Xbox 720 'will support Blu-ray, might not play used games' - report

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Darc Requiem said:
This rumor is clearly BS. I can't see MS handing their user base over to Sony and Nintendo. I don't even buy used games and I wouldn't touch a 720 because of this purely on principle.

Me neither.  It's no secret I PREFER PS3 to Xbox 360, but I loves me some Xbox games.  I also buy probably 2/3-3/4 of my games new, but honestly?  if ANYONE did this and flat out refused to allow used games, I wouldn't buy from them, even if sony did it.  I think that's a horrible, disgusting thing to do and it would effectively destroy the entire games industry.  places like Ebay would lose their gaming division, gamestop, EB games, and pawn shops would lose their gaming division (used games, anyway), and that would basically put Gamestop and other game-centric stores out of business since we know they get most of their money from used game sales. 

Basically, this would be microsoft giving a big middle finger to half of the functioning games industry.  I don't think any company would be THAT stupid. If it goes much beyond "online passes" for content, I'll be more than a little pissed.  I don't mine Online passes becuase it basically means only a small bit of content or online play is omitted when used (I don't play online often and I can live without small bits of gameplay), but just plain not being able to play used games?  would be suicide.