Poll: Two Weeks On, Are You Happy With Your Xbox Series X|S?

I'm more than happy with my XSX I'm only unhappy with the time I have for gaming :/ Game Pass is proving to be too much of a temptation for me.

Alright, who voted for hate it? I mean really? Unless you received a DOA unit and are feeling butthurt about it, but what's to 'hate'?
Facepalm at the trolls.

The XSX has proven to be a fairly impressive machine from my perspective.

The complaints I have are mostly fairly minor:

• The HDMI-CEC implementation needs some work
• Black levels on UHD discs(fix already incoming)
• The d-pad on the new controller is a bit loud for me
• There is no way to see what is available for quick resume

Balanced against those minor issues is a great system that does most things really well.

That being said, I am not using it much compared to my PS5 at the moment. This for two main reasons:

• The PS5 feels like something new with a new UI and everything the dualsense brings
• There is much more new launch content that is holding my attention on the PS5

That being said, I am a huge fan of playing bc games so I suspect over time I will gravitate more in that direction but since this is the time of year when many new games launch I am less focused on bc right now.

@evan23 this is the same for me strangely. I think the only additional complaints I have is that the quick resume seems to decide when it wants to work for some games. I find some online games stop games like Valhalla and Ori from being quick resumable. Forgo Horizon 4 seems to be the best quick resume example for me so far but this will be ironed out I'm sure.

The console itself is great and I'm enjoying it. Just need Activision and MS to iron out which of them is making my consoles power down when playing Cold War...

After so much fun with Xbox one x tv connection issues. Not turning the tv over to the channel and not linking with HDR correctly sometime.
To see these return on the series x is not great.
HDMI does turn over tv channel now but not every time and I still get hdr drop out sometimes depending how you start the game.
I’m positive it’s a certain hdmi connection or chip they use as the one x had this issue.
Also my PS4 and PS5 and Switch have never had none of the above issues at all.

@Dezzy70 What is HDR drop-out? I am not sure I have seen that on the X1X or the XSX.

I snagged both an XSX & XSS. Arriving today, excited to give it a go!

@evan23 @Dezzy70 I had an issue like that with the first one s I bought... the Xbox would power on but the hdmi output wouldn’t work properly. I ended up having to take it to the Microsoft store where they gave me a new unit and said the hard drive was faulty (I started having more issues). Sucked because I’d only had it for barely over a. month.

@gollumb82 Same here, my only complaint is not having more time for playing this wonderful Series X console.

Overall I'm very very happy. I never had an iteration of the Xbox One. So this all feels very new to me and GamePass is brilliant.

Honestly, if I had an Xbox One prior to this and was already experiencing GamePass, I may have felt like I easily could have waited on the Series X/S.

@themightyant I forgot about ALLM. One of the annoying things for me with ALLM is that it turns it on when you use a media app like netflix. While it isn't the end of the world, what the point of turning it on and off if you are going to turn it on when watching netflix.

Again, this is a minor complaint not a deal breaker.

I was excited about getting a new Xbox, but since I can't find one, and there seems to be so many launch issues. I may just get a 2nd Switch so I can finally finish breath of the wild (among others) without my son going: "I want to play Mario kart"

The next gen can wait until next year.

There will always be issues with day one machinery. Always has been. The overall experience though is vastly positive. You can list hundreds of little things that could be better. Storage, consistency of new tech, even design but what matters is the end result. This was the first time I've preordered a console and got it on day one, I am not disappointed at all. The ssd makes such a huge difference. Yes, storage will be an issue, especially as games get bigger, but xbox has already sorted expansions and an ssd external for non optimised games works fine.

I’m more than happy with my Series X 😀 put it this way - I’ve hardly touched my PS4 since getting my XSX!

I'm loving mine! Got the X and just tried out the disk drive on Friday when i rented a game from the library. This thing is super fast and honestly doesn't make a sound. I can get into games super fast and the lack of loading is making the most of my limited gaming time. Like I've been saying before the launch the SSD and it's impact on loading is the true next gen feature. No going back once you get a taste of it.

