evan23

@jarvismp I have found this launch to be pretty smooth.

As for the network issue, you need to set the xbox as your home xbox or it thinks you are using someone else's xbox and requires a network connection. Of course, this limit doesn't apply to physical disks.

Describing it as "a console that has so much wrong with it, it is criminal!" certainly doesn't match my experience. It seems pretty clean with some minor issues they are working on.

I have been impressed so far.

@Thretosix Are any of those titles backwards compatible games? I am using a less expensive external SSD to store all those titles on.

In the testing DF did. For backwards compatible games the advantages of internal storage were minimal.

I am trying to hold off on upgrading internal storage as long as possible in the hope that price decreases and/or capacity increases.

@AJDarkstar Here is the official word from Microsoft:

"While Quick Resume is fully operational with thousands of titles, we are aware a select number of Optimized titles may be experiencing issues with this feature. To ensure the best possible experience for our fans, we’ve disabled the feature for these titles and are working as quickly as possible to fix this at the platform level."

@AJDarkstar I definitely had it work on some titles. I think it has only been disabled in certain games for which it is broken.

I very briefly played a bunch of back compat games. It worked in AC: Syndicate for example.

Conversely, it didn't work in Gears 5 or Borderlands 3.

@orionreplay I noticed the same thing quick resume wasn't working in most of the X/S optimized games I played.

That being said, I am not sure for my usage it is a must have feature. It is cool to play with but in practical usage I don't switch games that often.

@BlueOcean I have an LG C9 and setting 4K@120 didn't result in any signal drops for me. That being said, I doubt any of the games I was playing supported that.

I also had a firmware update come through the day before yesterday.

@Scenes Ouch. Must be regional. I am still seeing decent speeds.

@Medic_Alert Yeah, I don't at all understand Sony's communication strategy. They are clearly doing it on purpose, I just don't really understand why.

@antstephenson Generally, I like the ps4 UI better than the xb UI as well but you will get used it. There are some things that are better about it but the ads and general clutter are annoying to me.

That being said, the x360 UI is quite terrible so I think if that is your point of comparison you will come to like it sooner rather than later.

@Medic_Alert I feel like Microsoft delivered an evolutionary experience without any single killer new features but a ton of performance and quality of life improvements in a polished package.

Sony seems to be trying some new things but it looks like there are going to be some gaps that are hopefully resolved sooner rather than later. Two very different approaches. For someone who is lucky enough to be able to have both, it will be interesting to see how it unfolds over the next couple of years.

@WillieFisterbut I have been pretty surprised at how fast the download servers have been. I was expecting them to be buried but I have been getting a consistent 400-600 Mbps.

@Nightcrawler71 The "smart" part is that it picks the right version for your console. Or, a more sarcastic view might be that the "smart" part is the marketing around it.

I don't think it actually uses any content from the Xone version.

It appears to me like it it just downloads the whole game even when you have the Xone version installed. It isn't very transparent though so I don't know that for sure.

@Medic_Alert I don't have enough Xone, X360 and Xbox games that I need more than a 2TB SSD for all of them combined so no 3rd tier for me.

@Medic_Alert That is what I did. I picked up a 2tb external SSD and put all my Xone games on it. It will be a while before I need more dedicated storage for X/S games.

Also, DF tests showed that the performance advantage between internal storage and external SSD for backwards compatible games was minimal.

@UltimateOtaku91 It seems to be exactly the same as the Xone. I don't see any way to remove them.

@TheFrenchiestFry The UI is almost identical to the Xone.

I am not sure when the last time you saw the Xone UI but it has been slowly evolving with each update.

@Medic_Alert For the smart delivery titles I had, like borderlands 3, I didn't have to transfer them. An "update" showed up and when I installed it, it automatically installed onto internal storage.

I haven't spent all that much time with it yet but so far a few things stand out about the Series X.

• It is smaller than I thought it would be from looking at pictures and videos
• There is no single specific feature that is really revolutionary
• The package, when taken as a whole, is pretty amazing. Everything just works. Full backwards compatibility with the Xone. Quick resume. More capable hardware in almost every way.
• There aren't really any games to showcase the new hardware yet.

Overall I am impressed and it pretty much is what most of the reviewers said it would be.

@NEStalgia That is totally normal.

For me it is a good news/bad news situation.

The good news is:

• My XSX is in my posession
• It is up and running with all the updates installed
• I just finished downloading Valhalla and all the X/S games I couldn't download on the Xone.

The bad news is that I have to work for the next 6 hours.

Overall, I would say the good outweighs the bad.

@Thretosix That is terrifying. Around here, FedEx is the most reliable. UPS.....not so much.

@StylesT I am not sure that "most" 4K TVs can do 1080p/120 but many of them can. Some only support it on certain ports.

It is more common in current models than in earlier 4K models.

I picked my Series X up about an hour ago. Game updates downloading now.....

A few random thoughts so far:

• It is much smaller than what I expected
• I used the app setup which was simple, fast and painless
• It copied all my settings from my One X which made my life easier than having to reconfigure everything
• Microsoft's download servers seem to be holding up fairly well at this point. I was expecting downloads to be slower than they have been
• I moved all my Xone games to an external SSD ahead of time and they were all instantly recognized after connecting the drive
• Setting the external device as the default location downloads Xone games to the external and X/S games to the internal. EDIT: This behavior seems somewhat inconsistent. Maybe it depends how the game install is initiated? Sometimes it puts on the internal and sometimes it warns that if I proceed it will install it to the external but it won't be playable from there.
• If you have an Xone game that has an X/S upgrade. It shows up as an update and automatically moves it to the internal drive as part of the update. EDIT: It seems to leave some of it behind on the external as well. I wonder if the Xone version is still there.