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I would actually give this a 3.8 if I had the choice.
I got my One yesterday. I am going to review it. I also have a Playstation 4. After I review, I will compare the two. I am not one who likes one specific thing more than the other. I enjoy playing games. So keep that in mind.
The Xbox One. Something I first noticed about the system is how heavy it was. I took everything out of the box and held just the system itself. It was and is heavy. It looks and feels well made. Everything is strong and well put together. It has a lot of ports. One for the power, HDMI IN, HDMI out, two USB ports, ethernet port, kinect port, s/pdif connector and an IR port. It looks like a cable box on the back. The power button is on the far right side. Disc space on the left. After I got everything set up, I turned it on. It stays quiet. It did not seem to get that hot. It was a bit warm. But not as warm as my 360 gets. That thing burns my hand when I touch it. Everything seems to run smoothly with the system. It is a large system. I think it is larger than my new model 360. But it does take up a lot of room. Especially if you have all the cables in it. That will be tough for some who have a lack of space.
The Kinect. Well, like the One, the new kinect is big. Much larger than the one for the 360. The cable is plenty long. I can not see anyone having a problem reaching the top of their TV or their TV stand. The kinect is not really that heavy. When I was setting it up, after it ran all the tests, like the sound and light, I looked and was surprised at how well everything looked. I have yet to try the Mic. But everything was very easy to set up and the Kinect seemed to work very well. I was playing Fighter Within. A game that uses the Kinect throughout the entire game. I had heard some bad things abotu the game lagging. But everything worked very well, as far as the sensing my movements goes.
The controller. The controller looks just like the 360 controller. But, I assure you that it is different. It feels smaller. Not as think as the 360 controller. I will get more into some of the things I did not like later on. Something that I really like about it is the control sticks have a texture on the outside. It is not just flat. It has like a bumpy feel to it. I like it very much. Makes me feel like I have more control over what is happening. I got two batteries with it. Felt odd, but there they were. The controller feels light. I never had a problem with it working. It all went very well.
The basic program. This felt like Windows 8. Everything is bright, bold and easy to see. There are a lot of different things that you can do. I have yet to really get into anything. But everything looks very well done. Everything is easy to navigate. The system is easy to set up. Once you set the region, date, time, WEP or whatever key and the gamertag, you are done. It went by fast. That is after the update downloaded. It did kind of just sit there on a green Xbox One screen, not doing anything. I thought there was something wrong, but after a bit, it went on. I started playing a game. First, you have to install the thing. That brought me some problems. But again, I will get to the problems later on. After it installed, I started playing. The game looked good. Easy to control and play. I really want to play a normal game to really get a feel for it. Later one, I am going to try Dead Rising 3. If you enjoy the 360, you will more than likely love this. It is like a 360 on steroids. I look forward to playing games on it through out the life span of the system. Games are not the only thing you can do. You can download things like Net-Flix, Hulu Plus and a few others. Plus, you can get movies right from Xbox Live. The fact that you will eventually be able to hook an external drive to this is a very good thing. Downloading movies and music, on top of installing games and downloading those from live will take up a lot of room. So an external hard drive will more than likely be a requirement for those of us who like getting the full use of out systems. You can also set this thing to record and watch TV on. I easily sat my cable up through it. Though I choose digital, which I always do. I should have chosen the other choice. Digital does not give me all my channels. It seems like an interesting few hours, when I re do it and try to watch TV through the system.
Now, for some things I did not like. I will compare this to the Playstation 4. I like both systems. So don't bother me about being a fan boy or whatever it is that people say some are.
First, the system is large. It reminds me of one of those computers you see in a doctors office. The ones that sit on their side. My Playstation 4 looks sleek and smooth. It almost disappears on the place that it is setting. It is because of the design of the case. I much more like the Playstation 4 case.
