So today is Thanksgiving and I will follow suit and say what I am thankful for. I am thankful for the ability to move forward. What do I mean by this? Well seven years ago I was jobless, my grandmother had just died and my mother and I just moved to Delaware. The Xbox 360 came out, but there was no way I could afford it, or even hope to afford it at the time. Fast forward seven years, I run my own business, Kris and I are looking to buy a house, and I got the Xbox One on launch day. A lot has changed in the last seven years, some good some bad.
Kris and I put an offer in on another house, we had to submit it in writing, so we will see what happens in the next few days. If they do accept the offer, we could be in the house before the end of the year. I’d have a lot of room for my new console if we do, which will be great since I have a Kinect now and could finally play some games I couldn’t try out last generation. I didn’t really care much about Kinect when the Xbox One was announced and I didn’t understand why their announcement focused on the Kinect and how it interacts with the cable box, but now I get it. Voice commands is one of my favorite launch features for my One. I wish they didn’t take out streaming, but that should be added in a few months.
Here’s some unboxing pictures from day 1:
It really is a great console. So far I’ve been playing a lot of COD Ghosts and Dead Rising 3. I am going to send some games back to Gamefly and hopefully get some of the other games I was interested in playing, but didn’t want to commit to buying just yet. Here’s a video of me getting stuck under some stairs in Dead Rising 3:
