So I rush home on launch day. Brand new X-Box One clutched in my grubby little paws. I tear it open like a kid on Christmas Day and get it connected following the meagre instructions. I go to turn it on.
Nothing.
I double check everything.
Still nothing.
An hour of fiddling and going onto the Microsoft Support forums it turns out my X-Bone was one of the many units that didn't work.
So I spent all weekend trying to get through to the customer support to no avail. It got to Monday and I had to take it back and go hunting into town to get another. Luckily I managed to get another Day One edition but I had still lost a weekend that I had booked off to play my £420 new console.
Even with a working system things aren't perfect. Features are nowhere to be seen, the UI is terrible and counter intuitive and previous features such as the X-Box guide have been taken out.
Games aren't working (Battlefield 3 I'm looking at you) and updates cripple games so they are unplayable.
I didn't play this amount to not be able to play my console.
Microsoft has really let me down. I wish I had just got a Wii U and a load of quality games instead of a broken X-Box One.
Okay I know in two years time the system will be great and all the features will but this bodged launch has really burnt me on day one console releases.
Well until the next one!
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