Re:Stupid, Stupid xBox
by mkent on Wednesday February 13, 2013 @12:57AM
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Having recently fired it up again the xbox experience (outside of xbla) remains decidedly old school:
- You still need the correct dvd inserted to play.
- You can't turn the xbox off and expect it to save your progress.
- Some games are tightly integrated with xbox live, good luck not paying for it.
- It takes forever between the xbox boot time, initial game load time, copyright notices, in game menus, and save game load time to actually start enjoying a game.
- Installing games to the hard drive for a slight load time bump is very, very slow.
Since picking one up I've been really spoiled by the ipad mini. Just pick it up and play, don't sweat the details.
- You still need the correct dvd inserted to play.
- You can't turn the xbox off and expect it to save your progress.
- Some games are tightly integrated with xbox live, good luck not paying for it.
- It takes forever between the xbox boot time, initial game load time, copyright notices, in game menus, and save game load time to actually start enjoying a game.
- Installing games to the hard drive for a slight load time bump is very, very slow.
Since picking one up I've been really spoiled by the ipad mini. Just pick it up and play, don't sweat the details.