Like I said on another site, the removal of the negatives isn't some kind of good will offering, it's damage control. There's still the threat of them reinstating them in a patch.

I still hope it crashes and burns anyways

There's still a lot of issues they didn't address about the Xbox One. Like Grievous said, this is just damage control. They're only giving these things up in hopes that their console will sell more and get more positive feedback, but I think at this point anyone that is sane and knows the problems with the Xbox One isn't going to trust Microsoft so easily.

This makes me disappointed more people will buy it now. And yes, just as grievous said, it'll probably return in a patch. Don't forget the Kinect will still spy on you too.

its not online always, but dlc is required to start up your game

I hope it returns in a patch. It's silly to require a disc to play a game copied to a drive, just like it's silly to limit a digital game from being lended out or resold. Microsoft's mistake was to drop traditional discs completely. I bet we see some kind of hybrid approach in the future.

isn't that what the 3DS does? You can download games from the eshop and I'm pretty sure you can transfer games to other units.

Wii U is hybrid disc/download

no you can't transfer eshop games. unless you can prove to Nintendo that it was stolen or your house burnt down.
WIi U is not the kind of hybrid I'm talking about. I mean having disc games that can be traded, and also having a way to copy the disc to drive (removing the ability to trade the disc), and have the ability to trade games on your drive.

So basically you want a digital GameStop of sorts.

It's a shame they got rid of the few advantages it had but I guess it's more important they got rid of all the horrible anti consumer stuff

If microsoft had stayed the course and had let a sort of private market form around trading the games, where the buyers and sellers controlled the prices, then it could have worked. But that's not what would have happened. Microsoft would have controlled the prices(universally since every copy is the same) and been able to controller when they went up or down. Its a shame.

Francis/Fortran: Pretty sure there's a button in the settings of my 3DS that lets me transfer my data from one device to another. Catch is it's an all-or-nothing thing, so it's no good for trading individual games.

ah cool Gold, I didn't know they added that. Yeah it's like the Wii -> Wii U transfer process, for moving everything to a new device. (probably for people who wanted to upgrade to an XL).