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JGarret on 06 February 2013
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CGI-Quality said:
JGarret said:
CGI-Quality said:
kowenicki said:
Pretty shoddy article from the usually reliable Edge.

Agreed. This seems so wrong people! Online always? No used games? Yeah, doubt it.


Now they have another article, lots of people on gaf are worried because it seems Edge are really confident in the sources.

They´re usually very reliable, so either they lose a lot of credibility or there´s truth to this story, as surreal as it sounds.

I certainly hope not. :/


CGI, here´s the other article I just told you about

http://www.edge-online.com/features/risky-business-the-next-xbox-versus-playstation-4/

You’ve got to admire Microsoft’s bravery. News that its next Xbox could shut out the second-hand games market has caused strong reactions across social media today, and it has impacted upon the real world too. GameStop’s share price took a dent following the publication of our story earlier this afternoon.

If our sources are correct (and we’re confident they are), Microsoft has made the move that publishers and developers have been asking for. Microsoft’s next Xbox will do what Steam and the App Store have been doing for years, and very successfully, too – a download-first, one profile, one purchase, one storefront system. Overnight, it’ll stop GameStop and GAME from selling on games without a penny heading back to its publisher, let alone its creator.

Microsoft has also, rather more sensibly, surmised that the kind of consumer happy to pay for a next-generation console is going to have a decent internet connection. It is not a portable device; there’s little harm in keeping the next Xbox connected, as long as the next iteration of Xbox Live is implemented in the right way. Past experiences with always-on services have been disappointing – just ask Ubisoft and Blizzard – but that’s current generation technology. Microsoft must take note of its contemporaries’ mistakes and make its always-on Xbox service as unobtrusive as it can.