Spot on Jim. What Microsoft, and let's face it to a degree, Sony, have been striving for the last few years is not to better peoples gaming experience, but to control it. And the best way to gain control is to wrestle it out of the cold dead hands of your competitors. So far its seems to be a no score draw between the big two consoles but PC gaming has been a pretty big casualty of late.
However seeing what Microsoft has brought the table this time with the Xbox One is actually pretty laughable. It reminds me quite a bit of when America Online strong armed its way to the top of the internet provider list in the 90s only to come tumbling down into obscurity a few years later when netizens figured out they didn't need internet with training wheels controlling how they could behave on the internet. And companies more directly connected to the technology could do the same job better and faster. I see the Xbox One going the same way. Companies closer to the cutting edge of multimedia technology already have a massive head start in the market, at a time when consumers are getting tired of the idea of an 800 lb gorilla sitting in their living rooms telling them what content they can and can't have access to, and how they are allowed to access it. Here's hoping that the Xbox One comes and goes as quickly as a fad like Pogs.
However seeing what Microsoft has brought the table this time with the Xbox One is actually pretty laughable. It reminds me quite a bit of when America Online strong armed its way to the top of the internet provider list in the 90s only to come tumbling down into obscurity a few years later when netizens figured out they didn't need internet with training wheels controlling how they could behave on the internet. And companies more directly connected to the technology could do the same job better and faster. I see the Xbox One going the same way. Companies closer to the cutting edge of multimedia technology already have a massive head start in the market, at a time when consumers are getting tired of the idea of an 800 lb gorilla sitting in their living rooms telling them what content they can and can't have access to, and how they are allowed to access it. Here's hoping that the Xbox One comes and goes as quickly as a fad like Pogs.
