Xbox One 500GB Console (Renewed)

Xbox one refurbished
Arrived on time, and well packaged. Unit works great, and came with a nice grey and black wireless controller. Happy with my purchase.

Xbox one lifespan 20 min
Sooooo not only did I have to wait an extra 5 days to get it because the tracking info was wrong but it finally got here today. I open it up out of a brown box , was thinking it was gonna be in the original green box like they portray it. I take it out and there are scratches everywhere on the console on the adapter only thing that was fine was HDMI cord. I plug it in an get as far as creating a new email and it shuts off….in attempts to reboot it several times and also unplug it and plugging it back in after waiting a little it just got worse. Now the thing won’t even turn on. I let it chill out for a little bit again. I plugged it back in AGAIN and go to turn it on and it’s making the beep sounds when you turn it on but no white light behind the Xbox logo. Now my TV won’t even recognize if it’s on or off. Honestly screw these ppl and I just called to return it and the operator at Amazon basically told me that the seller will get back to you at their convenience and I won’t have a refund until X amount of days. Awesome. So glad they sent me a complete faulted system. Not even 30 min out of the box and I was experiencing problems. I was pretty hype about this and now I have to wait and wait some more for A new Xbox and learned my lesson never to buy refurbished products off here AND DEFINITELY NOT FROM THESE DUDES.

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M3 granchidren love it very much.

And enjoy when I see innovation in technology What the console …
Disclaimer : I have had the console for 1 week as of the time of this review, I’ve owned ljust about every major video game console since the 64. And enjoy when I see innovation in technologyWhat the console does good : even though the console is from a technical standpoint inferior to the PS4 it still looks very sharp, and experiences no trouble loading a game or other such simple tasks.Everything else : unfortunately that’s where it ends and a polotgyst of disappointments begin, the Controller… While it feels great in the hand.. People we are in 2015 and I get a controller with a standard battery pack and no charger, that’s outlandish, the 360 came with one and at least the original came with wires so you didn’t have to worry about charging it! Although I’ll give it some credit the controller has lasted a decent amount of time in the 20-25 hours I’ve spent playing (keep in mind this is not the fault of the vendor, I checked on Microsoft website to ensure this was what would normally come with the xbox one and this is the same as what they would provide.)Next the aesthetically difference, while it does look glossy on one half of the console it’s huge, it looks like a VCR I actually had my father ask me why I bought a VCR lolThat being said I do understand that Microsoft was attempting to alleviate any further ring of death style problems with plenty of vent space, that being said Sony PS4 has a much nicer more futuristic design with more processing power and has had not problems with heating, and looks much nicer in my opinion, this could just be me thoughThe kinect….. Oh dear Microsoft I understand you were under different management during the initial realise of the console… Especially since you can clearly tell Microsoft newer approach to the consumer however some old mistakes still Haun the xbox one, what I mean by this is that by choosing to not purchase the kinect your loosing out on an absurd amount of features that are integrated into the consoles software, like voice activation and Skype, it’s not that these features are bad per say, but I don’t particularly appreciate having to buy a superlative glorified video camera to use these features on my already high priced console. You can clearly Tell that the One and the kinect were built for each other.. That relationship has been pretty one sided if you ask me lolFinally the storage, so with one update and three games I’m down to 267 gb out of a supposed 500, but you’ll initially loose about 75 gb on updates alone, so be prepared to either by the 1tb which I should have done, or to buy some external hard drives, cause that space will go quickly. I understand that due to the I crease in graphical capabilities games will naturally be bigger to incorporate all the data necessary for such stunning games to exist, but in my opinion Microsoft should have released the console with 1tb, same thing for the PS4 and don’t even get me started on Nintendo mesealy 32 gb option lol that being said I also understand that it’s all clever marketing to sell more consoles in the future, brilliant for the company, disappointing and frustrating for the consumerAll this being said the console runs great I here virtually no noise from itit, start up times are quick, and the software is alright but that’s just it, it’s a good console where it could have been a great console… I recommend this model if your looking for a cheaper option, however be prepared to loose some functionality without the kinect, if you can afford it then I recommend waiting on the 1tb version bundles you’ll get much more for your money but without a bundle the don’t bother. simply buy an external hard drive which is a great fix for the cheaper model down the line once you aquire the necessary funds as well,So their you have it an okay console due to hinderences taking away from its ability to be great