This is not the future. I sometimes play old games on consoles from 20 years ago. I physically own them. I don't have to pay again to play them. Which is awesome.
Having to keep paying a monthly fee so you can continue to play games you don't own is not awesome. Especially since they can remove any game from their servers at any time. Which is what they will do, once a game gets old and is played by few people. Even less awesome.
Not being able to play without (fast) internet access: Least awesome.
Let's sum it up: Owning physical copies = Awesome. Not owning physical copies = Not awesome.
"Well certainly with the Xbox 360, we had some challenges at the launch. Once we identified that we took control of it. We wanted to do it right by our customers. Our customers are very important to us." -Larry "Major Nelson" Hryb (10/2013). Note: RRoD was fixed with the Jasper-revision 3 years after the launch of 360
"People don't pay attention to a lot of the details."-Yusuf Mehdi explaining why Xbone DRM scheme would succeed
"Fortunately we have a product for people who aren't able to get some form of connectivity; it's called Xbox 360,”-Don Mattrick
"The region locking of the 3DS wasn't done for profits on games"-MDMAlliance
