and can very much be unconfirmed if they deem it would put them at a disadvantage.......
No shit, Sherlock? Woooow, it would put them at a disadvantage!?
What do we know about the X-Box One (which was confirmed by Micro$oft for the most part, but even if it didn't...)
1. You will need to register to your X-Box Live account. That means buying used games won't be that easy, since you will need to pay a fee to be able to play them. But how big will the fee be? 5 bucks? LOL! Then you could simply borrow a game from someone and unlock it on your X-Box for 5 bucks, while they bought it for the full price one day before!
The fee will be huge and if you buy a game used for 30 bucks and then have to pay (maybe) 50 bucks, you're screwed.
2. The X-Box will in fact be always on. It won't disturb your gaming experience (at least I hope so and by now I hate the word "experience" and the word "content"), but in the background the X-Box will be online and scan those games.
"What's so bad about that? When I play a singleplayer game on my PC, I'm online as well" ... Well, Timmy ...
3. The X-Box One will only run, if Kinect is on as well. Kinect is an important part of the X-Box One. What is Kinect? It's a camera that listens to you - all the time... and the X-Box One is online.
So what we will have now is a new gaming console in your room, that is always online with a camera sitting on it and monitoring you, waiting for you to say the magical words "X-Box on, and I hope that you didn't stream my fapping-sessionto Micro$oft!"
4. Some of the stuff that the X-Box One will feature like the TV shit and so on, won't even be available in the most other countries. I live in Germany and we don't have access to that shit later on. It's US exclusive and I think I even read somewhere that even people from Canada won't have access to some of that stuff, which is plain fucking stupid.
5. Not only will the console not be backwards compatible (which is acceptable to a degree), but it won't even let you carry over your X-Box Live Arcade stuff and I know people who have a looot of that stuff.
6. 15 exclusive games? 8 out of them are new franchises? Ask yourself how many of these games overall will be based on the shitty ass Kinect idea. The first game that got leaked is "RYSE"... Yeah, they didn't let that shitty idea die, where you're a gladiator and fighting againts other gladiators by wielding your hands and feet. UUUUUH, GREAT GAMING EXPERIENCE AND I HOPE THEY ADD ADDITIONAL CONTENT LATER ON!
I'm not a hater. I have a X-Box 360 and I think that it's the best console this generation, even though X-Box Live Gold costs money and there are not as many exclusives available as for the PS3.
But the X-Box One? I am SHOCKED. I am SHOCKED and disappointed by the stupidity and the greed Micro$oft comes up with. Everyone was always bitching how Micro$oft is greedy and I didn't want to believe it, but by now? After all that? I'm done with their consoles.
They're testing you. They're trying to find out with that they can get away with. We need this internet uproar right now. We need them to realize that what they're coming up with is fucked up and everything else than user-friendly.
They're taking away options from you as a consumer. They're not giving you more options for your money. They don't care about you. They're arrogant and stupid.
Even if they decide to pull all of that shit back and offer you a regular console without most of the bullshit, it's already over for Micro$oft and their new X-Box One. They've already lost the console for next gen, even if they come up with Rare and Killer Instinct (BIAAAAS) - they have lost the war.
If anyone is still thinking about buying the X-Box One, then that person is a pityful tool. There is basically not even one argument that speaks for the X-Box One over the PS4, if you're a gamer and worried about the gaming experience. Not even one single argument. And for the love of God, which I don't believe in: DO NOT BUY A X-BOX ONE. DO NOT BUY CA$HCOM GAMES USED. DO NOT BUY DAY 1 DLC AND REAL ENDINGS.
Please, stop being tools and finally start voting with your wallets.
By now I really hope that Micro$oft won't take any of that crap back (since they're only supposed to be "scenarios"), so that they bomb HARD and the PS4 easily prevails as the next gen gaming console.