Microsoft's Xbox One, Dead Before Arrival?

ThatNaijaBlog - Microsoft may have shot itself after revealing the official policies of the Xbox One; internet connectivity, Kinect, used games and privacy. Three documents extensively talks about how each of the points would be deployed in next gen gaming.

[Crazay]

Nope. Now can we get these lame types of stories off N4G?

[NatureOfLogic]

You only think It's "lame" because It's not in favor of your console of choice(see, you don't always have to use the word fanboy).

@ Mika in reply to "The people whining on here and other sites need to remember that they are a small minority."

Exactly. Why make a comment that you know most will disagree with? And why do everyone think that the casuals will automatically flock to the Xbox one like they did the Wii. Xbox one is too complicated to understand for the core gamers, the Wii was simple.

[Crazay]

I've got many consoles. Multiples of them even. I like the unique variety each one brings to the table and don't want any of them to fail. Wether it's the exclusive titles for each, the new and exciting features/interfaces or the way it allows us to connect with our friends and family for an adventure regardless of their location.

I have my favorites but typically that changes with each generation. At one time it was NES, then Genesis, then PlayStation then Dreamcast then PlayStation 2 then Xbox 360. See where I'm going here? I've always had all the systems purely because I love gaming.

[LOGICWINS]

Or maybe because its the 118th article on N4G saying the same damn thing. Whether your interested in the One or not, we need more article diversity on this site.

[PFFT]

Meh i think it works both ways. You think these types of articles arent lame cause they are not negative articles about the PS4. If it were youd probably be taking shit about these articles. HELL i highly doubt they would even pass approval.

[Ritsujun]

Turned into bone before arrival.

[justastranger10]

I plan to buy an x1 like many of my friends. We are going to enjoy great games like Titanfall,ME 2, Halo 5, Forza 5, etc. It's gonna be awesome.

[DragonKnight]

You people complaining about the articles should instead focus your attention on WHY these articles are written. Has it ever occurred to you that A LOT of people have something to say about how much MS have f***ed up and that not all of them have had their submissions go through yet?

[-Mika-]

Thank you. The people whining on here and other sites need to remember that they are a small minority. The casual gamers is the large majority. MS could care less about the reaction of some loser in his mom basement. Im just so sick of this anti MS crusade. It starting to get ridiculous. Oh and I bubbled you up because I have a feeling you're going to get bubbled down for the comment you wrote.

@ King

And how do you know he a fanboy. Maybe he just sick of the anti MS crusade that going on in this site. Im not a MS fan but it starting to get ridiculous.

[Bluepowerzz]

SHUT UP seriosusly behind that pc i bet your some microsof spokes man or something your the minority someone who supports anti customer bs.

[MrWonderful]

That large majority isn't gonna fork out $400-500 on a freaking surveillance system that's supposed to play video games. And more people are aware of this then you think because every major news station has put articles of it in print or on their broadcast, oh and given what the American government is doing now people are far more on edge with this then they ever have been before.

[Rockstar]

For some this may be about fanboyism but for a huge majority this is purely about all of this anti used game BS that MS is trying to shove down our collective throats. They are hoping that people will just go buy the console and #dealwithit. I almost always buy my games brand new and I rarely lend my friends games, but even I can see if we all roll over and take it, it will be the new norm going forward and the people that will pay are the people that rely on rentals and friends for their games.

Games aren't cheap and may be even more expensive in the near future and not everyone can shoulder the cost of a full priced game.

I'm not buying one and neither should you.
Even though I own all of the consoles that are currently available I am a Sony supporter through and through, that's where I do a majority of my gaming.
If Sony comes out with some BS DRM I wont be getting a PS4 either because I don't want to be partially responsible for the downfall of gaming.
It'll suck but there it is.

I'll only be gaming on this PC right here if that happens.

[Commandar_Shepard]

I am a big fan of the Xbox 360. Halo is my favorite shooter franchise of all time. I've been subscribed to Xbox Live Gold for at least 4 years. But I could not be more dissapointed with the Xbone.

