Xbox One: A middle finger to the gamer

mii-gamer writes:

If you happened to miss the biggest news of the week, Microsoft’s Next gen console has been announced rightfully calling Xbox One. The philosophy behind the name and the machines is that the console will be an “all in one system”. In other words, the only entertainment system you need, that is, if you believe in PR rhetoric.

The Xbox One reveal could not have gotten any worst. For a lack of a better word, this was a whopping [email protected] up by Microsoft. I’ll be impartial as much as possible, but nothing can explain the anger I have towards Microsoft. I have to be brutally honest; I am not liking the Xbox One.

[BigFnHooters]

What is bizarre about the whole Xbox One fiasco is not the reaction of Xbox owners giving up on Microsoft. It's that it took this long for them to do so.

It's like Microsoft has spent the last decade seeing just how far they can treat their customers like crap:

* Pulling the plug on the first Xbox years early screwing leaving owners and developers

* Knowingly shipping defective hardware out the door and denying any problem existed for a year and a half with the Xbox 360

* Gimping the Xbox 360 with a last gen storage format making the 360 the only console in history to ever have shipped with a format smaller than the previous gen

* The disc scratching/destroying drives in the Xbox 360

* The forced online fees adding hundreds of dollars to the base price of the console

* The closing down of almost all of their internal core game studios and replacing them with casual shovelware developers

* Pissing off the only developer that really matters for the Xbox, Bungie, to the point that they left Microsoft

* Three straight years of almost nothing but casual motion control crap at E3

But now the Xbox One fiasco is the final straw?

[DecoyOctopus]

movies, tv what more could you ask for? oh its a console?

[Brucis]

They used to be tolerable early on. Believe it or not but the 360 actually seemed more game-centric than the PS3 the first 2-4 years. There were exclusives, Xbox Live indie games, Xbox Live Arcade games, Achievements, cross-game party chat, a single online handle/nickname for all your games. They used to be able to say 'Our pluses outweigh our minuses.'

They used to be good for gamers, even though they had their faults.

[Boody-Bandit]

BFH, after reading what you wrote, being a 360 fan I've been the past several years, I have to confess that everything you said is spot on. I myself have purchased 10 360 consoles this generation. I am one of those fools that was hoping the new revisions made would be the one that stopped breaking down and ran more efficient. I currently own 5 360s.

You did leave out one part. Batteries and recharge packs for controllers. I can't even begin to list how many I have laying around the house and the cost on top of it.

Although we are slow learners I have a tidbit of information to share. I have talked to, text, facebook or emailed a ton of gamers I know. Not ONE of them (all adult gamers) are getting the XBOX ONE. Most of us own peripherals (wheels, fight sticks, custom controllers, gaming headphones, etc) and MS has made it clear none of them will work with the X1. *I might just ditch my wheel (CSR Elite) now while I can still get good coin for it.*

I am not starting over from scratch again and having to shell out all that coin all over again making my collection obsolete.

That and them not supporting used games requiring an almost constant connection and too many other restrictions to list? Enough is enough. MS might replace guys like me with TV goers but in the end this is going to hurt them. They are doing nothing for this industry or their original consumer base.

They can go kick rocks.
I'm moving on without them since it's obvious they are moving in a different direction from their core base.

[Darrius Cole]

Hey man, something had to be the last straw.

[Ezio2048]

I bet Sony is gonna show an even bigger middle finger to MS at upcoming E3.

[The Meerkat]

It will more of a Tea Bagging.

[first1NFANTRY]

lol the title made me fall out of bed while reading it.

Although the title should be renamed "Xbox One: A middle finger to the xbox gamer".

[Krew_92]

I don't know I've seen a lot of "Xbox gamers" defend this console till their dying breath. Some people just get hyped for anything new.

Although I know this is only a select amount of people, there do exist some that have had it with Microsoft's shenanigans.

Come to think of it though, most people defending it, that I at least know of in real life, didn't know the little things. Such as the charge for used games, always on Kinect and such.

[outsider1624]

E3 Champions League Final
Playstation vs Xbox

..Final Score- 4-1

[G20WLY]

Final score: Xbox One - PS Won

;P

[Sharius]

like MS said: xbox, go home

seriously, that xbone, is the aabomination of gaming industry

let's the newcomer in, i hope that is streambox, no, don't get me wrong, i don't use any of valve service at all, but i like the way it did for these consumes

the competition between PSN and stream will make gamming become better and better

[Typical-Guy]

I'm done arguing Xbox One... I'll wait and see what they show at E3. At that time and place, MS will either sink or rise.

[Mikeyy]

No because first everybody said wait till the 21st, "you will see a real console reveal". Then the 21st came. And it sucked. Everybody is lol'ing hard at m$. Now they say wait till E3.. E3 will come and again M$ will embarrass themselves again when 7 of 8 of their "new" exclusives will be Kinect shovelware. Then they will say "wait till release, you will see..".

Since all the M$ rumors has been true, then we already know they are 6 months behind on games. So don't hope for much at E3.

[DasTier]

My interest in consoles had died since getting back into PC gaming, but even I watched the Xbox One reveal.

I'm not sure how you interpreted it as being a middle finger to gamers as theres no exactly a lack of games for it.At one point it was stated that there are 15 exclusives due for release in the first year of Xbox One (8 of which are new franchises).

Maybe gamers as a group are just too spoiled as of late. It just seems they like to complain about ridiculous things.

[Brucis]

Have you even kept up on the aftermath of the conference? That's where a lot of the negativity is coming from. Most of the reveal was disappointment because the focus wasn't on games. The used games, need to be online once every 24 hours, mandatory installs, etc. is what's making people upset.

