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When Microsoft announced the presentation of Xbox One, it already warned of its intentions. The conference held yesterday would be focused on the console while the one at the next E3 fair would have games as its protagonist. With this in mind Xbox One is presented as a gaming machine that is not solely focused on games.

It is not a new idea, but the way of presenting that experience is innovative. With Xbox One, Kinect and our connection to Xbox Live, accessing our favorite content will be as easy as saying a voice command: jumping from one application to another, leaving the game on hold while watching a movie or pausing a series to search on the net.All from the same device. All from the living room.

All the big companies seem determined to continue adding firewood to the fire in that area of ​​the house. Apple, Google, Samsung, Sony, and now Microsoft, continue to fan a fire that has evolved into a war for control from the room The problem is that, perhaps, we are not interested in acting like soldiers.

The criticism received yesterday after the presentation is just the tip of the iceberg, and while it must have stung the ranks of Microsoft, it didn't It must have amounted to nothing compared to the growth Sony experienced yesterday in its share price. PS4 is also committed to that control of the room, but it must be given greater merit when it comes to dressing up that intention during its presentation.

Right now Xbox One is facing two closely related problems: gamers don't care about media and fans of multimedia content are not interested in consoles. Yes, there is also that third group (in which I include myself) willing to turn a blind eye to one of these aspects as long as the other complies perfectly.

As you may have already guessed, when trying to cover several areas, it is totally impossible for that perfection to materialize. At least in the eyes of the user, who will always see how the resources spent on creating a television series for the console could have been invested in creating new games and vice versa .

What really bothers is that, despite everything mentioned above, the idea is tremendously good. I don't even have to connect the computer to the TV, nor do I need a new flat screen with integrated internet, nor do I need to make room for a device like Apple TV or Google TV, everything that these combinations can offer me (or almost everything, let's not ring the bells on the fly or fall into advertising traps ahead of time) offers it to me Xbox One

Ok, we have reached a good point, we have found the good side of a profile that the rest of the users are seeing from the wrong prism. You just have to give the players the titles they are claiming and the circle will be closed, success will be closer. Well no, neither.

If you want to take control of the room thanks to the possibilities of a single device with several integrated functions, make sure that all these functions are really integrated. This is not the case, since Live TV, the television service compatible with Xbox One with programming guides, recommendations and more, it will require a receiver for the antenna that should appear on the back of the console. However, this is not the case.

We won't open the sore anymore because the inclusion of that receiver in the console box could close our mouths with a punch, but even if it were, we would be far from being able to enjoy what was offered during the conference.Live TV will arrive in the United States and later in other markets with ">

Netflix versus reruns of Spanish Television, Game of Thrones with the interactivity of SmartGlass versus the classic ">Microsoft but our content industry. So how can we get excited about something that Are we not going to be able to enjoy at all levels?

On the other side of the Atlantic, yes, Xbox One You only need a powerful catalog to succeed and, from what we have seen, you have enough numbers to get out of that war for control of the room, but as I said at the beginning of the text, the war that interests us is very different, the one that we want to take place with all our might is the one that leads to the content industry of our country to really grow.

For now the trick of the stilts has not been able to work, and cutting its legs with criticism and demands at each new growth attempt is not going to help.No one gave a penny for Microsoft's foray into the world of consoles, no one gave a penny for Xbox 360 fighting against PS3 and, now, no one gives a penny for a machine we haven't even begun to meet. Let's think a little before we bring out the pitchforks and torches next time. Until then, patience, sooner or later everything comes.