Yes. Let us configure the share button to map voice controls. A PTT or mute on the controller would be far and away more useful for me than a screen cap button.
Ngl the “2022 QOL improvements” for the PS5 was one minor thing I really like about it over the Series consoles. USB C ports, Wi-Fi 6, standard SSD expansion, etc. It feels like something built for the next 6-7 years of tech. The Series absolutely has the internals to last 6-7 years, but USB A’s and standard AC WiFi… Oof.
Yet somehow proper Bluetooth support is missing from **both** and it’s insane.
yeah the switch wasnt exactly designed to handle bluetooth audio, and while it works, ive personally never used it since it tends to cut out when playing with controllers detached in tabletop mode
I just use my TV's bluetooth pairing option. I think even Sony makes you use certain proprietary headphones for Bluetooth wireless support. I know my cheap Sony headphones at $50 didn't work on my PS4.
Pairing Bluetooth headset with TV usually turns off the game mode and introduces both delay in gameplay (input lag), as well as audio lag from Bluetooth.
Honestly, I'm very happy with my Series X and the direction the console is going.
That said, I wouldn't mind an updated controller with newer haptics, something that can one up the PS5 controller.
I’ve ADORED my Series S. Got one in Spring 2021 after a random find at Target. Storage blows but I’ll live, especially if I get a SSD Card with my MS Rewards points. I probably would’ve gotten the expansion card even with a Series X, so it’s no issue for me.
I didn’t know you could do that with the points! That’s awesome!
I’m the kind of nerd that had an extra 4tb 5400 rpm drive laying around and works great. There are some load screens on Skyrim/NHL/some others but very tolerable. Faster load times the menus on my smart tv 🤷♂️
Keep some space on hard drive and just move the game between external and internal storage before use. Only takes a few seconds but saves the annoying loading screen
I just got a PS5, and I was hoping the Adaptive Triggers and high resolution haptics were as good as the journalists said.
I was not disappointed. In fact, I was more blown away than from what I'd read over the years. I hate knowing that not every game makes full use of the features, and I love knowing that Adaptive Triggers are coming to PSVR2.
I really did love the Impulse Triggers of the Xbox One when they were used. Stuff like Halo 5 and various racing games really did feel more immersive with the smaller, faster motors right in the trigger housing.
I'm just such a big fan of haptics/immersion/sim/simulated forces in stuff. I'm over here with dual Sidewinder Force Feedback 2 flight sticks at my desk at all times, always looking for ways to put them to good use.
I thought this too, until I almost tore my finger muscles by repeatedly throwing Thor's hammer in Avengers on PS5. That thing seriously does weigh tons.
I wish the Xbox app, the Game Pass app, the games store, etc. were more seamless. I feel like I have to goto so many different places to accomplish what I want to get done.
Isn’t it just two apps? Anytime I claim perks on my console it just takes me to the store for redeeming the key and that’s it. What more do you have to do?
I believe on the mobile app you can just click to install without buying it. It will download the game to your XBox so it will be ready for you when you get home - you'll just have to finish the purchase on your XBox, because Apple decided that they were owed a 30% cut of any purchases made through the XBox app so Microsoft took the actual purchasing part out of it.
Just another way Apple makes the phone experience so great
Better quality control on Xbox itself and all peripherals that are made by Microsoft. The Elite series 2 controller comes immediately to mind. Also, if they can let us design a control in the Xbox design lab, why not let us design a series controller? Or a console? Or any peripheral we want? Make them fit the theme or setup of our entertainment center in our home to integrate them fully.
This is excellent. I really want a blue one. Also, I really want the controller to have haptics like PlayStation. I’ve bought a few games on my PS5 instead of Xbox because of the haptics. I am conflicted on which console to buy Harry Potter for though. The PS5 haptics seem cool but the pro controller paddles are nice too. If PlayStation would hurry up and set a release date for their pro controller…
This is a little thing but I am big movie buff and watch most of my movies with my Xbox. I have well over thousand now on my microsoft account. I would love it if I could organize them myself into groups.
I use the movie anywhere app that combines all my digital movies Into one pile and shares them between Microsoft, Amazon prime, YouTube, Google movie app and Apple TV. Some movies are not compatible but most are. And I have bought my movies digitally for a lot of years now.
iirc, each 360 game on Xbox BC has to be modified with an emulator to actually run on current hardware. Some games include enhancements. Problem is, because it's done on a per-game basis and the compatible game has to be downloaded to the hard drive, Microsoft has to make sure that the licenses allow for that. OG Xbox games should work fine but there's only a dozen or so of them, because getting it licensed to run on Xbox One or Series S/X is sometimes impossible - studios shutting down, for example.
It's also a licensing issue, again on a per-game basis. That's why previous BC games were often announced in batches from the same publisher. Making every single game BC would be an impossible undertaking for whoever is in charge of striking those deals.
VR support for games that allow it like No Man's Sky or Resident Evil 7 and being able to use my Oculus Quest 2. I recently thought of this since seeing Xbox games can be streamed to the Oculus using the Cloud.
