Xbox 720, Would you buy it? Options

[King Of Beasts]

So I've heard about the Xbox 720 coming out around Christmas this year, and was just wondering two things.

1. Would you buy it?

2. HOW THE HELL WOULD YOU USE THAT THING?! I MEAN LOOK AT IT!!!!!

This post has been edited by King Of Beasts: May 11 2013, 03:09 AM

[SubRosa]

It sounds interesting, mainly because Microsoft is trying to do more than just make it a gaming machine. Not that I would ever buy one of course. I have a computer after all!

[Colonel Mustard]

Still completely unfussed by this, I'll be honest. The good: It has better hardware and does lots of extra stuff besides games console things (though I honestly wander what the point of that is as televisions already being released can do the same thing as the Xbox 1, meaning that this isn't much of a selling point). Inbuilt Kinect seems nice, but it appears that Microsoft still don't understand the potentially for gameplay augmentation the Kinect has and are instead using it for the usual gimmicky voice command schtick when it could be so. Much. More!

The bad: No backwards compatability. I mean, why, Microsoft? How does that, on any level as a business move, make any sense?

The ugly: Locking out/charging for (it still seems up in the air) pre-owned games. I doubt this is going to last due to pressure from retailers like Gamestop, who rely on second-hand game sales as their bread and butter, but the sheer level of contempt that this shows towards customers is not only rather disheartening but also another really rather worrying of the direction this generation of gaming is moving in.

I'm reserving judgement on it until it's out, but I won't be pre-ordering and so far I don't feel all that optimistic.