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Closer look at the Xbox One from a user who got the console early

J

Jeels

Member
Looks good, hopefully they keep improving on those OS features and Sony steps it up as well. Competition is great.

As usual I find the tiles to be really busy but grats/props to Microsoft for making a console that can multitask well (or it seems like it from these impressions).
 
M

March of the Crabs

Member
I still am sticking with my PS4 and have no plans to snag an Xbone for a while but that is one slick fucking UI. It seems to me like MS has Sony beat on the UI front.
 
J

Justin

Member
#1 Source 4 XBOX ONE ‏@Moonlightswami 9m
Alright, I talked to @majornelson and all is being resolved. He has invited me to the launch event. Details on it are classified.
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#1 Source 4 XBOX ONE ‏@Moonlightswami 8m
The console ban also will be lifted prior to launch. I can't really say much more, but it is all good. Thank you all for the support!!!
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Seems like a pretty cool consolation. You get the system 2 weeks early AND a trip to the launch event.
 
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PARANO1A

Member
UI looks good as expected. Red tiles look ugly as sin but there's no accounting for taste. I always assumed the One would have a far better UI and OS over the PS4 since that's what MS do well. You'll always get people complaining about Metro but they're the vocal minority, just like Windows 8 users.

Loving the new features that weren't previously announced.

The idea of a mandatory game installation that makes you wait is a big concern... It's one of the things I always hated about the PS3. I thought this was supposed to be a 'put it in and play and the system takes care of the rest' situation.
 
S

SmackAttack

Member
I'm sure the UI functions fine but man Metro is ugly. Never liked it and doubt I will. It's making me rethink how themes would even work with all the space those tabs take up. Would hate to lose the ones I have or not be able to use my Holiday theme each year. Gamerpics look nice, now I want to see some themes.
 
B

Bradf50

Member
The OS is looking really good. I always thought MS should have flaunted their OS as a strength as it's obviously the core of the company just like Sony's is hardware and it shows for both. Any way it looks nice and fast, although IMO I think some of the Kinect stuff is gimmicky in which the novelty would wear off within the month (I could be wrong!). I wouldn't really use the voice commands much anyway and don't really want a Kinect, this however, has enticed me to get a XB1 sooner rather than later. All I want from next-gen systems mainly, is the ability to switch between games and apps quickly which both consoles seem to be able to do. So PS4 for now though, can't wait for the 29th!

Keep up the good work MS and Sony.
 
DirtyLarry

DirtyLarry

Member
Thanks OP. Great thread you organized here.
Everything looks great to me except COD Ghosts. Damn that looks pretty rough imho.
 
LiquidMetal14

LiquidMetal14

hide your water-based mammals
RoKKeR said:
To be fair, Metro works a lot better on consoles and tablets than it does on desktops.
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I would agree.

eddfromtheriver said:
I'm not buying an XBO, but yeah i like Metro, and yes the XBO's UI is much better than PS4's... i hope it becomes customizable in the near future (PS4's UI)
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This I don't know yet just based on the fact that we haven't even seen the whole UI at work. What I've seen looks more than good.
 
R

RedRedSuit

Member
PARANO1A said:
UI looks good as expected. Red tiles look ugly as sin but there's no accounting for taste. I always assumed the One would have a far better UI and OS over the PS4 since that's what MS do well.
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Not during the PS3/360 generation. XMB remained clean and simple throughout, even though it did become a little worse with that one update, and the store became awful at some point. Meanwhile, the X360 blades were decent, but it was all downhill from there. There was one iteration of NXE which was OK, but the one before that was slow, and the one after that (basically what we have today) is an ad-ridden mess.
 
IISANDERII

IISANDERII

Member
mangochutney said:
The 360 looks a lot smoother on those wires.

I wonder if this sharpening thing the One is doing when upscaling (if other games follow BF's lead) is going to hurt the Xbox One in these areas.

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Good to know they've done more than just adding effects and uprezing [the container is different].
 
N

nib95

Banned
mangochutney said:
The 360 looks a lot smoother on those wires.

