Being honest I was sold on the Xbox One from the original launch and it could probably sell well with just Titanfall as a launch title. Whats worrying is the negative hype drummed up by the Sony fanboys and some of the games press is severely distorting the truth. Ive spent most of my morning digging up facts and linking articles to contradict things that people have been coming out with purely because of a slight spin on the negatives.
Wildest thing ive heard is that the xbox 24 hour check in has got a suicide switch - so if you don't log in for 24 hours its got a 12 hour security period after you've logged back in before you can play on your games!!
Im doing a pretty decent job so far on damage control and have swayed most of my friends back to the xbox. Hopefully they pass on what I have to their friends and so on and so on and the BS stops. Theres some crazy things out there that people are taking as gospel because theyve seen it on a forum message board.
Thats good on you for doing so but MS should be the ones coming out and doing damage control. Last night, they took a very direct shot from Sony and to say MS was witch slapped is an understatement. Granted, it seems tech blogs and others love to bash MS, but they have a good reason to this time. MS chose its path and its up to them to justify to consumers why.
MS needs to get their PR team together and develop a good strategy to take this on, head on. I dont know how they do it but they need to do the following:
1. Justify why the XboxOne is worth $500, when their rival is selling at $100 less. You can say Kinect, but keep in mind, there are people who dont want it in the first place. And its been said already that Sony essentially has better hardware. No DRM, no restrictions, no 24 internet check...yet its still cheaper. Their Plus membership is cheaper with ability to get free games (albeit only while you have the membership but its still better than anything MS has offered).
2. DRM and used games. Say what you want, but putting restrictions in place on games you purchased is going to be hard to justify to consumers. Itd be one thing if games were now cheaper, but they arent. I dont know how they handle this one at all. When people buy a physical product, they want to lend/trade/sell as THEY CHOSE, not based off restrictions that are a hassle.
3. 24 hour internet check. Probably not a huge deal to most, but remember not everyone is in the same situation. Something as seemingly minor as someone who takes their game console on vacation, to a cabin, or the military, or people in college dorms or barracks, etc.....this is not good for everyone. It WILL be a big deal to some.
Never been a member of a PR team, but unless youre a big time Xbox fan, anyone of these is a hard sell. Add them all together and its a monumental task. I dont know how they handle this, but again, after last night and the reaction all over the place, they better try and get out in front of this. They have to do something.