Imaginedvl said:
I'm not aware of any all-in one device from Apple, Google, Samsung or even Sony who can play Blu-rays, Titanfall, Forza 5, Halo 5, Skype, HDMI port in letting you see (or control) your TV while doing other stuff, surf the web and enhance your experience with Kinect 2 etc... But I may be wrong... Now, you can argue with me about the "usefulness" of these features but it will be a matters of oppinion at this point. |
The point is, one of us will be wrong and one of us will be right.
So, it's a good idea to figure out just how valuable these things are.
Historically, people prefer to buy specialized products, not all-in-ones, aside from a couple key specific items (like phones). And you can't say consoles are like that because even the wii was specifically just gaming, and beat both the other multimedia stations.
The problem with xb1 is that nobody is looking for ALL that in one box. Casuals don't care about ALL that. The casuals want the casual parts that appeal to them, which is pretty much ONLY the voice and gesture control. If they want a blu-ray player, they can buy one for less than 99$. That's 300$ cheaper than an xb1.
The only people who will be supporting this console are the gamers, yet they are forcing the gamers to adopt the casual stuff. Why do you think ps4 is selling higher in pre-order? Because sony fans are more on the internet? It's because Sony is giving people a gaming console and not anything they don't need.
And the people who want kinect to play games? There's already a kinect on 360.
It's not going to work imagine. Sorry.
And all the xbox fans who make arguments like yours of "it's unpredictable what will happen", or "who knows", "i could be wrong", are going to see that the market MS is targeting is as vaccuous as those predictions.
