It doesn't necessarily contradict everything. If we believe that supposed Microsoft engineer, their goal is really to shift people to digital and squeeze retail out of the picture. So this could help train people to go digital. I just don't see why (a) retailers wouldn't be more pissed off by this than they would be about digital games simply undercutting the prices of retail ones (the excuse we get for why Games On Demand prices suck), and (b) why publishers wouldn't have a massive fit over this. I'm guessing they'll be allowed to opt out of making their games shareable, though.

If this concurrent thing is true, I will buy an X1 and get 9 guys to share the cost of one game and we all can play for one-tenth the cost.

I really doubt it's going to work this way.

I think there is still a lot more left to be known about this "family sharing" thing, and I highly doubt it will work as simply as they say it will. It is just a PR spin that was released DAYS before E3... did not need its own thread since it already has one... http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=162225

I doubt it. Assuming DLC can't be shared, why would you buy DLC for an essentially borrowed game.
I can see how it might get you addicted to a multiplayer game, so you might buy it yourself plus DLC to play together. But it will be detrimental to single player games, the Mass Effects, Tom Raiders, Bioshocks. Play the single player campaign from a shared copy and move on to the next game. Another nail in the coffin for single player, all according to plan, online connected ecosystems is what MS is after.

Just the fact that a friend can play with you at the same time is insane. I mean someone could buy Call of Duty Ghosts and one of their friends could play the game with them at the same time. That in itself would literally almost cut all game sales to half. Add on top that 9 other people could play the game anytime someone else is not playing could potentially cut sales by several times more since people could just form a group, buy one game and alternate when they play that game.

I just don't see how this could ever be possible without some form of major caveat. I can't even imagine how 3rd parties are so against Sony's traditional way of letting people play physical copies of used games and they could possibly allow this, which would cut game sales MAJORLY. If I read the print in the Xbox Wire details, it said that game sharing could be turned on or off by publishers. So at best I could only see this as a feature used by 1st party games. 3rd parties probably won't want to have anything to do with this.

Sounds too good to be true, which means there must be a catch.

If I were to guess, I would say that you can add up to (10) people to your family group, with these (10) people getting access to your entire library of games. These games however come with a time limit, probably an hour or so. After the time limit expires you must purchase the title in order to continue playing.

Also, in order to access this feature all members wishing to take advantage of this feature will need to have a Gold subscription... although that was obvious.

it seems like there waging war on the retailers rather than the consumers

This would be so exploitable, I just cant see it being done.

I really don't think Strict DRM has ever been their goal. Just some of the things they are trying to achieve with discless and digital distribution really require strict DRM to ever have a hope of working. The problem has been up until this point they have SUCKED at the PR where instead of saying why what there doing is so good because it allows you to do A, B and C, they have done it by saying you won't be able to do X, Y and Z and telling people what they can't do is NEVER a wise PR move. still much of this seems too good to be true, be interesting to hear more official news on it.

Carry on downplaying guys, glad to know hypocrisy is alive and well. Sony made a statement about DRM and you all took it at face value. Several statements from Microsoft about this and they must be lying or withholding information. Yeah you don't look a little silly with that behaviour at all.