Hello everyone it's SpawnPoiint and welcome back to another video so it's been 10 months since the
xbox Series X and Series S launched and during that time game pass has been a real game changer
for me but even though i've enjoyed it i've realized that there are still some features and
areas that need improving in fact there are some features that are missing entirely that for me
really need adding so today i will cover all of these but let me know what one feature you
would like to see added to the xbox series x or if i've missed any make sure you drop
those in the comments i also wanted to mention that i've recently opened up my discord server
so if you'd like to join the community make sure you click that link in the description
we talk about gaming youtube and even sharing your own setups so make sure you join me there
so the dashboard on the xbox in my opinion needs a refresh and a cleaner look it's
the same that we've seen for years and it either needs a new design or at least more
customizable options but even without a redesign it definitely needs to be a 4k hdr home screen
it's pretty jarring when you return to the dashboard after you've been playing games running
4k hdr to see this it always looks so flat and so boring and you can clearly see that it's not in 4k
plus when you jump in between the playstation 5 and the xbox the first thing you're greeted
with is the dashboard and instantly makes it feel old the playstation 5 dashboard by
comparison is running at 4k hdr so it always looks vibrant and fresh as soon as you switch it on
i have read that xbox are working on this and it's possibly in a beta phase at the moment but after
nearly a year this is definitely something that should have been included from day one
now this feature might not sound like a big deal to most and that's the option to easily record
longer gameplay footage by default when you press the share button on the controller it will record
up to 30 seconds 4k gameplay which is fine if you're wishing to capture a very short clip to
maybe share with your friends but as soon as you want to record a 5 or 10 minute clip to say use on
youtube it will stop automatically at 30 seconds the only solution here is to plug an external
drive in as you cannot record these longer clips to the internal drive you'll now be able to select
that drive from the settings and all future recorders that you create will be stored here
instead but unlike the shorter 30 second clips you cannot share these longer clips through the app
or to your phone you will need to remove the drive from the console and plug that into your laptop or
pc instead by comparison though if you wanted to record some gameplay on the playstation 5 well you
would record it straight to the internal drive you could also record up to one hour at 4k 60.
this means there's no need to buy an additional drive and it will work straight out of the box
it would be useful if the xbox allowed you to record to the internal drive without the need
for an external drive but this issue actually goes hand in hand with the next one i'm about to raise
okay so i've plugged my ssd into the xbox and i've recorded 15 minutes of gameplay in 4k hdr it's now
ready to upload to my youtube channel which is somewhere i upload regularly about once a week
or so but when i come to actually share it there's no youtube button or integration at all there's no
native app or upload feature here as you can see the only option i've got here is to upload this
clip to onedrive where i can download it onto my laptop then i would re-upload it again to youtube
if the clip is under 30 seconds though it will actually let me upload this clip to the xbox
app and share it with my phone this only worked on the really really short clips not the ones
stored on the ssd what i actually need to do is remove the ssd from the console plug it into my
laptop and then upload it to youtube for me this just seems like such a waste of time and doesn't
really make it easy to do on the playstation 5 for example is so much easier i hit record
which saves it to the internal drive and once i've finished i can hit the press of about three
buttons already be uploading it to my channel i can even put the console into rest mode and
it would upload overnight there's no need to mess around with external drives or even my laptop so
it would be useful if you could upload straight to youtube from the xbox itself which would probably
encourage more players to record and share more gameplay it's one of the reasons i don't upload
much gameplay from my xbox to youtube so there's nothing wrong as such with the xbox controllers
they've had a nice tweak over the previous gen but having used the DualSense controller for the
playstation 5 for the last 10 months or so i can safely say they are better the whole new design of
the controller along with the haptic feedback and the adaptive triggers are incredible the
DualSense feels like a next-gen controller whereas the xbox needs a little bit more i'd like to see
xbox bring in us a newer one with say haptic feedback and maybe even the adaptive triggers
i know we've got the elite controller and then we've even got the SCUF controllers as well that
we can use but it would be better if it was a controller that added both of these features
hopefully we will see a new elite controller later this year or maybe early next year they could be
the ultimate controller for the xbox but my guess is it will probably be the same as the previous
elite controller with some very minor tweaks but what about you are there any features on the xbox
controller that you think should be added or even removed or do you think it's perfect as it is
this next one is probably related to the same issue with uploading to youtube and that's been
able to stream to youtube there is an app already for twitch but that currently is the only way to
stream from the xbox without using a capture card on an external pc again having the option
to stream straight to youtube would be awesome and something the playstation 5 does already support
i know it sounds like i'm saying the playstation 5 covers a lot of these points but during my 15
missing playstation 5 features video most of the points were already covered by the xbox 2.
