Microsoft has lost its way

How long did we have too wait for a 360 that truely showed off the power of the console, six months? I'd say the title was the first Gears.

Give it time, things will improve, and so what if the PS4 is slightly mire powerful, the PS3 was mire powerful than the 360 and we know how that ended. Once developers get the hang if the Xbox One we'll see parity between consoles.

The Xbox One is far from underpowered. Yeah maybe it could have packed a little more but it has loads of potential to keep great games playing and looking great for the years to come thanks to it's ability to build power upon itself. You should never expect
full power out of the box on day one because it just won't happen, if you did, you should have waited. I personally got mine to get in on next-gen early and play the new exclusives and although £400+ may have been a little too much, I do not regret buying
it at all.

I'm going to just be brutally honest here: it doesn't matter.

All the advancements in tech or power won't mean anything if Developers don't utilize it in meaningful ways.

So it really doesn't matter which console(or even PC) is stronger because the devil is in the details. Yeah, at some point things might be harder for them as the tech becomes stale but really, if they are good a their job they will create ingenious methods
of creating games.

It really doesn't matter if the X1 is stronger or weaker than other platforms because they might not even be able to utilize that power in creative or meaningful ways. I'm playing Infamous: Second Son right now(omg I mentioned PS4!) and it's a great game.Sucker
punch improved so much from the second game but if you ask me if it shows what the next-generation can do, I would tell you it doesn't feel all that different.

As for Microsoft's direction , I won't touch that.

And finally, give it time. As time passes, more games will come out and iteration will shine wonderfully.

[quote user="Daft Badger"]When the 360 came out it was a jump from SD graphics to HD so the difference was more noticable.

It took about 6 years for the 360 to get where it is now.

It'll be the same with the Xbox One.[/quote]Why though. What is wrong with people wanting that experience now when they've paid their money instead of getting it six years later.

Perhaps if Microsoft would give out the console for nothing and only take payment six years later the point might hold some water.

I wouldn't expect a lady of the night to take my money, bring me to the point, then leave to return six years later to finish me off. I don't expect it of a console manufacturer either.

@Xeno: DX12 won't be a game changer unless everyone supports it. First party titles would no doubt be making full use but what about multiplatform? Are they really going to spend a lot of time working on those great features that other platforms wont be
able to use or are we going to get the visual equivalent of a Kinect lean?

@JW: As far as I am aware the Xbox One uses 'off the shelf' PC parts too. The only stumbling block, if it can really be called that, is the ESRAM.

You know, the whole 'tv, tv, sports , sports thing has to be the most successful forced meme of all time. Everyone talks about how MS botched their reveal when they said more than once before it even aired that the reveal was for the hardware and its non-gaming
features and E3 would be nothing but games.

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People like to pretend that MS put all that other crap first and didn't give a damn about games so that the hate train over their policies would pick up speed. There is no way in hell that as close attention was being paid to all the negative hype, nitpicking
every possible detail that the fact that they told us how they were presenting the console would fly clear over everyone's heads.

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That fact was purposefully buried in the crapstorm.

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"Oh noes, MS is saving all the GAME reveals for the GAMING CENTRIC event in June , those bastards!!!!"

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Give me a break.