Xbox One... the 180 and the 360 were obviously false starts...

I love the Xbox, aaaaaaaaaand it's gone.

I don't always play Xbox, but when I do, it's my 360.

Seriously. How stupid can people get? The 180 was the frigging answer to sugarcoated japanese moe machines, catered to the hardcore early adapter/gamer (remember that awesome splosion on boot-up?) and the 360 before NXE, with the awesome blades-interface... good times, great games.

Why would I buy a machine that isn't about gaming anymore and tries to do everything my PC does, but with more restrictions? Xbox One is the revival of the doomed Netbox. Remember that?

I'm not looking forward to the influx of reformed console-gamers clogging up my favorite PC-store next year. To understand that, you need to know about the demographics in the Netherlands. Sony=dead. Nintendo=dead. Xbox=flopping on dry land. PC is making a huge comeback overhere. Console-chains are closing shop one after the other. It's done.

A lot of it has to do with the cold-shouldering of Europe by the three companies in the last twenty odd years. PCs are remarkably free of that, with platforms like Steam, Origin and soccer-mum platforms like Zylom and other casual platforms. The gaming potential on a PC is just that much bigger, and media-functions that the Xbox One is pitching as new, sharp, trendy and edgy are rather old news. Right now my PC is displaying this page, keeping me informed on updates on a artistic site I dabble on, is playing an episode of the Walking Dead I wanted to see again and it has Skyrim minimized on the taskbar. It also has a applet running that notifies me of incoming phonecalls on my cell before my cell even rings...

But it doesn't collect my private information, doesn't datamine my livingroom, doesn't recognize my face, doesn't have a systemwide DRM in place, doesn't care if I play games from 1980 if I want to and does not come up recommendations of what I want to do based on what I did four months ago.

The only thing that irks me that I'll have to make peace with the fact that there will be a day where I can't play Rockband anymore... And that makes me sad on pre-order. ^^

My advise? Get a PC. They're HDMI too, you know. Just saying. And you'll still get to use your 360-controllers.