does anyone else here stream and would you use a native app on the console or would you rather
use a capture card on your pc so earlier this year i actually set up my first discord server
somewhere where i could keep in touch with more of you on a kind of a personal level answering
your questions and seeing your setups now although you can actually access discord
on almost any device these days there's still not an official discord app on the xbox series x or s
this means that if you do wish to use the features of the app you will need to install
a third-party application instead now there are workarounds but again this would be useful to have
a native app from discord themselves hopefully we will see something soon but if you want to
join my discord server make sure you click that link in the description when it comes to using
headphones on the xbox where you can either use them wirelessly or you can plug them into your
controller via the headphone jack but if you've got an external speakers or headphones with a usb
port you're not actually able to plug those into the xbox even though there are usb ports available
only headphones marked with the xbox compatibility will work this is a shame as plug an external
speaker straight into the console just like you would with a pc would be a huge benefit
to see but with that support it would require additional drivers and something that microsoft
have said they would not be supporting another feature missing related to audio is the option to
automatically mute the tv or hdmi out when using headphones whenever i connect my headphones to the
console well that's what i want to use for audio and it would be useful if the external or my tv
speakers just switched off automatically if you currently have wireless headphones for listening
to music from your phone or through your tv you'd be right in assuming they are probably bluetooth
now unfortunately the xbox series x and s do not have bluetooth which means you cannot just power
your headphones or your soundbar straight to the console xbox have said this is due
to latency so instead they actually use their own xbox wireless signal now there are workarounds by
using bluetooth transmitters and plugging those into the controller's 3.5 headphone jack but it
would be useful if they also supported bluetooth devices or at least provided that option to you
so with the lack of bluetooth no usb audio support and the missing optical out you might struggle
to use a soundbar with this console unless you're rooting the sound via your tv now we're lucky that
the xbox series x and s do support 1440p something that the playstation 5 still doesn't that means
anyone using a monitor are probably likely to be using 1440p as a resolution of choice but what if
you're using an ultra wide monitor with it will that work well technically you can use an ultra
wide but you're either going to see black bars on the right and left of the picture or your image is
going to be very very stretched the series x and s do not support 21x60 only 16x9 i'm not sure how
many console gamers will be using an ultra wide monitor but i thought it's worth mentioning as pc
gamers usually tend to have an ultra wide option so the good news is that the xbox series consoles
do support dolby atmos and dolby vision however at the moment they are only partially supported
so if you want to watch dolby vision or listen to dolby atmos content through the netflix app
well you're good to go as they are both supported but if you want to watch a blu-ray using the disc
drive on the series x well unfortunately that's not supported and nor is gaming this means that
the xbox can support dolby but it's not 100 there yet maybe we'll see updates in the future where
it will be fully supported but for now only the streaming apps will support dolby vision and atmos
okay so this next one probably won't be an issue for most today but you will need an internet
connection to use the xbox series s and x you will need a connection at least once when you're
setting the console up as you cannot get past the setup screen without it then when you install a
disk based game it will prompt you to connect to the internet again to download a one-time
config file this online checking is fine for most people but if you're away and you're using away
from home or somewhere remote with no internet you will need to find a way to connect for each game
that you install this does only apply to games that are not native xbox series x and s games
today that's obviously not a problem because most people are always connected but it made me think
does this mean that these consoles will be useless and obsolete in the future imagine in 10 or 20
years time when you or your children want to dust off the xbox series x and play some halo or forza
horizon 5. just like i can today with the n64 and goldeneye but microsoft turned those servers off
years ago and now you can't even play a single game it would be good to see this online check-in
or drm restrictions removed but i'd be interested to know is anyone else even bothered about these
restrictions anymore as we do live in an always connected world is this something that would
bother you okay so i'll assume that connect wasn't very popular even though it was an accessory i
had a lot of fun with unfortunately support for connect has been discontinued on the new consoles
even with that adapter it still won't work on the ps4 we had ps vr and with the rumors of a new ps
vr coming to the playstation 5 it would be great to see an xbox alternative has anyone ever used
something like oculus rift or quest 2 i feel a vr kit for the xbox would actually sell really really
well playing forza or halo on the xbox using vr would be awesome but what about you is this
something you think you would use or if you've got a playstation already have you ever used
playstation vr okay and here's a bonus round so at least with the xbox series x not the series s we
need more stock seriously we're 10 months in and the stock is still a huge issue i was fortunate
enough to pick one up on day one but i know even today people are still struggling to secure one
how about yourself is this still something that you're looking to purchase or were you lucky to
buy one now i did actually manage to pick up an xbox series s just the other week i was able to
walk into a store and buy one and the only reason i've bought one of these is i want to compare it
to the xbox series x to see if it's still worth buying so if you're interested in that video you
want to see a comparison between the two keep an eye on the channel as i've got some more xbox
content coming over the next few weeks or so so those were all of the points that i think the xbox
series x and s could be improved on were there any that you agreed with or disagreed with or
are there any that i've missed you think i should definitely have added overall i would say most
of the points i've raised are probably software rather than hardware which isn't a bad place to
be well you've just made it to the end of today's video so thank you for watching if you drop an
xbox with a green heart in the comments i will give you a thumbs up for staying until the end
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