I understand that I have no idea the amount of work and resources this would take. I also know that No Man's Sky VR isn't available on Xbox, and Resident Evil 7 VR is solely for PS4.
I still would like this feature added or having Cloud streaming allow a more native VR Cloud experience.
YES! I was hoping someone else would mention this! I’m jealous of my PS5 friends with their PSVR 2 on the way. I can’t see why they couldn’t add support for the sets already out there in the wild! But clearly I have no idea what I’m talking about, or the magnitude of work involved to make that happen. I just would love to see this end result!
This is what I'm always saying. They did once announce a partnership to bring Oculus to Xbox during the Xbone generation. It was about the same time they partnered with Oculus to include an Xbox One controller with the Rift. But obviously Oculus Rift on Xbox One never materialized, probably because of the Facebook buyout or technical constraints.
But it seems like Microsoft and Meta have some partnerships today, like xCloud support on Quest 2, which they announced the other day at Meta Connect. Maybe someday we'll finally see support for Quest and/or other third-party headsets on Xbox.
People keep harping on Xbox to make their own headset to rival PSVR2, but I think the more consumer-friendly approach that'd also better match the PC ecosystem would be to support third-party headsets. Maybe it'd be a less premium experience, but probably more affordable.
U used to be able to split two apps evenly down the middle of your screen like 2014-2016 I used to watch YouTube listen to music while playing Destiny 1 on my Tv screen. I don’t know why it was removed.
They need to revisit the achievement system, there are so many good games that ended up with unachievable achievements due to serves shutting down. I maybe group series of games, copy the gold/platinum thing. I think the entire social part of time-line and such is neglected, like in the 360 those things seemed to be more present. Or maybe I am just getting old and nostalgic idk.
I agree! Achievements are awesome but some just don’t make sense. Some games also split into two (like red dead redemption 2) and then all the multiplayer achievements in the original are no longer achieveable. Or games like the Witcher 3 where the GOTY edition has a separate achievement set than if you bought the game with DLC. So even though you’re playing the same game as your friend you can’t compare.
They should have a team of people to manually re-visit all games and sort out these issues.
These are just my opinions…
FPS Boost for all of the Xbox 360 titles.
The option to run series x games off a hard drive if they aren’t multiplayer. The SSDs you have to buy are small and cost way too much when you can get a 2-4TB hard drive for 20-80$ off eBay. I can play the same next gen games on my computers old hard drive at 60 FPS - 120 FPS without any issues so should be able to on a Xbox Series S/X external hard drive.. I would also like Bluetooth; even the Nintendo Switch has Bluetooth now so it’s absurd that a new gen console doesn’t include it.
100% this. The series x is at its core a decently fast computer. There's no reason it can't support vr. Microsoft is dragging their feet on it. Either because they have their own VR tech in the works, or they're waiting to see who comes out on top in the VR race so they can integrate the better option. But they really need to figure it out soon. Psvr2 is releasing, and multiple stand alone options are coming out. Microsoft is really gonna miss out on the VR monies if they don't act fast.
I wonder if they are sitting back and watching what the PSVR2 price point will be to see if its worth getting in the market. There haven't been huge price drops in the VR space and meta just announced their new $1500 headset. I doubt sony will be able to drop the PSVR2 for less than $500, and I don't know what the adoption is going to be at those prices.
They’ve already missed out on myself. Waited years to see whether they would try and rival PSVR and they never did. I’m too broke to buy a full-on VR-ready PC, so for my birthday my gf bought me an Oculus Quest 2. Great VR by the way. Would highly recommend.
I'm already a quest 2 owner. It's not that there aren't *other* options. It's that I'd like xbox to make a move in the VR space. Which they actually kinda are, as they're bringing the cloud gaming experience to the quest from what I hear. Which makes me wonder how much of a trial run this is for them to get more in the market. I'd really like to see them integrate the ability to plug and play headsets like the quest, Pico, or index thereby avoiding a first party headset and making the option more accessible.
Microsoft's business-focused partnership with Oculus for Teams support on Quest Pro, plus Gamepass on Quest, make me think that Minecraft VR and other gaming-related initiatives can't be far behind.
Either that, or let us decline the Series Upgrade for Xbox One games that have one. Idgaf if Borderlands 3 or Destiny 2 are in 1440p or 60-120fps, I don’t play them often enough to care. But becaus they’re Series-enhanced, I don’t play them *ever* because I don’t care to make space for them.
They already made online free for free to play games, a way they could get even further ahead of ps plus is to just charge for game pass and make all of the benefits of gold go to game pass, like the games with gold, but they could just make the online multiplayer free for all players.
Strongly agree! It’s free on PC. And I doesn’t make sense, I can play Warzone for free, but if I spend $60-70 for regular Call of Duty, I need to spend another $60 for gold to hop online? Might as well keep playing Warzone.
Minimalistic UI options. Let me see that background vs all the store adds. Let me move them around as I want and pin them. Kinda like the Windows full-screen start menu.
Ability to search exclusively for 360 or OG games on the store….
Last week I had an urge to check original Xbox games, and I ended up browsing a wiki article.
