Xbox Series X|S Discussion

Lol.. Well done on getting up to watch it.. I thought about it last night before deciding to catch up later in the morning..

 

Was kinda part of work so two birds with one stone haha i'm going to have a nice snooze this arvo though

 

i'm impressed with everything but the IQ, for reference I have seen a One S on my LG C1 and wired to my NBN connection - it looks like complete arse compared to the same games loaded natively on the One S. Everything else, super good. Seemed to prioritise lag over looking good.

 

Where the hell have all the controllers gone?

 

What do you mean champ? Elaborate is there a scarcity?

 

Yeah, they are out of stock everywhere lol. I haven't seen that before with controllers of all things.

 

https://www.amazon.com/stores/page/...de20-55d5-4748-8a0e-be0c055be63b&ref_=ast_bln

 

Non existent on the Amazon AU store, and when you click through to buying options and convert to AUD from the third party sellers listing them the prices are insane.

EDIT: Looks like the Microsoft storefront has re-stocked some today. Was OOS earlier

https://www.microsoft.com/en-au/d/xbox-wireless-controller/8xn59crbsqgz/LFHJ

 

you said out of stock, assumed price wasn't too much of a concern. it's not like they are scalper prices.

 

Unless I am doing something wrong all the reasonable listings are unable to be shipped to my location when you click through to the options and then the prices shoot up to $100+USD before taxes and shipping. The Amazon/MS listings are all actually OOS. I'm good with not paying 50%+ more than I need to, I'm not that impatient

Anyway the MS store is the way to go.

 

fleabay/gumtree worth a shot too dude. Picked up a few (current gen) xbox controlers for $40, no stick drift. Official MSFT (rechargable) battery pack for controllers though- they've been OOS for a long long time. Hard to find.

Can also use previous gen controllers too fwiw, same same less a button..

 

jjjc_93 https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/microsoft-has-confirmed-a-shortage-of-xbox-controllers/

Seems you were onto something shortage is globally due to components shortage for certain components and circuits with the Series S|X versions of the controllers.

Even here back orders for the past few months.

 

There we go. Odd at a time where Series X stock actually looks to be stabilising (pre-orders for this month still not sold out).

Anyway my controller should be arriving today. Had to settle for robot white instead of my usual black, what a world

 

You guys didn't see that controllers can mine X-Coin now?

 

^^ Read an article about that the other day, actually quite interesting. Not sure I'd be willing to crank the XSX all day at 100% though. Fan gets loud and quite frankly, asking for trouble with the scarcity of replacement parts/nothing on 2nd hand market.

Also not overly excited on how efficient xbox mining is on any platform, given they're all mainly optimised for PC OS's. In saying that- I suppose with some SDK trickery could be worthwhile..?

How to mine on Xbox