Xbox One S 1Tb Console - Starter Bundle (Discontinued)

I've been a dedicated PlayStation user for many years, but I decided I wanted to see what X box was all about so I gave in and got one. I see now why people love it. I love just about everything about this game system--except that the remote require actual batteries and does not come as a standard rechargeable. That actually seems not only silly to me, but perhaps even prehistoric. Otherwise, the games are great, and having the Game Pass and Live Gold is great too. I wanted to try those services out and now I can see that I really do want them. The X Box itself has some really great functionality, is easy to set up even for a technology numpty like me and I like the design and build of it. There are a great range of games available for the whole family, so as a parent, I like that as well. I'm no longer sure that Playstation is it for me. We will see what happens in the future of gaming, but I have to say, I'm impressed with the X Box.

At $250 or less, this really feels like a bargain. It's better in many ways than the original Xbox One, and the 1 TB of storage by default is excellent. I waited until now to jump on the Xbox One train, and I couldn't be happier with my purchase. My first console had a fan that made a ticking noise. It was quiet, but I could hear it while sitting on my couch in a quiet room and I was worried it may decrease the life of the fan or cause me to have to void my warranty to replace it. So I replaced my console with Amazon. The new one actually has a similar issue, but it's much quieter, nearly inaudible, so I decided to keep this one. It's hard to complain because the normal fan noise of most consoles would overpower the clicking sound easily--it's just that the Xbox One S's fan is so quiet that the clicking is all I hear at times.

I bought mine at the end of December, because I missed that “before Xmas sale” where Xbox one S consoles were only $200. (I think this at the time was like $230 or something). When it arrived it had a puncture in the side of the box, which at first I was nervous about. And then reading more reviews it apparently is the reason this is cheaper than retail (I missed it, but i guess these are “damaged packaging but new” or something), or at least a better deal if you’re not interested in the games they bundle with it. When I pulled the contents of the box out, it was obvious that the styrofoam protected everything inside just fine and I no longer was worried. And I can honestly say that nearly 7 months later it works like a charm, I’ve played about 10 games on it so far and have zero complaints and am 100% satisfied with my purchase. It does come with a card that has redeemable codes on each side: one for 3 months of game pass and the other side for 3 months of Xbox lIve gold. The game pass code has an expiration date (in fact it was Dec 31st 2018, which was only 2 days after I had bought this thing). I didn’t realize this right away, and on Jan 4th or 5th I was able to redeem the “expired” code without any issue whatsoever. The other side, the Xbox Live Gold side, did not have an expiration date and I only redeemed that a month or two ago, I don’t really use it. GamePass is awesome though, if you play regularly it’s not a bad deal. Also, great thing is that these codes don’t require a subscription, once your 3 months is up they run out and you have to manually go pay for more months. I liked that. No unexpected charges.

This is the best console for the this price you can't beat it 4k gaming and movies at it's best. My Son was a bit unhappy when i told him it is the One S and not the one X after a few mintues of game play my Son said Dad wow this is great and wirh Xbox Gold for online play he and his friends play Mortal Kombat 11 online daily. My advice get this console you won't regret it puts a Ps4 pro to shame with backwards playing it's good to go with xbox one and 360 games. You may read some people say the free trial codes for xbox live gold and game pass have expired but they haven't the codes work fine.

I knew when I decided to buy an XBox One that there wasn't much reason to. Few exclusives, the exclusives that exist aren't very strong compared to Sony or Nintendo who have tons of A+ exclusives. I was like whatever, I like Halo and Gears of War a lot it'll be fine. Wrong. Online multiplayer works fine when I play with anyone but my IRL friend who plays XBox the most. Microsoft was no help with that at all. I thought the next Halo game would be out in 2019, but apparently it's coming out next year for Microsoft's next console? I bought the MasterChief collection.... like a month before they announced it coming to Steam on PC. Gears 5 came to Steam on PC. What's the point of owning an XBox One? I'm glad Microsoft finally put some games on PC but it's like why did I pay for the console? Not only that but I foolishly bought a couple games on disc when I bought the console... the discs have like 10 Gb of the game and require a 50 Gb download anyway, then you need to keep the disc in the console to play the game. Why even sell discs if I have to download 3/4 of the game anyway? The only upside is that the controllers work well with PC (with the adapter that was sold separately!). They have an XBox app on Windows now that lets you stream from the console to your PC so you can just use one screen for both PC and XBox which is kinda nice but it's too little too late.

I bought this so I can play some Xbox 360 games imcluding Gears Of War 1-3 and Mass Effect 1-3, but I got so much more out of this. I've had this product for about a month now and it works perfectly which makes me a satisfied customer. The 3 months of Game Pass and Xbox Live are awesome as I have got to play a bunch of games strictly off of those two services. I even got Gears Of War 5 preorder edition when it first came out because of the Xbox Game Pass. I have a PS4, and the PS Now (Game streaming service) is garbage compared to the Xbox Game Pass. Just having 3 months of that with the console is worth this price in my opinion. The controller is noticeably better than the original Xbox One controllers. It is closer to the Xbox 360 controller which fits my hands a lot better. I wish it had rechargeable batteries instead of Double A batteries, but it lasts a good amount of time. All in all a great experience so far, but not perfect as I will explain below. There was an issue with an update glitch when trying to setup my console (error message when about half way), but thankfully it passed and there has been absolutely nothing wrong with my experience since then. It turns out that it is relatively common which is worrisome. I will also say that the box that the console was shippped in had a bunch of extra space in it, making the console slide around inside of it. They could have put bubble wrap or other packing material, but they didn't. My console is fine, but that does bother me that the console was sliding around in the box while it was being shipped to me. There should be better packing procedures especially for electronics that are almost $300. I gave it 4 stars because of these issues, but the console itself is awesome. I would recommend this product to anyone looking for a good deal on a gaming console.

After years of maintaining a last gen only approach, I saw this on prime day and jumped. Really glad. My habit of using my consoles more for streaming changed when I got this and would play more and more. Liked the fact I got the 3months live and gamepass, plus Amazon gave me the Rare Replay to start off. Having a built in 4k bluray player was great, the controller design remained unchanged, setup for screen optimization was easy enough and reclaiming my gamertag was not a hassle. The S will not natively play games at 4k but upscale the 1080 signal, it will play 4k HDR content from netflix or Amazon though since it runs either 24 or 30hz. I will say a downside is the 1TB built in hard drive doesn't store nearly enough. Loss in basic system memory and figure conversion means about 700GB of space usable. While you would think it was crazy to use that much, all games download and the newer 4k or HDR compatible ones will take up space. IIRC Gears of War 4 eats up almost 100Gb. A 2tb drive would be better, but if you can, a usb 3.0 compatible external harddrive will do, found a sale for 4TB $90 around black friday. The pdp media remote is a good addition if you plan to stream content a lot too.

This Xbox One S 1TB unit is a great XBox. My family really enjoys it. We had a challenge with the parental controls and settings up Fortnite. There is no easy way to figure out what privacy you can keep in place to play Fortnite in any mode. It would be better if there was an easy way to set up the privacy for a particular game or type of experience. It would also like there to be a way to play against the computer with some of the privacy settings in place. But that doesn't exist. But the XBox still gets a 5 star review because once it's set up, it is a lot of fun.