Quote Originally Posted by The 1 2 P View Post
With the way sentiment has been on this forum(and lets face it, internet forums in general) about Xbox One you'd think that nobody would want it. But thats really not the case. I think that alot of people(myself included) are disappointed with the used game restrictions and the authentication process but they are still excited for Microsoft's next gen system. I was working at Gamestop for one of my clients today and they had already sold most of their XB1 preorders(they only had 6 left alloted to them to sell). Like others mentioned, people are going to try to flip both the XB1 and PS4, which is typical during console launches.

Beyond that there are still alot of people who actually want to buy the XB1 at launch just to play, despite all it's restrictions. I've been contemplating preordering one but they still have alot of unanswered questions to clarify. I'm not ready to jump in yet. But watching all the tweets coming thru Microsoft's daily show and just reading online about all the people already preordering it looks like Microsoft's system is going to do better than we all expected it to do. Still, I could live with the authentication process and Kinect can be turned off at any time. But the restrictions on used games is just ridiculous.
I don't know about that. Beyond the used game thing, the mandatory and more expensive XBL subscription for even basics like video streaming and the mandatory check-in, there's also the $100 price differential for a console that at least on paper has slower memory and other design choices that could result in a less than optimal experience. Like I said in another thread, given how close the performance will be between the two consoles, I can't imagine many users choosing the more expensive option without some very, very compelling exclusive games which I so far haven't seen from Microsoft. A lot of us used our 360s more heavily this generation simply because the PS3 versions of many multiplatform games had performance issues. So, we ended up buying PS3 exclusives and then everything else on the Xbox 360. That won't be the case again, especially given the more restrictive used policy and the possibility that Xbox One games won't function after Microsoft pulls the plug a decade down the road.

Are there some people that absolutely are die hard Xbox ecosystem people? Of course, but even in its best year, Microsoft only had about 15 million paid Gold subscribers worldwide. That's not exactly a massive audience for what Microsoft is trying to do here.