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Xbox One gets external storage, real name support, auto-sign in w/June system update

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Steverulez

Member
Video of the June update

Easily Increase Games Capacity with External Storage Support
It couldn’t be easier to increase your storage capacity of games and apps with the external storage support features we’re bringing in June. Your Xbox One system will soon support up to two external hard drives at once. Simply plug in your 256 GB or larger USB 3.0 external hard drive and once formatted, copy and move games, apps and game add-ons to increase your storage capacity at home.

This is also a great way to take your content to a friend’s house and get straight into a game directly from an external drive. You’ll need to sign in to Xbox Live if you’ve purchased your content digitally or insert a disc to verify your game ownership when you take your content on the road. The great benefit here is there’s no need to wait to re-download your game and all the DLC. With external storage support in June, you can also choose to copy full games and all of the associated content in one easy step.

Real Names Makes it Easier to Identify Friends

With Xbox One you can have 1,000 friends and infinite followers, but as these lists grow it can become increasingly more difficult to remember the people you know by their gamertag alone. Now with real names feature you can recognize people on your friends list and more easily discover people you already know who are on Xbox Live.

Most importantly, we heard your feedback that to make this most useful you need full control. You’ll be able to share with all your friends, a subset of your choosing, friends of friends or none at all. The choice is yours. Also, your name doesn’t show up in games, and you can change your settings any time from your profile and when adding new friends.

SmartGlass Provides Access to full OneGuide and Universal Remote Control, Pin Reordering and More

We’ve made a ton of changes to your SmartGlass app for Xbox One. After getting great feedback from our SmartGlass beta, we’re thrilled to be bringing the entire OneGuide experience and Universal Remote Control to SmartGlass. Now in supported markets you can view all of your TV listings on your SmartGlass device and set and view your favorite channels and app channels on your smart phone, tablet or PC. With the Universal Remote Control, you can also easily switch channels, set new recordings and select and control recorded content from your DVR. Another great companion feature now in SmartGlass is pin reordering. With the touch of your finger you can easily organize your pins in categories or favorites based on your preferences and have those changes refresh to your console.

Other improvements to SmartGlass will help you stay current on what you and your friends are up to, even when you’re away from your console. We’re bringing hero stats and activity feed front and center, and adding more ways for you to compare achievements via SmartGlass whether you’re on a friend’s profile or viewing a game from the activity feed. Just like on the console, you can choose to get notifications on your smart phone, PC or tablet when a favorite friend signs into their console or starts broadcasting a game. For many devices, you can even choose to start watching the broadcast wherever you are.

Expanded TV and OneGuide Soon Available in More Markets

The TV and OneGuide features we began sharing with select Xbox Live members in April will be available in June to everyone in Canada, UK, France, Germany, Spain and Italy. The update will bring OneGuide, alongside Favorites and App Channels, for people in these markets who have their TV connected to Xbox One via HDMI-in. Additional features in these markets include Kinect voice commands for controlling your set-top box and other AV equipment. We’ve also updated TV and OneGuide settings to provide better power management and control of your devices and improved compatibility with more devices.

New Gold Membership Benefits, Access to Apps for All and More

With this update, you’ll find a new hub in Xbox One for exploring all of the great benefits available to Xbox Live Gold members, including Games with Gold and Deals with Gold. Also, with the Xbox Live Gold changes announced last week, shortly after the Xbox One system update becomes available in June all Xbox Live members will be able to access popular gaming and entertainment apps without a Gold membership.

Finally, we’ve made it possible for you to choose an account for automatic sign-in on your Xbox One – another much-requested feature from fans like you.

Coming soon, these features will be available to members previewing Xbox One system updates as they help us work through final improvements. This system update will become available to the full Xbox One community in June. We look forward to hearing what you think and keep the feedback coming.
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StudioTan

Hold on, friend! I'd love to share with you some swell news about the Windows 8 Metro UI! Wait, where are you going?
Great news about external storage!
 
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x-Lundz-x

Member
Can't believe automatic sign-in was not there from the beginning but nice to see they added it for the Kinect free SKU.

External Storage is awesome, Sony get on this stat please.

