How is anyone screwing you with used games?  No one makes you buy a used game.

I don't think MS saw it that way, otherwise they wouldn't have did a 180 and dropped the DRM + online check.

But I swear, some people will never be happy. I bet even with the dropping of Kinect and a $100 price cut people would still pick the PS4 over the XB1, for reasons outside of games.

Just wait the preorders results... I checked some online stores and this news just put Xbone over PS4... at least now in US the sales will be way better for Xbone now.

Gamestop is obvious happy after all the mess that they did yesterday to show to MS that the preorders are bad for them.

That's the thing though...why do I give a flying fuck that Xbox lost the generation? I am not an xbox fanboy. I personally don't think they would have lost anything but maybe the first few years in sales. But I really don't care if they are in last place.

Xbox One digital strategy genuenly had features that sounded very appealing to me and I wanted to see what their vision for digital console gaming is all about. Why is that so hard to believe? Instead we are getting a half baked digital/disk based DRM that is a generation behind rest of the cutting edge consumer goods.

Pretty much anyone that has been gaming on the PC and knows how DRM works knows the advantages and isn't bitching about the Xbox One. Majority of the people bitching about this here are uneducated or just scared of change...there are those that are trashing the Xbox with anything they can get and don't care either way.  I'm not saying that people that trully can't access the internet on a daily basis don't exist...but these people don't post on VGchartz on a daily basis.

Either way you look at it, consumers got "choice" but lost features and other choices in the process.

Is family sharing gone? Even for digital titles?

You're right. There is no way to tie the physical disk to game install meaning that they would have to use pack-in codes or dedicated digital disks.

I really hope they have digital disks ready on day 1 next to physical copies. Once people see how convenient the silent software background updates are and don't have to update every time they decide to insert a disk to play the game, and how cool cloud  game syncing is, the faster loading and instant app switching, no disk swaps necessary on instant game resume...etc...they are bound to think twice about running disk based games even if they think digital DRM is the devil.

This will actually provide for some nice comparisons. Digital vs physical game benchmarks on same console.

It's unfortunate, some manager blinked. MS could have refined digital sharing or even made it a configurable option with an offline mode, which would have been the best. Perhaps they will in the future, who knows. But this time the luddites and hate-machine has triumphed, alghough I'm not totally convinced of that. It's also entirely possible that the big publishers picked up the phone and said "sharing? oh no you don't."

One question... do you think MS took these decision based in press, game forums or sony fans? I'm pretty sure they saw what the general consumers that go to the stores wanted before change their policies... they know that they will lost even a long term if they stay with the old policies.

That's all about money after all... MS know they lost at general consumers.

No company makes bigs changes withou evidences they are really loosing the market.

Gone. Better luck next gen... Im sure Steam will offer it in a year and be considered awesome sauce.

I think its a mix of everything to be honest. I really don't have accurate infor and I am in no position to speculate.

Here is an interesting story... I bolded a few interesting parts. I wouldn't be surprised if Gamestop, Bestbuy...etc are the reason this was changed. They don't want to lose retail grip on consumers and want a cut.  Why would they help push people towards digital, even if its better?

http://www.neowin.net/news/anonymous-xbox-engineer-explains-drm-and-microsofts-xbox-one-intentions

"Yeah we passed that around the office at Xbox. Most of us were like "Well played Sony, Well played". That being said they are just riding the hype train of ZOMG THEY ARE TRYING TO FUCK US FOR NO REASON. Without actually thinking about how convienent it would be for the majority of the time to not find that disc your brother didn't put back... [...] just simpleminded people not seeing the bigger picture. Some PS4 viral team made them all "U TOOK R DISCS" and they hiveminded."