Microsoft has been accused of planning to ship the Xbox One next month with serious bugs.
The accusations come from the Dodd Scientifics blog, which says that it has heard from developers that the way the console interacts with Microsoft's Xbox Live service is "a complete ****ing mess; one source says we aren't talking weeks until it works correctly but months". Broken features apparently include multi-tasking, adding friends, sending game invitations or network notification pop-ups appearing in-game - all of which are said to be broken on the current developer consoles.
Microsoft hasn't yet issued a formal statement on the matter, but Neowin has found some partial denials from company executives. Phil Spencer, head of Microsoft Games Studios, posted a message to Twitter to state that "[Xbox One] games are in certification now and we are playing [single-player and multi-player] nightly. Anyone can post 'stuff' to the web".
Spencer was joined by Xbox Live head of programming Larry Hryb who added "as far as Xbox One, I've been testing the [operating system] at home [and] it's been great."
Despite these apparent denials of issues, Microsoft has already confirmed that Xbox One consoles will require a day-one patch which will take on average around 20 minutes to download before gamers will be able to use their new consoles - suggesting the download will be larger than Sony's planned day-one patch for the PlayStation 4.
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