14 DAY TRIAL // After many months filled with speculation, reports, and rumors, Microsoft finally unveiled to the world the Xbox One next-generation console.
While it was rumored under all sorts of names, from the regular Xbox 720 to the Xbox Fusion or Infinity, the company revealed a rather awkward-looking console with a rather awkward name.
While the reveal was focused largely on the device's entertainment capabilities, fact admitted by Microsoft itself, the company did little to clarify some of its most controversial systems, like the used gaming one or the constant online connection.
Millions of Xbox 360 owners awaited Microsoft's official word on these aspects of the Xbox One, which caused a heated debate in the last few months.
Instead of clarifying or at least explaining things, however, Microsoft's executives chose to further complicate things by offering very few actual details, like used game fees or a mandatory internet check every 24 hours.
After details from executives, Microsoft's PR department issued statements highlighting that some things, like a method of dealing with pre-owned games or the internet connection relationship, are still being finalized.
As a result, instead of casting light on the murky waters surrounding the Xbox One, Microsoft caused even more confusion.
Reports are now coming in about the Xbox One's used game system and how it will require retailers to enter a formal partnership with Microsoft, in order to even be able to accept pre-owned games, and then share with it and the game's publisher a considerable cut of the money they'll receive when selling the title.
Microsoft had a long time to not only create the Xbox One but set in place the different policies that relate to important matters, like used gaming or the constant online connection. The fact that it's still working on these aspects is pretty much inexcusable, as gamers want concrete answers.
If they don't get these clarifications soon, probably at E3 2013, most of them will easily go to Sony, which has already confirmed that it won't change the pre-owned games aspect of its PlayStation 4 and that it won't require the console to be permanently online or connect to the PSN servers every day.