First Xbox One Owner Leaks Loads Of Info, Microsoft Imposes Console Ban

Blair Inglis 45 Comments

Right, there’s a lot of Xbox One news in the wild now. So much so that it might take at least fifteen news posts to cover it all, but instead we’ll compile it into one big article for your weekend reading pleasure.

You see, US retailer Target has mistakenly shipped some Xbox One consoles two weeks early, meaning that a user has got full access before any Microsoft set press embargoes and the official release.

The owner in question has leaked quite a bit of the OS, showing friends, movies, achievements, and challenges, which appear to be time sensitive achievements. We’ve got images of all that below, taken from the mega thread on NeoGAF which is well worth a look, with further pictures of a plethora of gamerpics and CoD: Ghosts in action.

Now, on to the interesting bits of information. Every colour of the rainbow “and more” is available for your Dashboard, and the game doesn’t lag at all while you use snap mode, and double tapping the home button will switch between snapped windows as the main focus, while holding that button will bring up options to turn the console off.

It takes exactly 17 seconds to get to the dashboard on startup – is that faster than your TV, as the marketing guys said? – and the console doesn’t appear to have any overheating issues, with use of the machine making the power brick “barely warm” after three hours, and the same goes for the system, which is described as “quieter than an air conditioner on low”.

The game install sizes have also leaked out, and range from 8GB to 43GB. Call of Duty: Ghosts is 39GB, Skylanders is 15GB, Madden 25 is 12GB, LocoCycle is 13GB, Zumba Fitness is 24GB, Dead Rising 3 is 19GB, NBA 2K14 is a massive 43GB while NBA Live is just 9GB, Forza 5 is 31 GB, FIFA 14 is 8GB, Assassin’s Creed IV is 20GB, Just Dance 2014 is 22GB, and finally Ryse: Son of Rome is 34GB.

Oh, and of course he’s downloaded the Day One update, which makes the majority of the Xbox One features actually work – that’s a total of 500MB. That’s why he had to sign in to Xbox Live and now that’s why he’s been banned by Microsoft, who are notorious for banning people for playing games early. It’s understandable, providing they actually lift the ban when the console releases.

The person in question – @Moonlightswami on twitter – has been tweeting pretty much non-stop since he got the console about twelve hours ago. Follow him to keep up to date with any more information he may leak.

Even with that, the owner says “I recommend the Xbox One to any and everyone, even with everything that is going on for me with them right now.” This is marketing you can’t buy, Microsoft. Cherish it, don’t hide it away.

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45 Comments

  1. How has he managed to access the Os? I thought xboxone was a brick until the day 1 update was downloaded and installed? Since its pre day 1,surely that update isn’t available to download yet, therefore how has he accessed all this stuff?

    • Day One doesn’t mean they put it live on release day, it just means it’ll be available then. They’ve uploaded it in advance, as have Sony last week with theirs.

    • Day one updates don’t go live on day one for various reasons, they always go up on the servers beforehand.

      For instance, press with early consoles need to be able to review games/hardware with the firmware consumers are going to have, in case an earlier OS causes issues with the games that a retail Xbox one with the update wouldn’t.

      Secondly, it has to be up early in case anything goes wrong. It would be a bit awkward if the patch didn’t work and they only put it up on the day people get the consoles. Especially with the Xbox One update which is mandatory. It would turn it into a brick until they could fix it.

      The PS4 update is already on the update servers too, as far as I know.

    • Devs and the like are Beta testing the update right up until the last minute to iron out issues.

  2. Xbox One release date: 22nd November 2013
    First Xbox One banned from Xbox Live: 8th November 2013

    Excellent work there Microsoft… Seriously, punish the guy for promoting your console and for DARING to receive it early, which is entirely his choice!

    • It’s all a PR Stunt. Nobody has really got one early, nobody got banned, it’s all just a lame way to get people talking about the otherwise lacklustre Xbox One launch.

      In other news, Microsoft may actually dump the Xbox when their new CEO takes over, it’s never recouped it’s development costs (despite careful misleading financial reporting that suggests otherwise)

      http://www.engadget.com/2013/11/08/rumor-elop-could-sell-off-xbox-and-kill-bing/

      • I thinks its pretty much genuine.
        Can’t see them selling off xbox after investing so much in development of the X1. I’d happily see them close bing though, its rubbish.

      • They lost a truck-load of money on the original Xbox, and then another truckload on the 360 RROD and development costs, they havn’t even broken even on that, Xbox One isn’t going to plan either it seems,with some serious questions being asked about it’s hardware specs.

        Personally I think Elop may give it the chop, more likely sell it off to someone else, a hardware company to do a proper job. Microsoft need to focus on the SOFT in their name, not the HARDWARE.

      • I’m surprised if the first xbox & the 360 never made a profit why would they even bother with another console?

        If MS have any sense (don’t answer that) they wouldn’t even consider appointing the man who led Nokia down the pan.

