Does XBOX's 180 make it #1?

  So by now everyone has heard the news.  XBOX has reversed its decision to force all XBOX One's to check in every 24 hours, now allows all used games, and has taken away regional blocks on games.  As the masses cheered you actually could hear a small amount of sighs and grumbles under all the cheers.  These were the people that understood the cost of M$'s decision to bow down to the complaints of their "fan base". 

  The cost comes at the advancement in technology.  Originally people whined about digital music and how the crack down on Napster violated their constitutional amendments, but eventually we all accepted digital music and we moved on.  The fear mongering by people that were probably not M$ fans to begin with has cause us to lose things like loading a game on your XBOX and playing it from anywhere without the disk.  If you choose to buy the game digital you will still have this option, but gamers that like to have a disk in their collection won't be able to play without the disk.  XBOX gamers has also lost the "Steam" like sales that were promised at E3.  With more digital content and the DRM to regulate pirating console gamers could have come to experience the cost savings that computer gamers have had for years.  XBOX gamers have also lost the ability to have the Free Weekends for new games that was also mentioned.  This is not huge, but again another little perk that's being taken away.  Lastly it seems that you will not be allowed to digitally gift or share games with your friends.  This was a cool perk that will be lost and hopefully will be brought back shortly after launch.

  With all the "bad" stuff being taken away from the XBOX One does this make it the console to buy this holiday season?  In my opinion yes.  Although not for the reasons you would think.  I was afraid to buy an XBOX One because of the negative feedback and I was nervous that after I made my investment the system would be suffering from lack of sales and would not give me the games and features I wanted anymore.  Now that M$ has given into the masses that are asses I have reserved my copy with a heavy heart of what the XBOX One could have been...