No, I agree, it is very fitting. My only point is that you could resell a Model T

Edit: Though the marketing was very similar "you can have a model T in any color you like, so long as it is black" - Henry Ford

The fact that (first mass produced car) is in parentheses made me laugh.

Or they could have just added the features to digital downloads and let the consumer decide. Or an opt in / opt out choice in the settings where you can choose whether or not to register a disc. They could have had their revolution, just while keeping their policies backwards compatible.

This is the main point that is really really interesting. Why did they scrap the whole thing? Some have said its proof that sharing never worked, and others have said that the feature never existed in the first place, or was distorted PR spin. Others, like myself, say that this is proof that MS only changed because of Gamestop. 10 games being shared is literally worse than used games and piracy, and would've fucked gamestop so hard.

Again, it was also the only thing that made me want an xb1...literally too good to be true.

My post from 4 days ago.  Toot toot.

It might happen, but I doubt it. The no-self-publishing policy is made in favor of big publishers. I suspect MS will continue this policy. They (MS) are pro-publisher, not pro-consumer. Long history of this kind of behavior on its Windows platform, as well as the Xbox. Very unlikely to change, but you never know.

On, no doubt MS will try to push the blame onto execs in the hope that people won't notice it's a mess up on a corporate scale, but it won't work.

I agree, I really can't see how Gamestop would have approved this plan. Then again, how could MS build so much around such a plan without making sure it is backed and approved by every significant party? Sadly, I'm not sure it will be possible to find a logical solution. MS almost certainly couldn't have had a properly thought out plan otherwise they wouldn't have had every XB1 event be a PR disaster.

Its possible that you and I are not privy to information for something that they have planned which needed them to discard their old policies.

Most people that deal with digital ecosystems know that without platform consistency for every user, the experience inevitably gets diluted for everyone in the long run as you can't count on standardization.

As a project manager that has managed many large website and app launches in the last few years, I can tell you that sometimes you have to break support with certain things, to implement other better things. I've been part of website re-designs and re-launches with totally different layout and functionality, causing them to lose half of the audience but double the revenue. I've seen it backfire too...

With technology and disruption, if you never end up using a back up plan, you played it way too safe and you're not going to disrupt anything. Microsoft just used theirs...

Awesome news. Indies did insainly well on the 360. I hope it continues with the X1.