If you paid $300-$500 on a console, you better be happy with it because you knew enough about it to think it was worth the asking price. Paying that much and not researching is just dumb. If you aren't happy at this stage, I don't feel sorry for you.

@Kefka2589 as a new Xbox user i have so much i want to play on gamepass it's actually overwhelming. I have zero regret, actually a sigh of relief, that i changed my mind from getting a PS5 to a series x. This thing is amazing.

Very happy, Shes beautiful..

@evan23
It’s with a Samsung q90r tv.
Sometimes if you come out of a game then put the console in rest mode.
Then come back next day and play the game it sometimes does not pick the game up in hdr.
You then go back to dash board. Then back to the game and then it picks up hdr mode, after a couple of goes.
I think xbox one x and series x and Samsung q90r don’t hand shake perfectly.
As I said PS4 PS5 are fine. However Sony and Microsoft consoles do apply hdr chip configuration slightly different and in the menus.

@AJDarkstar
Correct and it was very sad to see these faults come over to the series x with the way Xbox consoles handle hdr. They must know they exist as you seem people writing to them on the forums.
Yes the PS5 seems perfect handling hdr and hdmi switch on my q90r then again the PS4 pro did as well. Maybe it is Sony better knowledge of TVs etc as their engineers design and manufacture them as well.

Don't get me wrong, there are still plenty of improvements I'd like to see (many of which are listed above), but the fact that it loads so damn quickly is just a huge improvement for me. Star Wars Battlefront 2 used to take minutes to load — now it's under 10 seconds!

@AJDarkstar
If you go to HDTV TEST there is a whole video on how the PS5 outputs to tv and probably the best settings to have.
Explains RGB Is full chroma 4:4:4 etc etc.

@Dezzy70 Weird, I haven't seen 4Pro, 1X, XSX, or PS5 have an HDR dropout, though on the setup I have with a 40ft+ HDMI run with boosters I get intermittent screen or audio dropouts with all of them.

I absolutely love Quick Resume, and if I play Miles on PS5 and power down it drives me nuts to have to go through the logo screens and back into the game. Yeah it's "fast" but it's annoying and logo screens have timers to make sure you see them. I just wish it would start working more univerally, and make me aware of what games have a QR point, what games will get bumped from QR when starting a new game with QR, and let me force a QR save when exiting a game manually. Right now closing the game just ends it.

Needs some work, but it's all on the software side. Right now, Ori, Yakuza, Watch Dogs, Planet Coaster are supporting QR. AC:V, Forza, Tetris, BC games, are not supporting it.

@Medic_Alert I haven't found very many last gen games that didn't get a 1X patch except some very early ones. And yeah, the later games run at higher native res, so lower potential framerate. But at least they run

@NEStalgia We must play different games. For me, all of the BC games I have tried supported QR.

@evan23 Really? Well, that's good news! I must be hitting on the exceptions. I've tried Sekiro, Ryse.....I can't remember the other two I tried that are installed now. I wasn't sure if BC worked with QR or not, and when I saw those didn't I just figured QR's not part of BC. That's cool! So maybe it's just down to the waiting game for when they have that system update that addresses the QR exclusions then.

Love my Series X to death despite an apparent known-issue with it losing track of my controller and wireless headset if left unattended for 10-15 minutes. Fix that and I'm 100% happy with it. It really was the weirdest console launch (Xbox and PS5 both) that I've ever witnessed though, and I've been gaming since the Atari 2600 days. I do rather like this approach though. I love playing older games but my TV only has so many inputs and my house is only so big. Nice to be able to more or less shelve my PS4, Xbox One X, 360, etc. for now.

@JetmanUK
I bet that person didnt even has a xbox.
Haha

I'm genuinely enjoying my time with it (or as much as I can with a newborn in the house). I second the comments about having games that stretch the kit to a next-gen level, but I really like the loading speed, interface and joypad refinements. Forza Horizon 4 really does looks special, and very much enjoying hammering Game Pass when I can.