We're lucky to have valve. They actually managed to make a console without the downsides of a console.

My OLED deck has arrived today, can't wait to use it.

False. When bricks stop working they cannot be used as bricks.

Can it kill someone?

Xbox: only virtually

Brick: easily

I'm so glad Xbox One toned down some of the always online rubbish before it actually launched. It wasn't that bad, fortunately. I have to say Xbox One user experience was pretty meh compared to Xbox 360 in the first year and half or so.

These days, Xbox One and Series S/X are pretty great, but unfortunately ever since the Xbox One launch I've adopted the "let's not get too hyped up about this because Microsoft just might drop the ball a little bit" mindset. Especially as a Halo fangirl.

72 cents a brick? You gotta get a new brick guy, my man

Fun to play with? Xbox: no Brick: yes

I would contend that bricks are technically region locked, for the majority of people.

That is, if you see the shipping cost of getting one to a different region, you're absolutely going to leave it in its country of origin.

If a brick stops working, can it really be used as a brick?

But my brick won't brick no more after it broke :(

This is a deeply unfair comparison. There are bricks of different (somewhat incompatible) sizes between regions, and sometimes in the same region. While a brick is not "region locked" per se, they are only really a suitable material when replacements of the same size and general color are easily available.

Secondly, if your brick stops working, it is no longer useful as a brick, and has to be used as fill material, or disposed of. Indeed, broken bricks are pretty common, sometimes appearing in large piles.

Thirdly, the games you can play with a brick provide many hours of enjoyment, which is a major selling point of bricks that you've left out of the discussion.

I had to put my xbox one on a smart plug so it doesn't have power when not in use.

Otherwise it turns itself on constantly. Every time I came home it was on, and sitting in the livingroom with it off, it would randomly turn on. It does this both with and without network access.

This post is 5 hours old and no-one has made a Father Jack reference yet?

I still have all my xboxes and they all still work flawlessly. The OG, the base model xbone, and even the original white 360. I'm also not an achievement hunter at all but still have over 130k gamerscore, which just goes to show how much use each of these consoles got over the years. I had the 360 through college with four roommates! Hell up until they recently made Lucasarts' Gladius backwards compatible on my series x I was getting out the OG Box once a year just to play that masterpiece again.

Xbox one was a terrible game console but it was a great media center, that's for sure. I loved the HDMI passthrough, and I loved being able to control all of my stuff through the Xbox from the cable box to all of the streaming options installed on the console. I liked it better than the Fire Stick I eventually picked up when the Xbox just decided it would no longer start up.

"Extra fee if used" should be conditionally true for bricks... it depends on how you use them.

Do pavers, CMUs, and other concrete blocks count?

The xbox one. Was it worth it. Hell yeah

I remember they were really selling it as a media center in their pitches. It's interesting how they fucked that up. Streaming was still taking off, everyone was about to give voice activated personal assistants / spy devices to their relatives for Christmas.

If Microsoft had been smarter and sold it as a 'this has all the streaming apps on it', they probably could have had some Wii like success with cordcutters

coding competition has brick for prize

That's cool and all but Smashing a brick isn't as satisfying as smashing a Xbox!

The legendary: "smash my Xbox!"