Microsoft Outlines the Upgrade Procedures For Xbox One X (arstechnica.com) 48
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The easiest way to get all your games to the new system, as outlined by Microsoft Vice President Mike Ybarra, will be to just put them on an external USB hard drive and then plug that drive into the new console. "All your games are ready to play" immediately after this external hard drive move, he said, and user-specific settings can also be copied via external hard drive in the same way. If you don't have an external drive handy, "we're going to let you copy games and apps off your home network instead of having to manually move them or redownload them off the Internet," Ybarra said. It's unclear right now if Microsoft will mirror the PS4 Pro and allow this kind of system-to-system transfer using an Ethernet cable plugged directly into both consoles. For those who want to see as many pixels as possible as quickly as possible when they get their Xbox One X, Ybarra says you'll be able to download 4K updates for supported games before the Xbox One X is even available, then use those updates immediately after the system transfer. Microsoft also released a list of 118 current and upcoming games that will be optimized for the Xbox One X via updates, a big increase from the few dozens announced back at E3.
Uh, Microsoft... (Score:2)
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And there's three X's in "Xbox One X".
Oh yeah! 4K 3D hentai porn! Dead or Alive Xtreme Tentacles!
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No no no no, you're reading it wrong. It is an acronym! "XBOX" stands for "X Box One X"!
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"XBOX" stands for "X Box One X"!
Brilliant! Someone should tell Microsoft. ;)
Wait (Score:1)
People are buying game consoles from Microsoft? The same Microsoft that's spying on everyone, pushing ads on your paid-for-but-not-really-yours computer operating system that tried to push a fucking touch interface down our throats?
XBox One X (Score:2)
Anyone else notice that they made it such that it just spells XBOX when you shorten it?
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No, it spells XOX when you shorten it. Unless you spell Xbox as X-Box...?
Re: XBox One X (Score:2)
The title of my post has capitals in there for a reason.
XBO is Xbox One, so XBox One X would be XBOX.
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No, I believe that you are missing the other guy's point.
Other than being intentionally dense, there was no point.
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Capitalize all you want, the first letter of Xbox is X, not XB.
Then why, exactly, is Xbox One abbreviated as XBO?
Either log in as yourself, or don't reply.
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XBO = marketing and the fact that Sony uses three letters for their console names.
Remember "PS" for Playstation? Xbox One is "XO", I don't care what the marketing department of Microsoft calls it.
You always only use the first letter of each word in an acronym.
Xbox One X (Score:2, Funny)
What is that, 19 in pig Latin numerals?
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Who bothers with a console? I hit steam, buy a PC game for $19.99. If I want a game on the console, I am paying $79.99 for the physical media ($79.98 if I buy it used), then have to pay another C-note just for DLC, so I have a chance of actually winning, and so the side quests are present, making the game make sense. Of course, since the saves are locked to the console, I'm hosed, where with the PC, I can do a game restore and be OK.
If you want to be an end user, who does what he/she is told, and opens the wallet when EA or Ubisoft demands more cash for the same tired old IP that hasn't changed since the early 2000s, by all means... buy a console. If you like actual gaming, PC is where it is at.
And if you want to play games with any real level of quality, you'll be shelling out for a PC -- which you skipped fully over there in your inept rant. You'll also be paying for an OS, another 100 or two there.
Also, I buy games at 59.99 -- not your 79.99, so I'm already 20 ahead of your quote. You don't shell out 100.00 for DLC unless you're an idiot. Depending on how fast you play them, you can trade them back in for at least 50% of their value -- so, now I'm down to like 25-30 worth of expense....
If you'r
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I game on both PC and consoles and while PCs do have some advantages (run at higher framesrates/res, customization, k/b and mouse), c
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Sony locks certain saves to the console too. Or at least they did in the PS3 days. Annoying.
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I've not seen this behavior with any games I own, which games?
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Can't even remember. I just knew it was a potential issue and decided to avoid the whole mess when I first got my PS3 by adding in a larger hard drive on day 1.
As HAKdragon mentioned, it was up to developers to lock the saves or not. I believe when PS+ came about the issue was "resolved" because you could backup your saves to Sony's servers to get around the lock. Of course, that assumes you are paying the monthly subscription.
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you know, with steam's big picture mode + xbox 360 controller, you really do get the best of both worlds.
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Or play the games that come free with Xbox Live Gold.
Sorry, I have PS+ and since the PS4 came out, Sony's been offering lamer and lame
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Who bothers with a console?
I'm going to take it that either you live in Australia or some country without PSN access. I'm also going to assume that you're a PC Master Race sort of guy.
I hit steam, buy a PC game for $19.99.
I hit PSN, buy a PSwhatever game for $19.99
I am paying $79.99 for the physical media
Australia? Bandwidth caps and slow internet? Because here in the US new "AAA" PS4 games cost $59.99, unless they're some kind of "Deluxe edition". Also All games are available in digital form, in fact, some games are ONLY available digitally and don't have retail releases.
Of course, since the saves are locked to the console, I'm hosed, where with the PC, I can do a game restore and be OK.
I don't know where you got that idea
Why would it be any different (Score:2)
Why would it be any different than the process from moving from an Xbox One to an Xbox One S? [xbox.com]
Kind of old news by now how to do this, and already pops up on a new console with instructions on moving from another system...
Two Smart Moves (Score:5, Interesting)
Two smart moves:
1. Make it easy for your customers to upgrade.
2. Don't bog down your gaming network as 20M users all try to re-download 5TB worth of games for their new system.
I own every system since the Atari 2600, but I have been primarily using my PS4 this generation, while I used my 360 primarily last generation. Microsoft made some huge miscalculations with the Xbone and I held off buying it for several years, and since it doesn't have many exclusives, it is mainly a pass through and 360 game player. Hopefully this is more indication of putting the customer first and giving gamers what gamers want first and foremost.
Sony could learn a thing or two in this regard, as well as backwards comparability so that the customer doesn't feel ripped off buying the same game twice...
Not really (Score:2)
The 360 used a transfer cable, 3DS lets you just copy content between SD cards when you move to a new system, PS3 and PS4 let you use a USB drive to transfer contents to a new system.
Things have been this way for about 10+ years now, nothing new
On the other hand on XboxOneX launch day the servers are guaranteed to go down as gamers download all the patches and assets to update their games for the platform!
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If you had read the article, I believe that it said that you could pre-download HD patches for existing games before launch day, so that should help further reduce traffic on the servers day one.
Also, just to be clear, I transferred my data a few times on my 360, and pushing 340GB plus of data through a USB2 connection is a pain in the ass, especially when dealing with all the other DRM related steps you had to take on the old/new HDD, compared to hot swapping a 5TB USB3 HDD that you can copy to overnight.
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Wii U was indeed a very stupid mis-step, as it sounded too much like the Wii. This isn't the same thing though, as the Xbox One X is an upgraded Xbox One, not a compatibility-breaking whole new console.
I don't think MS are really targeting it the way you suggest - the price-point makes it clear it's not 'for everyone', it's for people into high-end tech. Their marketing has reinforced this explicitly.