Be Excellent To Each Other

A-fucking-men. I still couldn't tell you whether you fondle the top or the bottom of the PS4 to turn it on. I always manage to eject the disk.

I never touch the console at all just press the PS button on the controller to start it up

I chose an Xbox One over a PS4 because of the friends that I would play online with. I'm kind of glad I did now because the backwards compatible stuff is ace. I'm looking forward to more original Xbox games coming.

Don't get me wrong, it's not as good as the Switch and it's taken me a few years to come round to it but yeah, the Xbox One is alright.

Actually, I think the Pro has buttons too but they’re a bit shit.

For anyone thinking of a X1X, you might wish to consider the special editions if you like buttons (and who doesn’t). When you turn on your Xbox you can get specific sounds. I’ve seen the Minecraft edition which makes a Minecraft noise when you turn it on and off. I can’t tell you what it was cause I’ve never played Minecraft but it was still aces.

Oh yeah, so do I normally. But sometimes I'm nearer to the console than I am to a controller.

It does, and they are.

Try polishing a regular PS4 without turning it on. Impossible.

Why the fuck would you be polishing a PS4?

Huh? Dust.

So if your clearing dust off it is that not called 'dusting' ?

Friday tuneage.

There was a tweet the other day that said "if you broke into my house and pointed a gun at me and told me to eject the disc from my PS4 on my first attempt or you'd kill me, I wouldn't even try, and I'd just tell you to shoot me right now."

And a followup "If the first guy had a go and got it wrong and got shot and I saw it, I still wouldn't like my odds of getting it right."

Come on, you hail from Scotland. There’s no way you call it “dusting”. Us common folk say polishing.

No way! Polishing is for brassware and knobs.

Power button is next to the power light is how I remember it.

Polishing involves polish

DEFEATED by the Mrs Hearthly boss!

I was all ready to get my freak on with a telly and an X after work, when Mrs Hearthly WhatsApped me to remind she's out this evening and would I be home by 6pm.

As such I just had to come home after work and my shopping extravaganza was cruelly DENIED.

I'll go telly and X shopping tomorrow morning.

EDIT - It's a good thing she did WhatsApp me really, as I'd completely fucking forgotten about her going out. So me turning up with a car full of new shinies when she's late for going out would not be a good look, and would severely reduce my chances of some action later on when she gets in.

On the other hand, at least you would have had a new console. She'd have come round eventually.

I got this TV just before Christmas, and it's ace.

https://www.richersounds.com/samsung-55 ... lus-2.html

Cor, that's a tempting price

I don't understand why anyone is caring about physical buttons on the PS4. Under what circumstances would you ever use them?

If you’re going over to the console to change/insert a disc pressing a button is more convenient than trying to spaff out the disc using the menus.

I have the slightly smaller model. It's also ace

These appear to be my 'off the shelf' choices (i.e. in stock so I can buy one and take it home) in the 49/50 inch category, within a price range I'm comfortable with.

Anything beyond 50 inches is too big, and I've had a 40 inch for the last 11 years so it'll be nice to get a size upgrade. Also, the bezels on my trusty old 720p Samsung are so massive that a modern 50 incher won't actually be that much wider.

That Samsung one in the middle at £549.99 seems to be a pretty keen contender.

Yeah, but no. I have a 55” and I’d go bigger if the price didn’t go funny past that size.

42" was perfect at my flat and the new house. I had a 50" at my old house and it was too big. It's all about the viewing distance. Otherwise you get the "front row of the cinema" syndrome of having to move your head from one side of the screen to the other.

I have just done MEASUREMENTS and I'll be about 8 feet away from the screen, TBH I've never felt the 40 inch is too small, it's not like squinting across the room to see a blurry 4:3 20 inch CRT telly in the corner, listening to sound that appears to be piped through a broken coffee filter.

Also, the corner of the room where the telly is going will accommodate a modern 50 incher just about perfectly (it'll be slightly wider than the old prodigiously bezelled 40 incher), 55 would require different positioning and this would irritate me.

I'll see what they have available, and maybe the salesman will be able to schmooze me into getting something gargantuan.

Oh yes, another key factor is the fact that it'll have to go in the back of the car as I don't want to wait for delivery. Having a practical estate car finally pays off!