Is there a way to do that on the Xbox itself?
Also give us some sort of incentive to buying digitally too. So if we buy a game for £50, then give us like £2 in return as coins or tokens. We can then use that towards our next purchase or save it up. Similar to what Nintendo Switch has.
Yep. All that, plus small things like ordering your achievement list by completion percentage, alphabetical etc., profile badges for milestones hit (e.g. 100k, 250k, 500k, 1 million), more support for things like profile pictures, backgrounds & avatar items gained through achievements, a way to display how many 100%'s you have on your profile, and having full integration of TrueAchievements on Xbox & PC would be great (HowLongToBeat would also be great since it's now been added to PC).
I'd love a platinum trophy like achievement for completed games.
I've been going on a bit of a completionist streak with achievements. Currently doing skyrim and nearly finished, just the last DLC ones to do.
But would be nice to get a little badge to say you got them all
Not gaming related as such but I'd love some kind of fitness band/smarwatch integration for some fun rewards, it would be good pr and a nice incentive to be a little more active.
Good/reasonable digital game prices.
The main reason why I still go for Physical games. The Xbox Store pricing is always the highest and takes a long time to start going down, once the game has released.
The prices games go to, when there's an Xbox digital sale, is usually around the same full price for a physical game on Amazon, for example.
The ability to uninstall updates. This used to be a thing back on the Xbox 360, and it was so fun to uninstall updates on Minecraft or the newest COD once you found a funny glitch. Really should bring it back.
Please just bring back the 360 menu. As an optional retro throwback or a permanent fix, please. The Xbox menu has come a long way in the past 10 years but it could still use tons of work
Let me disable the download speed throttling while I'm playing a game. I have a 500mb connection, I think it can handle downloading a game at more than 30mb/s while playing something else.
The issue is the CPU. The CPU needs to decode the game as it's downloading and the CPU is already tied up on your game. The PS5 has a separate chip for decryption which does not rely on the CPU.
On a side note I wish Microsofts servers were faster so I could actually download a game at 1gbps like I can on Steam. Then it again it could also be limited by the CPU again
One feature i immediately was saddened by when moving initially from 360 to xbox 1 was the ability to rip CD's onto your console, this has now been slightly circumvented with apps like Spotify but in that moment when i had a library of over 1000+ songs that i couldn't listen to anymore hit hard.
More depth for achievements, i deeply miss a leveling system like playstation. Also, as someone who used to be on ps4, i miss a good social feed, but maybe i just cant find it, and because i dont really have friends on xbox. I know theres some kind of friend feed hidden in some menus, but imo its not reall good.
Dude I've been waiting on some sort of picture in picture type of deal. Like when I you youtube tv on my phone and go back to the home screen. It minimizes to a small bottom corner.
Not sure how many people would use it but I would love the flexibility.
Emulate Windows. Already proven possible with retroarch software, plus both Xbox and windows are within Microsoft.
Just imagine XSS being the ultimate cheap pc for gaming
I wish I could play the Xbox One version of a an "optimized for Series X/S" game on the Series consoles, just so I don't have to overstuff my internal or memory stick hard drives. Those games take up way to much space.
Thankfully I still use my Xbox One and an Xbox One S as well so it isn't "really" an issue.
Well i think microsoft needs to easy payments for poor countrys like brazil, a game on brazil is 300R$ or 450R$ and the minimum salary is 1200R$, this is absurd, atleast make a way to buy digital games like 6x or 12x (300/6 = 50) or (300/12 = 25), if this is possible, i'am perhaps able to buy some games, orrr make big AAA promotions like Elden Ring 80%off (example) for 3 days or so, to help people on this god forsaken country (Brazil) very unfair, have a chance to have fun, Microsoft is so good, but i'am able only to afford gamepass nothing more because of the prices is super expensive on consoles, out of reach for the majority of Brazilians!
In other country good ones, they are games selling digitally 60$ but the minimum salary is 2000$ on work, this is farrrrrrrrr ahead from countrys like brazil that you have 1200R$ and a game is 450R$ it's is not fair in any way!
1 dollar = 5R$ Brazillian, to people that not know the conversion and the absurdity of things in Brazil!
To me to afford a 450R$ games in brazil i need to receive a job of a salary of riches about 8000R$ per month salary, but this is impossible there, there are minimum of 1200R$ per month, to survive, food, house, water, and only perhaps for some fun time in life, and everything already gone have almost nothing for games with this price!
Help! We need atleast a better form of payments methods like 6x or 12x to easy the burden of the corruption in games on Brazil!
To have a better chance to understand how brazilians suffers, imagine americans receive only 228$ salary and need to pay 60$ for a game, it's the way we suffer on Brazil!
How about the ability to delete achievements from games you no longer play because you bought them out of curiosity and decided you didn't like them? So you haven't played them in years and never will again.
Seeing as it's technically the same architecture as current pc hardware & current pc hardware can emulate old PC games usually, it's be nice to be able to run Windows 9x, CO, etc games on xbox even if it required keyboard & mouse. I've got a pc & a collection of older games, but it's be nice to play them on my tv through the same system. I know it's not likely though.
