Was just about to postā¦
Fam are all out so Iāve moved the Xbox into the front room, the size of the thing makes this emminently portableā¦
I have a 64" UHD TV in the front room, it and the Xbox are a match made in heaven, I almost came my pants when Forza Horizon started.
Gamepass is superb value for money, itās just a shame things take so long to download over my WiFiā¦
Donāt play online games much so I havenāt been insulted yetā¦
For me the Xbox is just edging the PS5
Dunno if youāve got HDR on that beast, but Forza Horizon, yeah, wow - and Sony have never really had a game like it, while MS have the main Forza for proper car-heads and Horizon, which is an open world Project Gotham. The lighting on HDR is amazing, especially the sun shafts coming through the trees.
I honestly thought Iād go the PS5 route because most stuff I can play on XBox I can play on PC, and mine is decent enough.
However, the missus got me a One X a couple of Xmaes ago and I saw the effect of Gamepass on my bank account. I still buy anything I really like and want to keep playing, but on a sale 
Yep HDR on it, itās made for games really, the UHD movies and programmes Iāve watched donāt really do it fir me, even F1 in UHD isnāt really an improvement over HD.
I actually find it a bit āunrealā and the weird thing is itās more real. Too real.
We are so used to 60FPS for games, 24FPS for cinema that a lot of films Iāve watched, including big budget blockbusters, have looked like plays.
64"?
What the fuck is this fetish? 
0 voters
Best ask Bob that - or my shrink
My One X is bloody decent on my LG Oled UHD TV for Halo. Rocks the front room 
Join the horde of people Iāve convinced to get a Series X (consisting of my boss and @BTripz). Youāll be thanking me at 60FPS or even 120FPS.
Elite Dangerous on Game Pass, worth the cost of Game Pass aloneā¦
Itās a great game, better in VR on the PC I reckon.
Even though standing up and looking down made me feel sick.
So Iāve got Forza Horizon 5 pre-loaded ready to go. Itās out next week, but if you buy the Premium version of the game (Ā£85, boys and girls) you can play it now. I am so very tempted but will wait the few days.
Probably.
Finally got around to installing the SSD
Pretty simple - the hardest part was trying to work out how to get the cover off. Once that was done it took 5 minutes including the time it took me to find the SSD which I had put somewhere safe several weeks ago
Did it have a heatsink pre-installed or did you do that yourself?
paid for a pre installed model - probably could have saved a few quid DIY - not then there is my hamfistedness to consider
I used to be one of these people that built my own PCs. These days; fuck that. Pay the premium for a geek in a cave who knows what works with what.
So I can say with a degree of confidence that the new Xbox Series has its first truly big game, and by that, I mean itāll turn the heads of people that canāt currently play it.
Forza Horizon 5 landed this week and the worst criticism I have for it is a back-handed compliment. Itās more Forza Horizon, but then Forza Horizon has never been poor.
The time-poor like me will purchase the treasure map, Ā£2.24, to avoid all the hassle of donuting around Mexican scrubland, and they will have a fine time. This might be, on balance, the best looking game on the planet right now, especially for open world.
The original XBox launched 20 years ago today. MS have just dropped the Halo Infinite Multiplayer Beta in celebration.
Main campaign out in December.
Yep. On my Halo MCC games they have been scrolling āCelebrating 20 Yearsā for a few weeks now. Time flies!
I can remember when people, including myself, were saying that Microsoft was never going to succeed with their Xbox venture. Why would they? All other successful hardware of the last decade was Japanese in origin. The American computing firms like Commodore or Atari were either bust or just being used as branding for other ventures.
I changed my mind after seeing one in the flesh. Obviously loads more powerful than the PS2 and if youāre honest about XBox gaming, it has been a constant innovator and has led the rest of the industry to where we are now.
The only real mis-steps were Kinect and the launch of the XBox One.
