From Microsoft officially announced that by the end of the 2013 they total delivered well over three million copies of Xbox One to 13 markets in which it was possible to buy a console.

Xbox One since the appearance on the market on 22nd November bought more than two million players, Microsoft confirmed. Statistics says that since the release of the console every day was sold 111,111 copies.

Development teams who want their games to be included in the Xbox Live offer of Arcade games on Xbox 360 had to make sure to offer players a demo version so that everyone could try out a game before buying. Microsoft was the one that insisted on this practice but not so long after the release of Xbox One they confirmed that this practice will become a past tense.

In a move that would have made Steve Jobs proud Microsoft is apparently leaning on developers to only develop for their Xbox One platform or delay any release for other console platforms. The news comes as developer Witch Beam, is claiming that due to restrictions in the ID@Xbox program they are being forced to delay their new game Assault Android Cactus because they already have plans to launch games on other consoles.

In 2003 Microsoft started work on a new kernel for their operating systems that was smaller, more efficient and working in ways that no other OS had before Microsoft called this Singularity. It represented a completely different approach to software and operating system design. In 2008 Microsoft released the last version of Singularity was released to the public from Microsoft and the project was “officially” ended in 2010. For many we thought this was the end of the project and the end of a shift in thought from Microsoft.

A smaller portion of the supplied Xbox One consoles arrived on the market with broken optical drive, about which we wrote a few days ago, and Microsoft shortly afterwards promised that all the broken consoles will be replaced as soon as possible.

PlayStation 4 had so called Blue Light of Death, and it seems that even the launch of Xbox One can't go without much problems that are "affectionately" called Disc Drive of Death. Specifically, a small number of Xbox one owners got the console with a defective optical drive.

Sony in the recently released FAQ, announced that a new PlayStation will not be able to serve as a media server, and will not support playback of audio CDs or MP3 files which was quite upsetting for users who also use console, beside just for playing, to enjoy other multimedia content.

After the announcement of both the SteamOS and the Steam Machine (most call it the Steam Box) we read more than a few naysayers that were claiming Valve would have a hard time competing in the market. The theory behind these arguments is that the incumbents, Microsoft and Sony, are so entrenched in the market that gamers and regular consumers will not want to move away from those platforms. The problem with that theory is that many consumers are not too happy with the current state of the console gaming market. Anyone that watched the furor that unfolded after the launch of the Xbox One or the mass complaints after the PSN (Play Station Network) knows that this market is not a happy one.

Unlike the Xbox 360, which on the surface could be set up horizontally or vertically, Xbox One is designed exclusively for horizontal position and if users decide to set up the console to the upright position they might end up in some serious problems.