I'm a PC gamer from way back but haven't played anything other than the odd racing game in years. We took the kids away last week and the place we stayed at had an xbox360 with a kinect and not only the kids, but my wife (who has NEVER played either a console or PC game in her life) had a blast with the Sports games during the bad weather.

I know pretty much nothing about consoles and stayed away because I couldn't get the hang of the controllers. Give me a mouse and kb for FPS, or steering wheel and peddles any day !

So I'm looking for some advice. Do I stick with a 360 or go for a One ? The 360 has lots of games, is cheap but is old tech and the graphics aren't great. The One is new, but relatively expensive in comparison to a 360 and probably has features I wont use. I've seen some youtube videos of what the One is capable of, but whilst Skype on the TV would be nice, I already have an HTPC which handles all LAN video and audio, we never watch NZ tv and my Samsung tv handles Netflix, BBC iplayer etc.

Could the One be considered a proper HTPC replacement playing all our bluray's and video over the LAN ? 

I've also noticed us moving more and more to M$ in the last 12 months. I love W8, my wife has a SurfaceRT and absolutely loves it, my kids have Chromebooks from school and although my work life revolves around Gmail, Google Drive and Docs etc I'm thinking of getting a Surface Pro and moving to Office, Skydrive etc. We also use Spotify but Xbox music is starting to appeal on the basis I think it allows for four devices and not three.

I'd appreciate any thoughts and if someone has one for sale ;)

 

Cheers