A console is a venue. Its a product you get to get other products (games).
When this venue wants to sell you other stuff when you are not satisfied with its primary function, its obvious the customer is not gonna be satisfied. If it fails at its primary function, its a faulty product.

Most TVs these days have or can get apps to do things like Netflix and Pandora, so if you want a true All-in-One, get a new TV. You don't need a console unless you specifically *want* to game. And an all in one console is an oxy moron because of exclusives.

By and large. adding features like Hulu and Youtube gives people more options on how they can access things. You can use a PC or laptop, your console, or the TV itself. You pick the interface you like the most, therefore you win as a consumer.

Especially as most of these devices already have the power to run all these functions. Adding the apps is a trivial addition to gain a lot of functionality for the consumer. When someone says "all in one" device these days, they really mean "we DON'T want you using any of your other consumer options. We want you to use this one interface."

The view we have of an all-in-one box can be summed up by the expression "Jack of all trades, master of none." and that's not what we want a console to be. For a console to be appealing it needs to be "master" in the games department first and foremost.

I use to care about the media functions. I used my ps3 all the time as a BD player more than a game system. But once the PS4 came out with missing functions from PS3. I just bought a Oppo BD player and use that for all my media needs. And disabled region lockout.

Because everything I own already does all of the things an "all in one entertainment system" does.

It's because we (well at least I) buy gaming systems to play games. I don't care if they play movies, make me toast, or open cans for me. If one could give me a professional massage I could go for that but I don't think that the XBone offers that feature.

Easy.

Smartphones succeed because they put many desired and already successful features (camera, email, internet, games) in one. There is demand for these things.

The Xbox One added features that no one wants. MS just wanted people to want them.

Cool video.  I was a big fan of Dragon's Lair and Space Ace.  Sadly, the Halcyon was poorly conceived albeit ambitious.

Clearly you don't understand how it works with Xbox One then.  And first of all, I should say I game on my main TV, which makes a difference.  For someone that has a monitor for gaming only, it is fairly worthless.  For me, however, it's amazing.  I don't have to change inputs to access my gaming world.  I'm always immersed in it.  As I'm watching TV I can see friends that are online, I can get game invites while I'm watching TV, I can be watching TV and instantaneously go to a game and back to TV if I'd like, while I wait in a lobby.  I go to Netflix, Youtube, then back to TV, and I never have to switch inputs.  It puts your television "into" your gaming system.  It truly does become "one" and being a "old school" gamer, I can truly say it's one of the biggest innovations I've ever experienced with regards to game consoles.  

People buy gaming consoles basically do one thing: play games. When you try to incorporate all kinds of bells and whistles which 95% of your customers do not care about you dilute your message. What Sonicrosoft should focus on is making the most powerful piece of hardware for the cheapest price and an extremely ergonomic controller. Everything else is a waste of resources. The execs at these companies are completely tone deaf to what the common slob on the couch with doritos crumbs on their shirt actually wants