The fact the with the One, you have to hook up so many damn wires gets a bit annoying. It you have a lack of space, than you are in for some trouble. I looked over at the place this was and it was like a crime scene. There were wires every way you can imagine. It just makes me feel frantic. With the Playstation 4, everything is simple.
That gets me to the software. While the Ones looks very nice and clean, there is just to much going on. The Playstation 4 seems more minimalist, while the One reminded me of Windows 8. There just seems to be so many things that I have to look at that I will never really use or care about. It is very busy. I almost wanted to run my hands on my TV and dust some of the stuff away. I guess that all depends on your style. Some will love the way the program looks. Again, I think it looks beautiful. I just wish I could get rid of some of the stuff.
I was installing a game on the system. It took so long. Honestly, I sat there for like 10 or 15 minutes and it was 7% done. I went upstairs to eat dinner and when I came down, it was finished. With the Playstation 4, I swear it took maybe 10 minutes. I think it took more like 3 - 5, but I rounded it WAY up to 10. That is something I noticed that happened a lot on the One. Things seem to move very slowly. After waiting to install the game, I began playing. At first, the graphics looks rougher than those on the Playstation 4. They did not look as smooth and refined. The videos looked very good, but seemed almost last gen. I was kind of set back a bit. I know the One is a system capable of playing things beautifully, but it just seemed very underwhelming. It may have been the game. Speaking of game, holy man, can you say load times? If not, wait until a load screen starts, go to the store and get a book on how to say load times, read it, study it, learn to say it and by the time you are done, you will only have a few more minutes of load screen. I mean seriously. I sat here for like 60 seconds, watching a little spinning thing. I was so shocked that it took so long that I didn't even know what to do when the game started. The wait times are some of the longest that I have ever seen. I have been playing games since N64 and Playstation. The load times were just shameful.
While the Kinect is nice, it sure the hell does not work a lot of the times. I was sitting here saying something to get my game to continue and it said say slower. I felt like the guy on Taxi telling the guy what the sign meant in the drivers ed class. It just did not work. None of the times that I said something worked. I am a patient person. But it was getting me irritated. I just said screw it and stopped trying. I am sure and or I hope they fix it. But they have to in time. That is the great thing about stuff like this. Most of the problems I am listing will be fixed.
The controller. Come on, the 360 controller is amazing. It feels great in my hands, has the buttons all out in the perfect places and is a good weight. It is by far my favorite controller. The One controller looks the same, but it is not. It is to small. I almost have to over lap my fingers to hold the thing. Like it fits in my palms. It got a bit uncomfortable after a while. Plus, why not just make the things with rechargeable batteries? I mean, getting two batteries seems like such a waste. Now I am going to have to buy rechargeable batteries and a charger. There is $50 I should not have to spend.
The TV thing. Ok, this does seem cool and I am excited about setting it up. But why? It requires a cable box. That seems to kind of be an oxymoron. Why would I need to record stuff and or watch TV on my One, when I have a digital HD DVR right here in my room? One top of me being able to record and watch stuff on there, my entire family gets to watch and record stuff on it. So I just can not see a purpose for having to go through the One. One top of that, I mean, as far as energy saving goes, which do you think will help you with that? I can assure you that having a box as well as the One on wont. It was confusing the first time, setting the cable up through the one. Stuff just kept failing. I WILL try it. But I am about 95% sure I will never use it.
I can say this.
The Playstation 4 is a game system that give you many extra features and is easy to use and set up.
The Xbox One is an entertainment system that allows you to play games and is frustrating to set up.
Take that for what you will, but that is the best way I can describe it. I actually would have returned my One. It would have given me money to put towards Christmas stuff and more Playstation 4 games. But I can not return it. I already had the points added to my live account and set everything up on it. I am not saying I would never buy one. I know there will be fun exclusive games for it. But I realize now that I should have just waited a few years. To me, the Playstation 4 far out does the One. It is a simpler, better looking GAME system that is not trying to be 20 things wrapped into one. On top of all that, on the Playstation 4, so far, the games look amazing. Everything looks and feels smooth. It looks like I would imagine a new gen game would look like. The Ones games just seem to be lacking something. I can not say for 100% what that is. But there is something off.
