Xbox One - November 22, 2013

[Escobar]

Reading that article the XBOX employee posted made my head hurt. That is what's wrong with these big corporations, they make sugarless kool-aid that taste like shit and think they can force everyone to like it. It's funny how he tries to spin everything his way especially finishing by calling PS4 XBOX 360-2, when their family share plan was basically PS+ 1 hour free trial but with less time and more restrictions LMAO.

And to point to the CLW vs IOU argument, PS4 was definitely winning based on their policies. The week after E3 we had a few customers come into the store to get more information on both consoles before they even thought about preordering. One guy (about 35-40) stood out to me because before I even started explaining the consoles to him he said he had a group of friends he always played 360 with but now most of them are switching to the PS4 next gen so he wanted to get some information. I objectively stated the facts to him, didn't point out any differences between the consoles. He wanted to know about the XBOX ONE first so I laid everything out to him and the more details I told him the more I could see in his face he was getting disappointed. Then eventually he said "so we're basically getting screwed all around by Microsoft huh" and I busted out laughing, and this was after I explained the family plan thing to him. Then I explained the PS4 to him and he thanked me for the info and said he was gonna do some more research but will most likely get a PS4.

He hated the 24 hour online check-in thing, because his first question was immediately "what if my internet goes down?" Microsoft has already lost more than it can recoup. The only people that know they changed their policies now are people who browse forums on the internet. There is a reason they say the first impression means everything.

I OU the pc gaming community is completely different than the console gaming community. Many people don't care about having to be connected 24/7 on pc games, because their pc's are already connected 24/7 same as cell phones. You are trying to use the argument that got that guy fired from Microsoft on twitter. Alot of console gamers just want to insert the disc and start playing their games.