The Xbox One Thread

[Dan]

Looks like we'll be getting the Xbone next month as mine and Snowball's joint birthday present. Not sure how interested I am in Destiny, it looks amazing but I've never been a Halo fan and so I'm not sure how much I'll enjoy it. Is there local co-op/multiplayer? I'd be hella more hyped for it if me and Snowball can play together.

We'll definitely be picking up WWE and Sunset Overdrive on release date and hopefully pick up Wolfenstein and Ground Zeroes if they're on the cheap.

I'm pumped. So damn pumped.

Destiny is probably not something you'll want if you're looking for a couch co-op game. Doesn't include split screen

Apsham is right though, if you're wanting a split-screen game you should look at Diablo 3, it's a blast!

[Cheeky Hughes]

Anyone else bought EA Access? How well does it work? I'm thinking of putting down £20 for the year, seeing as I have it spare.

[Dan]

I got it, works fine. If you have physical copies of a game installed it lets you play them without the disc or you can download any game in the vault. Just downloading NFS now, it's well worth £20 for just NFS, Battlefield 4 and Peggle 2.

[Cheeky Hughes]

Aye, I already have BF4 and FIFA but being able to play them without the disc would be great. The main selling point for me was NFS and the ability to try and get back in to the Madden series.

[Dan]

If you have the discs you can trade them in and cover the cost of it straight away, so it's even better as you're pretty much getting NFS, Peggle and Madden for free. Also you get 6 hours playtime of new releases before they come out (FIFA15/ NHL15/ Dragon Age etc.)

[Monkey D. Lars]

GUYS!!! My Xbox One has arrived!

[Maxx]

Roommate bought an Xbox One, I cannot believe it still has a massive power brick with it.

[King Ellis]

You clearly made the right choice with the PS4. Those Xbox peasants and their power bricks.

[Dan]

You can still use the 360 power brick with a converter apparently.

[Dan]

The new beta update released yesterday and is awesome! DLNA support is nice and so is the new friends tab on the homescreen but the snap menu fucking rocks. Being able to access friends and messages in snap is something that needed doing a long time ago.

[Your Mom]

Man they really make it tempting giving away a free game. Doubt they will still be doing this kind of thing when I actually want to buy one though

[Dan]

http://www.shopplay.co.uk/xbox-one-console-500gb-hard-drive.html

X1 for £299 for any UKers interested in picking one up

[King Ellis]

Pretty nice if you were just after the console itself for whatever reason but I think there's better value out there if you happen to after some of the bigger games like FIFA or Destiny, seen them at £320. Or that one at GAME which I think has Destiny and Halo MC Collection for £350 or 380 if you want CoD Ghosts too.

[Dan]

http://xboxpricecheck.com/

Awesome website for UKers to find cheap X1 games

[probablyoliver]

So I'm making the jump on the 29th September. Planning on picking up Ground Zeroes and Forza Horizon 2 for definite and maybe Metro Redux and Wolfenstein if ithey're on the cheap.

Is anyone actually playing Destiny on the Xbone? Because I'm intrigued by it but don't really know anyone who's got it on the xbox. Also would there be anything stopping me doing the thing where I buy it on the 360, upgrade to the One for free and then trading in the 360 copy?

[King Ellis]

Pretty sure it's only with digital copies of it on 360 that you get the One version too, primarily to eliminate the kind of scenario you're imagining. Like the kind of thing that has lead to probably thousands of copies of Mario Kart 8 being traded in almost immediately.

[probablyoliver]

Well that makes sense. Stupid xbox, making it hard for me to steal from them.

[Dan]

Anyone in the beta update... the 1900MB preview update will wipe your harddrive. DECLINE IT!

[apsham]

...how do you decline those, don't they download automatically?

[Dan]

Nah, not all of them do and it only rolled out to a small number of people.

They've fixed it now anyway.