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Sony Abandons Social Media for 24 Hours+ After Controversially Killing Physical Games
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The xbone was a hard pivot into the Xbox being a "media center" rather than just a gaming machine. In 2013 we all realized that yes, a console could be used to watch movies or even stream Netflix... But it's primary purpose was as a gaming console and people were put off by the marketing.
They also had some game sharing controversies of their own. MS and Sony have been trying to kill physical games on their platforms for well over a decade now so we'll see where it goes.
The xbone pitch was amazing for gamers who watched tv, it just never worked well out of the box. To actually watch live tv, you had to buy an additional dongle and an antenna, and then after spending all that on setting up your media center, you had to buy the remote separately.
And then the whole experience wasn't as smooth as it should have been, and cable integration was very buggy in my experience.