Next Generation Gaming Systems

coolvans1988

i saw a video on youtube (that summarizes xbox one).

Pretty much about the game disc being installed into your own xbox one hard drive,
but then the disc no longer has a purpose afterwards. Then they stated "well what if your friends have an xbox one and just use YOUR* disc and install it into their own xbox one hard drive and pay that small fee".

They will lose money like that, wont they?

theDreamer

Yes and no.
This will eliminate the buy a disc for X amount and then share with 10 friends with the developers only getting the original X price. Now they can make X plus a small fee per registration.

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ElVee

Do people rent games anymore? Definitely much of my childhood allowance went to rentals, but since college I'm afraid I know nothing of the practice.

Mr&Mrs

Gamefly is pretty successful, or was, that is the only company I see suffering from this at least with Xbox One. In my area there are no more storefronts for movies or game rentals, just those shiny red boxes.

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Mr&Mrs

All of the games or discs will have a license, once it is used, it can't be used again unless it is DRM free. I doubt very many games will be without DRM of some kind though. You can give away the license up to one time though to a friend or family member. At that point you would no longer be able to play the game. Unless you are in the group of friend's that have access to their cloud. That defeats the purpose of giving away the game anyway because if they are already in that group they can just play it off of your cloud. You cannot play the same game together on different systems though, just like now you would need two discs or two licenses.

People are getting too worried over this DRM nonsense and Kinect spying on you. It's mostly due to bad media, and horrible Microsoft Public Relations. The answers are out there but people are too lazy to find them and just go by what they hear.

I also found out that up to 9 people on one system can have Gold access with just one subscription to Gold. This is great for families with more than one child, they no longer need more than one Gold account unless each kid has their own system.

I got a little long winded on that response I hope I answered your question.

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RoshDawg

So I can buy a game, I can give my brother my gaming cloud username/password and he can play it too? (Albeit only at different times) Sort of like Steam on the PC? If so, that's pretty neat.

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Mr&Mrs

You will have up to 10 friends ( I believe ) that you designate with a special tag of some sort. They have access to your games in the cloud. Will it be a trial for a few hours or the entire game is not 100% clear yet.

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