Xbox One Has The Best Error Messages

By Jason Schreier Published November 25, 2013 |

Via Twitterer @getB3NT, behold the greatest error message on any video game console. “Because of your past behavior, you can’t Xbox Live Gold is required to use Skype for Xbox One.”

(Note: @getB3NT says you get that error message if you swear in a private Skype call, but I just spent like five minutes cursing at Tina on XB1 Skype, and I didn’t get anything like that. Others are reporting that they’ve gotten similar message for swearing on the video-sharing app Upload Studio.)

That’s not the only amazing error message on Xbox One. There are also these, captured by our own Evan Narcisse:

SOMETHING WENT TERRIBLY WRONG. FOR SOME REASON. The next generation of error messages is here, and it is glorious.