I have already decided that I will never purchase this console. I have multiple reasons but the big ones are that the cost of the system is inflated by non-gaming related hardware, online play is not free, Kinect is a Trojan Horse for privacy invasion, and you never really own the games.

So long as you are required to connect to the internet to play any game; you never really own it. You are just renting it until the day they turn off the servers.

While Nintendo and Sony are offering free to play online services; Microsoft is charging $60 per year for Xbox LIVE. When you factor in the cost of the console and just five years of LIVE; this console is costing you $800. Add in the 7% sales tax and you are paying $856. Once you buy a game; you've spent $920. No thanks. No game in the history of forever will ever be worth $920.