Xbox One S: smaller, 4k, UHD blu ray, HDR, bluetooth pad. 500gb for £249

[SnoopZakaDaVe]

 

 

Go easy on me - haven't made many videos. Sub if you like =)

as for this, incase nobody looked at the xbox thread (it maybe deserves a thread of its own) you can now use nesbox on your xbox through the browser

nesbox.itch.io/x1

[Revival]

Blue one for November 1st and pencilled in for a USA and Australia release, I'd imagine some UK retailer will have it as an exclusive.

 

[Cosmic_Guru]

Australia getting a lotta XB love at present with Phil down there presently, and err a certain driving game.  It's probably a decent market for the brand, unlike continental Europe and Asia.

[Yoshimax]

They always seemed a bit left out having to use US or JP servers, overpriced software and stuff but maybe MS see an opportunity to sow them up - as you say they're certainly pushing hard down there just now.

[Shook]

On 15/09/2016 at 16:19, SnoopZakaDaVe said:

as for this, incase nobody looked at the xbox thread (it maybe deserves a thread of its own) you can now use nesbox on your xbox through the browser

nesbox.itch.io/x1

 

Sorry, only just seen this. I can play Mario Kart on my XBox?

[squirtle]

Where are the roms stored?

[SeanR]

USB stick, I think I read?

[SnoopZakaDaVe]

yep you can and it's easy and runs really well with everything i've chucked at it other than gameboy games. it's been updated recently i think to support game saves (stored in browser cache for now i think)

 

you store the ROMs on onedrive and load them in via a new tab in the browser

[squirtle]

On OneDrive? Ha ha! That's ace.

[Shook]

12 minutes ago, SnoopZakaDaVe said:

yep you can and it's easy and runs really well with everything i've chucked at it other than gameboy games. it's been updated recently i think to suppor save games (stored in browser cache for now i think)

 

you store the ROMs on onedrive and load them in via a new tab in the browser

 

Ok so download onedrive into the XBox, put the ROMS in it, load them into IE?

[SnoopZakaDaVe]

11 minutes ago, Shook said:

 

Ok so download onedrive into the XBox, put the ROMS in it, load them into IE?

 download the roms on your phone/pc and stick them on onedrive, go to the nesbox.itch.io/xb1 and it will say add rom once the emulator loads, click that and it opens a new tab with onedrive in via ( i guess ) some sort of referral link, and once the onedrive website loads you click your rom and click open, the onedrive tab will shut and it should say rom loaded or something, then you will be back on nesbox and the rom should automatically load into the emulator..

 

its been updated since i last used it properly but thats how i did it, no need for the onedrive app on the console

[Salsa Party Animal]

So any decent XBOX One exclusive games coming out in future apart from Gear of Wars 4. Just thinking about getting white XBOX S once I get new TV for living room, so I can use it for 4K content. As Sony scored an own goal for not including a 4K blu ray player. 

[DC Lemon]

13 minutes ago, Salsa Party Animal said:

So any decent XBOX One exclusive games coming out in future apart from Gear of Wars 4. Just thinking about getting white XBOX S once I get new TV for living room, so I can use it for 4K content. As Sony scored an own goal for not including a 4K blu ray player. 

 

Dead Rising 4 this year. It's set at Christmas.

[Revival]

37 minutes ago, Salsa Party Animal said:

So any decent XBOX One exclusive games coming out in future apart from Gear of Wars 4. Just thinking about getting white XBOX S once I get new TV for living room, so I can use it for 4K content. As Sony scored an own goal for not including a 4K blu ray player. 

 

Loads...

 

 

Ashen
Astroneer
Below
Cuphead
Crackdown 3
Dead Rising 4
Ghost of a Tale
Natsuki Chronicle
Pit People
Phantom Dust
Sea of Thieves
Scalebound

Space Engineers
Tacoma

Thimbleweed Park

[SeanR]

Wow, alphabetical.

[Hello Goaty ♥]

I would buy an Xbox One S, if only Microsoft hadnt mentioned scorpions!

 

[Mimi]

I bought one of these 'improved' S machines as my first Xbox and considering it's meant to slightly speed things up I dread to think what the original Xbox One is like. The dashboard is so slow and laggy while disc installs take an unbelievable amount of time, I took my Xbox back to game and got another thinking it was faulty but it's doing the same thing. The store is so slow to browse it's painful.

 

Compared to using my PS4 where you can play games instantly and don't need to wait for basic dashboard menus to load this feels like a machine from last generation. What am I doing wrong?

[Cosmic_Guru]

18 minutes ago, Martha said:

 What am I doing wrong?

