Gammerz XSX - a friend ended up with two and letting me pay for it as I can 🙂
Just set it all up last night. Went for a fresh install of everything be as clean as possible. I had no external drive to transfer over anyway. No issues with Live or download speed, everything good.
First impressions are the UI is now super quick, everything just responds the way you want it to, no pauses, no waits. Excellent.
Only thing I got to play was FH4. This has some graphical improvements but not an obvious leap from X1X in terms of clarity and image quality. It does change from 30fps to 60fps though and that is very noticeable and good. Possibly more important are the load time reductions. It loads up into the game really quickly and fast travel is a just a few seconds, makes such a big difference to playing the game.
The big feature quick resume is currently not so impressive. Known issue but it simply is very flaky and unreliable. This was just me powering down to rest mode and powering back up and going back into the same game. Worked once and then the second time it just restarted the game.
The interface is very good at labelling (it a way too obvious fashion) which games are X|S enhanced/optimised and you can group or filter by that too. EA Play integration is similar to GP - i.e. it feels part of the OS rather than something you launch into. So many games.
Looking forward to Tetris at lunch 🙂