I wonder if this sharpening thing the One is doing when upscaling (if other games follow BF's lead) is going to hurt the Xbox One in these areas.

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Prefer the colours of the Xbox One version, but in this small sized compressed shot comparison, the 360 version is actually the one that looks cleaner with less aliasing.
 
M

MutonCommander

Banned
LiquidMetal14 said:
If you like Metro then you will like Xbone.

I got rid of Metro traces and boot right into desktop.
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I want nothing to do with with Metro on the desktop but it's a great fit for the Xbox and, from what we've seen so far, I believe it's much better than Sony's PS4 UI in both appearance and functionality.
 
C

Cohiba

Banned
Has it been said that this dudes controller doesn't have the "day one" marking on it? I thought all systems in the initial shipment were day one?
 
P

Papercuts

fired zero bullets in the orphanage.
Cohiba said:
Has it been said that this dudes controller doesn't have the "day one" marking on it? I thought all systems in the initial shipment were day one?
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He didn't have a day one console, the ones target sent were all the green standard box ones.
 
SenjutsuSage

SenjutsuSage

Banned
Miles Quaritch said:
I could snap being very useful for RPG games and the like. Video guides, text guides, etc. Not particularly revolutionary and chances are I'd probably default to using my tablet/phone, but it's nice to have options...
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I would actually love the idea of snapping twitter while playing a RPG, because every now and then I'd love talking about what I'm experiencing in the game in a sort of live blog type deal. In fact, Microsoft should work on a feature, if they haven't already, that allows us to take screenshots of the games we're playing and instantly embed it into a twitter post or something via the snap feature.

We take a screenshot while the game is running and twitter is snapped to the side, and after the screenshot is taken is taken, we get presented with an option that asks if we want to include the picture in a tweet. I think that would be pretty cool.
 
S

SeaOfMadness

Member
Cynn said:
The voice features are neat and snapping apps seems like it would be less of a hassle than picking up your smartphone for the same functions but once the games started I could never get over playing inferior software as a trade. (ports not exclusives naturally)

How many people will really use snapping and heavy voice navigation past the first week of ownership? It reminds me of Siri on iphone. It seems really neat and it's fun for a while then it gets old and you never use it again. Unfortunately, once you get back to a singular focus you realize what you traded for that week of "magic" features was a generation of lesser core experiences.

I hope MS invests heavily in first party and exclusive content this generation. Things coded to the metal and lacking nothing. (Like Forza)
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Why don't you try it first, then decide? That's my plan, anyway.
 
S

SeaOfMadness

Member
TUROK said:
What happened to all the rumors from "insiders" of doom and gloom for the Xbox OS and such? Pure bullshit?
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Probably not bullshit, but probably just something like they heard a couple of complaints about buggy pre-release versions of the OS from god knows who (imagine that, bugs in software that's not done yet.. I mean who would have thought that?) and took it and ran with it because, hey, GAF is just itching for some juicy "news" about next gen consoles.

If people knew how broken things were mere weeks before the release of ANY software, I'm sure there would be some raised eyebrows, but nothing like what's been going on here. It's a disproportionate response to what's essentially status quo in software development.

Really? Something crashing 2 months before release is now "this feature is fucked..." and "ass storm"? Really? Even if you were someone directly on the team working on said feature, there's no way you could know if it wasn't going to be ready on day 1.

And sure, I know the quote was "it's broken now but might be ready for launch." All I can say is "duh!" A lot of things are broken before launch only to be ready for day 1. That's how software development works. But it sure makes a good story, I guess.
 
G

Gustav

Banned
The UI looks terrible to navigate with a pad. The OG Xbox 360 Dashboard still is the gold standard. Not sold on the One. At all.
 
Caayn

Caayn

Member
Shaunboy97 said:
Nvidia (360) and AMD (X1) use different redering techniques... I'm not sure if this is why there is a color difference
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Both Xbox 360 and Xbox One use AMD cards ;) Xbox 360 was based of the radeon x1800 while the Xbox One is based of the GCN architecture.
 
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