Soon to be banned in Australia :P

Anyone notice THIS?

There would NEVER have been a reduction in price. Perhaps there might've been an INCREASE since their all digitial world is an extra feature exclusive to Xbox One

STOP THE LOGIC! AHHHH IT HURTS YOU GUYS JUST DON'T GET MICROSOFT. SONY FANBOYS

Dear Microsoft,

Nah, I would say messed up once: they didn't trumpet the benefits of their vision enough and let everyone steer the focus towards that always-on/DRM stuff. I only found out a few days ago about how the family sharing and all that stuff could benefit us. That should've been the day one news, yelled from the top of…

I was excited at the prospect of spawning a second loaner copy of any physical or digital game I own for the Family of friends I was going to make. I was excited to be able to sell my DLC and digital games instead of owning them until Hell comes to Earth.

Exactly. Now instead of a system built around digital sharing, we get the exact same shit we did last generation. Online passes and consumable keys and my friends never buying the games I want to recommend because demos take 3 hours to download and 3 minutes to play.

No. For me, with my circumstances, I lost more than I gained with this. The convenience and flexibility of digital, hot-swapping of games without needing the discs. It sounded great to me. They needed to tweak certain rules, granted.

I'm extremely disappointed that Microsoft caved. I was looking forward to the XBO the way it was. I'm still excited about it, but far less so now. You people are just delaying the inevitable anyway.

The only difference that matters:

The only shock most consumers have had, isn't in new technology, but in the rapid dissolution of their post-purchase rights and an oppressive conversion of goods to services. None of this is to the benefit of the consumers and has everything to do with increasing short-term profits for the corporation.

The way I see it, Sony has a console, people know what it does. It doesn't do anything different. It in all sense is a PS4, it's essentially a PS3, but now it can play better looking games. The Xbox One on the other hand, it's not just an Xbox 360, it is a bunch of things. And it is a very flexible console. Stop…

Huh, apparently I'm the only the that feels kind of better after reading this.

Also, as soon as you lose the physical media, you lose rights to the product. It's one more step down the road to turning consumers into renters and turning products into services.