I have seen the news, and even I am not happy about it on the whole. It is easy to continue the renewed anti-consumer bandwagan (don't blame you). I however looked over the major points and to me anyway, the only dealbreaker, truly, is the once-every-24-hour internet connection. But first, a quick summary of the other points:

- Kinect must be plugged in, but you have complete control over it via privacy settings.

- MS's policy on used games are now the exact same stance as Sony: leave it up to publishers. Bad news sure, but at least it's cancelled out via Sony.

- Lending polocies, while restrictive, are better then that of Steam and IOS, two mega popular services.

That just leaves the daily online connection, which I am opposed to greatly. I myself, as well as all of you posters, in fact I think its safe to say most of all NA/UK gamer posters on all the gaming internet have a stable enough connection to deal with this.

But this con can hurt MS's sales internationally. South America, Eastern Europe, Asia, and other small markets. I hope MS can make exceptions for countries that just don't have the internet infrastructure or else sales will be seriously hampered. But even with us in NA and UK, there will be accidents. Hacks WILL be done, LIVE servers will have hiccups, your internet provider may have a off-day......these will cause global gaming outages, a SIm City disaster X1000, something MS shouldn't have to deal with. Then there is the thing about servicemen, and others who routinely travel....so many unique circumstances that will be inconvienenced with this.

This IMO, is the main deal breaker. Games are great, but I feel that once this issue is nixed, the other cons will fall into place.

I agree... its ridicilous that the console will blow up in a big explosion when you don't connect it to the MS servers every 24 hours

Allow for me to play my games offline for as long as I want and I'll be fine with the XBone. Playing mostly on PC, the whole used games and borrowing games debacle doesn't bother me, but It's obvious to see why it'd be an issue. I tend to throw quite a few parties where mates will bring over some multiplayer console games, mainly fighting games.

Think that as long as you are on eachothers friend lists that stuff is A-ok.

From what i read, it allows for you to do that once.

The thing with the Xbox one is that all these negatives don't really help it with my choice for next gen. I don't particularly see many compelling reasons as of now to get it instead of a ps4. All these restrictions seems like an unecessary pain. My connection is def good enough to sustain the Xbox one(as of now), but I don't see a reason to choose it over the ps4. Don't get me wrong though, if the Xbox one has a really compelling list of exclusives, it still has a chance of being my next gen device. I find all the kinect stuff amusing too.

What about owning your games?

I think the biggest problem for me is that i'm not able to lend games to my friends. I don't care about always online

it think allowing cell phone with broadband to do the authentication will greatly help with this. especially in places that dont have land based internet access. But it is the big negative, would be better if it was for atleast a week at a time.

Issue is it is a damning con for a system, I cannot express how badly I hope no one else follows suit.