5 Reasons to Buy an Xbox One #Helpful Post

nearly five years later the Xbox one has

seen some major improvements and here

are five reasons why you should buy one

in 2018 hey guys Boston reason number

one the Xbox one has seen some massive

improvements think back to 2013 at e3

that year both the ps4 and Xbox one were

officially announced and the Xbox had

some serious flaws to make up for not

only was the ps4 a more powerful console

but the Xbox was also $100 more

expensive it came bundled with Kinect

which at the end of the day ended up

being canceled a few years later it had

a bigger uglier design and to top it all

off Microsoft had all kinds of terrible

misinformation on whether or not it

would actually support used games

whereas Sony had a slightly more elegant

plan thanks since that moment though

Microsoft has essentially been playing

catch-up and I think that's a good thing

for all gamers so think of some of the

things that have changed since the

original Xbox one launched not only have

they seen some major updates to the

software where we've seen three full

revisions of the entire Xbox interface

they also did a lot to improve the

hardware so the not only did they stop

bundling Kinect and eventually kill it

off altogether but when they brought out

the Xbox 1s the hardware pretty much got

rid of all the major problems I had with

the original Xbox one namely the giant

power brick the ugly VCR styling and

they even added some features like an

Ultra HD blu-ray player then came the

Xbox one X last year not only did this

completely blow away none of the

original Xbox one but even the ps4 and

ps4 Pro and performance but for the

first time in over five years Microsoft

could confidently claim they had the

most powerful console you could buy

don't get me wrong I don't mean to say

that the ps4 has stood still in that

same period of time

well you look back at the launch Xbox

one compared to what we had today it is

clear the Microsoft has done a lot of

catching up that brings us to reason

number two exclusives so Sony's early

sales league gave them a massive

advantage and a lot of really cool

exclusive titles for the actual

PlayStation 4 the idea that it was a

more powerful console definitely didn't

hurt things but over the last couple

years especially in 2017 the Xbox team

stepped it up pub G is one

the most popular games in the entire

world right now and the only way to play

it on console is on the Xbox one

yes it's an early access game yes it

does not quite match up to the PC as far

as features and especially performance

however the idea that this is a game

that you can play on even a 200-dollar

Xbox one as it's pretty impressive and

as an early access game it actually has

continued to get a lot better over time

the Forza series has also been one of my

personal favorites so I grew up playing

Gran Turismo

however the yearly releases of not only

the mainline Forza Motorsport games but

especially the really fun horizon games

actually really kept me locked on the

Xbox one ever since the beginning

cuphead definitely took a few years to

come out but the hand-drawn art style

and especially the incredibly tight

gameplay does a good job of making this

not only a good Xbox exclusive but

something that really does stand out on

the platform other games are also on the

way this year including crackdown 3 see

if thieves and hopefully we get a

glimpse at the next Halo game now of

course the ps4 does have a huge library

of exclusives but there's still plenty

of games that are exclusive to the Xbox

one that especially if you've never

played it makes now a great time to pick

one up reason number three is

performance so for the first few years

the Xbox one while a decent upgrade from

the 360 stood no chance at all compared

to the ps4 as far as performance goes it

was significantly less powerful which

meant that mini games ran at a lower

resolution lower settings or both

however all of this changed when the

Xbox one X came out late last year for

$500 you're getting the most powerful

console you can buy period now that even

the ps4 Pro comes close yes sure the ps4

Pro does do a good job of using

checkerboard rendering to upscale images

up to 4k but for the most part this just

does not look as good as the xbox 1x

which will often run games at close to

if not a full 4k resolution you can see

the difference this makes an interesting

change so while on the base end the ps4

games typically do look better than

standard Xbox one but if you jump up to

the 1x and ps4 Pro you're sure the want

X looks better and this is especially

noticeable when it comes to big

multi-platform games now this isn't

always the case sometimes ps4 pro games

can actually look very close to their

Xbox 1x counterparts but with more

memory and more graphics horsepower it's

really hard to argue that the Xbox one X

is not the most powerful console you can

buy today

number four has to do with price well in

the early days the Xbox one was a lot

more expensive that is just not the case

anymore take a quick look through Amazon

and you'll find that the Nintendo

switches around $300 still whereas the

ps4 slim is around 280 but the Xbox one

s is available for as low as $220 and

there are even some pretty decent game

bundles for 230 to 240 now mind you the

Xbox has a smaller 500 go bite hard

drive compared to one terabyte on the

ps4 but it is really simple to upgrade

your storage later on down the line with

a USB based SSD or hard drive now things

do change when you jump up to the pro

versions so the ps4 pro is still pretty

steady at $400 whereas the one acts as

an additional hundred at $500 the $500

one X looks even better when you compare

it to the PC market right now now to be

fair gaming pcs have had a hard year

considering how expensive memory and

graphics cards are but right now it is

just not possible for you to build a

more powerful computer than the Xbox one

X for less than $500 and that brings us

to reason number five backwards

compatibility now back in the old days

pretty much all consoles would at least

be able to play the last generations

games however the last few years in fact

the last 10 years or so very few

consoles have done it with the exception

of the Xbox one now Sony does have

PlayStation now for the ps4 which will

allow you to play a lot of ps3 games on

your ps4 but the issue is is that it is

entirely reliant on streaming so what

you're going to have to do is not only

hope that the game you want to play is

available and their catalog but you're

going to have to pay for it either by

purchasing the game again or paying to

rent it whereas on the Xbox side you can

not only just redownload games from the

360 that you had already purchased but

you can just put the Xbox 360 disc in

let it take a quick download and you're

good to play from a technical point of

view it is really impressive what

Microsoft was able to pull off here

they've essentially built an entire Xbox

360 emulators that runs on the Xbox one

so once you jump into a 360 game it

pretty much is like you're playing on an

actual 360 it reboots into a 360 mode

and you're going to get pretty much all

the features and the games to run almost

the same if not even slightly better

than they did on the original hardware

what's even cooler is that if you have

an Xbox one X you can play some 360

games in full 4k now this doesn't work

for all titles will you

that you're getting a resolution boost

pretty much nine times the original

hardware titles like Fallout 3 in Halo 3

really do look incredible now not all

Xbox 360 games are supported on the one

but there's actually a surprisingly

large library and Microsoft continues to

add more games on a regular basis what's

also cool is that the Xbox one can now

play original Xbox games admittedly this

game library is a lot smaller than the

360 titles but it's a nice addition and

all these are totally usable with the

original discs so unlike a lot of the

other options out there you don't have

to rebuy anything you can just take your

current disc drop in your xbox and

you're good to go

and I think Microsoft deserves some

serious props for making that happen the

Xbox one is definitely not perfect but

if you never gave it a shot now really

is a great time to get into the Xbox one

now curious what do you guys think about

the one and what do you want to see me

take a look at next time on five reasons

let me know in the comments below and I

will catch you in the next one