"The Xbox One Could Rise To The Top, If Microsoft Does One Thing"

[kane_magus]

You want to know the exact point I stopped reading this stupid article? I won't even make you guess. It's right there: the second paragraph.

"Microsoft has basically fouled up the Xbox One by listening to the public by recently agreeing to sell the console without the Kinect controller. It did the same listening thing before the Xbox One even launched by taking out the requirement for the console to be online once every 24 hours. While this appeased privacy nuts, it stripped some nice features out of the console. And let's be honest, everyone who buys an Xbox connects it to the internet anyway."

I honestly don't even care what the "one thing" Microsoft could supposedly do to make the X-bone "rise to the top," in this guy's eyes, because it's almost assuredly just as idiotic as the above.

Also, in unrelated news, it looks like Livejournal has once again randomly changed its GUI for no good reason. Go figure.

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[owsf2000.livejournal.com]

Oh one more thing since I finished reading the article after posting. :P

"So the answer to Microsoft’s problems with the Xbox One? Simple. Stop listening to the public and put everything back the way it was when it was announced a year ago. Then, and only then, will the console be the best of its generation."

He says this because all the changes he's making is alienating most of the early adopters who were "forced" to buy it bundled with Kinect?

1. If they feel they were "forced" to buy it, it probably means they've definitely noticed there was NO use for it to begin with and they find it a waste of money.

2. Putting things back to how it was ANNOUNCED a year ago would annoy a good segment of the early adopters even more - since most of those didn't buy a Xbone until after the first round of changes were made. It was only those drunk on the microsoft juice that loved and defended the original Xbone plans. The rest of us cancelled our initial preorders until some changes were made. And it was because of those cancellations that changes -were- made.

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

"So the answer to Microsoft’s problems with the Xbox One? Simple. Stop listening to the public and put everything back the way it was when it was announced a year ago. Then, and only then, will the console be the best of its generation."

So his "one thing" that Microsoft needs to do to get the X-bone to "rise to the top" really was just "stop listening to the public"? Yeah... that's about as stupid as I was expecting, especially considering that it's the same damn thing he said in that second paragraph there at which I'd stopped reading, the stupidity of which was the reason I'd stopped reading in the first place.

Putting things back the way they were before Microsoft finally got a clue and backpedaled on it would piss off way more people than they would get new buyers. There aren't enough X-bone fanboys in the world to support such a moronic idea.