ok this is unconfirmed, but if this is family sharing then it def isn't what some were looking forward to.

First is family sharing, this feature is near and dear to me and I truly felt it would have helped the industry grow and make both gamers and developers happy. The premise is simple and elegant, when you buy your games for Xbox One, you can set any of them to be part of your shared library. Anyone who you deem to be family had access to these games regardless of where they are in the world. There was never any catch to that, they didn’t have to share the same billing address or physical address it could be anyone. When your family member accesses any of your games, they’re placed into a special demo mode. This demo mode in most cases would be the full game with a 15-45 minute timer and in some cases an hour. This allowed the person to play the game, get familiar with it then make a purchase if they wanted to. When the time limit was up they would automatically be prompted to the Marketplace so that they may order it if liked the game. We were toying around with a limit on the number of times members could access the shared game (as to discourage gamers from simply beating the game by doing multiple playthroughs). but we had not settled on an appropriate way of handling it. One thing we knew is that we wanted the experience to be seamless for both the person sharing and the family member benefiting. There weren’t many models of this system already in the wild other than Sony’s horrendous game sharing implementation, but it was clear their approach (if one could call it that) was not the way to go. Developers complained about the lost sales and gamers complained about overbearing DRM that punished those who didn’t share that implemented by publishers to quell gamers from taking advantage of a poorly thought out system. We wanted our family sharing plan to be something that was talked about and genuinely enjoyed by the masses as a way of inciting gamers to try new games.

The motto around the offices for the family plan was “It’s the console gaming equivalent to spotify and pandora” it was a social network within itself! The difference between the family sharing and the typical store demo is that your progress is saved as if it was the full game, and the data that was installed for that shared game doesn’t need to be erased when they purchase the full game! It gave incentive to share your games among your peers, it gave games exposure, it allowed old games to still generate revenue for publishers. At the present time we’re no longer going forward with it, but it is not completely off the table. It is still possible to implement this with the digital downloaded versions of games, and in fact that’s the plan still as far as I’m aware.

Another feature that we didn’t speak out about was the fact we were building a natural social network with Xbox One in itself that didn’t require gamers to open their laptops/tablets to post to their other friends nor did they need to wrestle with keyboard add-ons. Each Xbox Live account would have a full “home space” in which they could post their highest scores, show off their best Game DVR moments, what they’ve watched via Xbox TV and leave messages for others to read and respond to. Kinect 2.0 and Xbox One work together and has robust voice to text capabilities. The entire notion of communicating with friends you met online would have been natural and seamless. No reliance on Facebook, or Twitter (though those are optional for those who want them). Everything is perfectly crafted for the Xbox One controller and Kinect 2.0 and given that shine that only Microsoft can provide.

We at Microsoft have amazing plans for Xbox One that will make it an amazing experience for both gamers and entertainment consumers alike. I stand by the belief that Playstation 4 is Xbox 360 part 2, while Xbox One is trying to revolutionize entertainment consumption. For people who don’t want these amazing additions, like Don said we have a console for that and it’s called Xbox 360.

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Note First part I didn't include since it was long, go to link if you want the opening.

If that was indeed the case then it would definitely have got a thumbs down from me as it wasn't what they were insinuating.  I think the disaapointment has made me realize that next gen I will move over to mostly digital for my purchases (disk will be for xmas presents).  The no messing with disks option was a great idea and one that I think I'll support.

Its comments like these that show how some people have no idea what the actual retail side of the industry is like.

There was not a minority that spoke and it wasnt Sony fans.

MS had exactly ZERO chance of winning in ANY market including their dominant NA.

Had MS stayed the course the entire Xbox brand would have collapsed.

People that think it was internet crying that changed MS are either delusional, in denial, or simply uneducated on the overall situation.

What changed MS was numbers. Because numbers dont lie.

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Youve seen a local Gamestop.......

Ive seen an entire company.

Hmmmm

It seems to me that pc gaming may be better suited for you. It has steam with awesome sales, not to mention if you spend enough, it will outdo anything next gen. Titan fall will also be on pc too if that matters to you lol

It is as simple as you wrote it. The numbers forced Microsoft to change their policies. Neither MS or Sony or Nintendo are our friends. Money is thier friend. I m confident that Sony had some kind of DRM in place but after seing what happen to MS they decided to throw the KO punch at E3 specially after XBOX360 almost destroy them in the last Gen. Sony launch day PS4 has been already sold out multiple places around the world and Sony decided to release Bundle to get even more sale. And those bundle have been on top for like 2-3 straight days while Xbox1 launch day edition hasnt been sold out almost anywhere.

Those numbers forced MS to change thier policy not because they cared about "us" 

So what? Do not change anything to what I said...

Also you should really read the complete reply instead of sticking on one of two sentence... It helps a lot if you want to debate.
I also saw your reply about "us" people who think Sharing was good...
As you seem to know a lot about the "industry" and the reality out there, I will give you my exemple, you will certainly bash it anyway but maybe it will give you some insight.

No-disc required and library sharing was just one of the big feature I was expecting... I have 3 kids; all playing on Xbox and we have 4 consoles at home.
I do not think I need to go further and try to explain you why it would be a huge advantage for me.

Now you can still reply like "all of us defending that" are "hilarious" etc... But the facts is that not everyone think like you or have the same opinion about certain thing, I greatly advise you to consider other people point of view sometime.