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Originally Posted by Mavericks Ace
The good the bad, and the ugly.
Went out for the mid night release of the xbox one.
Got it. Pretty easily actually. Finally unboxed it yesterday, everything was working fine. Took a nap, got up, went and turned it on, and my xbox will not pick up my Kinect. Says its not plugged in.
Undid the update, restarted from scratch, still not reading it. Spent 3 hours between the phone, and computer talking with XBOX. They are sending me a new Kinect before i have to send back the broken one, which is cool.
Still annoying. The only thing i truly hate, is you have to install every game.
I bought 5 games, and killer instinct. all have about an hour install.
Annoying. But from what I have played, all of the games except madden have so far impressed me.
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Originally Posted by GordonGekko
Really? Per game? Jeezus...
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Originally Posted by Guru
1 hour installs? JFC
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They're going to have to rework this setup.
Playing Forza at the store and just doing some free racing to try out some of the different classes of cars and various track locations, and the load times were pretty slow. It's possible that I was just the 1st person who picked these options and the load time is faster after the 1st time?
But even just loading a new race to the time they give the 3, 2, 1 start countdown was at least 3+ minutes.
There's no built in storage expansion even though they both have a 500 gig hd, the game sizes are going to quickly get very big as they incorporate higher and higher resolution graphics.
There's already instructions on how to replace the hard drive with a 2 terabyte one because space is already a perceived issue. For example, NBA2K14 takes up 41.5 gigs on the ps4 and a little over 43 on the one, and actual available storage space available for use is 408 gigs on the PS4 and about 430 on the One.
Right now, the average install is right around 20-22 gigs, but as the game titles start rolling out that aren't simply being ported over, it's going to be more the norm that they will be closer to 40-50 gigs and higher.
People are going to be pissed if you are facing a situation where you can have 15 - 20 games readily loaded to play, and if you want to play another title have to delete a game or 2 install and then wait an hour or more just to get up and running constantly!
Just another reason why I see this as a half measure and even if they say the system will be looking at an 8 to 10 year product cycle, I bet within 5 years they're going to have a refresh "2.0" version that won't be marketed as the next generation console but will have a bunch of internal updates like:
Storage capacity
Processor speed / efficiency
Graphics handler
Wireless standard (I.e. A/C & beyond)
Video and Audio output and standard (hdmi version xx.xx?, DD+ 7.1 or whatever else are the newest s.sound audio standards)
Plus they can keep a premium price and offer the original version at a discount price - even though for example if you bought the 360 with just the tiny 4.5 gig you were certainly just putting off needed to buy the additional storage to be really get full use out of the system.