Alan Wake
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So I was sitting there in my old apartment, connected via my Xbox 360 and waiting for the showcase to start. The reveal of the next generation Xbox was about to happen and after an amazing generation I was definitely hyped! And then we got... Xbox One.
The reveal was a disaster. They talked mostly about the new Xbox One as an entertainment hub in our living rooms and very little about games. They showed how we with the Kinect could swap between games and TV. Like anyone would want that. Who asked for this? With Snowden leaking the NSA documents on mass surveillance it was also terrible timing to have a big corporate spy camera in your living room.
I remember I was put off by the console's design alone, and felt completely empty after the Xbox Reveal (which was NOT at E3, although some seems to remember it was). The focus was clearly not games, and even though they did show some games at E3 three weeks later the messaging was terrible and confusing.
After being an Xbox gamer since the day the first Xbox launched in Europe in 2002, I pre-ordered a PS4 and it wasn't until 2015 I bought an Xbox One without the Kinect. I was all in boycott mode for two years. Funny thing is the Xbox One still ended up being my primary platform that gen. Rise of the Tomb Raider (a one year console exclusive) lured me back in and when Microsoft started making changes I sort of forgave them. They launched the One S, backcompat, Game Pass, One X. Good things happened after all.
But on the exclusive games department they never recovered. And honestly, they still haven't. It's been ten years of disappointments and still I'm here with an Xbox Series X (and a PS5 of course), waiting for more games.
How do you remember the Xbox One reveal in May 2013? Did you jump ship or did you stick with Xbox? Did you change your mind after a while like I did?
The reveal was a disaster. They talked mostly about the new Xbox One as an entertainment hub in our living rooms and very little about games. They showed how we with the Kinect could swap between games and TV. Like anyone would want that. Who asked for this? With Snowden leaking the NSA documents on mass surveillance it was also terrible timing to have a big corporate spy camera in your living room.
I remember I was put off by the console's design alone, and felt completely empty after the Xbox Reveal (which was NOT at E3, although some seems to remember it was). The focus was clearly not games, and even though they did show some games at E3 three weeks later the messaging was terrible and confusing.
After being an Xbox gamer since the day the first Xbox launched in Europe in 2002, I pre-ordered a PS4 and it wasn't until 2015 I bought an Xbox One without the Kinect. I was all in boycott mode for two years. Funny thing is the Xbox One still ended up being my primary platform that gen. Rise of the Tomb Raider (a one year console exclusive) lured me back in and when Microsoft started making changes I sort of forgave them. They launched the One S, backcompat, Game Pass, One X. Good things happened after all.
But on the exclusive games department they never recovered. And honestly, they still haven't. It's been ten years of disappointments and still I'm here with an Xbox Series X (and a PS5 of course), waiting for more games.
How do you remember the Xbox One reveal in May 2013? Did you jump ship or did you stick with Xbox? Did you change your mind after a while like I did?
