kowenicki said:
Tachikoma said:
"It does reveal, however, that all games on Blu-Ray will be installed onto the console’s hard drive, and that play from the optical disc will not be supported."
Let me just spell out why this feature is the way it is, you may think "awesome, that means super fast load times", but in actual fact it means that a console cannot play games from disk, so to play you must install it to the hard drive - this is pretty much how it's going to go down:
New game put in console - console activates game to account, either through disk ID or through provided code with the game (online pass style), once activated whenever the console next goes online, said activation ticket is revoked for use from other consoles, meaning that your specific disk is now only useful if you deleted the installed game and want to reinstall it again.
Activation of game on another console, offline will result in the game working until the moment you take the console online, then the game will be forcibly deactivated and potential for bans.
Essentially, always on, always connected, plus refusal of play from disk gives microsoft complete control over what you play, patching games on the fly without your input, and essentially making used games worthless. |
assumption
or its just a natural progression of what the 360 does....
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Seems like you won't be disappointed if this come into fruition. Good for you.
I wonder if Gamestop feeble support for the PS4 after its announcement has anything to do with them considering the possibility that this may happen. They could be trying to make pressure on Micro to desist of this, if they actually intend to follow through. A couple of good PR for PS4 is not much, but I guess Gamestop can't do anything beyond that at the moment or maybe in the future. lol Unless they refuse selling Xbox stuff.
