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The future of gaming will be all digital console where we can no longer buy or sell our games.

Essentially, Steam.

All MS is trying to do is kill the retail disk based game and move everyone onto the digital platform, this is their 'vision for the future.'

An online check, something that irks me the most about this console, is a necessary move for them to enforce their anti used policies and devaluation of the retail disk copy. In order to justify this connectivity they will be pushing their infinite 'powah of teh cloud' BS.

The less and less useful and convenient your disk based games becomes, the more incentive you have to jump the gun to digital only games.

EDIT: I will not be buying any next gen system til a few years, so I still have some time to wait and see how both systems pan out.