I’m thinking of using holiday sales to upgrade from my current Xbox360 to an XboxOne. For those in the know, does that seem like a wise idea at this time? I currently use the Xbox for Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime streaming, along with the occasional game. This past year I’ve played the two “new” Tomb Raider games, tried Red Dead Redemption (didn’t like it, didn’t finish), Wolfenstein The New Order, and one of the Batman Arkham games (maybe one other?). As you can see, I’m not a heavy gamer. I used to play a lot, but I don’t have too much time for it anymore, though I still enjoy it. I’m not into online multiplayer at all - everything I do is single player campaigns.
Basically I bought the 360 cheap after it was out for many years, then played a bunch of the Platinum Hits at bargain prices. I have no need to be buying the newest games as soon as they come out, I’m happy playing through the back catalog at much cheaper prices. I want to duplicate that plan now that the XBone has been out for a while. Does now seem like a good time for that? Looks like there will be Black Friday sales for the console + controller for less than $200, which seems solid to me. Are there other things the XBone does that the 360 does not that might seem useful. Or things that will drive me crazy about it that I won’t like? Thanks in advance.
Voice control seemed like such a stupid gimmick that I dismissed it. But after having the Xbox One for about a year now I’m spoiled. I still have my 360 hooked up to my bedroom TV and every now and then I forget and try to give it voice commands.
Being able to just say “Xbox Pause”, then get up to get a drink/use the restroom/answer the door, then say “Xbox Play” as I’m walking back seems like a minor thing but it’s really handy. Or powering it on/shutting it off with a command is great.
Also you can set it up to control your other connected devices, like your cable box or television. The way I have it set up, powering on the Xbox also powers on the TV (and turning off the Xbox works the same way), and I can use the Xbox remote and voice commands to change cable TV stations, set up a favorites list, etc.
Also, the Xbox One reads blu ray disks. The 360 can’t. That’s another big reason to upgrade.
I think at least 80% of what I use my Xbox for has nothing to do with games, so I strongly recommend it as a general entertainment platform. I go from my Xbox One to my Xbox 360 constantly (typically I watch the One during the day in my living room and the 360 at night in my bedroom) so I have a daily reminder of how different the two devices are. It’s difficult to appreciate how much better the One is until you’ve been using it for awhile.
I second the “it’s great as an entertainment center” sentiment, though I sold my original xbox and got an Xbox one S instead. The voice commands from kinect were very reliable for me, and now it’s hard to even find a kinect, nevermind connect one today. So yeah, get the Xbox One S, odds are most of your old games will work with it too.
OP sounds exactly like me in terms of gaming preferences. I never play online, single player campaigns only. And there are usually only a couple weeks in a given year where I a) have the time and b) am interested in playing games.
I’ll be getting the XBOX One for Christmas for a couple reasons. Biggest one is I just want to play Halo 5. Another one is I want to use it for streaming on my secondary TV and I don’t currently have the wifi module for my 360, so I can’t even connect it online.
I was glad to see that a lot of 360 discs, and even some original XBOX discs, will allow you to play those games on the ONE.
Thanks for the replies so far. Follow-up questions based on that: are the voice commands built into the base XboxOne unit or is that a Kinect add-on?
You might want to wait and see if somebody is going to have a special on trade-ups. I waited until GameStop raised the trade-in value for a 360 from $50 to $100 when buying an XBox One (in addition to the “one game of your choice free” deal they normally had for buying it) a couple of years ago.
It’s Kinect, but the unit I got came with the Kinect module bundled with it.
Honestly, and I am probably alone here, Xbox 360 is still > Xbox One in terms of titles.
Variety and sheer amount of games on 360 is astounding, so if you are a heavy gamer like myself, you may find yourself playing a lot of backward compatible ones once you finish playing all of the big Xbox One releases. Many of the big releases are also re-makes with only dubious upgrades to graphics. I have both and find myself switching between them (even though the Xbox One controller is MUCH better) because there is still not enough quality gaming choices on Xbox One. I was reduced to playing Call Of Duty(the only good ones IMO were the older WW2 ones, not the new garbage ‘WWII’) crap because I played through the best of the rest, after that I had to go back to Xbox 360 for good titles or use backward compatibility. This of course may be remedied if you play a lot of ‘Indie’ or Digital only games, but if you are a heavy gamer, the pickings will get slim, fast
Just to clarify in case your not sure. There are multiple versions of the Xbox now, the consoles seeme to be moving onto a rolling upgrade system, much like phones.
What you want is an Xbox One S, not the new Xbox One X.
The S is the slim version of the original Xbox One console (which it supplanted) and is available at very reasonable prices, especially this weekend.
The X is the brand new more powerful one.
Think the Iphone X vs an Iphone 7.
The X is about 2 and a half times the price of the S. It’s basically the new hotness and is completely unnecessary for your stated requirements.
As well as Bluray, the S is HDR and has several years of excellent back catalogue for this generation as well as the 360 backwards compatibility for your older games.
Yes, I’m definitely looking at an S, not an X. I don’t need the latest and greatest.
Well in that case, if you’ve got the cash to hand I’d say picking up an S at the current sale price is pretty much a no-brainer for what you’ll get.