
Hands up, who remembers the "Day One" Xbox achievement? This was a reward that you received for owning the Day One Edition of the Xbox One back at launch in 2013, accessible via a code inside the box.
The achievement has seemingly been made private by Microsoft these days, so it's not easy to find even if you do own it. If you're like Reddit user DrDannny though, it may still be pinned to your profile and still visible that way:
As you can see, just 0.66% of Xbox players own the "Day One" achievement, but it could have been more - a few people took to the comments to reveal they should have had it, but didn't realise they needed to scan in a code at the time!
For those who don't recall the Day One Edition of the Xbox One, it was actually a really cool package! In addition to the exclusive achievement, it included a unique version of the Xbox One controller with the words "Day One 2013" written on it. Multiple games also carried the "Day One 2013" branding featuring extra in-game content.
Of course, you had to be there at the time... so, are you part of the 0.66% of "Day One" achievement owners?
Tell us down in the comments below! If you don't have it, tell us if / when you bought an Xbox One instead!
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Yep I was undecided about Xbox One, then managed to blag a Day One edition with Forza 5.
I got my XB One a while after launch, so I missed out on this, sadly. Personally I think it's pretty cool and I'd like it to be a thing with every new generation.
I was so down for the Xbox 360 that I didnt even care about all the BS people were talking on the Xbox One. I got mine Day 1, and I still have the controller with the tiny inscription (definitely do not use it and havent in a decade lol, but its in the junk droor).
Sadly I am not like the people who keep their box all nice, and I rip it open and throw away the paperwork shortly after.... and there went my code apparently. I never knew or heard about scanning ***** for an achievement lol.
I would only actually be bummed now if it was like a thousand plus pointer or something
@JetmanUK I agree on the every new generation thing. I definitely camped outside a Game Stop for the Series X haha. I tried so hard to get a preorder online. And all the websites sold out instantly or crashed, so I did it the old fashioned way haha.
My Game Stop only had 4 Series X''s too. So meand the other three guys became fast friends that night and one of them I still play games with till this day haha.
And his wife brought us breakfast burritos in the morning before they openeed!
LoL A true blue heart warming gamer story hahaha
Got mine day one with all Xbox consoles apart for the original which I was about a month behind.
Sort of nice being in that small percentage 😊
I have it, and I also still have the day one controller that you got, and it's still sparkly new, never used once.
I have been lucky enough to have every single console since the snes day one
Skipped the Xbox one completely so no chance of owning it 😂
I’m in the group of people that was extremely disgusted by Xbox treatment of fans , and there was no way I would had hooked up an always active microphone and camera on my livingroom during the whole NSA spying on citizens fiasco that was going on at the time, so I am in the 99% of dont-haves.
I ended up only starting to look back after BC was announced, Kinect was made optional, xbox one sold without it, and even then didn’t really start playing much until Xbox One X. It took until Series X reveal for me to finally go back full xbox.
I'm the same as Cap above, got the Forza 5 bundle and got me the achievement.
I have it forgot about it though! I have the controller too of course.
Following on from my previous comment... The irony here is that I bought the following Xbox consoles on launch day:
Xbox 360
Xbox One S
Xbox One X
Xbox Series X
Xbox Series S
So I definitely would have enjoyed getting those cheevos. With only the OG Xbox and XB1 purchased after launch I would have had a nice collection to show off on my profile. Ah well.
I do! Was there day 1 for XBO, More importantly I still have my "DAY ONE 2013" controller... though truth be told this is the Ship/Controller of Theseus - the original Day 1 controller got drift and I replaced the shell on a newer controller with this one.
My mate got the Day One achievement but I got my Xbox One in a bundle with Titanfall later so I never got it
It’s a little sad if you own this achievement. I jumped ship for a short while with the release of that *****.
.66% and just lucky most of them are in these comments, either some of you are fibbing or the cosmos aligned to have you all in these comments section.
