You know you and I seem to be the biggest advocates of the original One. By the end of this gen, when everyone is over discs, most will wish they stuck to their guns.
lol, yeah I always get a chuckle whenever someone posts something like "if only there was a way for *something to increase digital convenience* to happen!", and it's something that was already addressed by the original plans. I've noticed it a lot now that we're away from the pre-launch hype and we're actually using the systems on a day to day basis.
As I always say, there were of course drawbacks to the original plan, and it was perfectly valid if someone wasn't interested in having those drawbacks, but sometimes people made it sound like there were zero possible advantages to the originally proposed ideas, or that the only possible reason to be interested in those plans was if you were a shill or a fanboy. (granted, MS PR was sometimes part of the confusion. Though of course, we're supposed to be a community of hardcore intelligent gamers who can look past surface-level PR quips...right?)
back on topic though, I'm guessing the sale has started outside the US already or something? I thought it was 7/7, but I keep seeing posts about it...