Xbox One Release Design/Experience Review

I designed some Xbox One headphones (Polk is an official audio partner with Xbox Team), but they’re not out quite yet…as with all XBone headphones so far. =) http://www.polkaudio.com/products/4shot, but the 360 counterpart is. http://www.polkaudio.com/products/melee

I was pretty impressed with Forza 5. Definitely exceeded my expectations, after playing a lot of Forza 4, which is so good, I was skeptical. So much detail, refinement, and pure fun. And luckily the '69 Fairlady Z was added with the first launch pak. That engine sounds so awesome. Great launch game. Obviously the rest were clearly rushed for launch, like any launch. Having one polished launch game is enough of an achievement for them I think.

In terms of ID, pretty impressed overall. Controller is really quite polished, so nice and refined. The box itself is a bit plain retro (compared to PS4 which is contemporary retro and much nicer, except for the controller), but I get the direction and love the branding and subtlety. Still want a white one though. I was surprised to hear it outsold the X360 over the holidays. Not bad for a launch season!