The honeymoon is over. I was in love with my Xbox One in November when it still had shiny launch glitz all over it. I played through Assassin's Creed 4, Dead Rising 3 and Ryse in December. I dabbled with Ghosts and BF4 soon after. In January, I played my Xbox One three or four times and all of them were Peggle 2. What happened?

Reality happened.

Xbox One is terrible right now. Here's five reasons why I regret buying one.

The Library Is Small, Expensive And Boooo-oring

The Xbox One game library is a corporate suit's wet dream and a hardcore gamer's nightmare. Lots of "safe" AAA formulas and little innovation. It's the number one reason why the Xbox One is terrible right now and why I regret buying one at launch. There isn't much exclusivity. Of the top five highest rated Xbox One games only one, Forza, is an XBO exclusive. I basically paid $600 to play glitchier, higher res versions of Xbox 360 games. Now I know why they didn't want backwards compatibility. The bulk of the library is backwards.

There isn't much variety. I went from enjoying games like State of Decay and GTA V on my 360 to uninspired AAA ports like Ghosts and Madden. The Xbox One games list stands at an impressive post-launch total of 28, making it among the beefiest launch windows we've ever seen. But 19(!) of those titles are available on Xbox 360. Peggle 2 is my go-to right now because I can only shoot/stab so many enemies across four or five different titles before I get bored with it.

I'm well aware that more games are coming, but I'm experiencing launch-system-buyer's remorse for more reasons than just the terrible Xbox One library.

PS4 Has Better Graphics. I Get It. Let's Stop Talking About It. Please?

UGH.

This was my worst nightmare. In the run-up to the next-gen launches there was nothing but debate because that's all we could do. We didn't have the systems. We couldn't look with our eyeballs upon the truth. And now we can. And Xbox One owners have to begrudgingly admit that the PS4 is putting out better graphics right now. We get it, Digital Foundry. STFU already.

Granted the "Power of the Cloud" has a silver lining and it's still very early in the development cycle. I'm well versed in all the denial phrases because I have to utter it to myself every time I see some Sony fanboy glee over their precious FPS counts. But even though the Xbox One has the potential to be the better system tomorrow it doesn't change the fact it's a stinker TODAY. If you buy Tomb Raider for PS4 it will have better graphics than Xbox One. Period.

But at least my Xbox One was $100 more than the system with the better graphics. Why is that again? Oh yeah, reason #3 ...

The Kinect Can't Tell A Dog's Ass From A Human Hand

I wish that headline was hyperbole. I wish I was exaggerating. But in the two months of having an Xbox One it constantly confuses my dog's ass for a human hand. Whenever one of my dogs hops on the couch, or even walks past it, the Kinect (more often than not) interrupts whatever I'm watching (because there's no games, remember?) with a hand gesture icon. It doesn't select anything, thankfully, but remains on the screen for a few moments and is generally just annoying. And the more it happens the more annoying it gets.

And it's not just my dog's ass that the Kinect has problems with. Microsoft apparently failed to realize that actual human beings sitting on a couch might, occasionally, use their hands. I guess the Kinect test couch was in a setting without cellphones or snacks or lively conversation. If my wife makes a gesture while telling me a story, or I pull my phone up to send some texts, I usually hear the telltale "ding" and my screen goes dark and there's the hand icon floating on the screen. And, according to Xbox support, there's really no way to stop this from happening.

So (nearly) every time my wife talks, or I send a text or my dog crosses the room I have to throw up a "Heil Hitler" gesture at my Kinect so I can continue watching what I want.

Well, almost whatever I want because ...

The Xbox 360 Still Has Better Video Streaming

Yup. While I'm busy not playing any games on my Xbox One I can still find the time to not watch the shows I want, too. Yes, the Xbox One has Hulu Plus and Netflix but both services are much less reliable on the next-gen platform. While writing this article I tried in vain three times to watch an episode of "30 Rock" before giving up and moving on to an episode that worked. Not the one I wanted to watch. Awesome.

In addition to (somehow) spottier streaming from Netflix and Hulu the Xbox One also doesn't feature HBO Go. And, unlike a lot of HBO Go users, I actually pay for my subscription. So I'm shelling out extra money to my cable company every month for HBO Go so that I can NOT use it on the device in my living room, a next-gen console that bragged about how awesome it was for watching TV. I've been able to overlook not having HBO Go for now, but I'm worried that it won't be up and running in time for the Game of Thrones premiere.

I can hear some of you now saying "what's the big deal? Just DVR your HBO shows." And that would be great if it weren't for one problem: the Xbox One UI can't access my cable box DVR menu and, when I go in manually with my cable box remote, my Xbox One goes haywire.

Not "Danger Will Robinson!" haywire, fortunately, but going into my DVR and On Demand menu causes my Xbox One to lose track of my cable channels. It's weird. But after watching a DVR or On Demand show the Xbox One "One Guide" no longer selects channels. It displays what's on, and I scroll through it like I normally would, but it won't actually change to the channel I select. To fix it, I have to disconnect the cable box from my Xbox One and reboot everything.

So, right now, the Xbox One basically exists to give me buggier ports of games I could play on my Xbox 360 or less streaming options than I had three months ago. But it could get sorted out eventually right? This brings me to the final reason I regret buying the (currently) terrible Xbox One.

I Paid $500 to Be A Guinea Pig For Microsoft And I Knew That From The Start

Ultimately, I blame myself. It's a launch system and I should've known what I was in for. But I let myself believe the hype and chose only to focus on the positives. There was a lot of hate for Microsoft leading up to the launch so it became harder to separate genuine criticism from bandwagon hatred. I knew that things might get a little stale, but I didn't expect my Xbox One would get played three or four times in the whole month of January.

It's a hopeless situation. All I can do is look to the future and hope things get better. Despite regretting my seat on the launch window hype train, I can honestly say I'm looking forward to this year's releases. There is a lot of good, exclusive, next-gen worthy titles coming our way in the next few months. This time next year I might melt my Xbox One over the holidays playing non-stop Titanfall matches or marathon Witcher 3 sessions. And if that Halo 2 anniversary Edition rumor turns out to be true? So long social life.

Odds are the dog ass/hand solution will be in place by then too. Rumor has it a Kinect patch is coming soon after the already-confirmed party chat fix scheduled for March. Microsoft is well aware of the problems and knows it needs to fix them soon. Unplugging the Kinect is not a solution since they forced us to pay $100 extra for one. It needs to work. And it will. But the bottom line is that the thrill is gone. The Xbox One is no longer a cool new toy but a series of disappointments. Nothing works perfectly, my options are more restricted and half my friends haven't upgraded yet.

The future was supposed to be now. Not actually the future.