XBOX1 Question
 

Anyone know if by turning off an Xbox1 game in progress (Forza), it breaks the console?

Thanks,

David

Shouldn't.
Might be locked up. Pull the power to the unit and power it up again.
Ours is an Xbox 1 so YMMV.

Turning off and Xbox1 during a game should actually break it. You may have another hardware issue.

Do you have any partial red rings around the power button?

No, that's actually a hard fail bug.

It's one of the things we are required to test for.

If it does happen during cert submission the game does not pass and will not be published.

Ok, so I have this straight; each game is tested before they are released to see if this will happen. If it does hurt the Xbox, the game goes back and gets changed. Sorry, I don't play. It's my sons. I turned it off on him last night mid game and he was complaining this morning I owe him another Xbox. Wouldn't got to bed after multiply warnings. Wish I never bought that thing (the Xbox).:)

First I owe him nothing, I am just curious if it is true.

Stomach Monkey, what is your job that you know this stuff?

Thanks everyone.

He hasn't turned back on since I turned off.

that doesn't seem reasonable. Ours has had multiple losses of power while in use and seems no worse for the events.

Edit to my earlier comment, was running out the door to a meeting.

All games go through testing, QA.

Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo are what we refer to as 1st parties.

1st party titles go through additional testing by the 1st parties themselves as part of the certification process.

There are different classes of bugs and games do ship with some bugs.

We might get away with a big one and a couple of minor ones if their frequency of occurrence / repeatability are low or they occur in a situation the player is not likely to encounter.

The situation you describe is a cert fail. It's a non starter. There is a class of bugs that stop the testing process cold and the game immediately fails cert, that's one of them.

Now it is possible that scenario could cause damage but unlikely.

If during QA it fails that test every time or several times out of X times it was tried it's a fail.

If it happened once and is not repeatable we'll likely get a pass.

So the short answer is, no, it's not an issue.

I've been in the gaming business for a long time.

Coming up on 28 years now.

This is the reason for that part of the cert process.

People lose power all the time for a variety of uncontrollable reasons.

IDKFA.


nuff said. :D

I raise you an IDDQD