A love letter about the Xboxone and the future of gaming

[BigusSchmuck]

http://adequateman.deadspin.com/the-xbox-one-is-garbage-and-the-future-is-bullshit-1736054579
Glad I didn't get one lol.

[Elder]

I haven't liked where the industry has been heading for a very long time now.  This is why I play more retro stuff now than new.

[lukester]

Maybe people should have supported the Retro VGS Turbografx. The industry might be in a better place.  :-"

[Elder]

I've often wondered what would have happened if the Turbo was a success.  Back in the day I always found what the Turbo had on CD was far better than SEGA's heavily marketed FMV-based games.  Playing Gate of Thunder sure beats the snot out of playing Sewer Shark.   

[sirhcman]

I've had a Xbox One since launch, never a problem and it has been one of the best consoles I've ever owned. The guy complains about the system having to install games but also complained that his 360 sounded like a jet engine and had drive failures from playing the games from disc. He sounds like a guy who would have backed the RetroVGS

[Black Tiger]

Maybe people should have supported the Retro VGS Turbografx. The industry might be in a better place.  :-"

I've often wondered what would have happened if the Turbo was a success.  Back in the day I always found what the Turbo had on CD was far better than SEGA's heavily marketed FMV-based games.  Playing Gate of Thunder sure beats the snot out of playing Sewer Shark.   

The Sega-CD has a comparable library of non-"fmv" games as the Turbo-CD. Way too many to list. If someone were to say that they prefered the Sega-CD library to the Turbo-CD, I'd understand why, even if I don't agree.

Playing Keio Flying Squadran sure beats the snot out of playing Hawaii Bikini Girls.

[Elder]

The Sega-CD has a comparable library of non-"fmv" games as the Turbo-CD. Way too many to list. If someone were to say that they prefered the Sega-CD library to the Turbo-CD, I'd understand why, even if I don't agree.

Playing Keio Flying Squadran sure beats the snot out of playing Hawaii Bikini Girls.

Indeed that's a true statement, however to the masses they sure wouldn't know that back then.  All I ever saw were the FMV commercials for games.  To be fair, I never even saw TurboDuo commercials back then, but I still think it would have been interesting to see what would have happened if say they had strong marketing for something like Rondo of Blood compared to say SEGA's marketing of Night Trap.  Maybe nothing would have happened, but I like to think that perhaps things would have been different. 

[Necromancer]

OMG!  This thing is a piece of shit because I'm too stupid to remember my log in info. and too lazy to figure out how to set it up properly!!!!

The guy sounds like a bitch.

[BigusSchmuck]

OMG!  This thing is a piece of shit because I'm too stupid to remember my log in info. and too lazy to figure out how to set it up properly!!!!

The guy sounds like a bitch.

Sounds like the end users I work with on a daily basis.

[GohanX]

OMG!  This thing is a piece of shit because I'm too stupid to remember my log in info. and too lazy to figure out how to set it up properly!!!!

The guy sounds like a bitch.

The whole article reeks of millennial narcissism.

[SignOfZeta]

I've had a Xbox One since launch, never a problem and it has been one of the best consoles I've ever owned. The guy complains about the system having to install games but also complained that his 360 sounded like a jet engine and had drive failures from playing the games from disc. He sounds like a guy who would have backed the RetroVGS

Both are shit. Now do you understand?

I've never touched a XBone, but frankly this sort of shit is exactly why. I've been playing video games since the days of TV tennis clones and b/w TVs. I outlasted most of my friends, but this is the generation I call bullshit. The WiiU was bad enough, but at least it's been trouble free since I went through setup process. My lusting after new game machines started in 1979, now it's dead.

You know, you can buy a Mercedes S class with radar guided cruise, night vision camera, a DI turbo V8, 9 speed automatic transmission, four wheel drive, and 16 air bags. It maybe the best car in the world and it is a machine that is orders of magnitude more complex than a stupid f*cking X Box and all you have to do to drive it is turn the f*cking key. "Set-up" from new takes literally seconds.

These new consoles are putting you through this because the OEMs are lazy and the customers are taking so much Ritalin and Zoloft that they don't complain.

[SignOfZeta]

OMG!  This thing is a piece of shit because I'm too stupid to remember my log in info. and too lazy to figure out how to set it up properly!!!!

The guy sounds like a bitch.

Sounds like the end users I work with on a daily basis.

I don't know anything about the guy, but he sounds like a normal person with a life that is very busy and like someone who hasn't been properly conditioned to think time sucking piece of shit electronics deserve so much respect that we are supposed to patiently wait for what amounts to probably hundreds of hours of watching progress bars over the lifespan of the system.

"End user" means "someone who isn't being paid to like it".  Just because you may be the master of something doesn't mean that everyone else should be able to eat shit and breath the thing. It's not a bassoon or a radio telescope, it's a f*cking toy you hook to your TV to have fun. It should work for anyone with an IQ over 60 and a half hour to spare. 

Console makers are dealing with a continuously shrinking market share, and while this eternal Stygian slog shit isn't the reason why, it isn't helping. If only losers with no life even have time to use the thing, you are limiting your audience.

[BlueBMW]

I just hate that when I do go to use the PS4 (and to a lesser extent the PS3 and Wii U) it seems to always need an update every time I turn it on.  Since I dont use it but every few weeks or so i seem to always need an update.  So while I may power it on for a quick whatever before work I end up letting it update and turn off without even a single moment of game play.

[sirhcman]

These new consoles are putting you through this because the OEMs are lazy and the customers are taking so much Ritalin and Zoloft that they don't complain.

Yea thanks for the reminder, my loser ass is almost out of pills!

[Necromancer]

The updates are the most annoying thing that could be done better.  If they were more like your phone or pc, where they're often updating unobtrusively in the background, who'd give a shit?  Once set up and running they will do a lot of it in the background, but only if you let it and don't turn it off off.

You know, you can buy a Mercedes S class with radar guided cruise, night vision camera, a DI turbo V8, 9 speed automatic transmission, four wheel drive, and 16 air bags. It maybe the best car in the world and it is a machine that is orders of magnitude more complex than a stupid f*cking X Box and all you have to do to drive it is turn the f*cking key. "Set-up" from new takes literally seconds.

You're seriously comparing a game console to a f*cking car?  The car works 'right out of the box' because it mostly does just one thing: be a car.  Even so, if you actually want to use all the features you paid for you'll be spending time bluetooth pairing, programming homelink to open your garage door, transferring your xm radio account info., etc.