I enjoyed Xbox and X360 (despite all the RRoD trouble I had years ago when I was a regular on the site). I bought another 360 last year (mostly for Netflix), and was rather off-put by the way it had changed.
The Metro theme is tolerable, there were still good games coming out (I was hooked on Fez for awhile), solid network, but signing up for an account became as bureaucratic as a trip to the DMV, disabling auto-pay was designed to be annoyingly difficult, and it seemed like they were more passionate about nickel and diming people than they were about their fanbase.
Xbox One's Kinect is remarkably powerful.. It was probably the best selling point for the system, but now they are going to start selling core systems without one. A lot of damage has been done to that system's reputation. I too wish Microsoft the best, but they really need to think about their next step. Their performance in the market shows that games are still a pretty important factor in selling game consoles (whodathunk!?)
Microsoft needs to find a new niche. FPS is what brought Xbox to power in the first place but, like many other genres, it has blended into the framework of everything else. Halo and Call of Duty have long passed their peak. Titanfall is great, hats off to the 360 dev team for what they were capable of pulling off on the nearly 10-year-old hardware.. But it's not a good enough reason to buy an XONE (especially considering it was touted as its killer-app when it's multiplatform and looks a lot better on PC).
Wii U has Nintendo and a good portion of whatever is left of SEGA, PS4 has clout as the powerhouse of the gen (a lot of exclusives lined up, it will also end up being the destination for higher-quality Japanese games that still exist). XONE could chase the casual, or the obscure, if they recruited more indie devs and made a game that truly showcases Kinect.
In the end, if CAVE makes XONE-exclusive games, I may have to borrow an XONE.
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