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> You're not forced to do anything. It's still your choice in the end whether you want to purchase a console or not. In my family's neighborhood, if you are a
by marshray 13y ago
> You're not forced to do anything. It's still your choice in the end whether you want to purchase a console or not.
In my family's neighborhood, if you are a certain age and want to play with the other boys for many hours out of the day, you must have an Xbox Live, Minecraft, and Modern Warfare 3. In an odd way it does, in fact, involve them putting guns to each others' heads.
The OP said "I want a GAMING console."
> a console used to exist to play games. Clearly, the market is moving away from this.
And the OP gets to express his disappointment in the direction of the market. It doesn't make him wrong.
- mynameisvlad 13y agoBut the OP isn't complaining about the market. He's complaining about the Xbox One not being a gaming-focused device. And that's not fair if the entire market is moving away from gaming-only devices.
- marshray 13y agoWell this an interesting discussion: is "the entire market moving away from gaming-only devices"? Personally, I think it's a mistake to simplify the market like that. Yes, our family uses our Xbox 360 to watch many hours of Netflix. But that's just because it happens to be plugged in to the shared TV. The Playstation or any number of other devices in our house (even weensy little tablet CPUs) can also play Netflix just fine. If we played PS3 games more, we'd go back to watching Netflix and DVDs there. It's not because we "want our Xbox to be a more general entertainment device", it's simply a technically incidental task that's barely worth plugging in an additional device for. Many consoles can play DVDs as well as games, but should DVD playback drive the evolution of consoles?