Either way, I don't really care what they have in mind for it. The One isn't the one for me.
That about sums it up. The idiotic fees, mandatory installs, fixed hard drives, and Kinect requirement is just icing on the shit cake for me, and absolutely cements that no matter what they release, I won't be buying it, but it's the overwhelming focus on TV, voice commands, gestures, and all that other extraneous crap that turns me off just on general principle. It's cool if a console can do other things, like Netflix streaming or playing Blu-ray movies, but if that's the primary selling point, it's really kind of antithetical to why I buy game consoles in the first place.
People keep saying that this is supposed to be about the hardware, not the games, wait until E3, and on and on, but games and game consoles aren't mutually exclusive. Sony and Nintendo both made a sincere, and I think successful effort to emphasize that they want to turn the discussion back toward games. Yes, the hardware can do this and that, it's very powerful, but the
reason is because it empowers developers and players alike. Their respective approaches were obviously different, but they're both trying, and I appreciate that.
Microsoft made me feel like a commodity. They got our money, they gained a lot of market share, and their investment in games is explicitly designed to be little more than a gateway into other content they want to sell us. Put simply, their entire presentation felt like a litany of pop-up ads, and somewhere underneath all that bullshit is a game or two that might be worth playing - but you only get to play it if you do what you're told.
People can argue that all these companies are evil - and they are, in various ways - but there's something to be said for at least
trying to address the gaming community.