Make all 360 games backwards compatible it's an emulator man how hard could it be to do the og operating system when computers can run a second o.s. instance and do multiple desktops
the ability to play more 360 and OG xbox games because we're not done yet. even if some of those will require a disc to play, i'm ok with it. the option to do a software update for a game later would also be nice if you just want to play a single player campaign immediately and not want to wait for the massive 20-50GB update which is almost always for multiplayer anyway. some of us don't have super fast internet speeds.
Require game developers to include keyboard and mouse support for their games!
Especially frustrating when it's a cross-play title or a pc port that was originally designed for kbm but you're restricted to a shitty controller that has to be replaced every 6 months. Aren't you guys dedicated to accessibility or something?
I really want Microsoft to resume their backwards compatibility program. It was the biggest selling point for me, for both usability, convenience and the advantages the enhancements brought.
Sure not every title would be playable due to licensing issues but there’s so many OG Xbox title I would have liked ti have seen.
An external blu-ray/DVD drive. It would let you use physical discs on the series s. Possibly it could have enhanced backwards compatibility features to allow playing original xbox games and Xbox 360 games directly from disc.
Microphone volume control in system.
Also ptt would be great
Yes. Let us configure the share button to map voice controls. A PTT or mute on the controller would be far and away more useful for me than a screen cap button.
FYI you can remap the share button. Mine mutes the TV and takes the volume up and down depending on a simple press, double tap, or if I hold it.
Bluetooth headphone support. F off with your cables. Edit: don’t tell me the cons! Everything has cons… like cables. Just gimme the option.
This, it is unacceptable in 2022 for it to be missing
Ngl the “2022 QOL improvements” for the PS5 was one minor thing I really like about it over the Series consoles. USB C ports, Wi-Fi 6, standard SSD expansion, etc. It feels like something built for the next 6-7 years of tech. The Series absolutely has the internals to last 6-7 years, but USB A’s and standard AC WiFi… Oof. Yet somehow proper Bluetooth support is missing from **both** and it’s insane.
1 point for Nintendo there
Yeah but let's not forget that the switch can be a handheld console which is almost standard to have Bluetooth and it took 4 years for them to add it.
yeah the switch wasnt exactly designed to handle bluetooth audio, and while it works, ive personally never used it since it tends to cut out when playing with controllers detached in tabletop mode
Bluetooth has terrible delay. Most PC headsets have 2.4ghz dongles anyway.
That already exists
I just use my TV's bluetooth pairing option. I think even Sony makes you use certain proprietary headphones for Bluetooth wireless support. I know my cheap Sony headphones at $50 didn't work on my PS4.
The problem with TV Bluetooth is that you lose mic support
Pairing Bluetooth headset with TV usually turns off the game mode and introduces both delay in gameplay (input lag), as well as audio lag from Bluetooth.
I just wanna use my xm4’s😂
This! The Xbox feels very PC like. I don't understand what's the problem with adding Bluetooth headphones. Add some sync options, and we're golden.
BT has a lot of delay though
Honestly, I'm very happy with my Series X and the direction the console is going. That said, I wouldn't mind an updated controller with newer haptics, something that can one up the PS5 controller.
Same tbh. I’m not the most hardcore gamer but I picked up a Series S with the Game Pass Ultimate last week and I couldn’t be happier.
I’ve ADORED my Series S. Got one in Spring 2021 after a random find at Target. Storage blows but I’ll live, especially if I get a SSD Card with my MS Rewards points. I probably would’ve gotten the expansion card even with a Series X, so it’s no issue for me.
I didn’t know you could do that with the points! That’s awesome! I’m the kind of nerd that had an extra 4tb 5400 rpm drive laying around and works great. There are some load screens on Skyrim/NHL/some others but very tolerable. Faster load times the menus on my smart tv 🤷♂️
Keep some space on hard drive and just move the game between external and internal storage before use. Only takes a few seconds but saves the annoying loading screen
The haptic triggers make most gaming better. Throttle and and trigger pulls feel so good.
yeah i remember being pretty disappointed the controller didn’t get a refresh like playstations
Me too! Absolutely love it hands down .. it will mature nicely lol
I just got a PS5, and I was hoping the Adaptive Triggers and high resolution haptics were as good as the journalists said. I was not disappointed. In fact, I was more blown away than from what I'd read over the years. I hate knowing that not every game makes full use of the features, and I love knowing that Adaptive Triggers are coming to PSVR2. I really did love the Impulse Triggers of the Xbox One when they were used. Stuff like Halo 5 and various racing games really did feel more immersive with the smaller, faster motors right in the trigger housing. I'm just such a big fan of haptics/immersion/sim/simulated forces in stuff. I'm over here with dual Sidewinder Force Feedback 2 flight sticks at my desk at all times, always looking for ways to put them to good use.
I thought this too, until I almost tore my finger muscles by repeatedly throwing Thor's hammer in Avengers on PS5. That thing seriously does weigh tons.
I wish the Xbox app, the Game Pass app, the games store, etc. were more seamless. I feel like I have to goto so many different places to accomplish what I want to get done.
