[sanderjd]

On the bright side, the government might actually start taking the NSA concerns seriously if it starts having a detectable effect on the profitability of one of the country's most important growth industries. It seems like it's already becoming a reality in terms of foreign markets, but a reasonably large domestic boycott of a marquee next generation console would be bigger.

[flyinRyan]

This is probably the most important point in the whole thread. Honestly, the debate about whether the new X-box will spy on you or not is irrelevant. In fact, it would be even better if there were a massive boycott and Microsoft weren't even guilty. They'd be in the position of knowing it isn't true and having no way to prove it. I'm sure they'd have a very large interest in getting things like PRISM shut down at that point.