Got this for xmas, loving it.
Two reasons why I can't give it 5 stars (and one star lost for each point), and both are related to this as a usable product, rather than the quality of the xbox as a games console:
1) Support.
The Dance Central Spotlight game doesn't work - it will inevitably crash within 5 or so mins of play. Searching the support forums, it seems like this is a problem reported by others. However, there's no response. I logged a support issue - no response. So, clearly no support which frankly is unacceptable.
This is just a £7 element of a £300+ purchase, so I'm just going to swallow the loss rather than return the whole lot. But Microsoft - either provide support or don't bundle broken games, or you'll just upset customers and get poor reviews - the rest of the xbox is so good that you should just ditch a broken game like this (or if I'm wrong and its not broken - where's the support?).
2) User Guide.
Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but maybe some people weren't born into the xbox generation and could do with a little help. It took me 3 hours to figure out how to work the basics. Most of it was trial and error and just hitting buttons randomly until something seemed to work. I'm not talking about gameplay, but setting up things like profiles (heck, even figuring out that profiles needed to be set up, etc).
I'm still unsure about this, but it seems to be working. There's almost nothing in the box, and I think I've found something online, but its full of broken links, and I just gave up! So, I know we're in the age of online vs paper, but how about some basic concept/set up guidance in the box, or even a single sheet of paper of where to find it online, and then make sure the website works.
3) Profiles.
I know this is a third issue (and I said there were two above), but I found out that to play on the xbox you need to have a Microsoft-based email account. So, I've had to set these up for my 6-year old and my wife so that they can use the xbox, and as for guests - well they just can't play.
And that sucks.... I get that Microsoft want people to live in their 'bubble', but it should be possible to just play a console game as a guest or local profile. An online profile should be a value-add.
Or maybe its just a case of me not understanding how the whole thing works (see point 2 above!).
Anyway, we're loving the xbox despite the issues, its just a shame that the issues would be easy to fix.
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