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SnoopZakaDaVe

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theres a strange little glitch to get you onto cortana even though it isn't supposed to be released, if you go across to the left so it snaps up your friends, activity feed etc. and then scroll down to settings, then go across and it should highlight "all settings" in blue, if you scroll up so that nothing is highlighted then press A twice it will snap cortana, and it even works to a point you can ask it what the weather is, if you need an umbrella today and little things like that at the moment as the video shows.

it will load microsoft edge for answers it doesn't come back with straight away.

interestingly once you can do it once (or perhaps even before you do it once?) you can say "hey cortana" to your xbox and then give it commands or whatever such as "go to forza motorsport 6" and it will boot the game up in the same was as saying "xbox" does.

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Ever since last night I get an error message when starting any game or application, saying it can't get my latest save data that's online, only giving me the option to try again (which always fails), or use it offline.

I'm on the twice weekly updates new experience preview. Has anyone else had this?

I should be expecting problems given that I'm on the cutting edge of sorts. Maybe I'll drop down a level.

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T Pot

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I don't mind the new dash, I like the new snap menu on the left. Seems a lot quicker in general for me. My main issue is that front page. It seems like it is designed for portrait screens. I know you can hit RT to skip to your games, but who through the it was a good idea to put the games and apps miles at the bottom. It's almost 3 TV screens down.

I think if you don't use RT it's about 9 button clicks to get to your games, plus another minimum 4 if you haven't pinned it.

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Petrousgyre

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This seems to have been Microsoft's position since the introduction of NXE on 360, your games get ferreted away in some submenu several clicks and a load away, you may also need to wait for the library thumbnails to load in too. Adverts, however, are all over your homepage and appear instantly. Odd choice by MS given their main competitors - Apple, Nintendo, Sony and Google all give your games and apps centre stage in their UI, adverts are either peripheral or non-existent.

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LongHairStu

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In the buying research I've done, the Halo 5 Guardians special edition console is described as having a code with it. I believe the console comes out a week before the game, so you can pre-load it. I suppose other bundles may differ, but I haven't seen an official one that does.

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Yoshimax

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Installed new dash tonight. Must be a later version because it works a treat. Trying to figure out what I should be up in arms about but it's all just working (a lot faster). Not seeing the adverts or any of that shit. Seems a simple go right / go down grid affair. Dare I say it's not that different apart from being so much quicker? RT and you're all over your pins or G&A.

The speed with which your FL etc is populated is amazing now. Banish those spinny circles - also noticed I have more than one thing installing simultaneously - not sure about that on my shit connection I prefer the "one at a time" method of old.

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MrDark

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New dash woes - can't connect to XBL, text showing up as symbols, no apps working, no games loading, can't send feedback.

Bugger.

I currently have the same problem as well. I've manage to get a work around by disconnecting the internet connection in the settings (even though it shows as working "all good") and then connecting again. Quite a pain though as I'm having to do this every time I boot up the console.

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BitterToad

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My mates xbo just turned itself off twice yesterday in the middle of doing something. I'm not jumping in until the official release I think, I've heard too many negatives

Yup I'm going to hold off too. With Halo 5 just around the corner it's just too much of a bloody risk. When's the official release?

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MattyP

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Anyone use the skype app on the XB? It's pretty poor IMHO. Have a few conversations going on skype through my phone/tablet when skype loads on the XB it takes an age to sync the messages... so long in fact I just quit it and give up. Also not sure how well it would run when snapped in playing a game... not tried that yet. Might just be me though...

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My mates xbo just turned itself off twice yesterday in the middle of doing something. I'm not jumping in until the official release I think, I've heard too many negatives

Mine switched off 4 times in one day a few days back.

Yesterday I also had been getting the tv randomly changing channel, as if I'm telling the kinect to change it.

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MattyP

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I hope this is a glitch/mistake but I noticed the prices of some digital titles have gone up by a fiver this morning:

Halo 5: £49.99 from £44.99

Rise of the Tomb Raider: £49.99 from £44.99

Pretty shitty move.

Not great. However I was under the impression that £50 was the standard price of AAA digital games? Makes sense though MS getting as much money as it can from those wanting it quick as possible... In the end if the price is not acceptable just don't but it. But people will. And MS (and Sony) will continue to charge as much as they can.

I believe that digital stores have to charge the RRP for games (so to allow fair competition with everyone else) so that is why they are set at £49.99 for example. However the online retailers invariably always charge less than RRP so the digital store prices always look inflated. That is what I have heard anyway.

Why I never bother and just buy the disk releases. Although I do like the convenience of having the game digitally not when it costs nearly £10 extra for the privilege and I can't actually sell it on when should I want to when I am done with it...

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Not great. However I was under the impression that £50 was the standard price of AAA digital games? Makes sense though MS getting as much money as it can from those wanting it quick as possible... In the end if the price is not acceptable just don't but it. But people will. And MS (and Sony) will continue to charge as much as they can.

I believe that digital stores have to charge the RRP for games (so to allow fair competition with everyone else) so that is why they are set at £49.99 for example. However the online retailers invariably always charge less than RRP so the digital store prices always look inflated. That is what I have heard anyway.

Why I never bother and just buy the disk releases. Although I do like the convenience of having the game digitally not when it costs nearly £10 extra for the privilege and I can't actually sell it on when should I want to when I am done with it...

There's no standard price... just what publishers want to charge. As Revival says, if it's deliberate it's a poor show to hike the price up closer to release and most people probably won't notice/realise its been done. And there's no requirement that I know of for digital stores to charge a specific price; only whatever weird agreements continue to exist between publishers and retailers.

Logically digital should cost less because the costs are lower (distribution, manufacture) and there's no middleman. The inability to trade in or sell on digital games should be justification enough for comparatively lower pricing - retailers get to retain the secondhand option that's denied to digital, and on the street impulse purchasing.

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