Question 1

I can't find anything online that says how many watts this console consumes. Anyone know?

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Xbox One X
Standby Watts (Instant On): ~10 watts
Idle Watts: ~55-57 watts
Playing GoW4: 170 watts

About 170 watts at the wall when playing Gears of War 4 @ 4k. At idle its about 55-57 watts. The 245 watts is the maximum output of the internal power supply. I doubt the Xbox One X would ever hit that number though. Typically, power supplies are matched to their equipment with 20-30% margin. Assuming that the Xbox One X power supply has a 20% power margin, the most the Xbox One X will pull from the power supply is about 196 watts.

For comparison, I also have a gaming PC as well with an overclocked i7-4790K, a GTX 1080, and three 4TB hard drives. At idle, my PC pulls about 115-121 watts. Playing games at 4K, it pulls about 430-460 watts. The Xbox One X is very power efficient by comparison.

There is also a feature that enhances the power saving while turned off (standby). By enabling that, you would lose the instant on functionality, but power usage while in standby would less than 1 watt instead of around 10 watts.

Question 2

Can you play regular dvds?

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It does NOT play VHS, what the heck man

Question 3

To play the 4k games does it matter of you download the game or if u buy the disk?or are both the same quality when it comes to 4k?

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Whether you buy the disc or download the game it doesn't matter.  The disc is not used during play.  All Xbox One games play off the hard drive, not the disc.  The way it works is, when you buy a game on disc, it will install the data on the disc onto the hard drive before you can play.  From then on, the disc is used as a way to authenticate that you own the game.  Downloading a game will merely copy those same files that would be on the disc onto the hard drive, and it uses digital authentication based on your Xbox Live account.

Furthermore, a Blu-ray disc can only hold approximately 50 GB of data and 4K assets generally total more than that (for example, Forza 7 approaches 100 GB with Xbox One X assets).  Regardless of whether you buy a physical disc or a digital download, you will generally always have to download the 4K assets no matter what.

Question 4

Will kinect work on xb1x? i like tv with voice commands

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Yes, there is an adapter which connects to a USB port and then gives you a Kinect port.  You can buy these, but Microsoft had a promotion that would ship you a FREE one. I don't know if the program is still valid -- the Microsoft web sites were not clear on this but I contacted XBox support and got a link with the valid info. That was in 2016 so not sure if they are still doing the free promo.  To get the upgrade, you had to provide the serial number of the OLD XBox One, and NEW Xbox One S, and the Kinect adapter. The most common problem was if someone traded-in the original XBox One and didn't write down the serial number; however, if you registered it online with Microsoft, it would still remember the number. In any case good luck and hopefully the promo still works for you.

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Microsoft Xbox One X Console With Wireless Controller: Xbox One X Enhanced Hdr Native 4K Ultra Hd 1TB Black

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