I said take it as you wish.
And that's how I took it.
It seems I wasn't the only one either.
My point still stands though. These boxes that do all these magic multimedia functions aren't worth a damn in the marketplace. No one is going to shell out $100 bucks let alone $500 bucks because it can control some other things on your multimedia rack.
People have been using universal remotes for a long time and even plain ass remotes for even longer--people like it that way. The sales of these multimedia boxes prove it.
MS made a lot of good long term choices.
1) The chip is large due to the esram but as micron drops happen the cost will rapidly decrease. These are designed for 28nm but 22nm should happen sometime during the second full year of the console's life. So 2015. They should get about a 30% reduction in size.
2) DDR 3 is mass produced and wont go anywhere for a long time. The quanities for it dwarf the quanities for gddr . The GDDR ram sony is using is cutting edge and thus will have a cutting edge price and avalibility. Price for high end ram takes a long time to go down
3) RROD is a problem that happened , but they are far from the only console maker with those problems. The system design is beautiful in its simplicity , they learned a lot from the xbox 360 launch and you can see that in this design. The xbox one is extremely quite . I can't use my xbox 360 slim or my ps3 40 gig as a Netflix or bluray /dvd player because of how loud they are , esp now.
4) Kinect sold over 20m units and is still selling. Its one of the most if not the most successful add on to a console ever. There are a lot of people out there who will want to use the next one and havingit bundled in means it will get a whole lot more support than the previous one.
I've said it before , but I like the original idea of the xbox one and the new changes are still workable. I like the idea of being able to sit on my couch and not have to get up to change from bluray to game to Netflix to game to bluray again and so on. It may sound lazy but sometimes my friends and I jump through 3 different games in an hour depending on who jumps on and who has what. I don't want to constantly get up or constantly looking for the remote to change inputs.
This seems so very off. Do you get up to do these things now on your 360/PS3? No? I didn't think so. A $500 dollar Xbone packed with multimedia features isn't going to change that. You're still going to swap from game, to Netflix, and now Blu-ray (did you forget it's in the Xbone now? You can bet anyone with blu-rays will make PS4/Xbone their new player of choice) without having to get up...same as you did before.
I mean, I love fancy gadgets and new ways to interact with my media just as much as the next guy...but let's not blind ourselves like the Xbone is doing something fancy and revolutionary.