It's like MS sat at a round table and decided to come up with the worst console ever. Let's see here:

Online Check Every 24 Hours
No Renting
No Lending
Many games you cannot even trade in
For the ones you can, they can only be at specific retailers (GameStop)
You can only give a game to a friend if they have been on your friends list for 30 days and they keep it forever
Kinect required to be plugged in at all times
Deals with the NSA
FOCUS ON TV AND MEDIA

Yes, many games will be announced at E3 but that won't help this cluster bomb of a system. MS managed to even ruin their two best exclusive franchises (Halo and Gears) in the span of 4 months.

And it's not just "nerds in their mothers basements". Many whom I have talked to also refuse to buy an Xbone because of these issues. Even if it sells well, there will be a massive uproar from people who can't play their new system due to a lack of Internet.

[Imalwaysright]

No no no this isn't about casual gamers. This is about CONSUMERS in general and as soon as they know about MS anti-consumer policies do you for think for one moment that the majority of them would be willing to give up their rights for a console? Don't understimate consumers. We are not stupid and unlike you fanboys we care more about ourselves than we care about multi-billion dollar companies.

[medman]

Mika, and those like him/her, are blind to the fact that a corporation is taking away your rights as a consumer. Next, they will take your hand and lead you directly into an open casket. And you will be smiling, all while being buried alive, believing this company will do you no harm. Good luck with that. Me, no thanks Microsoft. When I buy a product, I expect to own said product. I expect to be able to loan it to friends, and in turn receive games I want to try from them. I also don't expect to have to check in with mommy every 24 hours to see if I've been a good boy and I will be allowed to play MY OWN DAMN GAMES! Microsoft can go fuck themselves. Hard.

[batbatz]

Its very important that the XBone experiment fails horribly, to protect consumers rights

[medman]

I can see alot of uninformed consumers buying this product not knowing anything about the policies behind it. When they find out they can't use the product as they would like, and the software restrictions are draconian, they will be pissed. At that point, many will seek to return the product. I wouldn't be surprised at all if the evil bastards at Microsoft came up with some bullshit policy to limit how and why you can return this piece of garbage console. Who knows, maybe these scumbags will adopt the 24 hour return policy to match their 24 hour check in policy. Any gamer who buys this console is a complete tool, and deserves the backhanded slap Microsoft is trying to give us all. Stand up for your rights people. If you lay down for this dog, you have no spine, and should expect to have to lay down for several more dogs in the coming years.

[TheItalianStallion]

I am getting xbox one on launch day and will enjoy my Forza 5 and other high quality games. My kids love Kinect games on the X360 so I will pick up a few games for them as well. Games is game and the more variety the better because I can play Forza when I have spare time and clown around with families with casual games. Both xbox 1 and PS4 will offer the same type of services and games so it is a matter of taste. I just so happen to like xbox more so I going with that. If you like Wii U, PS4, that is your preferences and I will respect that but these lame articles are nothing but food for the trolls.

[batbatz]

I hope youre in the minority.., but by all means enjoy your Xbone

[Psn800]

Good riddance , I have never been this hard before on another console because it's good for competition but when you treat gamers like this and try to wreck our industry your no good because we all have a bit of banter with each other but this corporation has gone too far hurting it's own fans that have stuck with it for two generations I urge you Xbox fanboys to quit now and get yourselves a PS4 you will be looked after .

[rebirthofcaos]

Microsoft's Xbox One, Dead Before Arrival?

I hope so, we dont need that kind of BullS#it.

[Commandar_Shepard]

Like Sony in 2006 and Nintendo in 2008, they need to be knocked off of their high horse and taught a lesson.

[kreate]

U can teach Sony and Nintendo a lesson. But I doubt Microsoft is teachable.

[ShaunCameron]

Umm. How was Nintendo in 2008 knocked off their high horse again? Wasn't that the year they posted all-time high revenues?

[Commandar_Shepard]

Look at the Wii's decline and the bombing of the Wii U.

[Majin-vegeta]

I'm sorry but no one who calls himself a "GAMER" can be for this abomination of a console.That practically wants to destroy our hobby.I for one will not buy it.Even if Sony does something like this i will boycott them both.I can quit gaming as easily as I entered it.I have plenty of other hobbies i can do.

BOYCOTT THIS ABOMINATION OF A CONSOLE AND SAVE OUR HOBBY!

