Except, again, TV's can pretty much do that with most existing devices anyway. But even ignoring that, I can't think of a single time where I will want to use any of it. Do I really need to instantaneously switch from the TV show I'm watching to an internet browser? Using voice commands no less? No, I don't. I will never use this because I can simply keep watching my show while whipping out the cell phone or tablet if I need to suddenly browse the internet in the middle of my show. It's a neat trick, but it's not useful to me, it has nothing to do with what I actually use a console for, and they're devoting three operating systems and valuable hardware resources to pulling this trout off? And it's Microsoft so I wouldn't hold my breath on it even being well coded.

This is the big problem that I am having with next-gen consoles: everyone is trying to cram troutty tablet controllers, media functionality, share buttons, and everything else down my throats. But if I'm buying a console, I don't want it to be a troutty PC or a troutty tablet. I want it to play games really well. All of it's other functions are damn near superfluous to me since they provide me no direct benefit, and if they want to try and compete directly with Smart TV's by providing the exact same functionality they will not only lose, but they'll do the exact opposite of their stated goal of bringing all of this functionality into one box. Because that already happened and is happening. TV's have been doing that for a while now, and do it better by virtue of including it in the one thing you need in order to actually watch TV.

But apparently people suddenly need the Xbox ONE to become an all in one box to sit under their all in one TV. This might have been somewhat interesting five years ago. As it is, they've already been beaten to market by a product they stand pretty much no hope of beating if all they're going to do is do the same stuff they're doing.

Actually, never mind, should have seen this coming. That's been Microsoft's business model for the last decade at least.