Honest 1st impression Xbox One

i've got a ps4 and it's a fantastic piece of hardware. i kinda regret not getting an xbone simply because of the app snapping feature so i could play games and watch netflix at the same time...but i'm super satisfied with my choice. ps+ also gave me about
30 some games right out of the gate, and buying into the new generation means i have yet to pay full price for the few games i actually bought. hdd sucks donkey holes though, i have 100 gigs left and i still have a dozen or so plus games to download.

I'm not saying that graphics are the be all and end all. Rather that using the same game as the example, the 360 is still capable of amazing feats for its age. I run Tomb Raider on Ultimate on my PC and I still don't feel disappointed by what it looks like
on the 360.

My point was simply that a game doesn't need every shiny new feature to look good.

Given the cost of the console at launch I do find it hard to understand why they didn't go with a 1tb drive, the price difference between the two sizes was, and remains, almost nothing. I'm sure that would have gone even lower with bulk discount for the
amount Microsoft would be buying.

I can't see the hard drive manufacturers being the reason for the choice, after all we all knew that external storage was coming so no doubt they did too.

500 GB is a lot. If you ever owned the original 20 GB Pro Xbox 360 you would be grateful.

TBH you can't ask for better graphics from a $350 machine. I think the average person fails to realize that a nice graphics card alone costs $350+.

My issues are software and xbox live related.

Bah I lost my own topic thread. Anyways replying to Vaynel I don't care about graphics. But if we're on the topic you have to remember I came from PC gaming just recently and for every good looking game on the 360 there were 20 good looking games on PC.
And besides it rarely ever comes to down to the console. It's the game developers that can either make or break the visuals. While I don't care for graphics I'll appreciate them when they're as nice as this. But my favorite game, probably, ever was Dark Souls.
Which had the worst framerate issues. Entire sections of the game would be seriously hindered by framerate. But that doesn't matter to me because the game made up for it in content.

For nearly a decade old console, the graphics were great. But in comparison to PC, meh. The only time I'll ever care for graphics will be when it gets in the way of the game. If Shadow of Mordor had horrible performance... oh god that would just be bad.

Anyways, yeah I'm having a serious issue with this hard drive thing. It's not like the console can't have more. Back in the early years of the 360 and PS3 a GB was a massive number. Now n days we have TB USB sticks.

I guess the tin foil hat in me is saying "Of course they don't want more memory cause they have a deal with hard drive retailers... they also have a deal with battery companies too cause who the hell is still using AA batteries for wireless devices in 2015?"
Yet I can't say I don't like the console. It's awesome. You can play a game while downloading a game without it canceling the download. Hell you can play the game while it downloads. I can capture footage of my games for my videos so easily now too.

With more memory, better controllers and making some 360 games compatible with XBO... this could have easily blown the competition away and become the best option to play next gen games on. However those are the main issues holding it back now. But these
issues are no where near as bad as the first years of the XB360 and XB360 Elite. So I'd say it's worth the money, it's a good console but just make sure you have some form of extra storage. With Assassin's Creed Unity, Dying Light, GTA 5, Witcher 3 and Dragon
Age 3 with all the XBL updates and consoleware AND a few extra games I got for free... I'm already half full on my hard drive.