Those of you who know my views know I am a passionate supporter of the right to be able to trade / trade in disc based games without publisher or platform maker interferance. So I am vehemently anti Microsoft's current DRM direction. I vowed that if Sony implemented a MS-like DRM policy I would do everything in my power to convince my sons to buy a Wii U, or buy no console at all, and that at a minimum I would not contribute any money to buying a PS4. To which they replied: suck it Dad, we'll buy a PS4 with our own money...unprincipled little s....
However, some Sony fans should be hailing Microsoft's bold, and potentially suicidal without their help, move in this direction, and they should support Microsoft by exclusively buying Xbone for the next generation.
Which Sony fans?
The Sony fans who say buying used games is as bad as piracy. The Sony fans who have drunk the kool aid from certain publishers who say development studios are going out of business because of evil used game trading.
You guys should be supporting Xbone with your money. You should be standing on your principles and saying NO! to Sony and Nintendo. I will not support a console that continues to put software developers' jobs at risk, and undermines the viability of the video game industry. You should be saying I will support Microsoft's heroic efforts to save us all from a bleak future where there are no more video games, aside from the crap casual rubbish on phones and tablets.
Console loyalty is stupid and irrelevant when there's a matter of principle involved. If you believe the used game market is evil and a threat to studios that make great games, then make a stand and pre-order your Xbone today!
If such people don't switch to Xbone then they are unprincipled hypocrits. Microsoft should be their righteous gaming hero-saviour.
And that goes for Nintendo fans too.
I think a free and open used game market is both good and right. But if you think it's evil and wrong, then you should get a Xbone.
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