I put some time in on Hydro Thunder over the weekend and man, it's ace! A proper arcade style racer. Love it!

Games with Gold comes good!

Entertaining article on the Xbox one X, the thrill a new a machine could incite, and how this one doesn't.

https://www.vice.com/amp/en_uk/article/kz7wv9/hey-theres-a-new-xbox-and-heres-everything-you-need-to-know

When you see it in motion it's a glorious thing, but it's basically a gaming PC in a nicer-looking box.

Put it like this: the Xbox One X is a monster of near-unthinkable power. Looking at Albert's friends list, the majority of them are using theirs to watch Netflix.

It is indeed a funny article and the points are well made, this one stands out for me:



To my mind that was also true of the XBone and PS4 when they were released, and that's a convergence that's only continued IMO. (Hence me going with a Wii-U as it actually offered something different and unique.)

In all fairness to the XBoneX it's quite a lot of power for the cash, you certainly couldn't build a similarly specced PC for the same outlay, although 1TB isn't a whole load of storage with game installs routinely coming it at 60-70GB, and running everything from an old fashioned spinning platter won't be much fun either. (External SSDs connected by USB3.0 might be an option?) The CPU is still those horrible old Jaguar cores, albeit upclocked and with various optimisations. The GPU looks to be kicking as hard as a Radeon 580, which is a decent midrange PC part. (At the higher end of midrange, at that.)

Nothing about the thing even vaguely tempts me. If I do buy another console in the next few years, it'll be a Switch.

If I understand this right, the different the Xbox X brings is better visuals for games , if you have a 4K TV? I read a while ago that the games will all be the same and whilst they look better with a 4K TV on the X you won't get anything else extra?

It's something like that I believe. All games have to run on all hardware variants (original/S/X), and the only differences can be in the visuals. (i.e. The game's feature set is the same.)

If you don't have a 4K telly you can use superscaling or supersampling or whatever it's called to make games look nicer on a 1080 set.

Not sure if it's permitted to have the game run at 30FPS on the base XBOne, but 60FPS on the X, or if the X is just allowed to have more shinies at 30FPS.

Black is very good, and being made BC on Xbox One. Everyone play it.

Quantum Ninja is the one you want, Sat.

It's not that great.

Tbf some of the delivery blocks the drivers get are 18.00 - 22.00 and yet you're meant to deliver before 9pm.

I’ve ordered off amazon now. It should be coming on a Thursday (ill believe it when I see it) so does that mean a hairy backed Mary will be doing my delivery? Hmmm, Myp? Sort us out will ya.

Do mine first thing in the morning then. Ta.

You've read right. I've had some blocks last 5 hours when they should be finished in 4. That means if it started at 6pm they might be struggling to get to you.

Luckily I do during the day so I don't really deliver that late. Sucks for you and your delivery guy though.