Hello,
I speak on behalf of a gamer, and not an MS ******:
I'm not getting XBone.
I never cared much for the DRM. I'm a PC gamer, and my primary games are all online--I know that any day, my favorite game can disappear. I'm used to not being able to give my old games to people--and that's fine for me. Hell, I was totally on the bandwagon with always giving the Dev a cut--AS LONG AS THEY DO IT FAIRLY AND WITH TRANSPARENCY.
See, with services like Good Old Games, I'm willing to pay up for games, and the service shows me goodwill by making it DRM-free. Steam had a spotty launch, but the community was much smaller back then, so the problem never devolved into verification errors weeks after a game launch. Not to mention they also added offline mode--again, a sign of goodwill.
And what did MS tells us? "Oh, if you can't afford an always on connection, get a 360--you're not for us!" That's right, they just shat in my face.
Or the console launch event? "Here are all the services we have for non-gamers. You gamers.....we'll show you a mo-cap dog!"
Or for those of us (me, for example) outside of the US? "Oh, our services really doesn't quite extend to you. Yeah....those online TVs? Nope, not available in your territory. Want the console anyway? Nah, we don't sell one in your region. Oh, you're from Europe? Here's one for 620 bucks!"
It doesn't matter how they backtracked, it doesn't matter if they "listened to the weak and feeble-minded", we gamers are not going to condone the XBone because we are no longer their valued customer. MS insulted us repeatedly, treated us like fools, and they are catering all their services to Apple fans. In all honesty, no gamers would be able to forgive MS for quite a good while.