Sold a lie with the Xbox One tbh...

The ones that start with "So " are always a riot or at least get a lot of views.

Now i just want to wink at you more ;-)

@trafalgarlaw: I live in France and voice recognition works in french.

Wiping any sensitive material with a tissue will cause scratching, that's an extremely bad idea.

I drove a ballpoint hammer into my Xbox One and it's crazy how easily it went right through the console, very disappointing construction, where are the steel trusses inside?

Please don't.

@billymagnum said:

new consoles never deliver exactly what they tell you or what you hyped yourself up for. day-oner's and early adopters are nothing but:

They should call it early access instead of "day-one".

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He goes on a couple of weird tangents, but most of his points are entirely valid. International releases of this console feel completely like a developmental afterthought - it's an American product, first and foremost.

If you are using the console outside the US, the vast majority of multimedia features, which drain from resources that would otherwise have gone into giving you more technically robust video-games, are useless to you. Meaning you essentially have a package of hardware that could be better, but isn't.

I don't know if they can even patch in the TV stuff for European markets for technical reasons (Hz and whatnot), and same goes for something like support for external storage, so this falls outside the whole "oh they bought it launch, what did they expect" mantra.

Clarification: I didn't buy it.

@snail: I can get behind the argument of no-tv support outside US - although it's ironic that people would complain about this now as I clearly recall a few months back hearing a constant chorus of "who even needs this feature no one even watches TV anymore!" I'm simply amused by remarks like it scratches easily. Thats just silly.

The hardware are done and what you pay for. The software/apps part will always be an work in progress and its totaly fine becouse the play game part works as advertised. I expect new features, fixes and updates to roll out for several years.

I've never scratched plastic from wiping dust off of it before.

@scaramoosh: I guess you've never owned any action figures or a pair of glasses? Tissue paper will scratch surfaces, it's awful for cleaning objects. It just won't necessarily leave visible damage, unless it's a glossy material (or something you have to look through, i.e. glasses).

My PS4 is pretty great you guys. (even if I could just play most these games on my PC)

The hardware is the last thing you pay for, it's subsidized trough licensing fees on the games, you buy that hardware at a price that's below it's actual value and production costs. And you are still missing my point: If i want "finished hardware with software/apps that are WIP" i can just buy myself a Gaming PC. You know that thing that everybody complains about that it never feels like it's complete and functioning out of the box.

Now consoles have reached the exact same state and people consider it a good thing? The ease of use and the products being "ready out of the box" had been one of the few redeeming qualities that console gaming still had going for it, but now even that is gone. At this point it wouldn't surprise me if Valve manages to do with SteamOS for PC's what MS/Sony basically fucked up with their releases, down the line Valve is gonna turn PC gaming into the "easy thing" while the consoles by now turned into glorified PC's with horrible UI's and user freedoms, making them the "horrible complicated" things.

If you try to watch TV 360 times a day this is almost an hour of your life gone! And you would have spent it so well. By watching TV.

The Xbox One Fitness lie

@nethlem: Play games works out of the box. More features will be added throughout its lifecycle and is a wast improvement over last generations wich was more or less static. If you want everything out of the box then wait 8 years before you buy and problem solved, most people are happy as is.

You are seriously saying it's his own fault?

Microsoft marketing has been one clusterf*** after another, imagine dumbing down the hardware to include kinect and media functions and then marketing your console around those functions and it not even work outside the US.......

What was he supposed to do, not buy it and be unable to play the games he wants to play just because Microsoft are useless?

Sold it now anyways, made £100 profit too so wasn't a bad buy.