10 Problems Nobody Wants To Admit About The Xbox One

2. There's An App For That

Where did it all go wrong? The Xbox 360 isn't considered to be the best console of the last generation just because of its superior engineering (post-Red Ring of Death, at least), performance and exclusives; one of the prime reasons it holds that crown is because it had, by far and away, the most accessible, clean and functional dashboard of its time. In the year leading up to the Xbox One's release though, it became apparent that Microsoft had suddenly taken a liking to all of this external app nonsense, and began hiding every single service behind hundreds of different tiles you had to navigate through like a blind man. Lo and behold, the preference for that type of content delivery exploded into the Xbox One dashboard we have today. Tucked away in its darkest recesses, I'm sure there's a treasure trove of software I'd love nothing more than to buy, and one day, I may actually be able to find it. Kinect goes a long way in remedying most problems by being able to search for something specific through speech, but that bloody thing has enough of its own problems...
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