[Ryan57]

Originally Posted by lostalex

Well if a company can't even bother to spend money on design, then you can assume they also didn't spend much on development. Quality isn't JUST about aesthetics, but design and aesthetics does say something about the quality of a product. High quality products do usually bother to put money into design.

In this case, it does seem that xbox is just rushing to beat PS4 to the market place, and has obviously sacrificed a lot, just to get to the market first.

Well design is down to opinion. So I wouldn't say that means they maybe didn't spend much on development. The specs are scarce at the moment, unfortunately.