How are there this many posts in this thread, and yet NOBODY has mentioned that this thing looks like it's one flippable door and some buttons away from looking like the first VCR/Betamax player your parents bought?
At least the comments have gone into the intense debate on how Microsoft has effectively negated almost any reason why you would buy this device over a PC outside of maybe some sort of dynamite exclusive or the honest to god NEED to voice control your television out of laziness of not wanting to use a remote.
For YEARS now, one of the primary arguments pro console gamers used to defend their preference over PC gaming was that they didn't have to deal with Digital Rights Management bullshit getting in the way of lending a game to a friend or keeping you from getting a bit of return on investment if you get a game you honestly are never going to touch again and don't want for your collection. All this multimedia device crap outside of TV TV TV TV [a feature that requires you own a HDMI complient CABLE TV BOX THAT ACCOMPLISHES THIS REGARDLESS OF YOU HAVING AN XBOX ONE] can be achieved by your PC and in a much more elegant fashion than talking to the Kinect... which by the way, weren't Microsoft talking about making a PC compatible Kinect anyway?
with the lack of emphasis on those games that should be the chief moving power behind this behemoth Blu-ray eating 8-track player is really concerning... why could they not hold onto their britches to show this thing at E3 where there'd be more of an impact as you show it off with games?
Hell, they were gonna reveal this thing earlier in April, but they delayed this a month already so they could respond to the Playstation 4, which Sony had WAY the **** more together and actually showed a couple of interesting titles and kept the focus on the GAMES of their GAMING CONSOLE!
Xbox One's focus on 'oh, it's a multimedia device!' reeks really bad of the 3DO. if this were the 90's, we'd be hearing the "Multimedia device" buzzwords be thrown around like crazy. ugh. this really is kinda sad that Microsoft has lost their way and this could really be the beginning of the end, regardless of the Xbox VCR's success or failure.
Maybe I'd consider buying it if it were actually a water cooler as well.