You know what the Xbox One is the all-time greatest example of? Wasted potential. I, like probably many of you, am still wondering how Microsoft managed to almost single-handedly destroy its reputation in the console market within a matter of minutes on that fateful day in 2013. The near-catastrophic revelation that the eighth generation console would require an almost permanent connection to the internet along with the somehow-even-stupider decision to restrict the sale and use of pre-owned or second-hand games was a surefire way to put the thing six feet under before it even reached retail. Backlash forced the software giant to completely scrap those ideas in time as they let the public focus on what the Xbox One was doing right. As it turned out, there were quite a few positives; voice-based navigation, the ability to play games mid-install and the more recently, backwards compatibility, were all neat features worth getting excited about. Yet somehow, Microsoft even managed to inadvertently sabotage the popularity of those, too. With every great idea we catch wind of that's in the pipeline for the Xbox One, there's a drawback sure to follow. The Xbox One isn't even close to be being a bad console, but none of these are exactly helping its case, either...
Joe is a freelance games journalist who, while not spending every waking minute selling himself to websites around the world, spends his free time writing. Most of it makes no sense, but when it does, he treats each article as if it were his Magnum Opus - with varying results.
