6th June 2013, 3:35 PM
http://news.xbox.com/2013/06/main
So yeah, on the XO, or X1, or whatever you want to call it, games install to the HDD. If you buy a game, up to 10 family members can also play that game if they're on your system and you choose to allow that game to be shared. You can also play your games on someone elses' X1 if you log in to your account there. You cannot borrow games from friends, and cannot rent games fromstores, of course. The system has to check in once every 24 hours, as reported, or you can't do anything on it.
As for used games, used games are only allowed if publishers decide to allow resale of their games. So yes, they will have a choice. I expect some to choose not to allow it. And even if it is allowed, games can only be sold to licensed stores that Microsoft has approved. Private sales, yard sales, ebay, Amazon marketplace, flea markets... sorry, no X1 game resale allowed at places like that (unless Amazon sets up something themselves, for that case?). Only approved stores, which would disable the games and then give them a new key which the new purchaser would then get.
Also, and MS didn't mention this, but yeah, don't expect prices to go down any to compensate people at least partially for the restricted rights. There's absolutely no way that'll happen, of course.
Now we only await details of what Sony has planned.
So yeah, on the XO, or X1, or whatever you want to call it, games install to the HDD. If you buy a game, up to 10 family members can also play that game if they're on your system and you choose to allow that game to be shared. You can also play your games on someone elses' X1 if you log in to your account there. You cannot borrow games from friends, and cannot rent games fromstores, of course. The system has to check in once every 24 hours, as reported, or you can't do anything on it.
As for used games, used games are only allowed if publishers decide to allow resale of their games. So yes, they will have a choice. I expect some to choose not to allow it. And even if it is allowed, games can only be sold to licensed stores that Microsoft has approved. Private sales, yard sales, ebay, Amazon marketplace, flea markets... sorry, no X1 game resale allowed at places like that (unless Amazon sets up something themselves, for that case?). Only approved stores, which would disable the games and then give them a new key which the new purchaser would then get.
Also, and MS didn't mention this, but yeah, don't expect prices to go down any to compensate people at least partially for the restricted rights. There's absolutely no way that'll happen, of course.
Now we only await details of what Sony has planned.
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