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I'm surprised no one asked this but... do you have a 4k hdr tv? If not, then the whole "xbox best 3rd party experience" becomes moot. And I ask this because you say you don't have an isp... lol



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NYCrysis said:

I'm surprised no one asked this but... do you have a 4k hdr tv? If not, then the whole "xbox best 3rd party experience" becomes moot. And I ask this because you say you don't have an isp... lol

No 4k but I can easily obtain one. I'll more than likely get an isp too. I'm pretty excited to see what this thing can do.



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SuperRetroTurbo said:
NYCrysis said:

I'm surprised no one asked this but... do you have a 4k hdr tv? If not, then the whole "xbox best 3rd party experience" becomes moot. And I ask this because you say you don't have an isp... lol

No 4k but I can easily obtain one. I'll more than likely get an isp too. I'm pretty excited to see what this thing can do.

Ahh ok, depending on the games you like to play I hope the one x will do you well. Have fun!



Congrats on the new Xbox.



I have a Ps4 pro and Xbox one S but planning on selling the One S due one retailer will have the One X with RDR2 in Australia for Aus$499 which are nearly us$350.

I hope I will see a huge improvement in my 4K Tv.



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Nay.



Nay, for me. But i've never been big on Xbox. Haven't owned one since the first one.



Runa216 said:
Angelv577 said:
Congratz on the purchase. In my case, I only have time for one console so I chose ps4 since it has more and better games IMO.

I know game quality is subjective, but at this point it's not even an opinion that PS4 has more and better games, it's just a fact. By literally every metric, the PS4 has better games, more games, and more exclusives. If we're looking at sales, PS4 exclusives sell a lot more than Xbox exclusives this gen. When it comes to multiplatform games, PS4 sells, on average, 2.2x the amount of copies as the Xbox One does (though oftentimes even more of a disparity). When it comes to volume of exclusives in terms of variety, it is, again, about a 2:1 or 3:1 ratio depending on if we're counting indies. 

and while, yes, the Xbox One X has a marginally better performance on multiplatform games compared to the PS4 Pro, by this point in gaming there's no significant difference. 

I'd only recommend an Xbox One X if you already have a gaming phone, a Nintendo Switch, and a PS4 already. And even then I think it'd be more valuable and cost effective to just get a PC since all Xbox One exclusives are also on PC now. 

I mean, I come across as a hater (which I used to be but outgrew the better part of a decade ago), but I have an Xbox One with more than a dozen games on it, but I never use the system. My roommate does - which makes me happy to see that the thing gets use, but when you have a PS4 and an Xbox One - both launch consoles - there's literally no reason to play the Xbox beyond the exclusives, which are few and far between. 

And my time with the Switch has reaffirmed that, as far as I'm concerned, graphical fidelity and performance specs mean next to nothing. My favorite games of the last few years have been simple but fun. Stuff like Mario Odyssey and Dark Souls Remastered and Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze and Octopath Traveler and Breath of the Wild, all games that could be played on the Wii (Except Dark Souls, doubt that could work on Wii.) And you know what's my most played game so far this year? The Mega Man X Legacy Collection. SNES games with a PS1 game on it. 

Bah, I'm rambling. 

No idea why you'd get an Xbox One X, though. To the OP, I mean. 

Couldn't agree more.  I had a xb1s for scalebound and look how that turned out.  scalebound cancelled and no new AAA announcement after the cancellation push me to sell it.  



yay for sure i have it for 4 months its great all around



SuperRetroTurbo said:
d21lewis said:

Yeah. I'm full digital. BUT if you buy the disc, games actually install faster if you're offline. But then you'll   always need the disc to play (of course). I'm not a fan of disc swapping these days.

 

Backwards compatible games need an online connection because they actually download from the web

Idk how to bold text highlight but about the offline installation, I'm pretty sure that's not how it works with disc. Every game I tried to install froze after like 2% and wouldn't continue until I used a connection. 

Like I said, I'm full digital now. Even the games I had on disc, I repurchased digitally. I kinda hate discs now. Maybe something changed but back when, you were installing discs at the same time updates were installing. Disconnecting from the internet sped things up a lot. I just googled "install Xbox One games faster" and this was the first result: 

https://www.ubergizmo.com/how-to/install-xbox-one-games-faster-xb1/

But maybe they've made some changes since then. I do have a few discs still laying around. I'll try it when I get home...eleven hours from now! 🤣

 

*Edit*

Another "trick" I learned back in the day that may or may not work now: If I had multiple discs to install, I'd put the disc in and let it install 1%. Then I'd Switch to another disc and do the same. Even after you take the disc out, the game still installs because instead of installing from the disc, it would download from Xbox Live. But again, you still needed the disc to play. I don't think I've seen this posted anywhere else but I used to do it all the time. In fact, I still do it when multiple games become backwards compatible at one time.

Last edited by d21lewis - on 24 October 2018