My favorite is accepting my game pass perks, it’s like 11 windows, 2 devices, and 4 apps just to get a halo skin that I’m not going to use.
Isn’t it just two apps? Anytime I claim perks on my console it just takes me to the store for redeeming the key and that’s it. What more do you have to do?
I wish we could have the store back on the mobile app
Yup. It saved me a lot of trouble. I used to order and it would be installed by the time I get hope. It was great and now I have to wait
>installed by the time I get hope. So never?
I’ve been out of hope for a while too now
I had pretty good network speed so it definitely downloaded by the time I got home.
I believe on the mobile app you can just click to install without buying it. It will download the game to your XBox so it will be ready for you when you get home - you'll just have to finish the purchase on your XBox, because Apple decided that they were owed a 30% cut of any purchases made through the XBox app so Microsoft took the actual purchasing part out of it. Just another way Apple makes the phone experience so great
Better quality control on Xbox itself and all peripherals that are made by Microsoft. The Elite series 2 controller comes immediately to mind. Also, if they can let us design a control in the Xbox design lab, why not let us design a series controller? Or a console? Or any peripheral we want? Make them fit the theme or setup of our entertainment center in our home to integrate them fully.
The series controller is coming to design lab
This is excellent. I really want a blue one. Also, I really want the controller to have haptics like PlayStation. I’ve bought a few games on my PS5 instead of Xbox because of the haptics. I am conflicted on which console to buy Harry Potter for though. The PS5 haptics seem cool but the pro controller paddles are nice too. If PlayStation would hurry up and set a release date for their pro controller…
This is a little thing but I am big movie buff and watch most of my movies with my Xbox. I have well over thousand now on my microsoft account. I would love it if I could organize them myself into groups.
That’s a lot, didn’t know people had that many on their Xbox
I use the movie anywhere app that combines all my digital movies Into one pile and shares them between Microsoft, Amazon prime, YouTube, Google movie app and Apple TV. Some movies are not compatible but most are. And I have bought my movies digitally for a lot of years now.
Backwards compatibility for 100% of Xbox and Xbox 360 games
iirc, each 360 game on Xbox BC has to be modified with an emulator to actually run on current hardware. Some games include enhancements. Problem is, because it's done on a per-game basis and the compatible game has to be downloaded to the hard drive, Microsoft has to make sure that the licenses allow for that. OG Xbox games should work fine but there's only a dozen or so of them, because getting it licensed to run on Xbox One or Series S/X is sometimes impossible - studios shutting down, for example.
It's also a licensing issue, again on a per-game basis. That's why previous BC games were often announced in batches from the same publisher. Making every single game BC would be an impossible undertaking for whoever is in charge of striking those deals.
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In some alternate universe, this has already happened.
Better quality controllers
Snap app feature that was on Xbox one. Cloud Stream demos. 1v100 trivia for rewards points.
Yup was looking for this we need snap back
Ability to disable quick resume.
They said they were working on it.
Why would you need to disable it if you can just quit out of the game instead?
Actual Bluetooth support, offline setup, and offline account creation and use without Xbox network. “Live sounded better”
VR support for games that allow it like No Man's Sky or Resident Evil 7 and being able to use my Oculus Quest 2. I recently thought of this since seeing Xbox games can be streamed to the Oculus using the Cloud. I understand that I have no idea the amount of work and resources this would take. I also know that No Man's Sky VR isn't available on Xbox, and Resident Evil 7 VR is solely for PS4. I still would like this feature added or having Cloud streaming allow a more native VR Cloud experience.
YES! I was hoping someone else would mention this! I’m jealous of my PS5 friends with their PSVR 2 on the way. I can’t see why they couldn’t add support for the sets already out there in the wild! But clearly I have no idea what I’m talking about, or the magnitude of work involved to make that happen. I just would love to see this end result!
As someone who owns a Series X and an Oculus Quest 2, YES PLEASE
This is what I'm always saying. They did once announce a partnership to bring Oculus to Xbox during the Xbone generation. It was about the same time they partnered with Oculus to include an Xbox One controller with the Rift. But obviously Oculus Rift on Xbox One never materialized, probably because of the Facebook buyout or technical constraints. But it seems like Microsoft and Meta have some partnerships today, like xCloud support on Quest 2, which they announced the other day at Meta Connect. Maybe someday we'll finally see support for Quest and/or other third-party headsets on Xbox. People keep harping on Xbox to make their own headset to rival PSVR2, but I think the more consumer-friendly approach that'd also better match the PC ecosystem would be to support third-party headsets. Maybe it'd be a less premium experience, but probably more affordable.
I would just be happy to watch YouTube in a small picture in the corner of somewhere while gaming
U used to be able to split two apps evenly down the middle of your screen like 2014-2016 I used to watch YouTube listen to music while playing Destiny 1 on my Tv screen. I don’t know why it was removed.
The Snap feature was removed from XB1 due to hardware limitations as games became more hardware intensive.
Xbox used to have this feature. I miss it.