People aren't being spoiled, they aren't taking anti-consumer tactics.

[meplaygames]

Why are you upset? M$ showed off the Xbox one a few games and some of it other major features!
What more do you want? With E3 around the corner.....
have you heard of E3? Its this event where Sony, m$ and Nintendo etc like to show of their games n stuff.

So maybe just maybe m$ is holding out for E3 to announce those 15 exclusives?

[SDF Repellent]

@meplaygames,

It is not so much about the games. We are pretty sure games will be shown at E3. The point is the other stuff pertaining to hardware and services. The negatives far exceed the positives, that is where the hates are coming from.

Positive:
1.the Controller is still awesome and they have refined it by adding some extra features like separate vibrating sensors on each trigger.
2. As much as I hate Kinect, I really don't mind having it included in every system sold as it seems to be quit an improvement in terms of function and latency goes. Also, skype with connect might be a cool exclusive feature on console.
3. New games, the promised of 15 exclusives and 8 of which are new IPs is all good and am glad MS is spending their effort in that aspect.

Now the NEGATIVES:
1. Due to the inclusion of Kinect, the hardware spec was lowered compared that of the PS4 in order for it to be competitive in price. They even admit, in an interview, that they purposely keep the spec low in order for the 3 operating systems and the other non-gaming aspects to function smoothly, whatever that means. Now it reported that the PS4 is about 50% more powerful, that is a HUGE difference for Core games.
2. The blocking used games and requiring a fee to resell games is just utterly anti-consumer. You can't defend that
3. Internet required. The 24 hour mandatory check online is just a horrible idea. Say goodbye to South American, and Eastern Asian markets where internet connection are poor to non-existence. Also, Some people just don't want to go online to just play single player games or soldiers stationed in remote locations that don't have access to intranet; thus, these groups of people are given the middle finger by MS.
4. And finally, the emphasis on TVs like the $400 million dollar NFL deal and xbox live original TV programming over using these resources towards game development is showing where the priority is at in MS eyes.

[DARK WITNESS]

You guys really don't seem to get it.

it may not be the middle finger to gamers but it is to the 360 gamers.

First off, nearly all the rumors about everything negative about the xboxone were true.

They didn't clarify any of this until after the conference and even then they have just been flip-flopping round the issues trying to divert our attention.

saying wait till E3, when we have been waiting on E3's for the last 3 years...well...

if you an't been following all this for the last year or two then I can see how you would think we are just acting like spoiled brats.

I would almost say we have been to good to MS putting up with their crap for so long.

The only positives I took from MS;

1. the controller has not changed much. Big Plus!

2. the potential for the cloud being used to render stuff for games etc. Big plus.

The Bad;

1. The console itself is nothing nice to look at, but ok.. I am not going to be looking at it while playing games.

2. 15 games at E3, we have no idea if they are kinect games, core games, arcade games...

3. The focus on TV.

4. listening to celebs chat shit about stuff I have no interest in.
5. All these services aimed at the US market, what about the rest of the world ?
6. games being locked to your profile.
7. Kinect always on listening and watching.. after the crap they pulled with skype, you trust them to watch you 247?
8. them passing all this crap off as being good for gamers.
9. of the few games they did show none of them looked better then anything we saw at the ps4 reveal.

[Kratos_1986]

more like the gamer a middle finger to the xbox one

[JBallerX]

Best title for an article ever.

[Flyingdog670]

Microsoft doesn't care about about the core gamers anymore, they care about casual gaming. They've made it obvious with the last three E3's and the Xbox One reveal.

[meplaygames]

Yeah Microsoft should have just announced and show all there games at the CONSOLE REVEAL, and then just repeat those announcements at E3 or maybe skip E3 all together, would that make you folks happy?

[Angeljuice]

I heard that during the reveal lots of people watching through their 360's were having trouble with their kinect responding to the MS 'suit' giving commands on stage. I see a meme coming.
Just imagine 10 million Americans all watching the superbowl final through their xbone's, they go to an interview with a retired player who says " I just have one thing to say...Xbox off".
....If it catches on it would be hilarious!

[etowntwo]

As a huge Xbox fan....

I'm hugely disappointed with the Xbox One compared to the Ps4.

From what in understanding...
The PS4 gpu is 50% more powerful, and the ram of the PS4 is not only better but it's a full 8 dedicated to gaming, whereas the Xbox one, it's split and only 5 is dedicated to gaming.

And no backwards compatability for Xbox 1 sucks big gorilla balls too.

[DARK WITNESS]

you are not alone

[JBallerX]

Agreed. My money right now is up in the air. I have no problems grabbing a PS4 over an Xbox One. Especially after what I saw Tuesday. If E3 doesn't blow my socks off...I think I'm heading back to Sony.

[MJ23007]

MS has always had the best game series with halo and gears id take all day over killzone and infamous, Uncharted is however very good, it the used games fee that will keep me from buying the xbox one. No backwards compatibility, and specs that are inferior to the PS4. Remember when the xbox was the underdog and they did this to sony, well sony is doing it right back at them.

[meplaygames]

Anyone who believes this ps4 is 50% more powerful bullshit is a complete moron. Its like 2005 all over again....Ps3 is twice as powerful as the 360 bla bla bla..
Why are people falling for the same marketing bullshit AGAIN!

The best looking game I've seen so far is watch dogs and battlefield 4, both multiplatform games, anyone who thinks those games will look 50% better on the ps4 is just restarted!

[Mikeyy]

Feel free to do the math and proove them wrong.

They posted their numbers, where's yours?