| yo_john117 said: Why? It's not like they need to be in a rush. Console doesn't come out for 6 months.
Remember; nothing is certain with products until they actually come out. |
In theory, but there's very little room for them to change the fundamentals of this regardless of how much backlash they get. They have built a whole system around making you log in every so often (going to see your parole officer, let's call it) and have supposedly been building partneships with retailers to handle used games (though apparently not with Gamestop, whose president knew nothing about it and whose stock is down 20% this week) which retailers will love because it cuts out mom & pops and private sellers and third parties will be jazzed that for a little while longer they can pretend they don't have to get budgets under control and make a wider variety of games because that awful, terrible used games "problem" is solved and everything will be fine now and and and
Plus, this is Microsoft. They often launch products that get iffy first reactions and still won't change anything until it flails once it hits the market. Sometimes not even then. They also have reason to believe that this negativity is confined to the enthusiast segment of the market. Even the enthusiast press isn't really beating them up about this. Most of the outrage seems relegated to forums. So it's doubtful the average consumer knows or cares about this stuff.
Long story short, they want to do this and they will do this.
