[Image shows the advantage us europeans have in steam] Some of these features of the xbox one appear to be quite illegal if they were to occur in the EU/UK. With the features of an always on kinect, collecting data on us possibility and the issue of not actually having rights to games anymore. The first issue being is that under EU law all webcams must have an option to be turned off and cannot be made mandatory, the xbox one violates data protection laws. [url=http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/englisch_bdsg/englisch_bdsg.html#p0126]Federal data protection act[/url] Another issue is the the debacle with used games. As ruled by the EU court EULA's are overrule by the right to sell any digitally bought sales. [url=http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/118245-EU-Court-Legalizes-Selling-Used-Digital-Games]Article on it[/url] These are just the current issues that can be seen with the xbone. If these DRM follows through what will happen to the selling in europe? I mean cutting out a large chunk of your target market doesn't bode well in business. TLDR: The drm features break eu law on used game sales and on privacy. In response to everyone saying can be turned off, it was stated it could be "paused" whilst in use. [url=http://www.techdigest.tv/2013/06/microsoft_insis.html]link[/url] [quote]Instead, the Kinect controller, when not in use, is only ever waiting to hear the "Xbox On" command to activate the console, and is otherwise idling. [u]Microsoft also revealed that you can "pause" the motion sensor, [/u]controlling the console through traditional means like a gamepad or remote control when gestures and voice commands are switched off.[/quote] "Pause" implies it is still partially active otherwise they would of said it can be "turned off". Over here webcams must have the option to be fully turned off if we want to, pausing does not count.