Well it’s certainly a more powerful system, which is great for everybody because the 360/PS3 have been holding back developers for a little while now. I like a lot of the ideas, I also like that they aren’t pushing something like Kinect as mandatory for developers either, which means it will probably be THE more popular platform to develop on.
The giant downsides I see are
1. Always on, most people in the US not only have shoddy internet, but have no way to connect at all, which is a large number of people in the midwest. Doing this is going to be a really big downside 6 months out from launch.
2. No used games. This has been thrown around a lot since it was said, and while it seems like a monumentally bad move to make, we’ve also seen nothing to the former. This would only work if Sony and Microsoft adopted the Steam plan of seasonal sales, up to 90% off, New digital titles at 39.99/49.99. Sadly, they won’t.
