jeudi 23 mai 2013

To all of you who think I am a fanboy

I am not. I like all game experiences, and all brands. But some are simply more appealing to me, and some are doing things wrong. I would do the same if Sony or Nintendo did such a product. But hopefully, they are not. There are too many things I hate about the XBox One.

Here they are, just to name a few (and not in order):

1- The way they promote TV and sports before gaming;
2- The way they want to control your TV. This is not a bad thing to get a serious feet into this market before Apple does, but common, do it well and for everybody. Not just for American sports lovers;
3- The system's blank design and identity, as well as their logo, which is way too similar to the XBox360 logo, and does not inspire something "new";
4- The lack of innovation at the controller level;
5- The lack of innovation at the Kinect level;
6- The lack of touch input on the controller directly, at an era where the WiiU, PS4, and even Ouya has it;
7- The fact that we will need to buy a new compatible headset;
8- The lack of retro-compatibility;
9- The fact that they promote cloud gaming, while in fact it will add nothing solid to gamers until the many years to come, and the way they disguise DRM as a feature!
10- The way they promote Smartglass as an amazing and revolutionnary thing, while in fact this will work only on button-less devices like iOS, Android, and Windows Phone, unlike Sony with the PS4 + Vita cross-play.
11- No 3D stereovideo graphics, unless their AMD APU can handle it, which would be surprising. This is a big step backwards over the previous generation, and definetely something they should have pushed further instead of putting aside.

I will add more things with time.

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