"Microsoft has more than ten years of experience making privacy a top priority." Yet since I signed up for Xbox live rewards, my e-mail has blown up with spam.

So the Skype is included so prepubescent boys can flash and moon me for slaughtering them repeatedly in CoD and BF. Get ready for a million troll dicks Microsoft.

Oh wait they are ready, the cloud is there to record everything you do on the xbone.

Sounds like next gen Call of Duty is going to be even more lag ridden.

Anyone remember the initial 90-day warranty on the Xbox360? They knew it was a Red ring having piece of crap and tried to pull a fast one. 360 slim was supposed to be the answer but it also fails yearly. Who cares how many exclusive games there are for a broken machine?

Microsoft money would be much better spent on hardware quality control than making a Kinect version of Wii tennis.

All this talk about DRM, Kinect and privacy, used game fees, always online for marketing reasons, lack of backward compatibility even for XBL games, and the microtransaction laden FTP and pay to win casual game garbage doesn't tell the whole story.

The fact is the XBOX 360 has the poorest quality hardware of any console I've ever owned. Multiple red rings, multiple power source failures, multiple disk drive failures unrecognizing disks. Every year I ship a console back to Microsoft for another failure. It's a shame the longest extended warranty I could get is three years. I purchased three 360's this gen since I have a large library of games purchased at midnight day one. Now my slim power supply is overheating and it is not recognizing disks, after having the hard drive fail and replaced by Microsoft.

Meanwhile, my NES, nintendo64, and PS2 still work.

That's why Microsoft can kiss my ass.

Kinect: "Sentry mode activated. Hello. Is anyone there? I see you."

EA drops the online pass, and Microsoft picks it right back up. Of course no backward compatibility, but who really expected that. The 360 sells so many consoles because it fails so reliably. At least the One looks like it can actually vent heat. The next generation of msft gaming: microtransactions, games-as-a-service, and subsciption models on a system laden with ads.

"Plenty of mistakes," like losing $45 million last quarter. But in the future we will turn our beloved franchises into blatant cash grabs. All of our future titles will have an online component, like Dead Space 3, where two players can cooperatively walk through thousands of doors together, and turn this survival horror series into a lousy shoot-em-up action game. Every title will also have microtranactions galore, because our customers: "enjoy and embrace," the pay to win model. Also we are leaking money like a sieve, but this should not affect the quality of our games moving forward. Sure we're the worst company in America, but please give us another chance, and another, and another, and another. After all, I have stock options to exercise before our next earnings report. By the way, preorder Battlefield 4.

The vast majority of gamers are young men, therefore, the best way to market products to them is with beautiful young women. That is just knowing who your target demographic will pay attention and buy from. It's economics not sexism. When the Obama white house was accused of promoting young beautiful women the people leveling the complaints were old fat and ugly women who were obviously jealous of the attention garnered by their more desirable coworkers. As the demographic changes, so will the marketing.

I don't want to see the med lab on the Normandy offer a sex change to Shepard. Femshep looks better without an adam's apple and man hands. Ezio shouldn't have to dress like a courtesan to blend in with the croud.

Booth girls are legitimate salespersons, they're not stripping and pole dancing. Now a bunch are going to lose their jobs, great work.

I think he's saying it's so awesome it makes consoles freeze.