| CDiablo said: I agree in that the bone is trying to be a digital console in which you can resell, share, trade, give away games(which benifits the customer) and kickback money to other parties depending on the type of sale(benifits the publishers and select resellers). The 24 hour check is a direct result of this. Im not sure why they couldnt have offline play with a disk check though. People say that if it was all digital it would be better but there would still be the public backlash. No reselling(which you can do on PS4), not being able to get games cause of no or slow internet or bandwith caps. Im sure the backlash would be as bad. Players would be mad. Retailers would be mad because once they sell the console(which typically have low profit margins) theres no money to be mad on software sales. MS has made a difficult balancing act between gamer, publisher and retailer/reseller. |
I honestly don't think the backlash would be as bad. If you have a console with no disc drive there isn't going to be a backlash about not being able to resell games because it will be understood. You don't see ouya having to explain their used games/trading/lending policy, people just automatically understand what the deal is. But when you tell people that they don't really own a physical copy that they bought then you have just opened up a can of worms. The general consumer will have a hard time undertanding the concept of buying something physical and not actually owning it. That is a PR nightmare that could be avoided by going all digital. At that point there isn't much explanation necessary, it is what it is.
Players will only be mad if the trade off doesn't bring them any value. Imagine this, xb1 chooses to forgo a disc drive but ps4 keeps the disc drive. Lets say that allows xb1 console to be 50 dollars cheaper than ps4 (pretend they got rid of kinect as well) and it allows games to be 20 dollars cheaper. Would gamers still be mad? Sure maybe some might still decide ps4 makes more sense for them but I doubt you would see the kind of unbridled rage that your seeing now. That would be a real choice! I think the industry is better off if the two major consoles aren't almost identical. The only reason gamers are mad right now is because MS is literally giving them ZERO reason for the restrictions. They aren't adding any value whatsoever and their rival doesn't have them. Yeah, under those circumstances it makes no sense.
