**XBOX ONE** Official Thread

Tummy said:
Well, you seem to know everything, Microsoft should have gotten you to do the E3 conference :).
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I by no means know everything, I would have done a damn site better though. MS are renowned for the bad press conferences. They act like they did in the days ox win1-XP where they had market dominance and secrecy was the best practice, that is far from the case these days. I would have told them, to lay everything on the table, explain everything, release all the policies on the web afterwards and just be 100% transparent.
 
pioneer2000 said:
The only people that complained are the people who don't want to pay for the games. There's no other reason to be anti-DRM.
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Mmm yes all those people lacking internet, large LANs for fighting games etc, clearly they just don't want to pay for the game

And many more reasons, what a dense view
 
Davey_Pitch said:
Because I think that's the ideal MS were aiming for. In controlling the 2nd hand market MS could have ensured that devs and publishers saw more of the profits with each game sale. That in turn would allow games to go on sale now and that for 75% off like they do on Steam. I firmly believe that's what MS were heading towards, perhaps in a couple of years.
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Then why the 500GB Hard drive?

Could they not have announced an opt in type system, where you can do things digitally but release a more expensive console, one say with a SSD for the operating systems and a 1TB storage for digital media.

You could then, buy a game, enter a code or register it via putting the disc in, tie it to your account, install / download it and play, then just delete when finished.

They could do that by having an option to not register games (they could have encouraged this by being more pro active with digital offers and benefits) and just play from the disc, or something, without forcing people to be online.
 
Glaucus said:
I by no means know everything, I would have done a damn site better though. MS are renowned for the bad press conferences. They act like they did in the days ox win1-XP where they had market dominance and secrecy was the best practice, that is far from the case these days. I would have told them, to lay everything on the table, explain everything, release all the policies on the web afterwards and just be 100% transparent.
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Whats your logical explanation for why Microsft needed to have an OS level toggle that would allow 3rd party publishers to easily disable all 2nd hand trading for their game?

What was the vision there?
 
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pioneer2000 said:
That's exactly what I've just said... You're unwilling to pay £30-40 for a game.

You don't buy a film, watch it and then sell it on do you.
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No, but you could rent a film. You won't be able to rent games if there was DRM.

Also loads of people sell on blu-rays.
 
m4rk84 said:
Whats your logical explanation for why Microsft needed to have a OS level toggle that would allow 3rd party publishers to easily disable all 2nd hand trading for their game?

What was the vision there?
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It's obviously to allow them to block it, doesn't mean they will. Every single multiplayer could be blocked from second hand market, yet many publishers don't.
There's also the eu court case last year, that we need a rich person to take steam or similar to court to get it enforced.
 
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