Xbox One's fast change of policies.

[darkknightkryta]

theprof00 said:

DJEVOLVE said:

darkknightkryta said:
They changed because of Gamestop. The question should be "Why did Gamestop stop taking Xbox One pre-orders", cause they started taking them again as soon as MS changed their minds.

This along with all of the bad press and fans. I'm sure it was all of it.

Everyone has a opionion of what did it, Oh and me and all my friends pre-ordered at gamestop before they changed. SO this is wrong.

Well, there are misguided opinions, and there are facts.

The facts are that Gamestop wasn't having it.
They didn't stop preorders for vita or any other system ever, so either
A) pre-orders were worse than any console ever released

or something else.

There is another something else involving gamestop.
The one change was the used games portion, and requiring the azure cloud to be integrated into their system.

 

Now, we could listen to MS say they did it for the feedback.
Or we could listen to Gamestop.

It may be your "choice" to trust MS on what they are saying, but the firm rejection from the reseller community is likely the big thing here.
Remember that the azure cloud integration has 100% responsibility over all the digital they wanted to do. If gamestop didn't accept the azure cloud, it would necessitate the 180.

A lot of xbox guys like to say that they wished MS stuck to their guns. People say "if Henry Ford had listened to consumers he would have made faster horses". Etc, etc. All of this blame is being placed on the consumer, for whatever reason. The problem was with gamestop, and revolved entirely around used games, which was a huge problem with consumers as well.

Call it a simple coincidence, but MS would not have changed anything for you.

There was a bit more; the idea behind the family sharing plan.  If what that supposed employee of MS was saying is true, then sharing games sent you to the game's page on the Live Store.  This apparently, is what cause Gamestop to say "FU" to MS.  Trying to control the used game segment, and then try to take away new sales, Gamestop didn't like that one bit.  Apparently BenVTrigger was hinting that this was the case on top of the low pre-orders, when the situation occured.  He hasn't logged in in a while and I'm not sure if he's allowed to verify it.  He did mention about Gamestop killing pre-orders to us though.