I'm basically getting ready to spend over a grand here for Burnout Paradise Remastered and my old 360/XBLA collection. (Still cheaper than a new car, I must keep telling myself.....) I'm sure there will be other good things on XBox One X though. Positive.

I got the 55" one in the back of the Focus.

I did have to drive home with my knees by my ears, though.

Regarding your old Xbox 360 collection, it's worth checking what is actually available because not all games are backwards compatible.

I'll do research into all that trivial stuff later on, y'know, like what I'm actually going to use it for. As of now MAN SHINY SPENDING MODE has been activated and I don't want silly things like facts and evidence getting in the way of that.

We sit about 8 ft from a 100in projector screen. Probably wouldn't want to go bigger.

We are about 12ft from a 42” TV and it can make me feel motion sick watching the TV, and a lot of video games are just a straight up no on it as they are far worse. I think something around 28” would be perfect for me.

Estate car power, room to spare!

I fear this project is going to incur significant budgetary overspend.

Now for the XBox itself!

One X get!

They had a bundle for £449.99 that gets the console, an extra pad, a dual-slot charging station, and Gears of War 4.

I also had to get a new telly stand as the existing one isn't big enough for the width of the feet on the telly. They threw in an extra optical audio cable for free, so that's a tenner saved.

Total spend = Cough cough ahem £1300.

Console gaming is expensive.

I’m going through Gears at the moment. It’s super-pretty but, hnnngh, so intensely boring. It’ll look awesome on your new 4K HDR set up, mind.

That looks bigger than 50" to me!

What? How?!

Please don't forget to add this to the WongaWatch thread to knock me down another position.

I have one of these for my PS4 and it’s low-key one of my favourite things about this console generation. It uses the (proprietary) lower charging port, so they just drop in to a little holder, no fiddly alignment necessary. I always know where the pads are and they’re always charged.

Hmm. I wonder if any console maker has looked at Qi charging... Maybe the pad doesn’t have a large enough flat area to accommodate the coils, though.

If only your new 55” TV could be used for things other than console gaming!

Fucking ten minute fucking assembly time for the TV stand MY ARSE.

Haven't even got the telly or the XBox out of their packaging yet.

I'm also taking this opportunity to retire:

Chipped XBox
XBox360
Wii-U (sob)
VHS video player/recorder
LOADS OF WIRES

Gears of war was always a game that needed 2 player coopings. 1 player were dull, and for some reason >2 player didn't realy work either.

Aahhhh I've got it now, bloody thing. It doesn't quite fit in the corner.

Subwoofer and media centre PC re-arrangement is now required.

Good job I’ve been cooping it then. But it’s still boring. There’s an entire act where you shoot robots. Just robots. And kick robot footballs.

£800 for telly, it's from a higher range apparently and has well good stuff on it that makes everything look snazzy and that - ue55mu7000t is the model code.

http://www.expertreviews.co.uk/samsung/samsung-mu7000

£50 for stand. Reduced!

£450 for XBox One X.

Equals £1300.

It is all set up and everything is working, the One X setup was painless. One 900MB update and a reboot was all it needed. Logged in with my old 'ChoppoTurnip' account from the 360 days and it's brought over quite a few of my XBLA games but not all.

Burnout Paradise Remastered has been bought digitally for £35 and is downloaded ready to go, haven't actually played it yet though.

The media centre PC amusingly changed its res to 3840x2160 which made the icons thrillingly tiny, so I've dropped that down to 1080. (Not that the humble thing could drive anything at 4K anyway, even if the tiddly Radeon card inside it can output the resolution.)

The One X is a quality piece of kit, very impressed with it, and the pad is excellent. The UI is super as well.

Later on I might actually play a game on it.

Oh yes there seems to be MODERN TRICKERY going on as the telly knows it's got an XBox One plugged into it for example, and there appears to be a bit of crosstalk between them on certain things. Which I like.

Ahhh and finally, the telly has just two wires coming out of it, the power cable and a special Samsung cable that goes to an external in/out box that you put all your inputs into, the digital output is from that, and so on. And they've built little channels into the back of the telly and one of the feet so it looks like there are no wires coming out of it at all.

That stand on that av unit makes my sphincter pucker.

New telly's are far lighter than then used to be. We got a 49" and 55" when we moved, there is barely any weight to either of them. We only moved them two person due to their huge size and not wanting any accidents with the screen.

You're not the only one.

Me three.