d21lewis said:
Xen said:
A standard question in a situation like this: why buy a console without a good reason to even turn it on?
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This, really.
I have 2 PS4s, 3 Xbox Ones, a Switch, a WiiU, two Xbox 360s, and a PS3 Slim currently connected to TVs throughout my home. I knew what I was getting into with each of them before purchase. I use them all to some degree on a regular basis. Who spends a few hundred dollars on something they don't want?
Unless the purpose is to say "I hate Xbox so much I bought one just so I won't play it!"
Too which, I just say "*shrugs*"
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If you really must know, I thought it was a good idea at the time.
This post is going to be quite long, but I really want to dispell the myth that someone would buy a console just to complain about it, which is text-book blame shifting.
I bought the One in 2015: at the time I was planning to buy both One and WiiU to have all three new gen consoles (this before the NX got announced).
I never owned an Xbox, none of my friends did, and it felt wrong to ignore the brand since I had more disposable income to spend on games.
I was particularly impressed by their E3 2015 showing: backwards compatibility was obviously a huge draw, Sea of Thieves looked very neat and Scalebound...
That's the thing: Scalebound looked a bit rubbish, I won't lie. However, it looked like the kind of game that wouldn't appeal to the core XBox audience, the ones buying your Halos, your Gears, your Forza.
To me, variety is a huge draw, and to see Microsoft invest in different properties across different genres was very significant.
I like to see weird experimental ideas get big funding, think Puppeteer, Splatoon, stuff beyond your big crowdpleasers.
I was very optimistic about the direction Microsoft was taking. A direction I had seen them take at their biggest marketing event.
I trusted them, the way I trusted Sony and Nintendo.
As an aside, I'd already forgiven their awful launch, they seemed to be turning over a new leaf, and I liked that.
What accelerated my purchasing decision was finding it at a con, discounted to €320, which at the time was quite good, with Fifa 16 included.
Leaving aside Fifa (not a fan), I bought Gears of War UE, Halo MCC and Rare Replay, pretty much a Greatest Hits of XBox, just to get an idea of what I'd missed.
So I got home, set it up and started playing. I wasn't particularly impressed.
I mean, I loved the original Halo, and I already knew Banjo Kazooie is great because I had it on the N64, but everything else kind of left me cold.
They weren't bad, just not my thing clearly.
Now, you might think: that's it, I play a few games, don't like them much, worst console ever.
However, I'm used to not having much to play when I have a new console. I was fine with waiting a few months with not much on PS4 at launch, or with the Switch after BotW, a game I like but didn't quite fall in love with.
I'm willing to wait for a console to grab me, but I only have so much patience.
The following years what I saw were a series of games which:
a) I wasn't really excited for,
b) I didn't have time to play, because I had games I actually wanted to play elsewhere, and
c) Reviews painted as stuff I really wouldn't enjoy.
What really surprised me is that it's normal for me to delay purchase of several games because I'm busy. I own very few games on the 3DS, but I still love the system because those I own I really enjoyed, and several I missed or couldn't get to I genuinely find intriguing.
With the One, the only game I couldn't get to but wanted to play was Ori.
Add to this the reveal of the S and X at their (genuinely terrible) E3 2016 presentation and their general behaviour.
I was quite miffed that they would just launch a better version of what I had just bought and present it as the new standard, to then immediately reveal that as worthless in the face of the "new ultimate XBox". It wasn't a great look.
I should now go over the cancelled games, fake exclusivity deals etc., but we know about it already.
This left me disappointed and with even fewer games to consider for purchase, at a time when both Sony and Nintendo were thriving with new and exciting projects.
Still, I would have ignored all this; I thought that maybe I wasn't looking hard enough, or I was being too harsh.
Maybe these games just aren't for me, something will come along, I just have to wait.
It was only recently that I noticed I wasn't alone: the lack of content on the XBox is now undeniable, and very noticeable by just showing their earlier output.
"XBox has no games" is not a fringe opinion or a meme, it's pretty much THE mainstream opinion on the brand. It's not just me, as much as you'd like this to be the case.
I realize now, I probably should have been more vocal about it from earlier on, since MS has done nothing to assuage my worries.
Now Microsoft wants me to pay €500 so they can pretend they have done something worthwhile in the entirety of 2017.
Last time I gave them the time of day I ended up with an unused box, I'm not eager to have another.
That's it then. I bought the console because I believed I was going to have a good time; I legitimately wanted one.
When I got one, I found disappointment after disappointment: no games to play, shitty marketing deals, general boredom.
I say with full confidence: it is the worst console I've ever owned.
I guess it's very convenient to brand everyone who doesn't like XBox one of the "haterz", but you'll have to deal with the fact that the XBox One offers a subpar experience, and that I'm not alone in thinking that.
