The Gizmodo guy forgot, that with the restrictions the X1 would only work on selected countries. How can that make it any better is beyond me.

Okay then, why would he on one hand say "absolutely not" and on the other say "this gen hasn't even started so why are we discussing this?"

Seems he wasn't even entirely sure on how things would work. Just like each time DRM was brought up he looked visably annoyed and either changed the subject or made snarky remarks to the interviewer like "Are you a lawyer?", "Are you on the dev team?", etc...

With Angry Joe he asked Maj. Nelson: "Why not just get rid of the 24 hour DRM? It shouldn't be that hard." and Maj. Nelson replies with "Wait, are you on the dev team?", Angry Joe of course says "No", then Maj. says "I thought so."

4 days later they easily just get rid of the DRM. Overall he came off as a bumbling fool you didn't know what he was talking about and when pressed about things their fanbase were concerned about he got all flustered and annoyed.

I wouldn't trust a word that comes out of that man's mouth.

You can't forget though, Blizzard has a very good track record of not closing it's servers down.
Diablo is what, 17 years old? Servers are still up today.

Microsoft on the other hand closed Xbox Live! for the origional console after a mere 8 years, that's not a good track record.
EA is even worse I suppose...

But essentially it would have killed any retro gaming as even today after almost 20 years you can still pull out the Nintendo/Atari/Sega and play it fine, today.
On the PC you have more "grey area" options, where-as closed platforms, not so much.

That was the only major gripe I had with the system, it got resolved, I'll buy one a little while after launch.

The DRM model they had previously guaranteed either that I would never purchase the XONE or would wait until the console was dirt cheep and new games were dirt cheep too.

None of the pros you listed seemed worth it, or accurate in at least the case of cheaper games. The family share plan thing is completely wasted on me.

The new model means that I will at least consider purchasing the XONE. The $499 is still problematic, but ultimately I think within the year price parity between the XONE and PS4 will probably get better.