Bgamer90 said:
Loving all of the updates. Something to look forward to each month outside of just the new games.
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I love my "Stability Updates" ;)
 
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The Llama

Member
Just wondering, is USB 3.0 fast enough for this? Like, would you notice a performance difference in a game installed to the external hard drive as opposed to the internal one? I guess this would depend on the game (maybe affecting something like Watch Dogs more than something like Killer Instinct)?
 
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WarpathDC

Junior Member
For all the backtracking, at least MS is listening and delivering now. Nintendo could take a page from them. *cough metroid prime, price cut, new sky etc*
 
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Shanlei91

Sonic handles my blue balls
At this rate, maybe by next year we'll get an update so my controller flashes when battery is low instead of surprising me by turning itself off mid-game.

Gotta love that last gen tech.
 
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hwalker84

Member
The Llama said:
Just wondering, is USB 3.0 fast enough for this? Like, would you notice a performance difference in a game installed to the external hard drive as opposed to the internal one? I guess this would depend on the game (maybe affecting something like Watch Dogs more than something like Killer Instinct)?
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USB 3.0's transfer rate is higher than SATAII. Shouldn't be a problem.
 
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polyh3dron

Banned
YES!

x-Lundz-x said:
External Storage is awesome, Sony get on this stat please.
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^^^ THIS.

In a perfect world, they could both share the same NAS over Gigabit. But yeah I doubt that would ever happen.

And in an even more perfect world, the Universal Remote feature of Kinect could replace my Harmony remote and be able to control all my other consoles via Bluetooth (Wii U, PS3) or IR (360), or HDMI-CEC or via LAN.
 
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mrklaw

MrArseFace
I like how they let you take your external drive to a friends house, that makes it very handy without having to install stuff again. I'd have expected them to have encrypted the HDD to your personal Xbox one.

Real names I'm mixed on. I like the idea, but tbh I'd prefer to be able to add my own metadata to friends. Eg if you're 'bob' on gaf, but your xbox one gamertag is 'randomgamer11!1' then I'd like to be able to call you bob. I don't know your real name and that won't help me know who you are.

Rearranging your pins is about time. You can kind of do it 'tower of hanoi' style on the current software, but moving them around using smartglass will be a lot more convenient


TV stuff is ok but a bit disappointing for me in the preview. Hopefully they let me pause my tivo in the update - the preview didn't let me do that. How will they let you set recordings etc? Have they added LAN control for some DVRs?

tbh my tivo app on my ipad is already convenient for that so I probably wouldn't use that.
 
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AbandonedTrolley

Member
The taking an external drive to a friends and just signing in sounds like a great function. Microsoft certainly rolling out some good updates recently.
 
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purg3

slept with Malkin
Thank god external drive support is coming sooner than later. With 10+GB patches and updates constantly coming out for games, the internal drive isn't cutting it. Plus with Games With Gold coming around the corner, this is much needed.
 
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Dragon

Banned
x-Lundz-x said:
Can't believe automatic sign-in was not there from the beginning but nice to see they added it for the Kinect free SKU.

External Storage is awesome, Sony get on this stat please.
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I'd rather Sony do things they promised at launch like Suspend/Resume than external storage. You can at least expand the HDD to 2 TB currently.
 
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Ridley327

Member
The Llama said:
Just wondering, is USB 3.0 fast enough for this? Like, would you notice a performance difference in a game installed to the external hard drive as opposed to the internal one? I guess this would depend on the game (maybe affecting something like Watch Dogs more than something like Killer Instinct)?
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IIRC, USB 2.0 is faster than the disc drives that the three Blu-ray equipped (well, sorta in the Wii U's case) consoles, so USB 3.0 should have no problems at all.
 
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level44

Member
Dragon said:
I'd rather Sony do things they promised at launch like Suspend/Resume than external storage. You can at least expand the HDD to 2 TB currently.
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Agreed. PS4 basically has all these features already. It would be good to get folders and suspend/resume.
 
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Krakn3Dfx

Member
x-Lundz-x said:
External Storage is awesome, Sony get on this stat please.
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I doubt Sony will do this anytime soon, they'll point to the ability to replace the internal HD as the reason, which is fine, you can throw a 1.5TB drive in the PS4 right now, maybe a 2TB model even, I know there's an elusive 2TB 2.5" drive out there that people have experimented with.
 
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