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| The Xbox One |
Now lets start off with this: most people own a "Xbox One". It was the first console, why for no reason did they have to pull that name out of there collective rear ends? Instead of 720 (a more forward thinking name) they literally went backwards.
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| The REAL Xbox One, and remote |
This whole backwards thinking theme continues with it's design...It looks like my stereo, WAS THAT INTENTIONAL!? Or are they trying to make Xbox One look better than Sony's consoles. And the remote...In an industry where you HAVE to go further, Microsoft just moved the Dashboard button up. Way to be forward thinking.
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| What's so innovative about moving the Dashboard Button up? |
Now lets get to the big issues: Microsoft's "Used Game Policy". It's a sham. You go out looking for a deal, and you find it. You come home, insert the disc, and then, you are told you have to pay a fee. Now didn't you just pay a fee when you bought the game? Apparently it isn't enough that you just spent your hard earned money, Microsoft wants more, The reason why: Because all games that are put in the tray, are installed directly to the hard drive of the Xbox, apparently eliminating the need for discs. Which would be fine, However Microsoft has maybe jumped the gun a little, I can see how this might be exploited by just installing the game and passing the disc off to somebody else, but that is an entirely different issue. Firstly, when selling a game to say, Game Stop, the sold game is scanned and through some sorcery a message is sent to Xbox saying "This game has officially been taken out of the owner hands and put back on the open market" or something like that (whether or not the game has to be deleted from the hard drive for this to work, I can't say), and once bought, according to a recent posting by Forbes, you are required to pay a fee ranging from $10 to the actual price of the game (essentially buying it twice). Also according to Forbes, Mircosoft is said to release more their "Used Game Policy", hinting that in some way, the definition of a "used game" has changed, and they will be announcing said definition in the future. And as for their shared gaming and swapping games with friends, Mircosoft is being extremely tight lipped so we might have to wait a bit.
Another rumor is that the Xbox One needs to always be connected to the Internet. That is a little complicated, You would still be able to play games without one, but the Xbox needs to connect to the Internet at least once a day, I'm assuming for updates. However it's not clear what happens during these connections, and a small break in the daily connection won't impact the players gaming experience too much, but it's hinted that a longer break in the updates might be problematic. As for the rumor that with no internet you can't play, It's false. As stated above, it might get to point of being an issue, but you should still be able to play.
And the final "Bad Thing" I've heard about is that the Kinect Sensor, from what I understand (so not very official), is going to be "watching" you, monitoring you, your gaming and T.V. habits. Now this isn't a problem...until you realize what this could mean, the Kinect has this whole "Big Brother" effect now, it watches you, makes suggestions and according to some sources, will be monitoring the amount of people in you house to see if you're exceeding the amount of people legally entitled to view their content (yes people that is an actual criminal offense) and in that case Xbox will send the user a message requiring the owner to purchase a license for "public viewing" now the specifics of this is unclear, as if whether or not this is true or not, and if the license message will be sent for more than one violation (which would put a damper on parties). But I personally never did like the Kinect, and these rumors are not helping with my ill feelings for it, and until they're quashed, I recommend you say away from Kinect before it goes all "Skynet" (Terminator reference) on you.
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| Could this be the face of Skynet? |
That's not to say the Xbox isn't a good system, and that all these bad things are gonna sink the Xbox One. So stay tuned for another posting I'll be making on the Pros of the Xbox One.
Dylan
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