 

Nothing.  It's much slower than the PS4, both to boot up and to install discs, particularly just now when the dash seems to hang for a few seconds before populating.   

[Mimi]

I don't think you realise how slow it is, I set Forza to install from the disc and went to go and make a cup of tea, when I came back it still wasn't installed. This wasn't a five minute wait. Guy in game told me to disconnect from the internet when I install games which I did but it's still taking an age, I'm on a wired 200Mb line so doubt that was an issue - I got the disc swapped too in case that was damaged but even with a new machine and new disc the installs are taking forever and the dashboard is less responsive than a fucking PS3 from 2007.

 

Could it be a bad batch of consoles?

[Bojangle]

Yep, that's standard. Install times are a complete joke on Bone, sadly. I can forgive it though, because it has Horizon 3 on it.

[Guest]

Put it in 'instant on' mode and it boots up, well, instantly. Obviously opening apps in the dash takes a couple of seconds, but navigating it shouldn't be laggy. How does the PS4 handle things then? Surely it can't hold everything in memory all the time?

 

Games should let you start playing way before they're 100% downloaded as well. I don't buy discs any more, but that's the case with everything I buy digitally. Again, how does the PS4 handle this? I thought they worked in the same way, that the game has to download to the console and the disc is just the key?

 

Use Xbox.com for the store. If you've got the console set to 'instant on' then you can buy games wherever you are and they'll immediately start downloading to the console, ready for when you get home (as long as you've got a decent internet connection).

[Mr. Gerbik]

11 minutes ago, Martha said:

I don't think you realise how slow it is, I set Forza to install from the disc and went to go and make a cup of tea, when I came back it still wasn't installed. This wasn't a five minute wait. Guy in game told me to disconnect from the internet when I install games which I did but it's still taking an age, I'm on a wired 200Mb line so doubt that was an issue - I got the disc swapped too in case that was damaged.

The dash is really slow but it's way worse when you're installing and updating stuff. It will be better after you're done with all that. The PS4 dash is indeed faster, but on the flipside its download speeds are a lot slower. Neither console will get anywhere close to making use of your 200Mb connection. For some reason the os updates on XB1 tend to download at slow speeds but everything else is up to three times faster to come down compared to PS4.

 

You'll get used to it, this gen's consoles are just slow. 

[Cosmic_Guru]

9 minutes ago, Jon said:

Games should let you start playing way before they're 100% downloaded as well. I don't buy discs any more, but that's the case with everything I buy digitally. Again, how does the PS4 handle this? I thought they worked in the same way, that the game has to download to the console and the disc is just the key?

 

That "ready to play" thing is misleading - frequently you can't do anything meaningful.  You just have to let it run it's course - download the inevitable day one patch, and then install to disc - at least now you can see progress.  Typically it takes 45-50 minutes for a new game for me. Maybe old games with multiple patches would be a lot longer.

 

If you have the disc version of games you don't download them - this is only for BC titles.

 

I would like to know why installation is much slower than for  PS4 though.

 

 

 

 

[The Mighty Ash]

Can someone do me a favour - when your one s is off (energy saving) can you hear a really faint buzz from the console if you put your ear on it? I presume it's because the power supply is internal. Just want to check its normal and not about to burst into flames! 

[Mr. Gerbik]

I think that means there are killer bees living inside your console! 

[T Pot]

23 minutes ago, Martha said:

I don't think you realise how slow it is, I set Forza to install from the disc and went to go and make a cup of tea, when I came back it still wasn't installed.

 

There's a bug with the Horizon 3 install that can make it download the entire game instead of installing from disk. Plus it's just generally a slower install than most Xbox One games anyway (which are really slow). It took me 2.5 hours to get it in.

[Mimi]

Everything updated overnight, I had instant on activated so at least that is sorted and I can play Forza. Dashboard is still very slow though, will try some Netflix and other media stuff later as that was one of the main reasons I picked this up to go with my 4K TV. Fifa is being delivered today so will see what that is like, off to play Forza now. Exciting!

[carlospie]

So I'm picking one up today, Iv not had an Xbox since the 360 but I did have a PS4, are there any classics I need to pick up?

[Stanley]

Halo 5

Forza Horizon 3

Master Chief Collection

Rise of The Tomb Raider

Elite Dangerous

[Mimi]

Forza seems great from my 15 minute play. Curiosity got the better of me and I am having a look at the media features - what is this downloading an app just to watch a Blu Ray bullshit? Why is the dashboard so fucking slow? I am getting annoyed now, this machine came out in 2016. I know a few of you are saying otherwise but I really feel like I have got two faulty machines in a row.