Please don't take this is trolling, but if you are still interested in getting a Xbox one after all of this, i would suggest you just stop posting/reading gaming forums for a while.
There seems to be nothing but FUD, negativity and general unpleasantness around this console. Its purely Microsofts own fault, but the fact remains that to even try and defend all this crap must become draining as hell by now.
My advice is just to forget about it, buy the console and let the chips fall where they will. If you have any personal deal breakers, they will come up soon enough once you have the device in your hands but the mental gymnastics to even try and justify this shit as cool doesn't seem it worth it anymore.
I know this place has become in to a Sony circle-jerk, but that's only because for Sony for all their bundling arrogance in recent years, have not botched perception of their brand to this extent ever. In fact, nobody has. Whether all this comes out in the wash remains to be seen and Microsoft probably will go on to sell tens of millions of consoles, but the fact remains for a huge amount of the hardcore, Microsoft has totally shattered any goodwill it once had.
I hope its worth it in the end for them. We need competition in the console space.
