10 Biggest Xbox Fails Microsoft Wants You To Forget

6. Xbox SmartGlass

Come on, rack your brain and try really hard to remember what SmartGlass is. After all, it was only released back in 2012, still technically exists, and continues to be supported by Microsoft. No luck? Understandable. SmartGlass is a companion app for the Xbox 360 and Xbox One, which uses your smartphone or tablet as a second screen for an extremely limited number of games and TV shows. It's not technically the worst idea in the world, but if the Wii U proved anything it's that people like to keep their eyes glued to the main screen when gaming. All the (few) games that implemented SmartGlass did so in a half-assed way, like Halo 4 letting you look at match stats, or the Game of Thrones app which let you look at information about the show while, erm, you're watching the show. Yes, there's a definite flaw in logic there... If they found a way to use SmartGlass in a similar way to the brilliant Pip-Boy app for Fallout 4, that inventory screen in ZombiU, or even in the way that iPad syncs seamlessly with Apple TV, then it could yet serve a purpose. But it's now been over a year since any game has implemented the feature in any way, so it looks set to go the way of the HD-DVDodo.