24 hour checkin (always-online DRM) and restricting game resale/trade is huge. The former has been adequately demonstrated by PR catastrophes like Sim City 2013 and Diablo 3, the latter is also very important to a lot of people who still buy discs.

We'll have to wait and see how this translates into sales, but Sony won a lot of points for not caving to publishers on these issues.

I suspect a lot of gamers also aren't keen on the Kinect, so the extra $100 for it is another downside.

Well, from a collector's perspective, the xbox one is a dead end.

Unless they make a very overt overture towards the end of the life of that console ... In 15-20 years time, when the servers go down and the lights go out. It will be a useless piece of plastic.

Hell, in 15-20 years time even the non-collectors who hung onto their consoles will be screwed.

Unless the pirates manage to save it from obsolescence.

That must be nice.

That's not entirely fair, we're talking about premium entertainment devices with a minimum price of $399, the difference is only 20% of that.