Honestly, it sucks, but the best thing to do is wait. It really isn't work the exorbitant price people are charging online. By the end of Jan, there should be plenty in stock.

Stop trying to sell your boys for money.

If by any chance you do manage to get an xbox one, be warned, it cannot play xbox360 games HOWEVER, some hackers managed to get it to work by going into to the developers console and enabling backwards compatibility.

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yeah, sucks that I can't even sell their xbox 360 as they need to keep it for existing games they have. Waiting 'till january seems like a good idea, but xmas comes before then (in case no one had noticed). How would 13 & 17 year old boys react to an I.O.U. an xbox one as their main present? I only ask as I know there are some 13-17 year-olds on here.

It seems to me that as a parent you can tell them that it is harder and more expensive to get it right now or in time for Xmas, so they can wait until January or gasp, February if need be. It isn't necessary for them to have the Xbox One at Xmas, and there's an added lesson about delayed gratification.
In all honesty, I think you telling them that you tried to get it for them but it didn't work out and they'll get it in a few weeks. The point being that you were thoughtful and that's more important than the actual present.

I know some lorry drivers...

Very simple solution. Get a PS4.

Why would you buy an Xbone? They suck, they have invasive Kincet, it punishes you for swearing in games like Fifa or Madden, and it costs $50 more than the PS4.

Meanwhile PS4 has free games with PS Plus, has better exclusives, and is made by a good company.

Gotta agree with Zultar here - honestly, if my kids were incapable of handling the trauma of not getting it on Christmas Day, there is little chance they would be getting it *any* day.

@Chaqa - XBone doesn't cost more than the PS4, because it comes with more hardware. If you want any motion activated games on PS4 (which you will if you have daughters - Just Dance series) then you'll be dropping another $100 on their motions sensor system with their gay-ass glowing dildo motion controllers.

Also, we actually use the voice navigation system on the XBox 360 when navigating entertainment like Netflix, and it works quite well.

The notion that Microsoft is spying on you through the Kinnect sensor....<sigh...> least of my concerns, honestly.

It's funny, because I'll bet if gave you a household robot that walked and talked, helped you keep track of your appointments, maybe cooked dinner, had full internet access to answer questions, etc you'd be all over that. But if it's a creepy looking eye under your TV watching you you get all scared.

Hate to tell you guys, but if you have a smart phone, it already knows a hell of a lot more about you than you realize, I suspect, and certainly much more than your XBone will ever know.

I'm always a little surprised when I open up my navigation on my phone and realize it's been tracking my driving, and wants to know if I want to return to such and such a place....

Give them a few Xbox One games for Christmas and tell them if they want the console itself they should start saving up some money.

I'm being very not serious.

I remember when my parents got us a bunch of Atari 2600 games for Christmas and we knew that it meant the big present at the end was the Atari 2600. We were seriously excited.

As for having to wait, kids typically have no school for a week or two after Christmas which gives them lots of time to enjoy their presents. Whereas mid-January and February they don't so much. Just pointing it out as one factor to consider.

But, life is what it is and you make the best of it.

I haven't tried Xbox One, but my family loves our Xbox 360 and Kinect. My kids can't understand why anyone would want a hand-held controller. We also use the Xbox for Netflix and use the voice navigation.

Maybe Sony doesn't reach Microsoft evil empire status, but like any large corporation, it has had its blemishes. http://money.cnn.com/blogs/browser/2006/07/sony-psp-ads-spark-cries-of-racism.html

DO NOT DO WHAT ILN said. 4chan released that so called hack and it will brick your system.

Just for those who actually have an XBox1

That was back in 2006, Hanged Man.

I just don't trust a company which tried to force you to be online to play any game on the console (read: Just Dance, krellin) and which tried to prevent you from being able to lend or sell games once you've bought them. Their mind is on the $$$ and while I'm sure Sony's is too, they care much more about the games and the gamer.

As for your problem, Maniac, I hope you don't fall for any of the scams out there on Ebay or Amazon. Your kids don't need a next-gen system for Christmas. My parents always waited a year or two and I never really noticed. They will still be producing quality games for the 360 and PS3 for the next few years.

the xbone looks seriously underwhelming. I'm certainly not planning to upgrade from my 360.

@goldie - the on-line requirement has been dropped, and the stale, old, "Damn those corporations trying to <gasp> make money..." routine is getting ridiculous. Seriously, it's time for you to get a grip. If they didn't make money, you wouldn't have a fucking PS4 or XBox One to argue about. You wouldn't have a PS3, PS2, XBox 360, XBox...you wou'dn't have fucking Atari PONG....because if nobody is going to make money on it, you think your blessed government will produce them and give them to you?

Good fucking lord...

krellin - I know that it was dropped. If you see, I said "tried". Its the fact that they are so out of touch with their consumers that they would try to implement those things in the first place that worries me.

Also, all console makers lose money on their consoles. They make their money on the games. They were trying to increase the number of game copies sold by eliminating the used game market. This isn't about me wanting the government to make games, this is me protesting the fact that a company tried to single handedly shut down a market.

Yeah - they tried, so what? You act like Sony has never tried anything stupid and offensive to the consumer. I quit buying Sony products years and years ago because everything they sold used proprietary connectors -- for *everything* -- meaning if you needed a replacement cord for your xyz, you had to go to Sony and only Sony.

But seriously...your "wahhh...they're so out of touch with consumers....blah blah blah..." We get it. You are a Playstation fanboi. Yay for you. I've been listening to people like you bash Microsoft since MS-DOS...yeah, they are so out of touch, I get it.

And yet, sales would disagree with you. They are out of touch with YOU. And guess what, Sony is out of touch with all the XBox consumers. Oh my gosh! There's a market with a choice and it works....imagine that...

You act like eliminating the used game market is soooo awful. That's funny...because I see iPhone and Android zombies all over teh place playing content that they buy once and keep forever, no take backs. So Microsoft tried to protect their sales - what's the problem. There are a lot of PC based games that have tried the same thign in the past: You buy the game, enter your code to register the game and that's it - you can't sell it, because the code won't work anymore.

You act like what MS tried to do here is unique. The only thing you have revelaed to anyone here is your utter ignorance of the various business models that already DO exist.

And yes...it IS about you wanting the government to make games for you in affect. Your complaint: Microsoft tries to make money. You get all pissed off when they try to prevent their games from being sold in secondary markets and cutting them out of the loop. So, in your dream world where Microsoft can't make money, they don't make games...they don't make consoles, because without a profit motive there IS NO MICROSOFT. IN such a profitless society that you dream of, the only place you will turn for goods in the government, because nobody produces things for free. So yes...your dream is the Obama Console. I'm sure it will work *fantastic* too...

Now, on the flip side, what you are probably too dense to understand is that if Microsoft HAD manged to keep their market in place as they dreamed, the price of games probably would have dropped *dramatically*, because they would be able to make more money on more sales - because that is generally how it works in other markets using a similar model. There were other positive trade-offs to the consumer as well...but it doesn't matter. You can still enjoy your $60/game price point, I guess. Yay for you.