This evening, massive numbers of Xbox One consoles will arrive on gamers’ doorsteps. At midnight, many more gamers will queue in stores to get their hands on one. Seems an appropriate time to post this story about how Xbox Live came to be.
I will warn you. This story contains graphic Microsoftness. And it takes place, apparently, in a world where Apple does not exist. All that aside, if you are an Xbox fan, you’ll enjoy this.
Picked mine up at the Xbox One party in LA last night. The UI is absolutely atrocious and has a maddening bit of input lag not present on the PS4 UI. Kinect’s gesture and voice commands, however, work superbly well out of the box and the lady has taken to marshaling it like a pro this morning. Says you can turn the system on and use any TV/Netflix/Prime related functions without a remote or controller just on Kinect alone.