My Xbox One X has died.
It's been coming for a few weeks to be honest. I've been getting regular messages popping up to tell me 'There is a problem with your saved games', and then being instructed to clear the local save games. It's been very annoying, really. The number of times that, after making some good progress in a game, that message has popped up and I've had to replay the same bits again
Then, the last few days, it's all gone completely tits up. The console won't restart automatically following the local save games clearance, numerous error message codes, freezing during gameplay, I've spent the last few evenings more or less constantly unplugging and plugging in the damned thing.
Anyway, Xbox UK customer support have been ....fairly mixed. The initial agent was adamant that a repair wasn't an option, and all that was needed was an offline update. So, despite my protestations that this clearly wasn't a software issue, I set about downloading the update from their website.
Four strawberry floating hours later, it had completed downloading (and I have a pretty speedy internet connection) and so I copied it over to a memory stick and plugged it in.
Less than a second later, the message 'Something went wrong' appeared.
Anyway, there's a new console now in the post to me, which is due to arrive tomorrow.
I called off his players' names as they came marching up the steps behind him....All nice guys. They'll finish last. Nice guys. Finish last.