[DivineAssault]

I hope we get prices or releases for the new systems on monday.. Both would be great but at least one of them

[Knightofelemia]

It died the moment they announced it and showed it. The machine is ugly my microwave looks better. The machine needs to be hooked to the net 24/7 we all know with the cable features XBL is going to go up in price big time. They made up a stupid policy about used games which right their dug their graves. They focused more on making it cable box instead of showing some glimmer of games on the console. I know E3 is around the corner. Come on Sony showed us some game videos for the PS4. The cable aspect is kind of useless to me I live in Canada where Netflix is a dummied down version. Who knows what channels I will get that I don`t already have. I`m not saying this as a Sony fan boy but the XboxOne is a console I am skipping.

[urwifeminder]

I will be on board cant wait for that forza action.

[SegaGamer]

I used to be a big fan of Forza but it's just become so boring, it's the same tracks over and over and over again.

[fracturedrich]

Let me tell you all that ms will rule again,the only reason the ps survived is because of certain exclusives,that will change next gen as the one will have 90 percent of new ip and put sony even further behind.The one will be the fastest selling console of all time mark my words

[proudly_X]

You must be typing this in Planet Mars..

[Psn800]

How can you say that , they are ruining our hobby don't you read what there doing , I used to be a fan of Xbox but after I seen through them , there just greedy and are trying too wreck gaming .

[rainslacker]

LOL. Yeah, Sony makes their own high quality exclusives. Far more than MS. Sony also gets more exclusives from Japan this past year, than MS has had in two generations of Xbox. So yeah, new IP's are going to go where the user base is. And right now the user base that pays attention to new IP's is mostly pissed at MS.

[Sh0ckWav3]

it is on my part ..not getting this bullcrap

[Eyesoffiction]

It isn't dead......yet.

[Hicken]

Unless most of the stuff they've already shown changes at E3, yes.

People keep thinking it's gonna sell because we gamers are the only ones that know about all this, and for a while, those people will be right.

But it's not gonna take months for folks to figure out how restricted the use of the XBO is, and then there'll be returns.

And then the word will spread.

If it's out in October or November with the same features it's got now, expect sales to be almost nonexistent by year's end.

[Dynasty2021]

It is when the overwhelming majority agree:

PS4 over an Xbox.

That says it all. E3 won't save shit for Microsoft.

[B-radical]

Lol yeah the articles are getting old now i feel sorry for ps3 owners at the begining of its life aha

[Skeith]

Let's crush this shitty watercooler as fast as possible !!!

[Angeljuice]

Breaking news: ms employee surrounded by journalists uses 'infinite power of the cloud' to escape!

http://1.2.3.9/bmi/ohnoa.co...

Seriously though, DRM is just the tip of the iceberg, Xbone is being downclocked and still having yield issues.latest estimates 800-900Gflops making PS4 100% more powerful. That kind of discrepancy will be noticed by EVERYONE!

Maybe not DOA, but I doubt it will be here in a year or two.

[Thomper]

Are you not getting a bit bored of the XB1 bashing? I am!

[first1NFANTRY]

Alot of M$ employees in here. I for one will not be buying this pos.

[breakpad]

I hope yes it will be a lesson for Crapbox and M$

[Droid Control]

I haven't begun to hear enough xbone bashing yet. The ABOMINATION that is xbox one must not be allowed to live. Kill it in the womb!!!

Its the antichrist of gaming, the foretold apocalypse of gaming!!!!

[j9]

ps4

[mananimal]

I have a suspicion the PS4 will have similiar "anti-consumer" aspects to it as XboxOne, I hope Im wrong trust me, but I undrstand that way business operates behind the smoke & mirrors of the slave arm of the media, The REAL way business operates....there all on the same page,...but...more clarity at E3 hopefully.

As for XboxOne, dead dead dead......wld NEVER support it, never.

[Thomper]

I assume you are all children?

[Angeljuice]

No we are not, children do as they're told, Microsoft wishes we were all children.

[MarcoGT]

The Xbox One is stillborn, very sad because I honestly wanted to get both Sony and Microsoft next gen consoles, but it will just be PS4 which looks to have so much to come I'm glad MS made the decision easy and save some of my wallet that Sony will eat up. Will be money well spent though.

