More of you should be playing Powerstar Golf. Definitely my favorite game on the system so far. No matter which mode you’re playing you’re always playing asynchronous multiplayer against people on your friends list.
And the F2P stuff is easy to ignore, since you’re constantly unlocking new things and advancing. The game is very relaxing, has a great art style and very nice current-gen visuals (no more reference to “next-gen” with WiiU, PS4, XB1 all out now).
The integration of asynchronous multiplayer into each stroke of a golf game is so intuitive, in retrospect it feels foolish that no one did this before.
Thank Wedelius. I stand corrected. It now works perfectly. I walk into my home and say, Xbox On - and like magic (or good engineering) the receiver, TV and Xbox One come on.
Editer
4611
Dead Rising 3 is by far my favorite game so far. And I got frustrated with the earlier games in the series fairly quickly. Despite being totally tired of zombies, I’m really loving this one.
Held off on AC4, BF4, Lego Marvel, etc. for the One to ship, so I’m drowning in games I want to play right now.
Apologies for anyone who’s been run into by my drivatar. It’s sadly very accurately recreating my driving talents.
Try saying “Xbox Help.” There’s a surprisingly rich help system, with tutorial videos and everything.
There’s also a good quick overview on the Welcome Experience. (The three slots you see on Home during your first couple of weeks, which give you a quick overview of apps, voice functionality, etc.)
If you check out My Games & Apps, you can see what’s downloading and the percentage of progress. If you hit the button that’s where Start used to be on the 360, you can pause downloads, move something to the top of the queue, etc.
Hi Microsoft!
Did you know that European TVs run at 50 Hz?
Guess you didn’t…
The UK and Europe use a 50Hz broadcasting system. The Xbox One outputs at 60Hz, so if you feed it a 50Hz HDMI source, one out of every six frames will be a duplicate, causing judder.
Canuck
4613
Sheesh, they’re giving you an extra frame. For an extra $100 I would expect that kind of value!
True. Instant replay of a goal / touchdown in case it’s in the 5th frame. :)
I really like my XBox One. The TV functionality is awesome. Also awesome - I was playing Dead Rising 3, had to go out and do some stuff. My room mate wanted to watch TV so I turned on TV and left. Came back 4 hours later, hit my DR3 and it was exactly where I was. I unpaused and went back to playing.
Awesome.
Galadin
4616
I have bought both new systems this release, and so far I would recommend most people getting the XBox One. My wife loves the media integration, the ability to walk into the room and just say Xbox On / Watch TV and all our components (TV, FIOS, Receiver) turn on is awesome. Also, we only have one FIOS remote, so if someone else needs to pause the show, its easy to say XBox Pause.
As for the games, I like both systems, but love the XBox Snap capability when playing games and want to quickly check on the news or such. I was playing Dead Rising 3 while an episode of Nova was playing in the snap section.
I am not a fan of the changes to the XBox one controller. I still prefer it over the new DS4 controller, but it feels smaller in my hands (but then I am a giant).
I am glad I bought both systems, and expect much enjoyment, but if I was going to recommend one to most people I know, it would be XBox One by far.
Also awesome - I was playing Dead Rising 3, had to go out and do some stuff. My room mate wanted to watch TV so I turned on TV and left. Came back 4 hours later, hit my DR3 and it was exactly where I was. I unpaused and went back to playing.
I’m loath to rain on people’s parades for the sake of it, but I can do exactly the same thing with the 360, or PS3 or Wii. A good chunk of the One’s “cool factor” is something Harmony remotes have been doing for years.
Galadin
4618
In my opinion, the cool factor isn’t just the ability to control the systems, but control the systems without the need for the remote. Can just walk in and tell it to turn on, do what I want, and even manage my viewing without having to find the remote (or share one). Add to this the ability to play the new games out and coming, the other media capabilities, the snap functionality and the better channel guide, it does a lot more than what a harmony remote does. But it is also more expensive of course.
Now, I am NOT telling people to run out and buy one today, give it at least 6 months unless you are a hardcore/bleeding edge technology person. But I see what Microsoft is trying to do, and after playing with Google TV, Apple TV, all the previous Consoles, the TVii in WiiU, and a Chromecast, I must say that Microsoft has come closest to my all in one media controller.
Sure, via changing inputs, etc, but this is all in one and doesn’t require a harmony.
Sure, via changing inputs, etc, but this is all in one and doesn’t require a harmony
Well, no. It requires a £430 console which apparently has the wrong output frequency and no surround sound. And with a Harmony you don’t have to change inputs. You just press “Watch TV” or “Play Xbox” and it switches the inputs and configures the remote’s controls accordingly for you.
Clearly the Xbox does more with the voice control and picture-in-picture* and so on, but the unified one command control concept is not at all new. Also I’d be a lot more convinced by the coolness of not needing a remote if the reports didn’t universally demonstrate that a non-trivial proportion of the time the Kinect doesn’t understand what you’re saying. Or misinterprets something on TV/Youtube as a voice command.
- Incidentally, the Player One Podcast people were claiming this morning that if you snap TV to a game, the audio for both plays at the same time and there’s no way to mute one or the other, only both. That can’t be right, surely.
Jazar
4621
I heard the Xbox must be on for the cable to pass through to the TV. Is this true? Does it have to be “On” on or just “Standby” on?
Another question, Can the Xbox play videos from a memory stick and/or copy videos from memory stick to the HD and play there?
Galadin
4622
It has to be on, the TV pass through is actually another app on the system (just like IE, store, and all of the other capabilities.)
Personally, it is very quiet and I have no problem it being on, but no, standby won’t work for watching TV through the pass-thru. Heck, I wouldn’t even really call it a pass-thru, because of this.
Galadin are you having any trouble with the Xbox losing your cable signal? It’s happened to me about a half dozen times now. I have to reboot my cable box each time to get the signal back…
I’m really happy with it so far. Only complaint is the controller already broke (button won’t work). Not really a big deal, a free replacement will be here in a week or so.
Galadin
4625
No, the only problem I had was some really bad flickering of my TV signal when I first hooked it up. I realized it was an older HDMI cable between my cable box and the XBox1 so I switched it with a newer/fast HDMI cable and it fixed it.
I think my cable box has a sleep function that is throwing the signal off…at least I hope it’s that.
Telefrog
4627
Hmm. I’m not liking the fact that there’s no pass-through of cable without the Xbox One being on as well. I get what they’re trying to do, but sometimes, I just want the TV on to watch some news without any distractions.
You can do that, sorta. If you are watching TV and you turn off your television, the next time you turn on your TV it’ll just be TV on the screen, it won’t be the xbox home screen. Provided you don’t lose your signal … and i’m pretty sure you can prevent xbox notifications from popping up on screen as well.
