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FlamingWeazel on 30 January 2014
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Dark_Feanor said:
DerNebel said:

Maybe you don't have to check in every 24 hours, but if your console doesn't have a Disc Drive you won't be able to get any games on it, if it isn't connected to the internet.

Also you won't be able to resell your games, buy games used, rent games or lend games from your friends. If you want a game you're pretty much forced to pay the price MS sets for it on their store. So quite honestly, this sounds like their original X1 plan, just a bit worse since you literally have only one place to buy games and if that one place doesn't want to discount the games, you're out of luck.

So a X1 without a Disc Drive, seems like a pretty stupid purchase to me, especially if it's only $100 cheaper than the normal X1.


Much like Steam, so?

Steam is nothing like it. PC gaming was already dealing with a limited retail presence, so steam was a necessity, consoles on the other hand are HUGE in retail, not remotely the same. I was a pc gamer and even finding pc games on shelves was often a chore 5-6 years ago, not so with console. With steam you can still play disc based games if you so choose even ones that are not tied to steam. Not remotely the same.