Xbox One Launch Day is here! AIIIIEEE

[SUMIRE]

Well mine has gone perfect so far. Downloaded Killer Instinct and set up my new speakers and sub...it sounds amazing!! I downloaded the Kinect game, so will try that later. Redeemed my code for Forza and day one achievement, ...how easy is that! Love Kinect so far, very impressed!

[112]

I hear what you are saying shakey jake, but the flip side of that is that developers can be lazier and say 'ahh we can fix that later with a patch' meaning more time spent downloading, than playing :/

Killer instinct is taking long... I just want to play ... :/ maybe if I close my eyes and hold my breath, it will download quicker...

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[gambit6613]

Well mine has gone perfect so far. Downloaded Killer Instinct and set up my new speakers and sub...it sounds amazing!! I downloaded the Kinect game, so will try that later. Redeemed my code for Forza and day one achievement, ...how easy is that! Love Kinect so far, very impressed!

Yeah same for me, has gone perfectly. Everything works and not had any issue of any kind. As much as i have dismissed Kinect it is actually a brilliant piece of kit. I love the voice controll. Its remarkable just how well it works, at least for me anyway.

[112]

Out of curiosity, at what percentage does killer instinct let you start playing during downloading? Might just start FIFA download as it seems to let you start at around 30%.

Other than the downloading, I agree with most peeps that it is all running somewhat smoothly

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[arcnas]

True About updates, and at least next week when all the same **** happens with ps4, I will have Mario 3d land to relieve the crazy installs,

i havent played aye day game yet and I've been connected 2 hours , bt infinity here I come it seems

also is there any themes for the dash

[sj33]

I hear what you are saying shakey jake, but the flip side of that is that developers can be lazier and say 'ahh we can fix that later with a patch' meaning more time spent downloading, than playing :/

Killer instinct is taking long... I just want to play ... :/ maybe if I close my eyes and hold my breath, it will download quicker...

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Well, they do have to pay to upload patches, so I think those cases are the exception rather than the rule.

Day One patches are normally situations where the developers still had things to tweak, but couldn't do them before the deadline day.

[Strider]

Updates are a pain in the arse, but we're ultimately better off because of them.

Developers can fix their games now. In the past, bugs stayed unfixed. It's even more critical now that games are more complicated under the hood than ever.

Only ifthey choose to fix them...

[VR46]

And how many SNES games for example had many major bugs?

Devs and testers have become lazy as they know nowadays they can patch time and time again.

[EvilBoris]

And how many SNES games for example had many major bugs?

Devs and testers have become lazy as they know nowadays they can patch time and time again.

It's not even a comparison that can be made, even the most sophisticated Snes game is probably less complex than the pause menu of Grand Theft Auto 5.

[Golgo]

The comparison can be made, Boris, because even the most sophisticated SNES game didn't have a dev/test team of 2-3 hundreds and a budget approaching a third of a billion dollars, as GTAV did. All were cutting-edge in their day. Difference is back then they knew it had to work when shipped because you couldn't patch your mess later.

[nakamura]

You know, I know there will be issues but I have never had a PS2 game crash.

[EvilBoris]

I remember seeing a PS2 copy of Tomb Raider AOD that would blue screen when you loaded a game.

[nakamura]

Never played that. In the 250 ps2 + games I have owned though, no issues.

[Golgo]

Of course earlier games had issues, and a few were actually broken, but it was not the utterly broken cluster**** of unplayability that gamers accept now as the way things have to be - because games are more complicated.

[EvilBoris]

Cripes. Have there really been that many FIFA games?!