at the console, it's a very boring looking black box. Hopefully there is a special edition later for something a little more vibrant.



Azzanation said:

X1X Console has sold out in Australia and its 2nd Batch has also sold out. I told you the $650 price tag is an amazing price especially in Aus.

I have to wait for the 3rd batch of X1Xs to be delivered to get my hands on one. Ill have to use my PC for the time being.

If any one knows a place with stock please let me know so i can pick one up.

$650 AUD is $498 USD right now. So we aren't being ripped off for once.

I sold my original launch Xbox One console with Kinect for only $100 AUD which went towards this... And did I mention how much I miss kinect? I am probably like one of 5 people on Earth that does. Haha

To me the X1X is the prettier of the 3 in this pile.

Pemalite said:
CGI-Quality said:
@ Pemalite: Serves you right for skipping the more attractive Scorpio Edition!

I was literally an hour late. AN HOUR LATE.
So I had to get into the second wave of pre-orders. Haha

#FirstWorldProblems

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Played some Overwatch. It's now locked at 1080P, it still looks soft on my 1440P display though, but way way way better than what it used to be when things got hectic.

Downloading updates for Halo Wars 2, Halo 5, Diablo 3 and a few 360 titles. I'll give them a spin later.

CGI-Quality said:

Well, regarding just jumping into a game, I like the PS4's way of doing it, like the 360 before that. Just put the disc in and go! Other than that, so far, the system is lovely!

Didn't a few Xbox 360 games have mandated installs though? Can't remember. Feels like a generation ago. :P

Main reason for the Xbox 360's precedent is that... There were variations of the console with no internal storage.
Some consoles came with 256MB, some with 4GB. - So developers needed to keep those console in mind.

But it was better overall IMHO.

The Playstation 3's install procedures was tiresome, seems Sony learned from that with the Playstation 4.

The install on PS3 didn't bothered me much (even though GT5 took a good while to install), but certainly PS4 makes it a no issue for disc based (if you skip the patches).

flashfire926 said:
Pemalite said:

I can confidently say... The Xbox One X doesn't have 1440P support right now.

Tried it on two different 1440P displays, different HDMI cables (Including the one that came with the console.) and took the splitter out of the equation. (Which I shouldn't have to anyway as it handles 1440P 60fps from my PC just fine.)

No go.

Digging into the issue and doing some research... Apparently it's coming in the future, just like a bulk of the enhanced games (There is only a handful right now), rather than on release. Which sucks.
https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/11/2/16597100/xbox-one-x-1440p-support-confirmed

So I am stuck using peasant 1080P. At-least I can use 10-bit colour though.

Apparantly the user interface is also stuck at 1080P regardless of your resolution, which also sucks.
The bright side is... The Xbox One's UI uses allot of sharp and clean lines, so it doesn't upscale badly, but it would have been nicer if it would have been at native res.

UI was initially supposed to be at 4K, but they decided to make it 1080p to free up a bit more ram (8gb --> 9gb) for the developers to use, which is a great move imo.

I certainly wouldn't mind they freeing more than 10% RAM just by using a simpler UI and having more juice for gaming. To me PS4 and PS4Pro could use a very barebone UI and release most of the RAM to games (perhaps Scorpio will push Sony to release more for Pro).

Imaginedvl said:

UPS could not find my street address.... They will deliver it on tomorrow (called them to give them my work address so they don't get lost...).
Those suckers...

I receive packages from Amazon almost on a daily basis (Fedex, Post Canada usually), this is the second time this happens with UPS...

Oh well, tomorrow it for me.

Maybe UPS use Apple for their maps =p



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."