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Xbox One
Arseen:
--- Quote from: Lambadelta on May 21, 2013, 01:22:12 PM ---Wired got to look at the Xbox one before the conference.
Games install to the HDD meaning that games are restricted to Xbox Live accounts. This means you can't used used games without paying a "fee" that pops up when you don't own the game and try to install it.
--- Quote ---What follows naturally from this is that each disc would have to be tied to a unique Xbox Live account, else you could take a single disc and pass it between everyone you know and copy the game over and over. Since this is clearly not going to happen, each disc must then only install for a single owner.
Microsoft did say that if a disc was used with a second account, that owner would be given the option to pay a fee and install the game from the disc, which would then mean that the new account would also own the game and could play it without the disc.
But what if a second person simply wanted to put the disc in and play the game without installing – and without paying extra? In other words, what happens to our traditional concept of a “used game”? This is a question for which Microsoft did not yet have an answer, and is surely something that game buyers (as well as renters and lenders) will want to know.
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http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2013/05/xbox-one-analysis/
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I think Germans will save us Europeans at least:
http://www.pcgamer.com/2013/02/01/valve-sued-by-german-consumer-group-because-steam-users-cant-resell-games/
Hopefully The Federation of German Consumer Organizations (VZVB) wins as that would most likely prevent the fee as well.
MaSHoe:
Not interested in another "home entertainment system."
Snowcone:
--- Quote from: fiatbravodriver on May 21, 2013, 01:20:11 PM ---Quick we need a Xbox One Covers Section. ::)
Here is a Call of Duty Ghosts Retail Custom PAL Front
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DONE
http://www.thecoverproject.net/view.php?cat_id=59
TyrannicalFascist:
Looks like for now I'm sticking with my Wii U and PC. :-\
And all my old systems of course.
razielleonhart:
but will it blend?