I look forward to playing games on both of the systems. I just wanted to write everything that I thought and felt after playing. Also, I have not used the system that much yet. All of these things are first impressions and thoughts. I wanted to write them while they were fresh.
Update: Well, a few days ago, I was playing a game on the One. I unplugged it from the wall when I was done and went and did some stuff. Later, when I went to play, I plugged the system in and went to play. But, it would not come on. The same thing happened today. Well, it was on. Fighter Within showed up on the TV and everything went black. My brother told me to try something. He was just guessing, but it worked. I had to the first time and this time unplug the system. Take the part of the chord that goes into the wall out of the power brick. Then, I plugged it back in and it worked. I can not figure out why. It is as if the brick has energy in it and you have to unplug it in order to make it work. If you asking why I did not already know, if it happened one already, it is because the first time, the system would not even come on. I posted something on Amazon about it a few days ago. I take it people do not think it is necessary to unplug the system. Someone said that it takes a very small amount of energy on standby. To them I say thank you for the information. But I choose to unplug the systems when I am not using them. So, if there are any of you out there who choose to do the same, if the system does not turn on when you plug it back in, or if it comes on but does not show up on the screen, unplug it from the wall, then hook the cable from the power brick and the One and plug everything back in. This does not happen if you play hours after you unplug it. I am sure there is someone out there that knows why this happens. If you want to leave some information in a response, I and anyone who reads this review would be thankful
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An honest gamer review.I've waited about a year to rate this console and after a year with owning both consoles since day one. I definitely use my Xbox One a WHOLE LOT MORE.The Xbox One is honestly the console to own if you're trying to figure it out between the two.Not only is the interface very neat and organized, but when signing into XBL compared to PSN. I feel like I'm apart of something (hard to describe) as for the PSN, it just feels very lonely and dull.Xbox One also has MONTHLY SYSTEM UPDATES. The Xbox team over at Microsoft are doing a FANTASTIC job with this. By listening to their owners on what THEY (we) want, and adding it on to the system as a patch. The Xbox One now gives support to external hard drives, so you're not stuck with just the 500GB internal hard drive. You can buy a USB 3.0 2 TB external hard drive and add 2 of em - making it 4.5TB (including internal) Also, another thing fans wanted, are customized background pictures and now we have them as well.One thing I love about this is feature is you don't have to go out of your way by spending money for background images, as for you can add any picture you like by just unlocking the gaming achievement.Just like the PSN with free monthly games, the Xbox has 2 free games a month. Also, having weekly discount on video games (not only arcade games, for big games too) and DLC discounts.I don't use the TV feature so I can't judge the Kinect much, just because I don't want my system to be on all day. But the Kinect is a good product nevertheless, I've owned the previous one too and it wasn't nearly as responsive as this one is. My favorite feature (the 360 Kinect had this too, I remember it for Mass Effect) is when I'm playing a game (Ryse for example) and the game is telling me to either press a button or I can say "Fire the catapult", so moments like that I actually feel like I'm apart of the game. Also in 2K, you can call for plays with the Kinect which is really cool (face recognition in the new 2K! Another reason to own it! If you care about things like that) so for those reasons, the Kinect is a reason to own it. Hopefully developers will take advantage of the Kinect and keep adding features as face scanning and voice recognitions into future games.Xbox One also has the most apps, with just recently adding HBO Go.I enjoy the multiplayer on the XBL more as well. Everyone in game chats are talking, being team players (you'll love this if you're a FPS gamer) as for the PSN there isn't anyone to communicate with, or there is a hard time finding people to communicate with. To talk about strategies during the game on how to attack the opponents and what not.The Xbox One is my everyday console. For games, and entertainment. While the PS4 will only be for its exclusives. I hope this review was helpful.
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