All this except for the Kinect is true if you buy games at Steam too, yet the internet-mob loves Steam.

Steam has always had lower prices than retailers, not to mention Steam sales.  MS(as well as Sony and Nintendo) is guilty of pricing digital games the same as retail.

This is really strange: only checked Watchdogs - €60 on Steam, €70 on Xbox download, and yet you can buy disc-based trough Amazon for €60 (even cheaper if you buy from UK) I could not get the US prices. It is like MS do not really want to go digital.

Steam gets  a lot of heat for DRM but it's not an issue because it's a PC based seller.

Why not an issue?

 Not to mention Steam competes with other digital sellers for your dollar.  You don't have to buy from Steam, you choose to - and not in a "don't like it, don't buy it" devil's advoate way.  You legitamatly can choose who you want to buy from.  It's not just "The Steam Store" on a PC.

Where do you buy NEW AAA non-indie games?

You can do mods/expansions that you can't do on any console.

True. 

Upgrading isn't a thing with Steam games.  You download a game in 2008 and get a new PC in 2014, you still have that game.  Not so with consoles that lack backward compatability.

I got the impression this was covered by XboxOne originaly.

Finally, in many cases, games that need patches on consoles may never get them, or they get them in an untimely fashion.  While a Steam game gets patches a week after launch from some fan who just fiddled with the games code a bit.

http://news.xbox.com/2013/06/license    (June 06, 2013)

* Buy the way you want—disc or digital—on the same day

* Access your entire games library from any Xbox One

* Share access to your games with everyone inside your home

* Give your family access to your entire games library anytime, anywhere

* Trade-in and resell your disc-based games

* Give your games to friends

MS had everything covered but were unable to comunicate it with the internet-mob. 

We would have all the pros of a modern system for the cost most of us pay when we use Steam or AppStore.

*EDIT*

it would be even better than Steam as you coud sell your disc-based game, and give it to friends. You can not do that on Steam can you?

Well. If Sony's plan was similar to what Microsoft was... Nothing would have changed for me. Still would have bought both consoles. Microsoft's plan included the ability to LOAN and TRADE your digital games. So you were able to sell a game you purchased digitally. I don't even do that much used game buying and selling, but having that ability would have likely made me do it more. Much easier to just trade a digital game in then going to a store and having to deal with all that.. There were also going to be way more aggressive digital sales on newer games under Microsofts old policy. Yes, alot of this was just promises and who knows if it would have all came to fruition, but if this is what the policies were going to be.. I would have prefered it.

Microsoft sucked with their messaging on all of this. Everyone freaked out. Somehow everyone is ok with GameStop making money off us, but not Microsoft.

Unfortunately, your link doesn't work on my phone, but I remember what was there, and you stopped quoting too early. The link was also heavily edited following the initial 180.

Yes, but I like the first writing, before the 180º.

It said that the friend must be on your friends list at least 30 days prior to the gift. The game cannot be gifted more than once, meaning that he fannot even give it back to you when he's done, since the game gets blocked from your download list forever.

I remember this and it was a little strange.

It also said that you can selk used games only at participating retailers, which basically meant that everyone outside US/UK gets shafted.

I would be OK with this as this is not a very big deal here in Tier3 country. It is the same with Steam

It also said that you must check in daily, but if you activate your account on another console, you must check in hourly.

Etc, etc... So many anti-consumer policies, that the sale of XOne would have probably be prohibited in the EU because they break so many laws and consumer rights.

You may be right, but I still do not see the big difference to how Steam works.

You can trade or sell digital games now, it's not something Microsoft was going to generously give you.