| richardhutnik said: Any idea what will happen after the XBOX ONE is done, and they have moved beyond the ONE to something else? Is there any guarantee that the content you bought will be playable on the next console, or even if the XBOX ONE consoles will still work, and they keep the authentication servers up? Or, will they patch the system so you they don't need to check the authentication servers which they then could eliminate? Anyone have any idea what Microsoft would do? Or is it, as people tend to say, by this time, your games you buy no won't matter anyhow, because who plays old games these days, right? |
I'm gonna have to say it will be useless. This is one of my biggeswt problems with this push by MS. Consoles have been the exception to the PC market and it has done so much better because of it. I love my PC games but I almost NEVER buy new full priced games on PC ( I have purchased 2 in the last 5 years) I always wait until they are like 50-75% off. I don;t buy a lot of new console games either but I do buy more because I know I can trade them in or sell em to a killer on Craig's list or to some chump on Ebay.
With MS trying to push consoles to be more like the PC landsacape and these 24 hour checks I have a hard time beleiving that once they stop supporting the XBone they will just be able to shut that requirement off. I think they would have done so by now with all the uproar over it (then again it is MS).
I just can't see MS going through the trouble patch the console they are moving away from to allow you to continue to enjoy your purchased games long after the XBone is gone.
I suspect that we will see another generation of illegally chipped Xbox consoles (chipped 360s are in just about every country on the planet) around the world and pirated copies of their games as well.
I'm still upset that I can't play some of my PS1 games on the PS4. So yeah I play my old games ;)
