Like stated above, it's what STEAM is doing.

I made an account on day one  Sept 2003 on STEAM.

Every game I bought Disc or digital is still in my collection. Now I only buy Digital PC games from STEAM during their sales.

XB1's original strategy was good, and everyone fucked it up because their ignorance.

We had it so I could share my games with 10 people. In a house with multiple people playing the same games, it's a + and saves a shit load on money.

I could go ANYWHERE and play my games.

DEVs would make games cheaper because they knew that you could not sell your game so instead of trying to get as much from you up front, they could sell it for less.  They even had a way to sell your games through developers sites like Ubisoft, EA, etc, making so they get the cut in profit not places like Gamestop and Best Buy.

Think, every game you buy from now on would be in your library no matter what system is released down the road.

as for the cloud aspect, it's not going anywhere, MS will still use it.

Wait! If this is only possible through Cloud, what is this going to mean for Forza 5?

Question: couldn't Microsoft continue this strategy for their digital versions? (since you can't resell digital games yet)

Like stated above, it's what STEAM is doing.

I made an account on day one  Sept 2003 on STEAM.

Every game I bought Disc or digital is still in my collection. Now I only buy Digital PC games from STEAM during their sales.

XB1's original strategy was good, and everyone fucked it up because their ignorance.

We had it so I could share my games with 10 people. In a house with multiple people playing the same games, it's a + and saves a shit load on money.

I could go ANYWHERE and play my games.

DEVs would make games cheaper because they knew that you could not sell your game so instead of trying to get as much from you up front, they could sell it for less.  They even had a way to sell your games through developers sites like Ubisoft, EA, etc, making so they get the cut in profit not places like Gamestop and Best Buy.

Think, every game you buy from now on would be in your library no matter what system is released down the road.

as for the cloud aspect, it's not going anywhere, MS will still use it.

Yep. I had freinds lining up to be in my "family" too. Everyone else would have caught on in a few years too.

Hopefully they still let us have the option sometime soon.

Wait! If this is only possible through Cloud, what is this going to mean for Forza 5?

Would it have been possible to have the sharing feature only set up in the digital version? How would they manage the price difference?

This far we've only seen companies offer similar prices between the retail and virtual offerings, is it possible to see that change if a different sharing strategy were put in place between both versions?

Well, just take away shipping and manufacturing prices. I don't know specifics but that would be a fair amount right? How do Steam and PC retail games compare? I've only used it briefly.

I could be wrong but, my thought was that with Steam it's different because they don't have to match the PC retail prices since they aren't in charge of them? But with consoles the MSRP is set by the manufacturer?

I personally don't know because I only bought 1 digital game on steam so far and that's Torchlight 2 and I don't think they sell it retail.

But for the Nintendo e-shop I know that the digital and retail versions are the same price and it's fixed like that. Don't know about XBL and PSN.

Another thing they can take away is used game sales, which they might be able to take a piece of in digital by creating a used games program for digital games?