I'm more excited for it as a media center than as a game console. The fact that they let you pass through your cable box to an HDMI-IN shows me that they have been paying attention. I believe this was something that the Logitech Revue pioneered but unfortunately didn't take off due to being too slow a unit. I've been waiting to see who might support this and so far it only looks like Microsoft has. You may not appreciate it, but being able to flip between games/sites/cable instantly goes a long way in making your living room experience seamless, and I really think that will be the difference in this short term (while people still own cable boxes) if Sony/Apple/Google don't follow suit.
I wish they supported more cable provider guides through their Live TV, but I guess it's early.
Apple bought the company that made the technology behind the Kinect, so I presume they believe Microsoft has the right idea.
That said the new kinect voice is SOOOOO close to being good, the stupid thing fails more often than siri though so I tend to forget to use it ever except the first day I got my xbox.
I still hate that I need to pay for gold just to watch netflix (this is the reason I have my Apple TV tbh, I maybe use gold over the winter but other than that I got better things to do).
The multitasking is quite brilliant though, it transitions between games so flawlessly its almost uncanny to me.
I used to upload gaming videos (moments/montages) to youtube. The share feature is nice on PS4 and Xbox one, although the reason for my comment is I quit uploading, because I always received copyright notices from YouTube, and even if I won an appeal...it still lead to copyright notices AGAIN later. Aside from the notices, my friends and I were monitoring through Adsense, after the notices would happen, I'd noticed that earned adsense revenue would be subtracted from FINALIZED earnings. I wrote a blog about this out of anger [1].
Anyways, the reason I stopped uploading was, because to actually get views and subscribers, editors need to....edit....their videos. Although when I uploaded, it taught me how to edit and compress videos, I realized I was editing and reviewing footage a lot more than playing.
There's also a whole audience of people on twitch who watch live streams of games with merely the player commenting into their headset as they go regarding why they're doing something (sometimes not even that!).
So there's two instances without editing already in wide use today.
Will Microsoft allow it when it would make Skype look bad or do they just want users on their platform? Youtube uploads suggests to me they want functionality from any source to get an edge on the competition.
Definitely this. PS4 users constantly complain how, in order to get a video on YouTube, you must upload to Facebook, download the video, then upload to YouTube.
Granted, we're getting USB output soon enough, but direct upload to YouTube would be ideal.
I cannot comprehend what sort of thought leads to an implementation like that.
Off topic but who do you actually consider a real competitor to Youtube? The only other major service I can think of is Vimeo. I have been getting frustrated with Youtube's random takedowns, ads and disabling of fullscreen in most websites. I think there is a potential for some new startups here.
edit: looks like twitch is supported, definitely as well as youtube, and includes live broadcasting of gameplay... http://www.xbox.com/en-US/live/apps/Xbox-One/Twitch
Either way, it's going to make for a more captive audience than Youtube.
