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KBG29 said:
TheSting said:
That snap feature is sooooooo underrated.


I agree with this 100%. This is the only feature on another console that I miss on PS4. Sony's Xperia phones can multiwindow multitask, they need to get on the ball and get this on the much more capable home console, and match this amazing feature currently exclusive to XBO.


Whenever i get back on the 360 I miss this the most. Alot of my friends don't use it though. They haven't even tried it. I was like that at 1st but that quickly changed. I find myself attempting to talk to my 360 also lol. 



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No...just no



It's only fair to tell both sides of the story.

- Does your console's user experience still blow after 100s of fixes?
- Does your console have no exclusives with higher Metacritic than 86?
- Does your console have no big exclusives announced in the next 8 or 9 months?
- Does your console take ages to install games and game updates?
- Does your console run most games in lower resolution?
- Does your console have a $150 accessory for turning on your TV?
- Does your console have a $150 accessory for two exclusive games rated Meta 60 and 23?
- Does your console have TV integration but doesn't come with an IR blaster unless you got the Kinect?
- Does your console have to be on all the time just to watch TV pass-through?
- Does your console's TV pass-through f* up the TV's sound and require restarting often?

Of course it doesn't because odds are you don't have an Xbox One, but I do. ;-D

Now I know what you're thinking, I am being pretty harsh there, but in all fairness, it is the truth.



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ICStats said:

It's only fair to tell both sides of the story.

- Does your console's user experience still blow after 100s of fixes?

Matter of opinion.  I think it's pretty great to be able to simply say what you want and then jump to it, to be able to customize your console's layout, or be able to set the background pic or color.....


- Does your console have no exclusives with higher Metacritic than 86?

By exclusives, do you mean game not available anywhere else or ports of last gen games or what? Because....my console wouldn't be the only one with with this problem :P


- Does your console have no big exclusives announced in the next 8 or 9 months?

Announced?  Plenty of games are in the pipeline with no release dates, though.  Fable Legends comes to mind.  Maybe it will come sooner rather than later.

 
- Does your console take ages to install games and game updates?

My console let me play Sunset Overdrive in less than five minutes.  Maybe that problem is finally being fixed.


- Does your console run most games in lower resolution?

Yes.  :(


- Does your console have a $150 accessory for turning on your TV?

Money aint a thing when you roll like me!


- Does your console have a $150 accessory for two exclusive games rated Meta 60 and 23?

Dance Central Spotlight?  D4?  Do digital games not count anymore?


- Does your console have TV integration but doesn't come with an IR blaster unless you got the Kinect?

Isn't this the same complaint posted three times?  Either you have Kinect or you don't.

- Does your console have to be on all the time just to watch TV pass-through?

Does your console even HAVE a TV pass-through option?


- Does your console's TV pass-through f* up the TV's sound and require restarting often?

Nope.  Not at all.  Is it your TV?  I've never had this problem even once.

Of course it doesn't because odds are you don't have an Xbox One, but I do. ;-D

Now I know what you're thinking, I am being pretty harsh there, but in all fairness, it is the truth.

Nah.  The truth is the truth 100% of the time.  But, as you can see, there can be more than one "truth" lots of times.  :P





d21lewis said:

- Does your console have TV integration but doesn't come with an IR blaster unless you got the Kinect?

Isn't this the same complaint posted three times?  Either you have Kinect or you don't.

Not really the same.  The console is advertised as having TV guide functionality, but out of the box you can't use any of that unless you get the Kinect, or buy a separate IR blaster.

Having said that, I got an IR blaster but I don't make use of the TV guide at all.  If it was with voice input it would be more interesting, but without that, it's a worse experience than using the guide on my cable box directly.

d21lewis said:

- Does your console's TV pass-through f* up the TV's sound and require restarting often?

Nope.  Not at all.  Is it your TV?  I've never had this problem even once.

It's messing up with my Yamaha receiver from time to time.

Two kinds of issues, at times all audio is missing and restarting the XB1 fixes it.  Sometimes Audio Return Channel to my receiver is not working since I'm using the XB1.



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Yea some of that isn't truth at all lol



TheSting said:

Yea some of that isn't truth at all lol

Can you narrow it down to exactly what isn't true?  I mean, I fired up all consoles and tried to find things that were exclusive to that on particular device (in this case, things the Xbox One could do that the other two couldn't.)

 

I tried to go to youtube and Netflix on the PS4 and Wii.  They had to exit the game to do this.  On the Xbox One, you could watch the game at the same time as the app or, if you leave the game, you would just continue where it left off.  Hell, if you turn the Xbox off, it will resume where you left off next time you played (unless somebody else signs in or there is a system update).

My Xbox One (with Kinect) is set to control my DirecTV satellite receiver so, when I turn it on, the satellite turns on, too.  It even knows my favorite channels.  I can just say "What's on AMC?" and it will turn there.  I can just turn on my Xbox and it will turn on the the surround sound system, too.  I can tell you where the setting is if you can't find it.  There's one for TV, Cable Box, and Sound System.

 

If you download the "Media Player" app, you can connect a USB, phone, Flash Drive, etc and watch whatever is on it.  I watched Guardians of the Galaxy on it to test the theory last night.

Some games like Ryse listen to you.  You can press a button to fire catapults in the middle of combat or you can just yell "Fire catapults!" and get the same reaction.  

I didn't even mention some of the things it lets you do like customize which friends will send a notification of online activity for, letting you customize the color of your Achievements, letting you set a background picture, etc.

Nothing I've said was made up.  I've tried them all in the last 24 hours.  Did the same thing with the Wii U and PS4 and they have unique features as well.  They all have their own thread just like this one.

 

 

 

And if any of these features seem awesome to you, maybe you should check out my console.  Because, "in all the areas that matter, my console is the best!"



I play on PC so my system is better not only than yours but than all 8th gen consoles together.



d21lewis said:
TheSting said:

Yea some of that isn't truth at all lol

Can you narrow it down to exactly what isn't true?  I mean, I fired up all consoles and tried to find things that were exclusive to that on particular device (in this case, things the Xbox One could do that the other two couldn't.)

 

I tried to go to youtube and Netflix on the PS4 and Wii.  They had to exit the game to do this.  On the Xbox One, you could watch the game at the same time as the app or, if you leave the game, you would just continue where it left off.  Hell, if you turn the Xbox off, it will resume where you left off next time you played (unless somebody else signs in or there is a system update).

My Xbox One (with Kinect) is set to control my DirecTV satellite receiver so, when I turn it on, the satellite turns on, too.  It even knows my favorite channels.  I can just say "What's on AMC?" and it will turn there.  I can just turn on my Xbox and it will turn on the the surround sound system, too.  I can tell you where the setting is if you can't find it.  There's one for TV, Cable Box, and Sound System.

 

If you download the "Media Player" app, you can connect a USB, phone, Flash Drive, etc and watch whatever is on it.  I watched Guardians of the Galaxy on it to test the theory last night.

Some games like Ryse listen to you.  You can press a button to fire catapults in the middle of combat or you can just yell "Fire catapults!" and get the same reaction.  

I didn't even mention some of the things it lets you do like customize which friends will send a notification of online activity for, letting you customize the color of your Achievements, letting you set a background picture, etc.

Nothing I've said was made up.  I've tried them all in the last 24 hours.  Did the same thing with the Wii U and PS4 and they have unique features as well.  They all have their own thread just like this one.

 

 

 

And if any of these features seem awesome to you, maybe you should check out my console.  Because, "in all the areas that matter, my console is the best!"

I should've quoted ICstats. My bad Lewis



Ps4 and WiiU edition?
This thread is bias withoug parity ;)