Six months in, the Xbox One still raises as many questions as it answers. What is Microsoft's vision for this thing? Is it about the cloud, or online gaming, or is it about Kinect? Is it for watching TV, or as the company's more recent messaging seems to suggest, is it now all about gamers and games?
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First things first: I've lost faith in the Kinect camera. I'm sick of hollering orders at my TV, and have been annoyed by the camera far more often than I've been served by it. There are so many small problems, and they add up to become a very big problem. It takes too long to recognize me and sign me in. It can't hear me well enough, and there are few things more annoying than when my girlfriend and I are taking turns shouting "Xbox, Pause" at a movie as the pizza guy knocks on the door. There's a lag between when I say something and when the console acknowledges it, and that lag is long enough that I usually start repeating myself even as it's reporting that it heard me the first time. And while voice control is bad, gestural control is far worse; it's so weird and inconsistent that I can't believe Microsoft even included it.
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As is usual for the first year (or two) of a console's lifespan, there aren't enough games for the Xbox One. And really, the console's not doing so bad in this regard—there are already a
fair number of good games for the system. Launch standout
Dead Rising 3 has gotten a substantial amount of post-release downloadable content, and new games like
Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare and
Super Time Force have been a whole lot of fun.
The not-on-PlayStation
Titanfall has certainly been the most successful game on the Xbox One. However, the Xbox One didn't even get the definitive version that game, which ran noticeably more smoothly on PC and without the Xbox One version's ugly screen-tearing. It's still a
super fun game—I play more or less exclusively on Xbox One—but it raises an eyebrow to see that the blockbuster game most closely associated with the Xbox One runs noticeably better on another platform.
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