| disolitude said: I will skip the whole sharing thing since we don't know exactly how taht was going to work, but it most likely would have been awesome. Here are some of the things I can think of.
1. Disc based games do not sync with the cloud or show up in your library profile http://www.engadget.com/2013/06/19/xbox-one-drm-marc-whitten/ Going to a friends place to play Halo 5 which you bought on disc? You will have to have your profile on a USB if you want the controller profile or game save to be there. Your digital profile will not have your settings for this game available. if sony can take my disc based copy of PSASBR and seemlessly move my save file and customization preferences back and forth with my vita copy surely MS and there vastly superiour networking skills can figure that out too.. 2. Fragmenting of a gaming library Only digital purchases show up in your profile. If next gen consoles are backwards compatible or there is no next gen much like there is no "next gen" for PCs, your gaming library will be partly digital partly disk based. If disk drives go away, so does your gaming library ..and who's to say you library won't be lost anyways?!?. my old PC games aren't compatible with windows 8 because technology has changed so much. at the rate things are changing i wouldn't doubt that a digital library can still lack forwards compatability and worse yet... that decision resides with MS not with me. at least my disc based my gaming library always exists so long as i keep my hardware. i can still play my NES 20+ years later. 3. Digital purchases can only be made on xbox Live. For those that want to avoid disks like the plauge (like me), they can not take advantage of Best buy and Walmart clearances of games to buy digital games. Retail bought games are locked to the disk and not my Xbox Live ID. Intead the only place we can hope to get deals from is Xbox Live marketplace. i check prices both online (amazon) and digitally (psn). i can't speak for live but sony's prices have always been fair with market value. there have been a ton of sales too that are well below market price. if MS isn't doing that,. that's their problem. 4. Disk swaps and verification checks for no functional reason other than to enforce DRM Self explanitory. I'd rather have internet do something so I don't have to. i don't like disc swaps either. but at least consumers are given choice. digital and physical both have down sides. but you have to move the market by proving value not be eliminating choices. sony approached this soo much better. instead of saying "GO DIGITAL" they said "hey, we are introducting GoPlay that minimizes one of the burdens of digital. I hope you like it." some will, some will not. but consumers are empowered with choice. 5. Gamestop and Publishers can keep screwing users with used games and passes Gamestop loves the new direction Xbox One is taking. Wonder why... |