      • Guessed they figured 3rd time lucky… But it’s turning out not to be again.

        Elop didn’t lead Nokia down the pan, Elop worked at Microsoft before Nokia, the plan was always to prevent them making the obvious choice of adopting Android, and instead take Microsoft’s failed Windows Phone OS. They let Nokia sink to within an inch of their lives, and then jumped in a bought them for a bargain price, Microsoft now own Nokia brand name for mobiles, the Lumia brand, and all of Nokia’s manufacturing facilities in China and India.

        Elop’s work at Nokia is done, he is returning home the to Microsoft as the hero that stopped Nokia adopting Android, and sank them to a level that Microsoft could afford to pick them up.

      • Oh look it’s hunter gatherer on his new account. Seriously you are sad coming up with these daft anti Microsoft statements

      • Who? I just don’t want to read about xb1 on a PlayStation Site

      • You have the exact same tone towards ms that HG did, and you appeared on here a few days after he was banned. A coincidence I’m sure, a shame as you’d have got on like a house on fire!

        Ps if you don’t want to see x1 stories don’t click on the article.

      • Lol it’s so funny you pretend that your not hunter gatherer. It’s so obviously you. Nobody else comes out with such stupid anti Microsoft babble.

      • I hate to say, but DarkLord has several facts correct. Elop did work for Microsoft prior to taking over Nokia. He then proceeded to close down all the financially viable projects that Nokia were working on. Nokia’s value plummetted, and then Microsoft purchased them for a fraction of their previous worth. And surpise, surprise – one of the first things MS do is to use Nokia’s patents to take a pot shot at Android. Proof?
        http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/31/nokia_htc_high_court_patent/

        I won’

      • Grr. Lousy browser posted my reply before I finished!

        Was going to say that I won’t post links to all the stuff that Elop did to Nokia – there is enough to be found on the web. It’s a shame, because Nokia have made some amazing products in the past.

  3. I could understand if MS banned him if the guy was slagging off the console, but he has nothing but praise for it!

  4. Sounds great, puts to rest some of the fears about overheating that some had.

    Must say he must have expected to get banned after going online & posting all the pictures as well. As the article says, Microsoft have form for banning.

  5. It’s not the guy’s fault it was shipped early, surely MS should punish Target not @Moonlightswami.

    I was a bit surprised to see the number of folk playing next gen games:
    Dead Rising = 28
    Forza 5 = 36
    Killer Instinct = 112

    Surly they haven’t sent out over one hundred X1s early?

    • probably reviewers. Remember sites like IGN, paper mags like official mags will need to play the games 3 weeks early to get the reviews up for release time.

  6. did he sign an NDA when he bought the console?

    i bet he didn’t, who does?

    so any ban is unjustified in my opinion.

    he was under no legal obligation to keep quiet about the console.

    if the ban isn’t lifted at launch, he should consider legal action.

    all the bs they bleat about this being all about the user, and they ban a guy for daring to buy the thing

    ms wonder why so many people hate them.

    and they turned what could have been positive press for the console into another reason to dislike the company.
    most people aren’t talking about the good features of the machine so much as how this guy got banned for using the console he legally bought.

    i might have to reassess my statement about ms being many things but stupid not being one of them, because this, is monumentally stupid.

    they showed they have no respect for our ownership of the software we buy, now it seems like they have no respect for our ownership of the hardware we buy either.

    • Probably in the terms of use just before you install the update (similar to ps3) – you accept them to proceed, crappy decision though by Microsoft considering all the praise up to the ban

      • Not condoning the ban but if he hadn’t shown his gamertag in the pictures he posted online he probably wouldn’t have got banned.

      • i don’t imagine any license agreement would include.

        and i don’t know if any such clause concerning a product a person buys would even be legal in the US.

        there’s the first amendment, and then people have the right to review a product.

        which is basically what any clause like that would be created for.

        if this were to end up in court, i can’t see ms having a leg to stand on.

      • include such a clause, i meant to write on that first sentence.

      • There’s something in the terms about unauthorized display, public performance, transmission etc so its probably covered by that. Hopefully the bans lifted on release because he’s still raving about it despite the ban.

      • aren’t reviews exempt from such clauses though?

        because that’s what this was.

        i don’t believe they have any legal standing for trying to prevent this guy reviewing something he bought.

      • Dunno really, reviewers have to abide by embargoes don’t they.

  7. Shill news post. Quite clearly this is all intentional PR.

    • What? When everyone’s slagging them off for banning him and not even discussing the actual info he’s released? Yeah, great pr.

  8. Any press is good press, plus he is promoting your console, not slating. More people will listen to this guy than any form of official press release. This is why i dislike Microsoft as a company, no matter how well there products may function.

  9. Ah well, at least he was able to get the update so he can use it offline. Hopefully the ban will be lifted on launch day.

  10. He’s done better PR for the One in a day than MS did in 6 months. And they ban him.

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