I have the Series X for about 2 months now and have had the PS5 since launch. My last Xbox console was the 360 (excellent console except red ring of death).
So my impressions after 2 months:
- Console design is better than PS5 and no coil whine! Nice job MS.
- Controller comes with no rechargeable battery? How? Why??
- Controller feels like a controller from 2 generations back to me. It feels so cheap. Face buttons and D-Pad have a loud plastic sound when you press them and rumble is so much worse than PS5 and Switch. I turned off rumble in the system menu because of it. But it does the job as a controller with no issues.
- I'm not a fan of the UI but I guess that's personal. In some games you're transported back to the Xbox interface to choose a profile when starting a new game, what is that about? They can't use the profile you're logged in with on your Xbox as default?
- Console is buggy. Weird glitch everytime I'm launching Halo infinite. Controller has lost pairing with the console for 2 times allready (had to turn the console completely off to fix it). All my screenshots I took from games (stored internal on console) suddenly dissapeared. They are gone now forever.
- I bought Halo and Gears. Haven't bought Forza yet. But after that, I don't know of any other big budget Xbox exclusives. Where are the games? And not a single series X/S exclusive yet?
It is certainly a good console overall but to be honest, I expected a bit more.
