As of right now the only way to rent games for consoles is disc base. What if say Gamefly came up with a digital rental service. For X amount of money you can rent a game for 48+ hrs, and after that set amount of time the game will erase off your harddrive. Similar to how you can rent movies from XBL marketplace. With the whole required internet connection for X1 I can see this being a possible solution to renting games. Gamefly can continue to do game rental how they are now with with 360,PS3, Wii, and WiiU games. I didn't label PS4 yet because we are still uncertain exactly how Sony will handle it. 

You know the great thing about Gamefly was not having to pay late fees for the games you rent and keeping them as long as you want to so this compromise is unacceptable in my eyes' as a Gamefly subscriber.

I never used Gamefly before so I was just going off the business model of say Blockbuster or Redbox. I'm sure Gamefly can come up with a solution to how they do game rentals now, but to make it work digitally. 

you are assuming microsoft will allow other companies jsut to do that lol.

Chances are they want to do it themselves or better yet, to convince the cable companies to come on board and subsidise the xbox one, they can do it.

Im thinking x1 will get a gamefly app shortly after release. Im also thinking that alot of games will be getting demos to at least help the fact that there are no rentals yet

Personally, I don't care who does the game rentals as long as it's an option. MS could have there own digital game rental service while Gamefly and Redbox has their own. E3 is tomorrow, so we may find out what they got planned. 

The used games issue would be easy to solve if thats what they were interested in solving. Have DRM up that expires after 3 months. Problem solved. There would be no used games shortly after alunch and we wouldnt lose our right a property.

Alas, this is not their concern. Their concern is how to possibly extort as much money as possible.

Seriously, you guys have to get it out of your head that this DRM thing is used to protect..something. Its not. It's to futher the greed of companies like EA, Activision, Ubisoft which annoyingly are the companies making the most bank on this side of the industry.

Sony already allow you to 'trial' the first hour of a game when you are a PS+ member so there's no reason why this couldn't be extended like they do with movies as you said.

But whether they want to is another matter...

I completely agree. The scenario i described was one if they actually really were worried on the possible "problem". I dont think that used games cut into physical sales significantly and i think they are means of financing more game sales. I actually think that destroying the used game market is gonna result in fewer sales overall for the industry. This is just blind greed.