E3 2013

[TheGame]

Originally Posted by Professor S

If the Xbox One fails it will have nothing to do with DRM, internet connectivity, or "spy cameras". Outside of gamers and geeks, no one cares about any of that. Outside of the used game issue all the complaining is a self-contained echo chamber of nerd rage. If MS can convince families that the XBox One is a replacement for the DVR, remote control, Blue Ray player, streaming media player, etc. it will succeed.

I think you are downplaying it quite a bit. I don't think DRM will doom the system automatically.... but when you have issues that are protestable with your product there's a BIG problem. People (like me I admit), WANT this system to fail, and I'm telling every person I can about it's issues.

This is why I think it will fail.
#1: Higher price
#2: Bad publicity from DRM
#3: Bad publicity from home security issues (aka kinnect)
#4: Forced internet connection (Believe it or not, a lot of people have systems without a broadband connection)
#5: Too much focus on non gaming features. As Sony pointed out, it's been tried before, and at the end of the day it's the games that mainly move the system.

I don't think it's a lock to fail... but it doesn't look good right now. Most of that stuff MS could turn back on before launch too, but you know they won't.