Noticed the fan stays spinning (lightly) when you turn off the console unless you power it down completely from the settings menu.
Mini impressions:
Negatives (get those out the way first)
- Slight plasticky heat smell (as mentioned, now tried 2, both identical) so if you have a sensitive nose just be aware, it'll probably stabilise over the next few days
- Controller feels OK, but shame they didn't step up with some new features.. I just went straight to my Elite Controller and haven't looked back.
- UI is OK, but as people say, it's a bit cluttered at first, although I can find everything I need, it just takes a bit of time.
Positives
- Load times are ridiculous
- Instant on is actually 'instant'
- 4k60 is so nice, I miss very little when switching between this and the PC (other than ultrawide support, 3840 x 1600/1440 would be less stress on the GPU, but if they supported that, I'd ditch PC)
- The size and weight make it feel impossibly engineered, almost zero noise, just a lovely small waft of warm air (except the new plastics smell!)
- MS have absolutely nailed back compat and making moving from one gen to another so seamless..
- All my peripherals work (steering wheel, LS35X wireless headset, Elite v1 Controller)
- The setup is superbly easy, honestly I setup the 2nd xbox quickly to ensure it was ready for Xmas day and pre-loaded all their games, it took < 10 minutes and just left it on today to get those all downloaded, so hopefully far less to do on Xmas day)
Slight surprises
- Destiny 2 - I seemed to have missed the memo in all the noise but imagine my surprise on starting the Beyond Light campaign (minor niggle, on launch day it was confusing in the store as it wasn't clear Beyond Light was on gamepass, I think it's fixed today) and it was 30fps. coming from PC (ultrawide @ 75hz) it was so jarring I had to actually buy it on PC.. Will await December 8th upgrade and also next years cross platform play (fingers crossed).
- I couldn't see an easy way to filter games with Series X enhancements.. part of the confusing UI layout.
Were you downloading though? I'd imagine that was the case.
Ah...sorry though I thought win 10 had streaming built in...(sorry quick reply without reading your original post)Apple is for ios but I'm referring to the windows 10 app as well as Android TV by Google.
I'm being thick here. I thought I read that old 360 games were auto scaled to 4k plus the hdr without fps increase. But a game with the S/X icon on it means it's had enhancements to frame rate etc?
Wow my downloads are slower than psn. Overnight I only got 73% of forza and it's barely getting 4Mbps when it should be about 45
I see Borderlands 3 has been optimized tempted to get as seem to be able to buy physical version for about 11 - worth it ?
Overall I think it's worth some money (personally I always search for cheaper digital versions online, I think I got around 20% off making it more cost effective, I was going to use some uPlay points to get 20% discount but realised at checkout Ubisoft only sell physical copies, which is fine for some, but I'm a whore for convenience).
Such a shame rdr2 is capped at 30fps!
Any recommendations for a sub 50" TV? I cant fit anything much bigger into my study so that rules out OLEDS which all seem to be 55"+. We have an LG C8 downstairs and the PQ is fantastic, but 55" will just be too big, so basically after something that does 4k HDR (not too fussed about 120fps) and probably costs below about £600-£700.
Any recommendations for a sub 50" TV? I cant fit anything much bigger into my study so that rules out OLEDS which all seem to be 55"+. We have an LG C8 downstairs and the PQ is fantastic, but 55" will just be too big, so basically after something that does 4k HDR (not too fussed about 120fps) and probably costs below about £600-£700.
Gutted that my copy of PGR4 won't play on the X Was really looking forward to playing it through a third time. Oh well, there's always FH4 I suppose.
I'm being thick here. I thought I read that old 360 games were auto scaled to 4k plus the hdr without fps increase. But a game with the S/X icon on it means it's had enhancements to frame rate etc?
I wonder if they will release a Series X update/patch to allow 60fps. I would have thought the Series X should be more than capable of that, considering the specs of it.
I'm being thick here. I thought I read that old 360 games were auto scaled to 4k plus the hdr without fps increase. But a game with the S/X icon on it means it's had enhancements to frame rate etc?
I wonder if they will release a Series X update/patch to allow 60fps. I would have thought the Series X should be more than capable of that, considering the specs of it.