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The Xbox One and Usability

Microsoft’s Xbox One has been out and available to the public for about 10 months at this point and is really just starting to hit its stride. It has certainly suffered its fair share of setbacks to get to this point, namely the controversy over Microsoft’s “always online” and used game policies (which were both reversed before launch), and is undeniably well behind its main competitor, Sony’s PlayStation 4, in sales, but let’s set all of that aside for now. Let’s just take a look at the Xbox One on its own, and see how well Microsoft made their “all in one box” for consumer’s living rooms actually work. Let’s attempt to answer the question “Is it usable?”.

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