You may experience a terrible Xbox fail

The Story:  There you are, setting up for a brand new video game program where you are debuting the library's new Xbox One. You're excited. You think this is going to be awesome. The teens are going to think this is the coolest thing ever. You plug in the Xbox and hook everything up to the projector and sound system. You turn on the Xbox and then you see it:

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Why. Why does a brand new Xbox need to update itself? Why is this taking so long? What is life? These are the things you start asking yourself in that pre-program crisis mode. The update ended up taking up a lot of the program time. When everything was finally all set and updated, I put in Fallout 4 just to have none of the teens want to play because it's a single player game. They are shutting off each others controllers. They are calling each other names. They aren't having fun, you aren't having fun, and you feel like the whole thing is a disaster. You think about throwing the Xbox out the window, but decide against it because a. you want to keep your job and b. your library spent good money on that Xbox and you want to keep your job.

One of my ex-supervisors would always tell me "This is a library. It's not brain surgery. No one is going to die if something goes wrong". It is days like these when I have to remind myself of that.

The Lesson: If you purchase any sort of game system for your library and are planning to do a program, make sure any updates that might occur are already taken care of before the program...even if you had already turned it on and done a trial run of the setup a few days beforehand. Choose a multi-player game even if it's not one of the latest and greatest titles. I was under the impression that the teens would want to see one of the newer games and watch each other play as I've witnessed a lot of my own friends do but that's not what these teens wanted at all. They probably wanted to play each other in some violent game where they can kill each other and laugh at each others failures. You know, the way friends do. :)

Resources: Xbox's support website is useful in troubleshooting issues.