<story><title>Your Feedback Matters – Update on Xbox One</title><url>http://news.xbox.com/2013/06/update</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ebbv</author><text>This takes care of the used games issue but it doesn&amp;#x27;t take care of:&lt;p&gt;- $100 more expensive than PS4.&lt;p&gt;- Kinect always included, always connected and always on. Cannot be removed, disabled or turned off.&lt;p&gt;- Netflix behind Xbox Live Gold paywall, available for free on PS4.&lt;p&gt;Plus other numerous functionality complaints such as it&amp;#x27;s supposed to be the way you watch TV but it isn&amp;#x27;t a DVR, you still need a separate DVR. And it&amp;#x27;s supposed to be the center of your home theater but only has a single HDMI input.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>alyx</author><text>Stop spreading privacy FUD.&lt;p&gt;Kinect can be controlled and disabled.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.xbox.com&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;privacy&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.xbox.com&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;06&amp;#x2F;privacy&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Your Feedback Matters – Update on Xbox One</title><url>http://news.xbox.com/2013/06/update</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ebbv</author><text>This takes care of the used games issue but it doesn&amp;#x27;t take care of:&lt;p&gt;- $100 more expensive than PS4.&lt;p&gt;- Kinect always included, always connected and always on. Cannot be removed, disabled or turned off.&lt;p&gt;- Netflix behind Xbox Live Gold paywall, available for free on PS4.&lt;p&gt;Plus other numerous functionality complaints such as it&amp;#x27;s supposed to be the way you watch TV but it isn&amp;#x27;t a DVR, you still need a separate DVR. And it&amp;#x27;s supposed to be the center of your home theater but only has a single HDMI input.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dualboot</author><text>Personally, I don&amp;#x27;t care if the Kinect is always connected if the thing isn&amp;#x27;t online at all.&lt;p&gt;Also a $100 Discount doesn&amp;#x27;t have any traction with me regarding all of the bad will they created from the decades of pushing highly proprietary technologies into the market.  Their terrible practices for me hit a crescendo when they made my life miserable via in-laws putting Sony rootkit audio-cd&amp;#x27;s into their PC.&lt;p&gt;Nope.  Not getting any more of my dollars.</text></comment>