There have been similar posts all over this subforum, but I thought there might be demand for a new thread with actual hands on experiences and people could also ask questions from those who have got hands on with the console.
I just got to play one today, played mainly Ryse, but also Killer Instinct, Dead Rising 3, Forza and Fifa were available.
Due to the limited playtime I mostly tried to focus on the controller as that was interesting to me. The 360 controller was already really good, but the Xbox One controller felt just frigging amazing, I don't know what would I change even if I could change something.
I asked the MS staff quite a bit of questions too, mainly confirming stuff that had been left in the mist, such as
1) Unless you get the play & charge-kit, the controller does not have a cord, but will be operated with batteries.
2) The HDMI-passthrough according to them works with just about anything that just has HDMI-out. It does not require a supported set top box etc to just get the passthrough to Xbox. This means even if whatever box you use isn't supported, you can still hook it up through Xbox and be able to watch TV and still change between games and TV easily.
3) not something I asked, but was discussed in the Kinect thread, the 3 red light are visible on the Kinect. This came up in some Kinect video of Wired and some people were guessing it's the camera just picking them up due to being IR lights or something, but they are actually there
All the games looked good, it was maybe hard to say about Fifa cos I didn't play it personally and it's so zoomed in the normal gameplay. I don't know about resolutions and what not, but none of the games had anything to be ashamed of compared to the PS4 offerings at the expo, they also looked great.
Managed to snatch a really sweet preorder deal. Basic console, 2nd controller, Titanfall, "undefined AAA-title", and a years worth of subscription to a local gaming magazine for a year. All this for 529€. I was planning on waiting for a while for a 2nd batch of hardware to make sure there are no early kinks in the hardware, but I couldn't pass that deal
Have you got hands on with the console yet? What did you think?
I just got to play one today, played mainly Ryse, but also Killer Instinct, Dead Rising 3, Forza and Fifa were available.
Due to the limited playtime I mostly tried to focus on the controller as that was interesting to me. The 360 controller was already really good, but the Xbox One controller felt just frigging amazing, I don't know what would I change even if I could change something.
I asked the MS staff quite a bit of questions too, mainly confirming stuff that had been left in the mist, such as
1) Unless you get the play & charge-kit, the controller does not have a cord, but will be operated with batteries.
2) The HDMI-passthrough according to them works with just about anything that just has HDMI-out. It does not require a supported set top box etc to just get the passthrough to Xbox. This means even if whatever box you use isn't supported, you can still hook it up through Xbox and be able to watch TV and still change between games and TV easily.
3) not something I asked, but was discussed in the Kinect thread, the 3 red light are visible on the Kinect. This came up in some Kinect video of Wired and some people were guessing it's the camera just picking them up due to being IR lights or something, but they are actually there
All the games looked good, it was maybe hard to say about Fifa cos I didn't play it personally and it's so zoomed in the normal gameplay. I don't know about resolutions and what not, but none of the games had anything to be ashamed of compared to the PS4 offerings at the expo, they also looked great.
Managed to snatch a really sweet preorder deal. Basic console, 2nd controller, Titanfall, "undefined AAA-title", and a years worth of subscription to a local gaming magazine for a year. All this for 529€. I was planning on waiting for a while for a 2nd batch of hardware to make sure there are no early kinks in the hardware, but I couldn't pass that deal
Have you got hands on with the console yet? What did you think?