Xbox One

[Mereck]

And once again, Microsoft puts more focus on trying to scrape as much capital back in the form of consumer-unfriendly practices like Always Online and secondhand fees rather than actually create a product or service that is actually valued.

[painhertz]

a console is pretty much a pc dedicated to a single purpose

Well, once upon a time, consoles were still better than PCs for the purpose they were dedicated to, however. These days, that seems to be a long time ago, though.

also, its one hell of a machine. 8gigs ram with however much hard drive space is a beast for such a 'small' thing

Except it's really not. RAM is pretty much free these days. Last time I upgraded my own PC -- which is now more than a year ago -- I stuffed it with 16 GB RAM simply because "why not", and I'd be very much surprised if the new XBox doesn't turn out more expensive still.

Just look at the rest of the hardware, as well. While detailed specs haven't been released yet, the CPU is boasted as an AMD APU, which means it's most likely a Bulldozer derivative (enjoy your shared FPUs), which in turn means that it won't even be able to compete with e.g. a Core i7 now, let alone in a year or two. Not much is said about the GPU, but if the PS4 is anything to judge by, it will be outperformed by current-generation (which will be past-generation by the time the PS4 or the new XBox are actually released) PC video cards by almost a factor of 2.

Which leaves the reason for playing games on new consoles pretty much at them being EAs preferred DRM platform.

I don't even hate consoles per se, but their development as of late isn't exactly exciting, and I can only hope that they fail miserably, so that their developers might take a hint.

Haha. My son is a diehard Xbox user and was all excited watching the unviel the other day. Myself, being PC MASTER RACE had to give him hell. I told him, oh, that's nice. it's not as powerful as my 2 year old computer and you'll not be able to borrow games or buy them used without paying full price for them. lol I've been raggin him for days now, telling him he better learn how to WASD.