I can see I have it unlocked on trueachievements.com. Not sure how to find it on the console tho.
https://www.trueachievements.com/a182800/day-one-achievement
Yep
Nope. Despite preordering as soon as they came out. Was there for midnight release and picked it up.
There was a mess up though and my store did not get any Day One editions, only the regular ones so no code to enter.
They really should have based it off when you logged into the Xbox One instead.
Would have been nice if they did it for the Series X. Got two of those day one as well.
@NorthwestEagle
Not the person you replied to, but we just got lucky. We wanted 2 Xs because we knew the S was bogus. Pretty much everywhere opened their preorder at different times. So we started with Gamestop, got in line but they ran out of X reservations before they got to us. They only had four. We were fifth in line. So we just left.
Then we waited for Target preorders. They were sold out. Then Best Buy and Walmart. By this point it had been three hours of trying and failing because of them selling out.
Then we both lucked out on our own Amazon accounts. We both kept refreshing and we're actually able to add to our cats about 2 minutes before preorders began. Though that could have easily been due to variances on clocks. To be safe we delivered to two addresses lest they possibly cancel. One to our house and the other to my mom's. And sure enough, mine showed day one, and hers the day after
It honestly fell to perseverance and luck.
No I'm not I waited until the summer of 2015 and got the MCC bundle. Picked up that, Ryse, and Forza 5. I had a really good time with the console though.
I didn’t know that it is such a rare achievement. Woohoo! Now if only it weren’t obfuscated everywhere except for TrueAchievements.com.
I'm not sure whether I have this achievement, @FraserG, but I will definitely still have the scannable item and the box for the console, as I'm a terrible hoarder, and keep everything. Do you happen to know whether it would still work now...? 😂
@NorthwestEagle I sat on the Xbox site hitting the refresh and managed to preorder both an XSX and and an XSS for launch day. 🤣👍🏻
Yeah I still have to cool steelbook!
How do you find it? I am not sure if I have it. I definitely got my Xbox day one. But can't remember if I scanned something.
I somehow never heard about this until now, surprisingly! (Or maybe not so surprising, since so many early adopters apparently never noticed, either?)
I definitely wasn't a day one purchaser, though: between the whole announcement/launch fiasco(s), the technical performance, and the price, I stayed far away in 2013.
It was five years later that the combination of Halo MCC, Rare Replay, and a robust back compat catalogue (plus a nice price drop!) won me over.
Doubt you could even get this any longer even if you still had the code and never used it because there just have been a date you had to use it before?
Yup got this, forgot all about it til now but its on my profile
I got mine! Should have kept the Day One controller in better condition though, ended up developing massive stick drift and ultimately became unusable. Sad times.
Skipped the 360 and XB1 until the Xbox One S came out, for some reason, so no hope for me getting this achievement, lol. Oh well.
I managed to pre-order 2 XSXs, @JetmanUK. One from Argos and one directly from Microsoft. One for myself and one for my youngest son. I was talking to two mates, via WhatsApp, who were also trying to get the pre-orders done. Not gonna lie, it was pretty stressful... 😂
@Fiendish-Beaver It really was! I was sweating sat at my laptop! 😅🤣
Nope I didnt own an Xbox One day one due to Don Mattrick's *****. I didn't get an Xbox One till.a co-worker of mine sold his to me since he got a One X.
Yep, got this one. 21st Nov 2013.
There was a few other dashboard achievements at the time that I think no longer exist. MS was pushing for achievements in apps and some like Netflix had them (https://www.trueachievements.com/game/Netflix/achievements).
@Adol-Bannings people commenting here are Xbox enthusiasts, it’s not surprising that a much larger percentage of them have this achievement than the normal 0.66%.
It wouldn’t surprise me if more than 10% of the people that post here regularly have it. We’re grouped together.
@Astig @Fiendish-Beaver @Wilforce @Boxandthefuzz The achievement is generally hidden on Xbox now, but a user on Reddit has shown how to see if you have it on Xbox, not just online, and how to get it added to your Xbox profile. This worked for me.