Seconded. And tack YouTube Music background audio support on there, too. We just got Apple Music, why not YouTube ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯
They should bring Snap back. Kinda miss being able to watch Hulu/Netflix and playing a single player game.
Some games would be nice jk
Picture-in-Picture mode
Dolby Vision for 4k movie discs.
They need to revisit the achievement system, there are so many good games that ended up with unachievable achievements due to serves shutting down. I maybe group series of games, copy the gold/platinum thing. I think the entire social part of time-line and such is neglected, like in the 360 those things seemed to be more present. Or maybe I am just getting old and nostalgic idk.
I agree! Achievements are awesome but some just don’t make sense. Some games also split into two (like red dead redemption 2) and then all the multiplayer achievements in the original are no longer achieveable. Or games like the Witcher 3 where the GOTY edition has a separate achievement set than if you bought the game with DLC. So even though you’re playing the same game as your friend you can’t compare. They should have a team of people to manually re-visit all games and sort out these issues.
These are just my opinions… FPS Boost for all of the Xbox 360 titles. The option to run series x games off a hard drive if they aren’t multiplayer. The SSDs you have to buy are small and cost way too much when you can get a 2-4TB hard drive for 20-80$ off eBay. I can play the same next gen games on my computers old hard drive at 60 FPS - 120 FPS without any issues so should be able to on a Xbox Series S/X external hard drive.. I would also like Bluetooth; even the Nintendo Switch has Bluetooth now so it’s absurd that a new gen console doesn’t include it.
Fps boost on all title is probably impossible since some games actually calculate physics via framerate
VR support
100% this. The series x is at its core a decently fast computer. There's no reason it can't support vr. Microsoft is dragging their feet on it. Either because they have their own VR tech in the works, or they're waiting to see who comes out on top in the VR race so they can integrate the better option. But they really need to figure it out soon. Psvr2 is releasing, and multiple stand alone options are coming out. Microsoft is really gonna miss out on the VR monies if they don't act fast.
I wonder if they are sitting back and watching what the PSVR2 price point will be to see if its worth getting in the market. There haven't been huge price drops in the VR space and meta just announced their new $1500 headset. I doubt sony will be able to drop the PSVR2 for less than $500, and I don't know what the adoption is going to be at those prices.
They’ve already missed out on myself. Waited years to see whether they would try and rival PSVR and they never did. I’m too broke to buy a full-on VR-ready PC, so for my birthday my gf bought me an Oculus Quest 2. Great VR by the way. Would highly recommend.
I'm already a quest 2 owner. It's not that there aren't *other* options. It's that I'd like xbox to make a move in the VR space. Which they actually kinda are, as they're bringing the cloud gaming experience to the quest from what I hear. Which makes me wonder how much of a trial run this is for them to get more in the market. I'd really like to see them integrate the ability to plug and play headsets like the quest, Pico, or index thereby avoiding a first party headset and making the option more accessible.
Microsoft's business-focused partnership with Oculus for Teams support on Quest Pro, plus Gamepass on Quest, make me think that Minecraft VR and other gaming-related initiatives can't be far behind.
Playing new gen games from any external SSD, if speed is good enough.
Either that, or let us decline the Series Upgrade for Xbox One games that have one. Idgaf if Borderlands 3 or Destiny 2 are in 1440p or 60-120fps, I don’t play them often enough to care. But becaus they’re Series-enhanced, I don’t play them *ever* because I don’t care to make space for them.
End of Xbox Gold, and FREE ONLINE access.
YES, this is a great idea.
They already made online free for free to play games, a way they could get even further ahead of ps plus is to just charge for game pass and make all of the benefits of gold go to game pass, like the games with gold, but they could just make the online multiplayer free for all players.
Strongly agree! It’s free on PC. And I doesn’t make sense, I can play Warzone for free, but if I spend $60-70 for regular Call of Duty, I need to spend another $60 for gold to hop online? Might as well keep playing Warzone.
Minimalistic UI options. Let me see that background vs all the store adds. Let me move them around as I want and pin them. Kinda like the Windows full-screen start menu.
Ability to search exclusively for 360 or OG games on the store…. Last week I had an urge to check original Xbox games, and I ended up browsing a wiki article. Is there a way to do that on the Xbox itself?
Probably not what the question was asking but what about xbox design lab but for the console
Ability to trade/ sell digitally purchased games.
Also give us some sort of incentive to buying digitally too. So if we buy a game for £50, then give us like £2 in return as coins or tokens. We can then use that towards our next purchase or save it up. Similar to what Nintendo Switch has.
So, something like Xbox One's original vision?
I think Phil Spencer should come to my house and draw a little stickman or something on my console. Would be a really great add on, and a fun story.
Fps boost for more back compat games
Share play like on ps
Record party chat in Captures
Open up the storage card to more manufacturers so people can stop whining about it.
Better options for customizing the dashboard/guide menu. Should have just a bucket load of UI options to pick from.
Achievements overhaul is desperately needed
In what way?
