The Xbox One Future That Never Was
Microsoft’s latest entry into the console industry is rife with examples of a company that wanted to usher in a fully digital gaming ecosystem. A single look at the Xbox One’s operating system today is enough to see that Microsoft’s last-minute policy reversal was a half-baked emergency maneuver to undo the PR damage to Redmond’s image in the weeks following E3 last June. What if it had stuck to its guns?