1. Look for his account, OO9s, not zeros. (Guide -> People Tab -> Find someone -> search OO9s).
2. Click view my full profile, go to social, click the day one achievement pin, click go to official club, go to progress tab, (if you have the achievement it will show here as Achievements 1/1 and the unlocked on date)
3. If you have it go down and click on the achievement, scroll down and click share, to activity feed.
4. To see it go to your activity feed and pin it (Guide -> Profile Tab -> your username -> My Profile Social -> click the achievement -> click more actions -> click pin to profile.) it will now stay on your profile
Bonus: It also comes with a unique background that’s pretty cool imho. At step 3 (on the progress screen) scroll down to REWARDS (not set as background, which would only set the achievement art) and click the Year One banner, this will set your Xbox background.
@FraserG perhaps you can add this to the article.
All credit to Xbox user OO9s
Yes I do have it. Unlocked 20/11/13. So got it a day early. I guess everyone should have moved to NZ for that one ha.
@themightyant Thank you so much for that. Unfortunately I could only pin it to my feed and not my profile. Still a win though.
Edit: Also my Day One background looks awesome on my Day One Xbox.
@themightyant Thank you so much for sharing this. I was trying to find a work around this afternoon and eventually gave up.
I have/had this, havnt seen any of these zero point achievements for years and don't even know how to find them. I remember they tried doing app achievements in early xbone which was really stupid idea. Why would anyone want an achievement for watching Netflix. Meanwhile we still don't have a simple 100% completion page to display all our completed games in one place .not sure why that doesn't exist now when it did on the 360
@NorthwestEagle I hope they never do another online launch like that again. They should allow people to pre order early based on seniority as far as how long you've been with Xbox instead of dropping it same day for everyone so they can weed out all the scalpers, hype jumpers and casuals. I Tried that morning before work and didn't get one and was super pissed and then my kid called me and said there's some SX back up on best buy. He earned himself a free SX for that cause otherwise It probably would have been months before I got one.
@themightyant Nice. Thanks. Just pinning mine. Completely forgot it was a thing. Haha.
I should have the achievement but i don’t think i do. Minus the og Xbox I’ve bought all of them day one.
Nope. I’m in the 99%
Even though I have owned every console from the big 4 (Sega/Nintendo/Sony/Microsoft). I think the only console I bought at launch was the 360 and that was maybe within the first couple weeks.
Fortunately, I’m not an achievement junkie.
Congrats to all who have it though.
Yeah I wouldn't be proud of this achievement after the s*it show that was the presentation, should be a gullible achievement.
Hell no, I skipped out on the Xbox One until Phil came in and aborted the Kinect, what a piece of crap that system was.
Yes, I have it as well, damn time goes by fast
Nope. Closest I ever came to buying an Xbox console on launch day was the 360 which I got two weeks after release (was in college at the time and got lucky when I was home for Thanksgiving break, went over to Gamestop one day and they had a system in stock). Would've bought the One on launch but MS messed it up early on.
I'm in the club. Day one pinned to my profile.
Interesting news. 😊
I have mine pinned on my Series X!
Nice achievement. But the first xbox I bought was a series x. I don't use it tho, So it's back in the box.
@JetmanUK same here I wish I had gotten them day one edition but back in 2013 I got the PS4 day one & about 9 months later is when I finally picked up my Xbox one. This current generation I'm rocking both the PS5 + Xbox Series S combination which has been brilliant TBH. I was expecting the Series S to be an awful console (due to online hate) but I've been pleasantly surprised. I'm also extremely stoked on the future of Xbox, they have so many amazing games coming over the next 2 years while on the PlayStation side I have nothing to look forward to and I doubt it'll get better knowing Jim Ryan mandated 60% investment go into live service games while only 40% goes into the kind of exclusives that made PlayStation the powerhouse it is today. Extremely unfortunate, Long Live Xbox ✌️
I never owned an Xbox One so no, I don't have it. It's the only Xbox console I skipped. I would have liked something like that for my Xbox Series X though.
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