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.
Well here is the notice I see when I try to connect to the internet http://t.co/CXZKW1w2ze
— #1 Source 4 XBOX ONE (@Moonlightswami) November 9, 2013
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.
hazelam
https://twitter.com/yosp/status/399130194956414977
Jahermon @jahermon91 5h
@yosp If for some reason the console received before 29 in Europe and connect to the internet, Sony bans us?
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i just copy and pasted that from the twitter page, so it’s kind messy in a text only comment like this, but you get the picture.
cam the man
Not surprised Shuhei Yoshida tweeted that to get one over MS.
Kennykazey
Finally some solid info. And I take back everything I said about the day one update on the other article, as Microsoft clearly doesn’t understand that such an update is meant to to not be out until releasedate to stop people from doing just this…
razorray
With all the NDA’s and secrecy MS is pushing of the XBone, they must have something to hide. I am not going anywhere near one of these until they have been ripped and hacked to pieces and I know exactly what’s under the hood.
ron_mcphatty
Surely suspending his account until launch would be better than a ban? And surely someone at Microsoft though of a better way of handling this situation than fairly harsh straight up ban? The mind boggles.
cam_manutd
At least for prospective XB1 owners overheating won’t be as a big issue as it was this gen-same for PS4.
Eldaveo
Interesting stuff. Looking forward to picking mine up and playing some Ryse :D Feel sorry for the guy who basically did nothing wrong and now has a bricked console but at least it isn’t permanent and will be put right closer to launch
Lyts1985
Im a little skeptical that Target are dispatching them early yet we only know of one owner… Surely there’d be others shouting about it? Wouldn’t there be more people playing those games? More complaints of banned X1’s? Or are we to believe Target accidentally shipped early to just one person?
Sounds like a marketing ploy of sorts…
Starman
The others probably realised they’d get banned if they did. Apparently 150 were sent out.
Lyts1985
That’s fair enough regarding pics and vids, disclosure of info – I just assume that people would be bragging they have one and that you’d see more playing it in his “trending” pic…
Broonba
Aye exactly. I smell a rat. If they sent out 150 nextboxes you can be sure that more than 1 user would be shouting about it.
The Von Braun
Regarding point of MS loosing money on the original Xbox:
Very true, they lost money hand over fist with it, even after downgrading the clockspeed on the CPU and the planned GPU from the original design documents.MS said the fact it had a HDD as standard was ‘killing them’, so they killed it off (in it’s prime i feel as it recived Doom III and Half Life 2 and Far Cry which PS2 could’nt handle.
But it served it’s purpose:it established the Xbox brand, had the infastructure for XBL put in place (a reason MS servers are still far better than Sony’s), so MS just put it out to pasture to focus on the 360.
The Xbox was always designed as a platform to (then) try and stop Sony, with the PS2, ‘cornerning’ the ‘1 set top box you’ll only ever need in your living room’ market.PS2 was planned to be far more than just a games console with it’s broadband connected/HDD plugged in, Sony wanted it to be your games, music, film, TV provider etc a concept they tried to take further with the PS-X (which was never released here after it struggled so much in Japan) and later the PS3.
The Xbox/PS2 all wanted to be your content provider, hell even the Dreamcast nearly went same route with PACE planning to take the chipset, put in a HDD, broadband connection etc and relaunch it as a set top box.
I honestly could not see MS or Sony for that matter, thinking:we had a good crack at it, it’s loosing far too much money, time to sell it off.They do not want anyone else cornering a market such as this.Sony’s TV division lost money year in, year out for last 10? years, yet Sony still keeping it going with new range of products.
Bill Gates was asked at 360 launch, what it’s mean if PS3 ‘won’ that generation, would MS leave the console market? his answer was simple:MS were in this for the long run.