The Old XBOX Megathread

[Bobfoc]

That's bad luck. Are they sold out everywhere or have all the sites just been overloaded?

[Baddar]

Amazon was fine in the UK for a while according to people on Twitter. If it's not saying unavailable yet and the site is just struggling, keep trying.

[Bobfoc]

There are apparently some back in stock at Amazon in the USA.

[Your Mom]

3 minutes ago, Bobfoc said:

There are apparently some back in stock at Amazon in the USA.

Just got a Series X through Amazon  

[apsham]

I made it to checkout in Walmart, and then realized I don't quite trust them. I'm just going to wait until the financing can happen here in Canada and do it like that. Most of the other sites including Best Buy were being pretty smooth but it's really the best thing to do.

[Bobfoc]

Just now, Your Mom said:

Just got a Series X through Amazon  

Super duper. Presumably, you had to buy it outright, rather than on finance, though.

[apsham]

Oh darn, my girlfriend went to EB and put down a pre-order on the Series X and they said that we could come in once they figured out the financing and we'd put it on that system.

[Your Mom]

1 minute ago, Bobfoc said:

Super duper. Presumably, you had to buy it outright, rather than on finance, though.

Yeah that's the downside but I'll take it at this point

[Bobfoc]

Good stuff.

[Ruki]

13 minutes ago, apsham said:

Oh darn, my girlfriend went to EB and put down a pre-order on the Series X and they said that we could come in once they figured out the financing and we'd put it on that system.

Oh snap! I skipped pre-ordering because I want the financing. Is there a minimum to put down?

[apsham]

28 minutes ago, Rukaru Shida said:

Oh snap! I skipped pre-ordering because I want the financing. Is there a minimum to put down?

100 down, but you can refund that once it goes to financing.

[Maxx]

Managed to get a S through Microsoft

[King Ellis]

Just tried Minecraft Dungeons via Android for a little bit, a bit laggy at times but relatively passable. By all accounts that's actually had some work go into it to make it more touch screen friendly but going from playing it normally, it does feel a bit cramped.

To that end, I wonder how feasible it would be to just forgo the console entirely and just play everything over Android? Like, I'm talking one of those Raspberry Pi-esque thingys normally meant for emulation, not just your phone. Something you can hook up and run on a big TV. Is it all over the cloud and would just be essentially an Xbox branded Stadia at that point or does your local device need some degree of oomph as well? This calls for someone turning their Ouya into an OuyaXbox.

Maybe, like the Stadia, with the right internet it would run fine, otherwise maybe well suited to something turned based like an RPG or an X-Com type thing?

[apsham]

Don't games have to be supported first, and then yeah - the lag factor is going to be pretty huge. I will never in a million years be comfortable with game streaming as a reliable method to do most things. I think it's a neat diversion but without having the files sitting there on my machine whether it be in disc or on the harddrive I just don't know. Even with great internet and the like - I just can't see any cloud device getting the most out of the most impressive titles. But for some things, yeah I think it'd be fine.

[Bobfoc]

Sales of the Xbox One X have increased by 747% on Amazon. I wonder how many of those sales are to people who mistakenly thought they were buying a Series X.

[apsham]

4 minutes ago, Bobfoc said:

Sales of the Xbox One X have increased by 747% on Amazon. I wonder how many of those sales are to people who mistakenly thought they were buying a Series X.

This is absolutely happening because - leading up to pre-order launch time - there were a ton of people listing the One X for 699 dollars or so and every time I refreshed the page, they'd sell out and then go back in stock after a while.

[Maxx]

Really stupid, confusing naming conventions confuse consumers?  WHO COULD HAVE SEEN THIS COMING

[Bobfoc]

Sony takes the boring approach to naming its consoles, and it works. It's a lot easier to tell the difference between a PS4 and a PS5 than it is to distinguish between a range of nondescript letter codes.

[Maxx]

It's just really dumb the name they chose for this generation is "Series" which is so closely associated with a special edition or upgraded version of something that exists, not a brand new product.  Its every bit as dumb as the Wii U was.

[King Ellis]

Not an easy shattering feature or anything but it sounds like a mobile app update will let you download games you haven't bought. Will be useful for when games are coming to game pass in future, letting you pre-load essentially, or if you know you're getting a disc version but want to save yourself time by doing the install/update beforehand.

https://amp.trueachievements.com/n43364/xbox-mobile-beta-app-download-games-before-buying?__twitter_impression=true