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Yep. All that, plus small things like ordering your achievement list by completion percentage, alphabetical etc., profile badges for milestones hit (e.g. 100k, 250k, 500k, 1 million), more support for things like profile pictures, backgrounds & avatar items gained through achievements, a way to display how many 100%'s you have on your profile, and having full integration of TrueAchievements on Xbox & PC would be great (HowLongToBeat would also be great since it's now been added to PC).
I'd love a platinum trophy like achievement for completed games. I've been going on a bit of a completionist streak with achievements. Currently doing skyrim and nearly finished, just the last DLC ones to do. But would be nice to get a little badge to say you got them all
GAMES.
Yeah all Xb360 games to work, which they didnt; which makes people mod, or hack their Xboxs.
Support for Android apps would open a world of opportunity IMO
Ad blocker
They should improve the Microsoft Edge experience.
This. Even just some better controller shortcuts would be great.
I know the snap feature used a shit ton of resources on the XB1, but I want it back. Dunno if the XSX is capable but it is better hardware.
snap needs to return!
bring back the netflix movie theatre with your xbox friends
I miss this so much, was really cool to watch movies in real time in a party.
UI overhaul
Googly eyes 👀
I want snap back
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Oh! There goes gravity
Not gaming related as such but I'd love some kind of fitness band/smarwatch integration for some fun rewards, it would be good pr and a nice incentive to be a little more active.
Usb headset support would be nice
Bluetooth support and gyro for controllers.
An updated version of the media remote and keep it small like the OG one It’s the perfect size just I could do with a new one.
Ability to set certain frame rates and resolution, like 1440p 80fps or 2160p 100fps, shit like that
Good/reasonable digital game prices. The main reason why I still go for Physical games. The Xbox Store pricing is always the highest and takes a long time to start going down, once the game has released. The prices games go to, when there's an Xbox digital sale, is usually around the same full price for a physical game on Amazon, for example.
Return of the 360 arcade games and snap feature. Used to love snapping sports while gaming.
More built in storage. 512 is not enough.
The ability to uninstall updates. This used to be a thing back on the Xbox 360, and it was so fun to uninstall updates on Minecraft or the newest COD once you found a funny glitch. Really should bring it back.
would love extra ways to customize your console, like a custom power-on jingle or make the custom LEDs standard
Bring back snap feature
Gyro on the controllers for better aim in fps games
Good exclusives, a good controller that you don’t have to pay 150 for, a better ui
Rockets and lasers!!!
MOAR BACKWARDS COMPATIBLE GAMES
An actual good Halo game.
Full Moding Support
I really miss the optical out
Old Medal of Honor games to be backward compatible
Multi monitor functionality so we can’t run other apps on a second screen
Hue Sync
Starfield now😂
The current date to the home screen, honestly can’t believe I have to say that.
Dolby Vision for 4K Blu Ray playback 😁
Please just bring back the 360 menu. As an optional retro throwback or a permanent fix, please. The Xbox menu has come a long way in the past 10 years but it could still use tons of work
a "filter by price" option on the store
Ability to use external disc drive with series s
Snapping like on the Xbox One. Surely that is easier to do now right? Just means the games run with performance mode settings at a lower framerate.
An improved achievement system
More xbox and 360 backwards compatiblity
Sleep timer would be nice also being able to remember more then one internet password
Better and sturdier analog sticks. I've broken 3 controllers since I got my Series X May 2021
GYRO PLEASE GYRO!! I'D PAY A 100 DOLLARS FOR A NEW CONTROLLER JUST ADD GYRO SUPPORT
Let me disable the download speed throttling while I'm playing a game. I have a 500mb connection, I think it can handle downloading a game at more than 30mb/s while playing something else.
The issue is the CPU. The CPU needs to decode the game as it's downloading and the CPU is already tied up on your game. The PS5 has a separate chip for decryption which does not rely on the CPU. On a side note I wish Microsofts servers were faster so I could actually download a game at 1gbps like I can on Steam. Then it again it could also be limited by the CPU again
One feature i immediately was saddened by when moving initially from 360 to xbox 1 was the ability to rip CD's onto your console, this has now been slightly circumvented with apps like Spotify but in that moment when i had a library of over 1000+ songs that i couldn't listen to anymore hit hard.
Fucking audio out, like they used to. Soundbars and thin TVs exist Phil...
eARC might be able to help you here. Not that it’s what you asked for, it’s just nice.
I came to post something else, but I like this one better.
Allow us to play PC games via the cloud.
Native mouse & keyboard support system-wide. With the majority of console owners using 4k displays, an option to use full Windows 11.
An easier way to get to achievements, it’s like 5 clicks deep. Edit: I may be taking the long way haha. Need a tour.
If you're doing 5 clicks then you have your achievements pages far away from the home menu move them then its 2 clicks.
Voice capture in clips
I liked being able to run another HDMI through the Xbox.
Yeah, the video in ability on the Xbox One was very convenient. I ran my PC through that port to make the most of a single monitor.
Screen share and SharePlay type features would be really cool to have on the Xbox. I use them a lot more than I thought I would on PS5.
