You guys are delusional if you think family sharing had the slightest chance of working as you concocted inside our little heads after a few twitter posts and an interview on Anandtech.
It was obvious MS was on panic mode after the backlash from the E3 and the scant pre-orders and was trying to devise a way to make their "vision of the future" more appealing. The result was a bit of hastily prepared smoke thrown to mask a gaming environment that was misconceived and deranged at its heart.
In the end of the day, what we got was simply the most realistic option: the notion that not every change comes from the best and trying to force your hand guiding the electronics market to your vision is something no one but Steve Jobs managed to do, and both Nintendo and Sony already had failed doing the same thing with the N64 and the PS3.
