What did the Xbone do right?

[Adam Jensen_v1legacy]

So my thoughts... The 500g hard drive and, um... possibly the "more powerful" processor.

No. 500Gb is not enough for next gen games. But at least it supports external hard drives. As for the hardware, they didn't really do a very good job compared to Sony's PS4. If their idea is to rely on cloud based processing I hope they crash and burn.

The controller looks OK, I guess. That's about it.

 

[KungFuJazzHands]

The Xbone is going to drive more people towards PC gaming. That's the only positive I can think of.

 

[Bellvedere]

Well in terms of marketing - the xbone reveal received 4 times the buzz of the PS4 reveal (Ostensibly 40% positive, 40% neutral, 20% negative). (http://www.kotaku.com.au/2013/05/the-xbox-one-uncertainty-principle/)
Any publicity is good publicity especially given that the most controversial features (always online, used games, etc.) are also the ones we know least about.

8 new IPs is pretty darn cool.

Increasing the utility of the console is always good too.

Games that react to bio-feedback (since the kinect can measure that shit) would be a whole new level of immersive. If there's a heap of interesting titles that make use of that, it would be pretty hard to resist.

 

[badgersprite]

The controller looks great. The controller is literally the reason I bought a 360, but the PS4's looks like it might be good enough this time around.

Yes, this. They definitely have the best controller out there right now.

Also, having no fewer than fifteen new games coming out in the year after release and eight entirely new IPs is something I support, as long as they aren't just Kinect games and are actually interesting titles offering something new and different, but we'll have to wait until E3 to really know how their games are shaping up and whether they're going to be any good.

 

[Signa]

Oh! Oh! I got another one!

You will never have to get up and switch disks. That's actually a real feature that I could see enjoying. My PC has completely spoiled me with that. It seems like such a trivial matter, but sometimes my desire to play a different game than the one in the system is overpowered by my desire to not get up to change it. It's particularly a problem when I don't feel like playing the game in the drive, and then just don't feel like gaming at all.

Really, that's a rather exaggerated scenario, but the difference is quite a big deal when I have the option on one system, and then it's removed from me on another.

 

[FalloutJack]

Well, they managed to continue Microsoft's tradition of copying everyone else's work to produce their own knock-off device. This has been going on for years, of coursee. You may as well call this thing the Xune!