Quote:
Individual games will be tied to Xbox Live accounts, Microsoft said, meaning that the software giant can detect whether a game has been sold to a retailer and repurchased, or handed from one friend to another. In such instances, the second user must pay a fee.
“On the new Xbox, all game discs are installed to the HDD to play,” a Microsoft representative told Wired.
The company added that, once discs are installed on the hard drive, games can be played without a disc being in the tray.
The Wired article then elaborates:
“What follows naturally from this is that each disc would have to be tied to a unique Xbox Live account, else you could take a single disc and pass it between everyone you know and copy the game over and over. Since this is clearly not going to happen, each disc must then only install for a single owner.”
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See this is interesting to me...
If Sony reveals that they are not going to charge for the reuse of games between users and stores that resell games I think that they might have XBOX beat and gain support in the market place.
Not only are they going to be backwards compatible already but the use of games between consoles might give them an edge as well.
I mean how many times have you just gone to a friends house with your game and had a game night.
Well with the XBOX you have to pay a fee if you do this...
But if they reveal that they also are going to be logging their game disc and only a single console can use them and new consoles will have to pay a fee then all hope is lost for us as gamers and they way it use to be...
Stores like gamestop are out of business traditionally and game nights will be more expensive...
I think they just want all of us in our homes living on-line...