Must be nice to be able to complain about not being able to rent video games. I haven't been able to since they took all the Blockbusters out of Canada a few years ago :(

Any console that let's me play my games from a disc and/or cartridge.

I said: "Just by logging in" your response: "Inserting the disc". See the difference.
And as I said, you can still do that on the Xbox One as well.

Hmm, it could be worse...but there's some stuff there that does worry me. How hard can it be to let you borrow games?

http://www.elist10.com/worlds-top-10-countries-slow-internet-connection/

http://royal.pingdom.com/2013/01/31/asia-extremes-internet-speeds/

Hong-kong, S. Korean and Japan are up there but for the most part, most countires have a slow connection.

Here in the Philippines the normal speed of the internet you will find for the common folks is below 1Mbps. We are practically screwed and thunder storms and heavy rain, good luck with a stable connection when there's one. 

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For those who are ok with it. Try living here when sometimes a connection loss will last for 1-2 days or worse for weeks. It 's a common occurence here becauce I.m been there.

Imagine I  have an Xbone and I can't even play games with it becasue I don't have an internet connection.

I see so many "I don't have regular people issues, so who gives a shit" posts.

Okay, too bad for Iran, Nigeria, Lybia and Nepal.

The only con to me is the 24 hour connection. I have the internet to do this, but its still a pain. In fact, most posters here shouldn't have this problem, this really affects South America, certain Europe countries and other lesser markets. People posting here and on other gaming forums clearly have a stable internet connection. But still, it is weird that you can't play a single player game while offline.

The rest at least are good news to me. Lending policies are actually better then Steam and IOS. And Sony is adopting the same stance on used games, deferring to the publisher. You have full control over kinect

So really, its just the 24 hour connection thingy that MS has to fix and fix fast

EA titles don't interest me outside of Mass Effect and after the last installment its not a must have. I bought a PS3 for their 1st and 2nd party titles, ala the same reason why I bought a Wii U. But the point is valid, however didn't EA drop the online pass nonsense?

Either way, EA is like activision on my radar. A non factor. 

"The right of ownership of a game which separates console gaming from PC gaming majorly is that you have the right to do as you please with your one copy of your game whether it be lending it out, collecting or reselling as long as you do not break the contract of recreating the product and selling it at a profit. "

Actually  when you buy a game, you never really own it. This kind of stuff hav ebene on for a long time  but we didn't notice it until now as now it will be monitored really closely. When you buy a game, you are only paying fro teh license to use and thats it. The game is not yoru still,, you just bought tehe permission to plaay it. Proof  can be found in resistance 2 end user agreement. Link to the quote and Quote below :

" (http://us.playstation.com/games/useragreement/resistance-2-ps3.html):

GRANT OF LICENSE. SCEA grants you a non-exclusive right to use this software for personal, non-commercial play on a PlayStation® computer entertainment system only. You may not (i) rent, lease or sublicense the software, (ii) modify, adapt, translate, reverse engineer, decompile or disassemble the software, (iii) attempt to create the source code from the object code for the software, or (iv) download game content for any purpose other than game play. You have no proprietary rights in any game content including game play statistics. SCEA may modify such content at any time for any reason. This software may include time and use restrictions. For time and use restrictions regarding this software, visit "

As you can see above, it was happening behign our noses this gen and even on sony consoles. So you can't just say MS is th eeveil one when it also occurs on a sony console. It just that itr wasn't really monitored closely. Based on the reveal from MS you can see it wasn't MS decsion to do it as the fee and how you can share is entirely up to publishers much like what sony said in their reveal. Theres a problem lendign a product if you milliosn of peopel aroudn world rely on just borrowing their friends game without having to pay adime for it and enjoyign the benefits of a sp campaign and multiplayer. That my friend is piracy not matter how you try to twist the fact. Where i am from , vendors sell fake games and peopel buy them and since Xbox 360 uses DVds its easy to borrow a game from yoru friend and burn it to a blank dvd and play it. Have done that when i ws younger on the ps1 and ps2.