I imagine despite the negativity, it will be successful in some spheres. While the average gamers continue to age, there's a whole generation ready to ask "Mom,

I imagine despite the negativity, it will be successful in some spheres. While the average gamers continue to age, there's a whole generation ready to ask "Mom, can I have one?" They aren't going to question its negatives. Once you establish the dialogue that you have an always-on, monitoring device in your house, you're locked in to a DRM prison and its the norm, you can finally draw the line in the sand for pay-to-play further next round: timed access content, expirations, in game purchases and so forth... ... that so long the other guys aren't offering better content with much more liberal DRM. What I figure is Microsoft must be willing to bet the farm that they're brand value is high enough to still keep fans.