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richardhutnik on 13 June 2013
MonstaMack said:
Don Mattrick said playing old games was "backwards" so I'd assume that a good 10ish years for XB1, after that who knows? 360 looks to be supported around 10 years.

Don said backwards compatibility is "very backwards" for a console.  The implication is that old game playing is "backwards".



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chapset on 13 June 2013

your renting period is over, but you'll be able to buy... I mean rent it again using the cloud and your xbox 2



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kitler53 on 13 June 2013
richardhutnik said:
mike_intellivision said:
There is no guarantee that there will be any usability.

That is the point in the discussion that everyone is missing.

I am trying remember what YouTube video or article made mention of this to me, and brought it to my attention.  It might of been TotalBiscuit for what I recall.  It has been nagging at myself at this point, so I am curious.  It looks like the industry has very little interest in allowing content to be held onto and used.  Backwards compatibility is gone (outside of Nintendo and PC).  They want to keep reselling the same content, to be able to justify keeping studios going.   And if they are going to end up going cloud with everything and having games that MUST connect to servers to play, then you will end up owning nothing at all and keep paying the tollkeeper.  I have no idea what Microsoft is planning here.  Sony looks like the idea is to pay a subscription fee and access old content via streaming from the cloud.

Any, I am curious if people do have any answers.  Can people stop a minute and think about this here?  Myself, I am a gamer who buys content to keep it (that is what I see about boardgame stuff.  There is no X hours of gameplay here).   And, as per your username also, I also see you have a retro angle to yourself to.

gotta agree with you.   thinking MS will simply unlock the online checks when they inevidably move onto the next latest and greatest technology is waay too optomistic view of a company that is putting this DRM into their console in the first place.

honesty, i think the best you can hope for is xbone doesn't get any games that are still worth playing in 20 years..



Zizzla_Rachet on 13 June 2013

I think people are missing the point of having an online device



 



richardhutnik on 13 June 2013
kitler53 said:
richardhutnik said:
mike_intellivision said:
There is no guarantee that there will be any usability.

That is the point in the discussion that everyone is missing.

I am trying remember what YouTube video or article made mention of this to me, and brought it to my attention.  It might of been TotalBiscuit for what I recall.  It has been nagging at myself at this point, so I am curious.  It looks like the industry has very little interest in allowing content to be held onto and used.  Backwards compatibility is gone (outside of Nintendo and PC).  They want to keep reselling the same content, to be able to justify keeping studios going.   And if they are going to end up going cloud with everything and having games that MUST connect to servers to play, then you will end up owning nothing at all and keep paying the tollkeeper.  I have no idea what Microsoft is planning here.  Sony looks like the idea is to pay a subscription fee and access old content via streaming from the cloud.

Any, I am curious if people do have any answers.  Can people stop a minute and think about this here?  Myself, I am a gamer who buys content to keep it (that is what I see about boardgame stuff.  There is no X hours of gameplay here).   And, as per your username also, I also see you have a retro angle to yourself to.

gotta agree with you.   thinking MS will simply unlock the online checks when they inevidably move onto the next latest and greatest technology is waay too optomistic view of a company that is putting this DRM into their console in the first place.

honesty, i think the best you can hope for is xbone doesn't get any games that are still worth playing in 20 years..

X hours of gameplay, and PUSHING that, where you are supposed to LOVE the "movie like experience", and play through content you wear out, is what they would have.  



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richardhutnik on 13 June 2013
Zizzla_Rachet said:
I think people are missing the point of having an online device

The point of an online device is to have it so that content you had been using stops working?  So, you don't have any degree of permanence with content you have at all?



RenCutypoison on 13 June 2013

Playing on older system is backwards



MonstaMack on 13 June 2013
KylieDog said:
You will eventually be unable to play them, much like multiplayer, patches and DLC was turned off for the original Xbox Live in less than 8 years.


To be fair, the original XBox did not use points and the DLC DRM/Schemes were different, which is why most DLC couldn't be obtained. Though with careful internet searching there is a way to get that DLC again.

 

But I mean really, when most original XBox games only had a dozen or so people on them, and Halo had maybe a hundredish prior to the announcement... was there really any loss there?

 

My guess is online gaming will be judged the same way for the 360. If the 360 continues to sell then we see further support down the road. My guess is the 360 servers stay up another 5 years, maybe more.



It's just that simple.

Zizzla_Rachet on 13 June 2013
richardhutnik said:
Zizzla_Rachet said:
I think people are missing the point of having an online device

The point of an online device is to have it so that content you had been using stops working?  So, you don't have any degree of permanence with content you have at all?


What makes you assume that service for the xbox one will drop after a new xbox device is annouced?...The only thing that would make our OP make sense is if MS drops out of the gaming console buisness after Xbone...which i doubt highly...



 



richardhutnik on 13 June 2013
Zizzla_Rachet said:
richardhutnik said:
Zizzla_Rachet said:
I think people are missing the point of having an online device

The point of an online device is to have it so that content you had been using stops working?  So, you don't have any degree of permanence with content you have at all?


What makes you assume that service for the xbox one will drop after a new xbox device is annouced?...The only thing that would make our OP make sense is if MS drops out of the gaming console buisness after Xbone...which i doubt highly...

What happens to XBOX ONE content after the XBOX ONE is no longer in production?