Eurogamer: Microsoft's mixed messages at E3 aren't pretty for Xbox One owners

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method114 said:

Lrdfancypants said:
This reminds me a lot of the launch also.

I had this problem before launch with the X1. I was set to buy 2 of the same console right away this generation because I wanted to go mostly digital on the games that I could coop but not couch coop on with my son.

Meaning I wanted to buy the game once and have family share to play with my son, him upstairs and myself down. What happened? All the nonsense back and forth on X1 was ridiculous. I got an email that I was losing my family share live plan and now I could pay $60 per yer per person or for me an increase from $99 to $240. What the heck??

Even worse I saw an article that game share would be gone except on the same machine. Meaning yes I could buy digital and my son could play it but only on the one console. I even called support for clarification only to be told that I could not digitally share my games via two consoles in the same home.

After this I saw another article of Sony stating we will let you share your games and even released an FAQ on how to do it. By this point I was so frustrated I just canceled X1 preorders and swapped to ps4's.

At the end of it all I see youtube videos after release of people doing what I wanted. Confused message can definitely hurt sales. This whole thing of fergussen stating the slim will make games better then another exec saying no it wont and spencer stating different things for the scorpio smacks of the exact same weird messaging. Can they not just have a meeting and get a clear message to give out?

I get the feel that there is just to many cooks in the kitchen when it comes to MS and their Xbox division. A game dev seemed to imply the same thing when he was talking about his experience with MS and Fable Legends. 

It is even more bizarre because you would think they would have been keen on a clear and concise message after the x1 launch.