| LudicrousSpeed said: The worst parts about the original plan for Xbone were the online only aspect, and the inability to trade in physical games without limitations. As I said back then, Titanfall or not, had they launched limiting your ability to lend or trade or sell your games, I would have been all in on PS4. Thank goodness they changed it after the backlash. On paper their current philosophy aligns a lot with the launch Xbone strategy but in reality, not so much. Xbone was just an utter disaster strategy for consumers in pretty much every way imaginable. Now they have about as great a digital strategy for consumers as possible, but it's still completely optional and you can live entirely on physical games with zero restrictions. |
I fully agree with this but with the nuance that the simple explanation of 'they were trying to be anticonsumer' is a biased way to looks at it and is simply illogical . There were benefits to what they were proposing and they were thinking the benefits far outweighed the drawbacks. And seeing what Steam was offering and how it was gaining traction I truly see whats those benefit could have been and why Microsoft tried to push that way. Now, I see Blu ray drive as a vestigial organs, I was seeing them just as such back then and Microsoft was without a doubt also seeing them as such and there vision actually depicted that.
I understand that most of gamers were not ready but that does not means Microsoft had the intention to screw them over.
It's also funny to look back at he 8th gen and seeing how I mostly played on Steam vs console where a I was/am subject to every drawbacks Microsoft first vision would have brought.
Last edited by EpicRandy - on 31 July 2020