[GodGinrai]

One more day till E3. if they bomb. we can all give em a good kicking. Until then I would like to see less of these articles if only because I would rather here about new games right now..regardless of what platform.Its E3 tomorrow For fuck sake..where are all the sneaky journos blowing the cover off games that are to be announced in the next few days?

useless internet....

[robleroy]

The whole DRM MS issue disappointing me a lot but on the other hand is understandable.

Both companies (sony an MS) have now grown in somewhat even size concerning game consoles.
Out of both companies the recent years Microsoft has done the most damage to its xbox name if you would ask me. Why did they do that???.

I do see that second hand trading in games has become big business. And naturally Microsoft wants a peace of the pie. But I think that MS does not understand that new games are also bought because gamers can gather money by selling their old games. whether those games are second of fifth hand. So I don't see a big win win in that MS strategy. All they accomplish is that poor gameplayers will have less games on the shelf and only big AAA games would sell more compared to less attractive ones . Only Obama would applaud this move by MS . This move only kills the game market.

Lesser games are going to circulate, but big game-companies (UBISOFT, BUNGIE) are going to cash in more.
Indi games and newcomers will have lesser chance, and innovation will be downwards concerning gaming.

The microsoft move is an ANTI- innovation ANTI-gamers ANTI-hack ANTI gamemarket ANTI consumer but PRO- big game-company move.
MS will use bluray ,so the need to hack a xbox to play illegal games will be downgraded a lot. MS should not worry about that. But I could understand that MS had to make good on all the negative responds from EA , Activision and others for having such a easy hackable console box.

Sony does not have these problems in the same large extent. So Sony had all the space and time to just focus on games and games only. They did not focus to much on the social media side of things. And that's maybe a good thing for core-gamers. Multi functional apparels mostly seem to be more functional for one person rather than a family or a living-room.
If I want to share it, it would be for co-op, gaming or something else regarding gaming .

I do not think that MIcrosoft willingly positioned itself in this situation. So the damage control action would naturally be to add more functionality to the xbox-one box.
without KINECT MS would be out of the game. KINECT and social media functionality is a smart move to play itself back into the game and taking on the NINTENDO market.

You have to be pretty blind not to see the difference how sony supports their ps3 (BEYOND, THE LAST of US etc etc) and how MS supports their xbox360..
BUNGIE leaving MS is like Steve Jobs leaving Apple. CoreGaming is not at heart with MS anymore for some time. But MS wants to stay in the game, so they had to find other ways to generate income or market.

Nintendo seems to be sleeping and failing on different levels these days, so It would be very wise to sneak up onto Nintendo and pull a "move over" on the company.
Yes MARIO could lose against the new Social media hype. After all.. , To kill time most of us are not playing Mario on our portables anymore, Whatsap Ping, Facebook, Twitter, i-message ,Skype and game-apps are the top 10 mobile games of today's kids, teenagers and even adults.

MS knows what its doing. But it does mean that core-gamers will have to wait in line to get some attention in the future from Microsoft. Yes we core-gamers supported and made MS in the beginning when they entered the game-market with the xbox. But we should all see it just as Business as usual.
Marketing wise MS will NOT fail with this marketing shift. They will probably even make more money.
MS is just primarily going for the money. SONY is primarily going for the name (quality..." it's a sony")

I pre-ordered a PS4

[jacksfr1]

DEAD.

[GoldPunch-TR]

Not yet.

[thefarkingchamp]

Judging by the horrible policies and restrictions I'd say yes I just want to play bloody games is that to much to ask for

[fracturedrich]

23 disagrees because i say the one will sell well,the hate for xbox on this site is a joke,it might aswell be a playstation against the world site.I have had every console since the start and i used to prefer the playstation.I own both by the way,i have both beneath my tv and enjoy them both.I don't get why people have to bitch and moan about other things,me i just play and i will play anything what's good my personal preference should not even enter into it,i have the best of both worlds but will only choose one when the time comes,get it ONE.

[Angeljuice]

Its not just on this site I'm afraid, its every game site I've visited (shouldn't that tell you something?).