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Newly Reported Xbox One Power Brick Issues Locking Up Consoles?

Dylan Z of iGR reports: "It seems a newly discovered issue with the Xbox One power brick is leading to the device freezing and/or locking up."

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IRetrouk3773d ago

Feel sorry for the user if true, hope he gets a quick fix.

miDnIghtEr20C_SfF3773d ago

My Kinect died on me the 13th of this month. I contacted them same day, no hassles through xbox.com and received my new Kinect camera yesterday the 23rd.

They're way fast on this stuff. Ahhhhh.. feels good to have my voice commands back. I use them all the time, and it works great. (unless it's broke!)

TheBurger293773d ago

got mine broke right out of the DAY ONE box, wondering if i want to replace it or get ps4... hmm

IRetrouk3773d ago (Edited 3773d ago )

Know how you feel man, my ps4 makes a mad grinding noise when you either put a disc in or take one out, compleatly silent when running though and the discs are fine, getting a replacment from game in the new year when they have more stock thats not preordered, did phone sony but they said as its not damaging the discs and is running normal they wont replace it either untill stocks are better :-( on the bright side I could only find one other person who has the same problem as me, he is in america so at least its not widespread.

@theburger depends on what you want from the console, both have problems here and there but none seem to be widespread, I think you were just unlucky, like me :-/

miDnIghtEr20C_SfF3773d ago

Lol.. how funny. I have disagrees for something that actually happen to me. Ha ha.. Only here can that happen. :)

Go check my site. I reported what happen to me when it all went down and when I got it back yesterday.

http://showtimeforfree.com/...

IRetrouk3773d ago

Yeah I got loads of disagrees when I first mentioned my ps4 sounding like a lawn mower, funny how nobody asked me for proof though lol

NeoTribe3773d ago

Quicker to use buttons.

MasterCornholio3772d ago (Edited 3772d ago )

So the article was right about tbs camera sensors as well. I didn't doubt them when they said that some disk drives were defective which is normal. But I had my doubts when they claimed that they had issues with Kinects sensor.

Anyways I'm glad that Microsoft did the 180 with Kinect having to be connected to the console. And I'm glad that they fixed your problem swiftly.

Prime1573772d ago

My question to you is, why don't you think any Mic (headset, earbud, studio, ect) should have your voice commands?

I'm seriously just curious about why you are content with the fact that it has to be the Kinect (camera too) that enables you to VC.

I'm just asking, that's all. I'm not trying to start a fight; just curious.

irepbtown3772d ago

I don't have the Xbox one, but a question for anyone that does; Can't you just buy a replacement power brick?

That would be quicker than waiting 2+ weeks.

Charybdis3772d ago (Edited 3772d ago )

At least the external power supply makes it easier to replace. Mind that both consoles ps4 and xb1 have experienced some isolated issues concerning power supply, disc drives etc. Neither has shown any mass problems yet.
I believe sony already has a 'how to'to detect if there are problems with power supply by looking at the ps4 ligth bar for the xb1 it seems like the external power supply will make noise or change collor.

madjedi3772d ago

@midnight it is the poster that is getting the disagrees, not the post.

You have a post history, your judged on that in addition to your post.

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InTheZoneAC3772d ago (Edited 3772d ago )

9 days to ship something=slow

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BallsEye3772d ago

It's neogaf, a place where people will write just about anything negative about XO cause it's cool to do so. I could write a post my XO burns and pink smoke comes out and people would believe it and we'd have an n4g article. Write something is wrong with ps4 and you gonna get banned. Neogaf is not a reliable source of news.

medman3772d ago

Whatever helps you sleep at night, ballseye.

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otherZinc3772d ago

Plug it in tight.
Problem solved.
Idiot!

Mosiac773772d ago

I have 2 XB1 and 1 PS4 and I have yet to have any issues with any of them. Maybe some users are doing something's wrong.

Blaze9293772d ago

its funny when the response to a Xbox One rumor failing is: "Hopefully"

..the irony in that.

ziggurcat3772d ago

The irony being that you jump into any Sony-related thread, and do the exact same thing while complaining about people that do it in xbox threads?

Irony, indeed.

Blaze9293772d ago (Edited 3772d ago )

@ziggurcat the hell are you talking about? Do you know me?

Omegasyde3772d ago

@ziggurcat

I agree blaze929 is the n4gs biggest hypocrite. Everyone is entitled to an opinion but blaze constantly complains about n4g yet often comments. He was also a very strong defender of DRM.....

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Old McGroin3773d ago

Is this an isolated issue? I haven't heard of this one before! Like the way the author added the whole sob story part of the users life as well, very X-Factor. Almost seemed like he added it to beef up a non story.