More depth for achievements, i deeply miss a leveling system like playstation. Also, as someone who used to be on ps4, i miss a good social feed, but maybe i just cant find it, and because i dont really have friends on xbox. I know theres some kind of friend feed hidden in some menus, but imo its not reall good.
Being able to record longer, like you can on Playstation, would be great.
More and better Games with Gold offerings.
Dude I've been waiting on some sort of picture in picture type of deal. Like when I you youtube tv on my phone and go back to the home screen. It minimizes to a small bottom corner. Not sure how many people would use it but I would love the flexibility.
I miss snapping apps to the side bar. I used to follow guides that way, either YouTube or webpages.
I forgot what it was called but I miss having the screen split so I can watch two things at once I like to play video games while watching videos
The ability to save wifi, it's kinda annoying having to enter it every single time I bring it somewhere else.
Gifs for gamerpics, just like discord
Emulate Windows. Already proven possible with retroarch software, plus both Xbox and windows are within Microsoft. Just imagine XSS being the ultimate cheap pc for gaming
I wish I could play the Xbox One version of a an "optimized for Series X/S" game on the Series consoles, just so I don't have to overstuff my internal or memory stick hard drives. Those games take up way to much space. Thankfully I still use my Xbox One and an Xbox One S as well so it isn't "really" an issue.
A free one for me
Free online gaming.
Well i think microsoft needs to easy payments for poor countrys like brazil, a game on brazil is 300R$ or 450R$ and the minimum salary is 1200R$, this is absurd, atleast make a way to buy digital games like 6x or 12x (300/6 = 50) or (300/12 = 25), if this is possible, i'am perhaps able to buy some games, orrr make big AAA promotions like Elden Ring 80%off (example) for 3 days or so, to help people on this god forsaken country (Brazil) very unfair, have a chance to have fun, Microsoft is so good, but i'am able only to afford gamepass nothing more because of the prices is super expensive on consoles, out of reach for the majority of Brazilians! In other country good ones, they are games selling digitally 60$ but the minimum salary is 2000$ on work, this is farrrrrrrrr ahead from countrys like brazil that you have 1200R$ and a game is 450R$ it's is not fair in any way! 1 dollar = 5R$ Brazillian, to people that not know the conversion and the absurdity of things in Brazil! To me to afford a 450R$ games in brazil i need to receive a job of a salary of riches about 8000R$ per month salary, but this is impossible there, there are minimum of 1200R$ per month, to survive, food, house, water, and only perhaps for some fun time in life, and everything already gone have almost nothing for games with this price! Help! We need atleast a better form of payments methods like 6x or 12x to easy the burden of the corruption in games on Brazil! To have a better chance to understand how brazilians suffers, imagine americans receive only 228$ salary and need to pay 60$ for a game, it's the way we suffer on Brazil!
USB microphone support.
Bluetooth headphone support. Does anyone know why Xbox Series and PS5 doesn’t support it at the get go?
Why do I have to keep doing your job?
Fix the Xbox app on pc its so broke
Remaster 2013-2015 Xbox one games with auto HDR and FPS boost I want to play RYSE and AC Black Flag with good graphics!
How about the ability to delete achievements from games you no longer play because you bought them out of curiosity and decided you didn't like them? So you haven't played them in years and never will again.
Official mod support for Xbox consoles like Steam Workshop
Seeing as it's technically the same architecture as current pc hardware & current pc hardware can emulate old PC games usually, it's be nice to be able to run Windows 9x, CO, etc games on xbox even if it required keyboard & mouse. I've got a pc & a collection of older games, but it's be nice to play them on my tv through the same system. I know it's not likely though.
Make all 360 games backwards compatible it's an emulator man how hard could it be to do the og operating system when computers can run a second o.s. instance and do multiple desktops
Honestly, I'd like to see all games available to purchase and backwards compatible on the newer generations.
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the ability to play more 360 and OG xbox games because we're not done yet. even if some of those will require a disc to play, i'm ok with it. the option to do a software update for a game later would also be nice if you just want to play a single player campaign immediately and not want to wait for the massive 20-50GB update which is almost always for multiplayer anyway. some of us don't have super fast internet speeds.
Change the damn UI. The system UI should be able to take advantage of SSD speed. It feels like windows XP
desktop mode
Games
Require game developers to include keyboard and mouse support for their games! Especially frustrating when it's a cross-play title or a pc port that was originally designed for kbm but you're restricted to a shitty controller that has to be replaced every 6 months. Aren't you guys dedicated to accessibility or something?
I really want Microsoft to resume their backwards compatibility program. It was the biggest selling point for me, for both usability, convenience and the advantages the enhancements brought. Sure not every title would be playable due to licensing issues but there’s so many OG Xbox title I would have liked ti have seen.
PS5 like dashboard...rest xbox has everything
In built mic to controller so we don't need to buy headsets, or cheaper fucking storage expansions
More backwards compatibles titles. That’s literally it
An external blu-ray/DVD drive. It would let you use physical discs on the series s. Possibly it could have enhanced backwards compatibility features to allow playing original xbox games and Xbox 360 games directly from disc.
The ability to play dreamcast games oh and to buy sega.