| Darth Tigris said: Yep. This basically sets console gaming back another 5-7 years while other products continue to cut into it's market share. Congrats, gamers. You just doomed console gaming's ability to survive this decade. The parallels of this to the ending of a recently released AAA game prove irony's still got it ... |
Steve Jobs and Gabe Newell must be laughing their asses off right now.
"We do DRM and offer awesome things that come with digital distribution and people love us and call us cutting edge. Microsoft does it and all hell breaks loose".
Seriously though...what happens when it turns out that you bought half of your library on disc and next gen is backwards compatible but has no bluray? Will people be pissed? I bet so...
What if there is no next gen? Instead we may see newer x86 machines being released in a hardware cycle upgrade that is tied to OS version(like smartphones and tablets). For example Xbox Live Desboard 4.3 and all games utilizing the features need Xbox One V2.0 hardware and higher. Your entire digital library following you around on different consoles is impossible now if you buy a single disk based game.
