XBOX 1

So today Microsoft treated us to the big unveil of its newest console in "gaming" XBOX 1. You can see I put gaming in quotes, for a reason. This unsexy looking black box was to be more of an all in one set top box that every company seems to want to make for the mass market these days. In the biggest black tent you can think of holding such an event, Microsofts core of XBOX development team strutted on stage looking more like they where ready for happy hour than unveiling their newest gaming console. Really, lose the jackets, and you with the suit and sneakers all you needed was a bow tie to complete the Pewee look. And not for nothing E3 is a few weeks away but could you actually show some real time game play? No real specs were revealed at the event, this was done later after the smoke and mirrors presentation. The only gaming that was shown was cut scenes of games in development. And where was your biggest franchise game? Oh wait here is a video of Steven Spielberg announcing a live action Halo tv series! Where is Halo 5????  No Halo any game it seems but we get  #Collarofduty Scratch that oh Call Of Duty Ghosts. It has a dog, is it playable? Or AI that you can tell it to rip an enemy's throat out? Any way they really wanted you to know it had a dog in it!  I miss the days when you popped in Halo, Gears of War, or Dead Space and actually played a game and nothing else!