I've been a huge supporter of microsoft over the last 5-6 years and once i bought a windows 8 laptop i returned that the next day for a macbook. They royally screwed up on windows 8 and there sales records prove it. They have sold less windows 8's than vista and vista was there hole in the wall.
I was planning to pre-order at least 5 xbox 360's for my-self and family this christmas and after the DRM E3 fiasco about the rumors being true i said no thanks, then when the ps4 showed up and listed all its benefits i made 5 pre-orders from amazon.
Sucks to be $$$ they lost a lot of money from there fans, but they deserve it. Its finally time that the community sticks it to greedy companies. The damage was already done and ps4 took most of the pre-orders. What to say that Microsoft doesn't try to do another 180 right before launch. It's hard to say, but would be predictable since their loosing alot.
I understand the clouds features, but that is only one issue people would have with online only. Many users have Max gigs a month and thats another slap in the face to those users when microsoft forces you to download more data to play your games.
I wont be canceling my pre-orders and i wont be buying the xbox one either. The only way i'll consider it is if the kinect is able to be removed, and purchased without it.
Its stuff like this that make me sick and make me hate Microsoft more and more. More power to the guys who buy this, just make sure you tape the video and use super glue on the speaker holes. They mostly care about the audio and expect people to tape their cameras. I bet the NSA is paying Microsoft for their access and of course doesn't care to tell there customers what there allowing.
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