While users from Australia and New Zealand were first to receive the new Xbox One system, they were the first to report issues related to their next gen consoles as well. As hours passed and the devices were distributed to all areas of the World, more and more reports came from users who were unwillingly facing problems and issues they were not expecting.
The most serious and more common issue reported by Xbox One users on the official Xbox Support forums is the so called Green Screen of Death where the devices will not boot past the initial green logo screen. The issues seem to be quite serious despite the fact that users also reported that Microsoft moderators are censoring their posts and that they had not received any responses to their complaints.
The reports however should not come as a surprise. Xbox One is not an infallible device, nor was it created through magic. Therefore, we think that the Green Screen of Death is a rather dramatic name to an issue that only freezes the console for a certain amount of time, preventing the user to use it immediately. In the worst case scenarios, the failures will be dealt with as soon as possible and the faulty consoles – if they are faulty indeed – will be replaced.
Xbox One: The Green Screen of Death
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The reports however are not limited to only the GSOD problem. More and more users from all around the world are reporting broken disc drives issues and noisy disc drives as well. Some of them already named the disc drives as the “Transformer drives” due to the annoying grinding sound they make when a disc is inserted. Someone even struggled to create a compilation of the seven most important issues related to the Xbox One consoles and compile them in a video clip.
7 Xbox One’s Broken Disc Drive Compilation
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Xbox One has just been launched, yesterday. According to a Taiwan based supply chain makers however, Microsoft is already planning to launch a new version of the console in the first quarter of 2014. Moreover, Microsoft has recently announced that Xbox One will feature Internet Explorer, HTML5 and CSS3 technologies, gesture and voice control.