Just a thought. Think back for a moment. To when Netflix changed their subscription model from mailing you your movies... to being a digital service, almost exclusively. There was a backlash. But if you look at them now it was the right decision.


All microsoft is doing is making digital distribution the obvious purchase method for its customers since any disc is useless after install. Four years from now a slim version will likely release without a disc drive. MS is just forcing its inevitability. This concept doesn't make sense now, but it will.


What do you think? Will it be another netflix and out last the negativity?

Yes, but by then the damage will already be done, with the Xbone trailing behind in sales.

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=162889&page=2#7

duplicate thread. also video games and watching movies are VERY different things

You're comparing retail games to a movie rental service...

Not to mention a new movie = $15-$20 while a new game costs $60.

What? Netflix was a rental service before DD and remained so after DD. For the same price you get exactly the same service in a different package, and there's always local DVD rental stores as an alternative.

With Xbone you pay the same price but you get a product with less value. And there's no alternative other than buying a different console.

If MS wanted to be "like" Netflix they should have done a Netflix and dropped discs completely. If there's no disc that used to be a tradeable item but now isn't (or rather now has substantial limitations on trading) then there's both no DRM and there's no backlash about DRM.

It's not a good comparison at all.

NetFlix raised prices and local DVD rentals stores are dropping like flies.  Actually the only place around me (Chicago Suburb) that I know of that rents videos is RedBox.  What did RedBox just launch? A streaming service. Whose stock has skyrocketed this year (NetFlix) whose isnt (Coinstar aka RedBox).  NetFlix stock tanked when they changed the pricing and de-emphasized DVDs to only rebound as streaming has continued to skyrocket.