Funantic13773d ago (Edited 3773d ago )

You'll only hear news like this on N4G where they try to gather all the bad news on Microsoft. You won't see this news on any major gaming site, only on sites never heard of. And NeoGaf have made it a mission in life to come with whatever negative info they can on the X1. I wouldn't trust anything they report.

Utalkin2me3773d ago

Kind of like the RROD for the 360? It was only related to this site and unheard sites?

SpitFireAce853773d ago

Take ur bubble and exit that way ----->

Btw..look back at this site in 2007/2008 For
All the ps3 is doomed articles...;/

morganfell3773d ago

Bubbles Spitfire. It was relentless. And I have never seen games attacked the in the manner which some PS3 exclusives suffered.

MRMagoo1233772d ago

@spitfire/morganfell

I too remember that crap, i was here in 2007 it was like a friggin none tsunami of hate against the ps3 from every site known to mankind. Every xbox fanboy jumped at every thing they could like POG and theMart.

BallsEye3772d ago

Well said. Kids here got nothing better to do than exchange these no source stories to feel more secure about their opinion (which they see as a fact).

The Great Melon3772d ago (Edited 3772d ago )

@SpitFireAce85 & morganfell

People think that the Xbox One is being lynched here, but compared to 2007 and 2008 it is quite tame. The flame wars ignited by people like TheMart and Zhuk were unyielding back then. It didn't help that this was 2 bubble systems ago when it took much less effort to achieve 10 bubbles and it was a simple matter to crush the opposition to 1 bubble. I still miss my 10 bubbles that I actually earned from calm discussion. :'(

Despite the fires, I do kind of miss those days as it was sort of fun to read the clashes from the big fanboys. Nowadays there aren't too many strong characters on N4G to follow. Oh well, I am just having a nostalgia rush here...

morganfell3772d ago

I bookmarked plenty of those posts. It is humorous to see, just as I predicted, how many of those people closed their accounts and either left or came over to the dark side.

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jackanderson19853773d ago

At the moment it seems isolated but probably affects a small percentage of the overall users.

sAVAge_bEaST3773d ago

Why has xbox closed it's blogs/forums????

It's been like this for days, it's not Maintenance, http://forums.xbox.com/msgs...

KillerByte233773d ago

The Forums are still up and running and the Blogs has been replaced with Xbox Wire

dannphou3773d ago

PS44444444444444!!!!!!!!!!!!! :) And yes, I'm a fanboy!!!

cyclindk3773d ago (Edited 3773d ago )

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dannphou3773d ago

Lol... You seriously made my day!!!

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Bethesda Needs to Reduce the Gaps Between New Fallout and Elder Scrolls Releases

Waiting a decade for new instalments in franchises as massive as Fallout and Elder Scrolls feels like a waste.

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-Foxtrot14h ago

Microsoft have Obsidian but I feel it's Bethesda who just don't want to play ball as they've always said they want to do it themselves.

Once MS bought Zenimax in 2020 they should have put the Outer Worlds 2 on the back burner, allow Bethesda to finish off its own Space RPG with Starfield (despite totally different tone why have two in your first party portfolio with two developers who's gameplay is a tad similar) and got Obsidian for one of their projects to make a spiritual successor to New Vegas.

When the Elder Scrolls VI is finished Bethesda can then onto the main numbered Fallout 5 themselves.

The Outer Worlds 2 started development in 2019 so putting it on the back burner wouldn't have been the end of the world, they'd have always come back to it once Fallout was done and it would have been nicely spaced out from Starfields release once they had most likely stopped supporting it and all the expansions were released.

If they did this back in 2020 when they bought Zenimax and the game had a good, steady 4 - 5 years development, you might have seen it release in 2025.

We are literally going to be waiting until 2030 at the very earliest for Fallout 5 and all they seem bothered about is pushing Fallout 76.

RaidenBlack12h ago(Edited 12h ago)

Its not just only Todd not playing ball.
Obsidian have made a name for themselves in delivering stellar RPGs, but most famous once have always been sequels/spin-offs to borrowed IPs like KOTOR 2, Neverwinter Nights 2, Fallout: New Vegas, Stick of Truth etc.
Obsidian wants to invest more in their own original IPs like Outer Worlds or Pillars of Eternity with Avowed.
Similar to what Bluepoint & inXile wants to do or Kojima is doing (i.e not involving anymore in Konami's IPs).
So yea, even if New Vegas has the most votes from 3D Fallout fans, Obsidian just wants to do their own thing, like any aspiring dev studio and MS is likely currently respecting that.
But a future Fallout game from Obsidian will surely happen. Founder Feargus Urquhart has already stated an year ago that they're eager to make a new Fallout game with Bethesda, New Vegas 2 or otherwise. Urquhart was the director of the very first 1995's Fallout game after all.
And don't forget Brian Fargo and his studio inXile, as Brian Fargo was the director of Fallout's 1988 predecessor: Wasteland

