12 Controversial Video Game Scandals That Rocked The Industry

10. Microsoft Completely Reverse Everything About The Xbox One

At some point in a galaxy far, far away, it won't be the Trillia Massacre two plucky young heroes are talking about, it'll be Microsoft blasting their own foot off with the Xbox One's launch.

Riding high at the close of the previous generation, the company promptly gave all manufacturing duties for the 360's followup to an entirely new team. Why? Because they wanted to make a play for your living room. The Xbox One was thus revealed as an "all in one" machine that could control your TV, record programs and play games, all with the power of your voice.

The problem was nobody on earth wanted this. Nobody. It didn't help that the initial reveal event featured pre-recorded footage, that the console would require a mandatory online server check every 24 hours or that it couldn't play pre-owned games without weeks of authorisation. Nope, the core functionality of a games machine was... controlling your TV.

Hilariously, after a month of nothing but abuse, confusing PR messaging and white-hot jibes from Sony, they relented. Every single practice was reversed and the console was left a broken, unusable mess. Only now in 2016 have Microsoft finally got back on the horse, having been dragged along the stirrups for three whole years.