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nearly five years later the Xbox one has seen some major improvements and here are five reasons why you should buy one in 2018 hey guys Boston reason number one the Xbox one has seen some massive improvements think back to 2013 at e3 that year both the ps4 and Xbox one were officially announced and the Xbox had some serious flaws to make up for not only was the ps4 a more powerful console but the Xbox was also $100 more expensive it came bundled with Kinect which at the end of the day ended up being canceled a few years later it had a bigger uglier design and to top it all off Microsoft had all kinds of terrible misinformation on whether or not it would actually support used games whereas Sony had a slightly more elegant plan thanks since that moment though Microsoft has essentially been playing catch-up and I think that's a good thing for all gamers so think of some of the things that have changed since the original Xbox one launched not only have they seen some major updates to the software where we've seen three full revisions of the entire Xbox interface they also did a lot to improve the hardware so the not only did they stop bundling Kinect and eventually kill it off altogether but when they brought out the Xbox 1s the hardware pretty much got rid of all the major problems I had with the original Xbox one namely the giant power brick the ugly VCR styling and they even added some features like an Ultra HD blu-ray player then came the Xbox one X last year not only did this completely blow away none of the original Xbox one but even the ps4 and ps4 Pro and performance but for the first time in over five years Microsoft could confidently claim they had the most powerful console you could buy don't get me wrong I don't mean to say that the ps4 has stood still in that same period of time well you look back at the launch Xbox one compared to what we had today it is clear the Microsoft has done a lot of catching up that brings us to reason number two exclusives so Sony's early sales league gave them a massive advantage and a lot of really cool exclusive titles for the actual PlayStation 4 the idea that it was a more powerful console definitely didn't hurt things but over the last couple years especially in 2017 the Xbox team stepped it up pub G is one the most popular games in the entire world right now and the only way to play it on console is on the Xbox one yes it's an early access game yes it does not quite match up to the PC as far as features and especially performance however the idea that this is a game that you can play on even a 200-dollar Xbox one as it's pretty impressive and as an early access game it actually has continued to get a lot better over time the Forza series has also been one of my personal favorites so I grew up playing Gran Turismo however the yearly releases of not only the mainline Forza Motorsport games but especially the really fun horizon games actually really kept me locked on the Xbox one ever since the beginning cuphead definitely took a few years to come out but the hand-drawn art style and especially the incredibly tight gameplay does a good job of making this not only a good Xbox exclusive but something that really does stand out on the platform other games are also on the way this year including crackdown 3 see if thieves and hopefully we get a glimpse at the next Halo game now of course the ps4 does have a huge library of exclusives but there's still plenty of games that are exclusive to the Xbox one that especially if you've never played it makes now a great time to pick one up reason number three is performance so for the first few years the Xbox one while a decent upgrade from the 360 stood no chance at all compared to the ps4 as far as performance goes it was significantly less powerful which meant that mini games ran at a lower resolution lower settings or both however all of this changed when the Xbox one X came out late last year for $500 you're getting the most powerful console you can buy period now that even the ps4 Pro comes close yes sure the ps4 Pro does do a good job of using checkerboard rendering to upscale images up to 4k but for the most part this just does not look as good as the xbox 1x which will often run games at close to if not a full 4k resolution you can see the difference this makes an interesting change so while on the base end the ps4 games typically do look better than standard Xbox one but if you jump up to the 1x and ps4 Pro you're sure the want X looks better and this is especially noticeable when it comes to big multi-platform games now this isn't always the case sometimes ps4 pro games can actually look very close to their Xbox 1x counterparts but with more memory and more graphics horsepower it's really hard to argue that the Xbox one X is not the most powerful console you can buy today number four has to do with price well in the early days the Xbox one was a lot more expensive that is just not the case anymore take a quick look through Amazon and you'll find that the Nintendo switches around $300 still whereas the ps4 slim is around 280 but the Xbox one s is available for as low as $220 and there are even some pretty decent game bundles for 230 to 240 now mind you the Xbox has a smaller 500 go bite hard drive compared to one terabyte on the ps4 but it is really simple to upgrade your storage later on down the line with a USB based SSD or hard drive now things do change when you jump up to the pro versions so the ps4 pro is still pretty steady at $400 whereas the one acts as an additional hundred at $500 the $500 one X looks even better when you compare it to the PC market right now now to be fair gaming pcs have had a hard year considering how expensive memory and graphics cards are but right now it is just not possible for you to build a more powerful computer than the Xbox one X for less than $500 and that brings us to reason number five backwards compatibility now back in the old days pretty much all consoles would at least be able to play the last generations games however the last few years in fact the last 10 years or so very few consoles have done it with the exception of the Xbox one now Sony does have PlayStation now for the ps4 which will allow you to play a lot of ps3 games on your ps4 but the issue is is that it is entirely reliant on streaming so what you're going to have to do is not only hope that the game you want to play is available and their catalog but you're going to have to pay for it either by purchasing the game again or paying to rent it whereas on the Xbox side you can not only just redownload games from the 360 that you had already purchased but you can just put the Xbox 360 disc in let it take a quick download and you're good to play from a technical point of view it is really impressive what Microsoft was able to pull off here they've essentially built an entire Xbox 360 emulators that runs on the Xbox one so once you jump into a 360 game it pretty much is like you're playing on an actual 360 it reboots into a 360 mode and you're going to get pretty much all the features and the games to run almost the same if not even slightly better than they did on the original hardware what's even cooler is that if you have an Xbox one X you can play some 360 games in full 4k now this doesn't work for all titles will you that you're getting a resolution boost pretty much nine times the original hardware titles like Fallout 3 in Halo 3 really do look incredible now not all Xbox 360 games are supported on the one but there's actually a surprisingly large library and Microsoft continues to add more games on a regular basis what's also cool is that the Xbox one can now play original Xbox games admittedly this game library is a lot smaller than the 360 titles but it's a nice addition and all these are totally usable with the original discs so unlike a lot of the other options out there you don't have to rebuy anything you can just take your current disc drop in your xbox and you're good to go and I think Microsoft deserves some serious props for making that happen the Xbox one is definitely not perfect but if you never gave it a shot now really is a great time to get into the Xbox one now curious what do you guys think about the one and what do you want to see me take a look at next time on five reasons let me know in the comments below and I will catch you in the next one