Theory regarding XB1 DRM, and why Sony may not have had it in the first place.

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Munkeh111 said:

superchunk said:
I think they chose this format so they can push everyone to digital distribution as it fully negates the need for a disc. The disc is worthless as you are entitled to the purchased content... not the physical disc anymore.

Pretty soon I bet they won't even include discs. Just a QR coded ticket that Kinect can scan and then you start downloading/playing from the cloud.

Really all this DRM, cloud, and other tools they've included point to this singular end.

I don't see why they would eliminate the disc entirely, it might save them a $ per game, but I reckon it would cost them customers in areas without internet or certainly poor internet. I know that this is a long term strategy, but I certainly don't see a reason for them to eliminate discs entirely this generation. Some larger games are going to be >20GB and lots of people are not going to want to download that much. But I am old fashioned, I buy as many of my steam games as possible as boxed copies then active them on Steam. I get the convenince of digital and have a nice physical collection

I think it is true that they want to push downloads from their store, as obviously they get a greater cut and are certainly anticipation a greater take up of digital downloads. It just makes it easier for developers to keep everything on a level playing field

If it really was all about ensuring that people don't sell their games while still having them installed, then why can't they just have offline mode where you have to have the disc in the console? To me that seems perfectly reasonable.

That puts extra work on the disc drive and less convenient.