I’ve been a proud owner of an Xbox 360 for 6 years and been a player of the console for even longer (oh thank you former shared house situation). Before that I also owned the original Xbox console for a couple of years and continued using it into the infancy of its successor. I will at some point also own the newly announced Xbox One console. I’m pretty darn certain of this. The next generation of gaming does look promising; the technology seems impressive, franchises are arguably in something of a golden age with critical success after critical success and certain big money publishers are dominating the industry with annual quality efforts. Indie games developers have also excelled themselves when using the current generation technology and the prospect of what they’ll be able to deliver in the next five years on a new machine is mouth-watering to say the least. I’m less certain however, that I will be making my investment into Microsoft’s next brave new world within the first 12 to 18 months of the console’s launch this Autumn, and this is for a number of reasons.But first, a small journey through time...
