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Oh the gaming gods noooooo. Hmmmm that wiiU is looking like a nice buy now.



My 3ds friendcode: 5413-0232-9676 (G-cyber)



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"The bits that are on that disc, you can give it to your friend and they can install it on an Xbox One," he said. "They would then have to purchase the right to play that game through Xbox Live."

"They would be paying the same price we paid, or less?" we asked.

"Let’s assume it’s a new game, so the answer is yes, it will be the same price," Harrison said.

WADAFAQ?! And people were complaining here about the online pass!! LMAO!



More problems for VGChartz to track games sales in the next gen!



Given that a lot of 360's more mainstream usage came from annual titles like CoD or Madden (that are then resold towards next year's purchase) this is not going to go over well.



Monster Hunter: pissing me off since 2010.

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I honestly thought this was going to be joke thread judging by the title....



Well gamestop is going to be pissed.



The full price of the game is a fee now ?




BloodyRain said:
Well gamestop is going to be pissed.

Indeed.



hinch said:
"But that doesn't mean used games are dead. In fact, Harrison told us, you'll be able to sell your Xbox One games online."

Or.. you could just scrap the whole thing and start from square one. No-one wants overcomplicated game sharing policies or offline game passes.

What the fuck are you doing Microsoft.

But I do quite want to have digital copies of my physical games which is the one upside