Xbox Series X

[kingston12]

BaronVonVaderham said:

Slightly annoying that the 512gb card only offers 460gb of space? I get that a bit needs to be used for other purposes, but 50 odd gb? That’s a whole game!

Most of that difference will just be down to the fact that drive manufacturers conveniently use the metric system (1GB = 1000MB),even though the Xbox will use the binary one (1GB = 1024MB).

That means that even before the Xbox uses any space, it will only show about 476GB available. So it sounds as though the Xbox is using an additional 16GB.

[BaronVonVaderham]

Ah yep, had forgotten about the conversion. Cheers for the info.

16gb for formatting still seems a bit rich .

[CT05 Nose Cone]

Finally decided to upgrade, although coming from a One X I will be honest and say it feels like the smallest jump of any generation, just with quicker load times. Not exactly much of a looker either, just looks like a slab of plastic and on its side it's bugging me that the logo is the wrong way round. Should have put in a way to turn it like the PS2. It is nice and quiet though, Game Pass also remains incredible value, especially spending a few minutes a day doing the MS rewards means I haven't paid for it in years.

[Insert Coin]

The new CoD is a good nextgen game, for me it’s been the biggest jump in visuals so far.

[War Pig]

CT05 Nose Cone said:

Finally decided to upgrade, although coming from a One X I will be honest and say it feels like the smallest jump of any generation, just with quicker load times. Not exactly much of a looker either, just looks like a slab of plastic and on its side it's bugging me that the logo is the wrong way round. Should have put in a way to turn it like the PS2. It is nice and quiet though, Game Pass also remains incredible value, especially spending a few minutes a day doing the MS rewards means I haven't paid for it in years.

How do manage that with gamepass? I do the MS rewards. It takes ages to even build up a £5 voucher.

[CT05 Nose Cone]

War Pig said:

CT05 Nose Cone said:

Finally decided to upgrade, although coming from a One X I will be honest and say it feels like the smallest jump of any generation, just with quicker load times. Not exactly much of a looker either, just looks like a slab of plastic and on its side it's bugging me that the logo is the wrong way round. Should have put in a way to turn it like the PS2. It is nice and quiet though, Game Pass also remains incredible value, especially spending a few minutes a day doing the MS rewards means I haven't paid for it in years.

How do manage that with gamepass? I do the MS rewards. It takes ages to even build up a £5 voucher.

If you have a PC, you can build them really quickly by installing the original Age of Empires. If you sit in a multiplayer lobby for a few minutes you'll get about 250 points from the app. On Edge save 30 or so searches into a folder, click on the daily links then open them all at once for another 250 or so points.

[P4ulB]

CT05 Nose Cone said:

If you have a PC, you can build them really quickly by installing the original Age of Empires. If you sit in a multiplayer lobby for a few minutes you'll get about 250 points from the app. On Edge save 30 or so searches into a folder, click on the daily links then open them all at once for another 250 or so points.

^ this, but also....

Download the Game Pass App on your mobile/tablet and do all the daily, weekly and monthly quests in there (easy for 1500 points a month)

Plus, download the Rewards app on the console itself and do the weekly and monthly quests - easy for at least 3000 points a month

Haven't paid Game Pass Ultimate for years either and average about 15000 points a month.

It's a bit of a faff, but beats paying

Edited by P4ulB on Wednesday 2nd November 14:20