Am I the only one who pretends to care about consumer rights to bash the Xbox One?

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The two are not mutually exclusive. You can be a person who never intended to buy Xbone even before anything was known, and genuinely concerned about the erosion of consumer rights that the MS policies represent.

My attitude to Xbone is completely different to my attitude to Xbox360. For the most part (though everyone gets carried away from time to time) my view of Xbox360 was, as long as PS3 is successful enough for Sony to continue making Playstations, and it gets good games, I'm happy to live and let live. Sure I want Sony to be the most successful, but that doesn't equate to wishing other consoles to fail.

With Xbone, while the current DRM policies remain in place, I actively want it to fail. I do not want to see those policies become mainstream in consoles, and if Xbone wins this generation with these DRM policies then the other consoles (and especially Playstation) will fall into line. I do not want that!

OTOH if Xbone has a terrible start to the generation, rethinks it's aweful DRM policies, ditches them completely and fundamentally reforms the platform, then having Xbone eventually win the generation with [effectively] no DRM would be great. Because it will show that DRM on disc based games is commercial suicide and no one will ever try it again for as long as disc-based game distribution exists.

So Xbone failing while it persists with DRM and anti-consumer policies = good for gaming over all and long term IMO.
Xbone achieving great success while operating with DRM and anti-consumer policies = bad for gaming over all and long term.
Xbone initially failing, then doing a 180 degree turn around on DRM and then achieving great success = awesome for gaming over all and long term.