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Gamers have started noticing the Xbox One’s flaws

The Xbox One has been out for just under two weeks in the States, and five days in the UK. Having spent time with the console, gamers are starting to notice its flaws, and flooding the internet with complaints about it. They’re not insignificant, either, ranging from concerns over the interface’s sluggishness and the seemingly-stupid re-arrangement of things that didn’t re-arranging. Worse, the worry that many Xbox One games don’t run at high resolutions but they do on the PlayStation 4 is raising its head and showing itself to be a genuine problem. And then there’s the Party Chat system, which doesn’t work very intuitively, confusing and angering gamers further.

International gaming media outlets are posting their own thoughts on the console’s problems. The Edge Online has posted a scathing editorial on the Xbox One’s many failings called “Xbox, why? The baffling incompetence of the Xbox One interface, and Kotaku has written a rather unimpressed piece on why it matters that the Xbox One plays games at lower resolutions than the PS4.

But none of this should come as too much of a surprise. Kotaku had reported back in May that the Xbox folks were about six months behind where they wanted to be with the console’s development, and predicted a rather rocky launch for the console. To be fair, no console launch is ever smooth – Microsoft’s Red Ring of Death fiasco surrounded the launch of the Xbox 360 back in 2005, and Nintendo’s Wii U hit the market with a sluggish operating system and a few missing features. Still, there are no doubt more than a few gamers feeling more than a little annoyed that their new R5000 console isn’t performing as expected.

Fortunately, Microsoft is apparently listening to all feedback and has publicly promised that things will improve. Larry “Major Nelson” Hyrb, Microsoft’s Xbox guy, posted on a Reddit thread about the problems with Party Chat, saying “I had a meeting today about much of this and I can say that things will get better. I can’t offer a timeline of a list of what will be addressed first, but we are aware of the issue and things will get better.”

It might be easy to comment on things we’re not actively involved in or have direct experience of, but it seems to make sense that Microsoft will iron out the wrinkles with the Xbox One in future software updates, and that there’s no reason to panic just yet if you’ve got your heart set on owning an Xbox One.

Also, by the time the console gets here next year, with any luck Microsoft will already have patched out all the problems, and South Africans will get to experience the Xbox One as Microsoft originally intended.

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