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The One is a device that when you first here about it you are like, 'who would need that?'. Then you use it and you are like, 'wow I don't know how I ever did without this thing'. It is that ground breaking in being able to manage just about everything from a digital entertainment standpoint. My remote is a very lonely puppy right now. It is also probably the quietest console I have probably ever owned. I never thought Kinect would work so well and the switching from game to app, from app to TV, TV to IE, and IE back to games. It is truly a revolutionary product that any multi person family or single person will benefit from immediately. This sounds like I am some gushing fanboy and after using the thing I am. It is truly a benefit to own one.

I have yet to use a ton of the features of The One. The fitness app, and the NFL app, are my two most intriguing future experiences, and I have had a good amount of time with KI (Dojo is simply awesome), and only a little time with BF4 (stunning and smooth in motion). I just woke up after my first probably 7 hours straight with The One and will start my second play time with it this morning and give a report about the games in more detail.

It must have been the easiest decision in the world for MSoft to name the new Xbox Xbox One.
It truly is The One device for everything.

https://skydrive.live.com/redir?res...uthkey=!ADTzX5bm8HRJY-0&v=3&ithint=photo,.jpg
 
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aceattorney said:
Oh man. You guys have no idea what it's like to say, "Xbox On," and "Xbox Turn Off - YES," to power on/off the console AND TV.

"Xbox Volume Up/Down" also works perfectly with my receiver.

The entire TV/receiver set up was gloriously easy.
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Can't wait to try it myself easily worth $100 alone for this feature imo....
 
aceattorney said:
Updating now. Green screen is going on long enough to make me feel nervous!
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Don't be mine took forever. It even got stuck on the update screen so I had to power down and start over. No problem doing that whatsoever so don't be afraid to.
 
jimmyD said:
Can't wait to try it myself easily worth $100 alone for this feature imo....
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After the first use of the voice commands a smile came over my face and I never again thougth about how much I paid for The One. My only thoughts from then on where this thing is amazing.
 
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"I scoffed at Microsoft's ambition for the Xbox to be something much more than a game system. I thought it couldn't possibly work, and that Sony would succeed in producing a true game console while the Xbox One and Kinect would prove to be just as much of a gimmicky flop as the original Kinect. I was wrong, and while the PlayStation 4 is still an excellent game system in its own right, the Xbox One is that and so much more. It actually succeeds as the all-in-one device Microsoft wanted it to be. And I'm impressed."

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2427318,00.asp

Love this.

My thoughts exactly. I think Sony did a great job with the PS4. It's a great gaming machine. The problem (for them) is, X1 is a great gaming machine too (debatably even better, given the library of games and services), but it's also so, so, so much more on top of that with Kinect and the entertainment integration...

This Thanksgiving, it's not the games I'm excited to show my family... it's the entertainment switching, the voice recognition, the user sign-in magic with Kinect, the controller hand-off scenarios, the Skype calls, the TV integration, etc., etc., etc... most of my family who'll be around on Turkey day aren't big gamers, but they're huge tech-files, and they love tech toys... Xbox One will blow them away...
 
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TheGeneral said:
Yes :)
Here is me playing Forza and watching TV

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Is there a way to adjust volume for whatever is snapped in? I saw a quick look on Giant Bomb and the volume seemed to high for the TV snapped in and I couldn't hear the game playing.
 
Flynn said:
"I scoffed at Microsoft's ambition for the Xbox to be something much more than a game system. I thought it couldn't possibly work, and that Sony would succeed in producing a true game console while the Xbox One and Kinect would prove to be just as much of a gimmicky flop as the original Kinect. I was wrong, and while the PlayStation 4 is still an excellent game system in its own right, the Xbox One is that and so much more. It actually succeeds as the all-in-one device Microsoft wanted it to be. And I'm impressed."

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2427318,00.asp

Love this.
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No native MP3 support :tounge:
 
pravus said:
Have any of you guys downloaded any games yet?

I just want to know whether or not the game downloads operate like 360, where when it is finished downloading you can play instantly or like PS3 where you have to download, then install.

Seeing reports of Ryse taking 2 hours to install via disc sounds awful enough.
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I am going completely digital this gen and I have downloaded full versions of KI, and BF4. I did KI first because it was only 3Gb, but be warned. If you are buying the Ultra addition like I did don't bother downloading the free version first. I made the mistake of downloading the free version before the ultra and had the Ultra further back in my queue between a couple of other apps.

BF4 was 32Gb and it took a while to download that but after about 60% and 15-20 minutes I was able to play without the game fully installed. The system works really well that way.

My only advice is to load up smaller games first so you can start playing while the larger ones load in the background.
 
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If Microsoft is smart about it with the whole DD option, they'd begin a rental service to give gamers the ability to rent games for a certain amount of days. Hopefully we'll see that in the near future.
 
Mcmasters said:
If Microsoft is smart about it with the whole DD option, they'd begin a rental service to give gamers the ability to rent games for a certain amount of days. Hopefully we'll see that in the near future.
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given the size of the game I think it would only service a very small portion of gamers. Although I myself would love such a service. I wouldn;t use it as much as a disc based variant of today, but would be useful for games like Ryse.
 
menace-uk- said:
given the size of the game I think it would only service a very small portion of gamers. Although I myself would love such a service. I wouldn;t use it as much as a disc based variant of today, but would be useful for games like Ryse.
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I'd use it in a hearbeat. Hell, get rid of demos and allow games to be rented. One offers profit on top of a possible game purchase, the other is a free taste that usually only amounts to just that and not much else. It just makes sense to me mate.
 
Plainview said:
Don't you just hold it up to the Kinect? You can always do it through Xbox.com. I hated entering it through the controller.
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Yes you can scan with kinect, but I've bought some codes online, the codes have be scanned with a very bad scanner, and send to my email. So they have to be entered the old way. But where can I do that??
 
Mcmasters said:
I'd use it in a hearbeat. Hell, get rid of demos and allow games to be rented. One offers profit on top of a possible game purchase, the other is a free taste that usually only amounts to just that and not much else. It just makes sense to me mate.
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Again...game sizes will reduce the overall consumer base for such a service. Maybe even enough to make it a weak but viable option. With demos you can cut a huge chunk of assets, which make the overall download sizes much more approachable for the general masses.
 
menace-uk- said:
Again...game sizes will reduce the overall consumer base for such a service. Maybe even enough to make it a weak but viable option. With demos you can cut a huge chunk of assets, which make the overall download sizes much more approachable for the general masses.
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Maybe. But with a game as a rental the HD storage space that it takes to download the game would only be unavailable temporarily. Im sure there would also be an option to have the game expire within your system after three or four days as well, without having to go back in and delete the content.
 
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