KyRo8h ago(Edited 8h ago)

Obsidian should take over the FO IP. They're do far better with it than Bethesda who hasn't made a great game for almost 15 years

RaidenBlack2h ago(Edited 2h ago)

@KyRo
So, by 15 years, you mean Fallout 3 was the last great game Bethesda made?
You don't consider Skyrim a good game, which came out 13 years ago?
I'd consider Fallout 4 a pretty decent game as well. It's Story & RPG elements were a bit downgrade from New Vegas but the exploration and shooting on the other hand, were upgrades.
FO76 was disappointing and Starfield could've been better at launch I'll agree.

Duke198h ago(Edited 8h ago)

I disagree. Part of these games is the support for the mod community. If they move to releasing a "next game" every 2 or 3 years, the modding support plummets and the franchises turn into just another run of the mill RPG.

Make the games good enough to withstand the test of time, to keep people coming back to them and expanding on them with mod support.

--Onilink--5h ago(Edited 5h ago)

I dont think anyone is saying they need to come out every 2 years (not to mention almost no game is released that quickly anymore)

By the time Fallout 5 comes out, it will be more than 15 years since Fallout 4 came out (same with ES6 coming out 15 years after Skyrim). Even if you want to use F76 as the metric for the most recent release, that one came out in 2018. It will be a miracle if F5 comes out before 2030

The point is that for a studio that doesnt seem to operate with multiple teams doing several projects at once, that their projects normally take 4-5 years as a minimum, and that now they even added Starfield to the rotation, it becomes a 15+ years waiting period between releases for each series, which doesnt make sense. Imagine that Nintendo only released a mainline Mario or Zelda game every 15 years…

They either need to start developing more than 1 project at a time, let someone else take a crack at one of the IPs or significantly reduce their development times

Duke194h ago(Edited 4h ago)

Why should someone else take a crack at one of the IPs? Look at what happened to Final Fantasy as a recent example - there is pretty clear FF fatigue setting in because they are now pumping out titles in the franchise every few years. Pumping out more games faster doesn't always make a series better.

There are plenty of options to make new games, not just create more titles in the same universe at a faster pace.

-Foxtrot1h ago

"Why should someone else take a crack at one of the IPs"

He's literally just told you why

We're waiting like 15 years before a sequel comes out, it's insane

Skyrim came out in 2011, the next game is expected to come out in 2027 at the earliest so that's 16 years apart while Fallout 4 came out in 2015 and might not release until 2031, again 16 years.

We're fine with Bethesda trying new things and doing new IPs like Starfield but adding a new game to the cycle now means a bigger wait. Also Starfield didn't meet most peoples expectations, can you imagine waiting 15 years or so for a sequel and it's disappointing? It would feel even worse because you would have to wait another 15 years to see if they manage to come back from it.

They need to give it to another developer, we don't need main numbered titles but a spin off of Fallout and Elder Scrolls should be cycled in between the long gaps of the main releases.

Once again you are making out people want these games as quick as possible when all we want is a standard development time of at least 4 years or so rather than waiting 15.

mandf5h ago

Yeah I’m going to say it, who cares about the modding community when making a game? Half the time developers only tolerate modders because they fix there game for them.

Skuletor7h ago

Yeah, let's all advocate for smaller gaps between series' releases, then we'll probably get headlines about how the series have dropped in quality and they could have benefited from more time in the oven. Let them cook.

SimpleSlave6h ago

"how the series have dropped in quality and they could have benefited from more time in the oven" So every Bethesda game then? Got it.

Listen, I would agree if this was about From Software or something, but Bethesda?

🤣

C'mon now. What timeline are you from?

Skuletor4h ago

Think about it, they're already bug filled messes on their current schedule, can you imagine how much worse it would be if they rushed things?

-Foxtrot1h ago

@Skuletor

Who's saying to rush the releases? No one is saying that...

People just don't want to be waiting 15 years for a sequel, they aren't working on the game for that long, you do realise that right? The issue isn't coming down to them working on the game and us "rushing them", it's the fact they are working on other games like Starfield now meaning bigger gaps before they even get started on them.

I bet you any more Elder Scrolls VI only entered full development last year when Starfield was finished despite being announced in 2018.

Duke194h ago

I mean you aren't wrong. People are going to complain about anything

isarai6h ago

Hows about you focus on quality, just a thought 🤷‍♂️

Sciurus_vulgaris5h ago

Bethesda [or Microsoft] would have to reallocate internal and external studios towards fallout and elder scrolls titles. Bethesda has the issue of developing 2 big IPs that are large RPGs on rotation. If you want more Fallout and Elder Scrolls, development will have to be outsourced.

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