Xbox One: 10 Big Changes That Would Actually Make It Worth Buying
7. Add More Customisation Options And Make Them Easier To Find/Understand
The main leverage a console has over PC gaming is ease of use. No fiddling with obtuse settings, drivers, or hardware is a bonus - but more importantly purchasing a console comes with the peace of mind of knowing that your box will play the newest games for a significant period of years. Alas, the Xbox One is a little...cobbled together outside of the gaming part. The settings menu is tricky to find - hidden under apps, and once there the menu is anything but intuitive or helpful. For example Xbox One currently cannot turn on some Xfinity cable boxes and there is no way to test this specific functionality. Instead it requires a re-run of the entire setup wizard whilst the cable box remains unresponsive. Worse, these options were buried under several obtuse sub-menus. Similarly, there's no setting to default to live TV when turning on the Xbox One, and along with the aforementioned lack of auto sign-in it makes absolutely no sense that you have so little control of how your Xbox One runs. Simply allowing users to to default to an app, live TV, or inserted game upon start up results in less menu-jumping and awkward voice-commanding in between. Hopefully the next Xbox One dashboard is more cohesive and easier to customise - and hopefully it can let you ignore it entirely, if you so choose.
