Personally I love the new things you can do on Xbox One. I can be lazy and change the channels without a remote and switch back and forth on the fly without changing inputs.
Wherever I do game @ always has an internet connection so I don't mind that it connects once an hour. Hell my PC is online 24 hours a day most the time.
I've never bought a used game so I don't mind not being able to play them and I don't go to anyone's houses to play games or anything anyways. So I'm not worried about the few downsides of Xbox. I do feel bad for the others out there tho. I feel MS is going to lose a HUGE amount of customers over a few stupid ideas.
And I don't mind the price being $499. It comes WITH a Kinect so your getting 2 powerful machines not just one. It's just a $100 difference which isn't a big enough gap to justify "oh I'll just grab a PS4 it's ''cheaper'' "
Plus, for all you hardcore gamers out there.. with Xbox you can stream LIVE to Twitch.tv (and if you get enough fanbase there you could earn $$ by becoming a partner similar on YouTube) Just a thought
it comes with Kinect but most gamers don't care about Kinect. lol it was originally meant for kids.
Also I agree with you on the purchasing used games part, but XBOXOne are also disregarding the people who like to gamefly games. Forza 5 is a game I want to play, but I don't want to be stuck with a pretty racing game.. lol it's many games people are going to want to play just to satisfy urges but they are frighten at the thought of being stuck with the game. It's only about 3-4 must buy games that release per year for most people. For M$ that includes Halo.. which is the only reason I will eventually get a XBOX One.. but a PS4 first at launch. and X1 probably mid/fall 2014