Of course you have to have an existing TV service to use the Xbone TV feature. Just like you need an Internet service to use Live or PSN. And in the US, bundles are extremely popular so many people with Internet have their television bundled through the same company. It's going to be massively successful in the US. Imagine if MS can get into agreements with any big companies to add in an Xbone console with certain packages or contracts. The potential money to be made is just disgusting.

Because people seem to think that current-gen trends will continue into the next. They might, at least at first, but next-gen starts from scratch. Anything can happen. Does the X1 have the best chance of dominating America? Yes. But depending on what mistakes they make(many from the looks of it) they could lose it.

I fully expect the Wii U to become the next big thing in America, at least for families. A price drop and some marketing is all it really needs. It even has Nintendo TVii which would be nice if it got advertised.

I fully expect the PS4 to become the go-to console for core gamers. A comparable price point and release date is all it needs to be competitive.

I fully expect the Xbox One to have an identity crisis. It will try to go for the Wii audience and the PS4 one. If successful, it could dominate the market. If its not, well then it won't.

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Here's something. You can dislike the Xbox and still be American. If you dislike the Rocky series, you're not American. Get out of my country.

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i just watched the first 20mins of the xbox reveal that i missed,explaining intelligent tv/interface/kinnect,no mention of used games but certainly looked flashy,makes me wonder how expensive this machine will be,microsoft must be taking a fair hit on this console if it affordable to joe public

Yeah but why would a consumer dish out $399(i think this wil be the price) just to watch tv on their tv. Makes no sense. Gamers dont care about the tv side of the xbox and those people are the people who wil buy the console first. Ofcourse as a gamer these extra features are nice, having options isnt bad. But take into account that for a non gamer 399 is too expensive just too watch television with voice command. And lets be honest here, this is a service of microsoft I'm 100% sure that you need to have a Gold Live subscription to even use the live TV service. So that's another $60 a year on top of the TV provider subscription. Its just too expensive and not worth it as a standalone.

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Because the biggest genres in America is on 360 a lot. FPS and Open world. FPS is also the biggest genre atm. Not sure it would stay but Open World might become big.

I agree.