XBOX One will play used games. But you have to pay

[Hawkingbird]

If they did they’d basically be giving their sales to companies like the Valmart.
They will sell the Xbox 1 just to make that new console money.

Not really. In some areas Gamestop is the only local place to purchase video games.

[XthAtGAm3RGuYX]

I call it grandpa xbox because its the oldest

[crotchpuncha]

I always called it the Door Stop cuz it was huge. Somehow M$ made a console even bigger then it tho :\

[SoVi3t]

Why would Japan, Canada, South America or Europe give a shit about NFL, and M$ can’t hope to survive only in the US.

actually a lot of people in Canada watch the NFL. I’m a Browns fan, for some reason. And soon, the Bufallo Bills will be the Toronto Bills.

[Foolinfection]

Real talk. My local Wal Mart doesn’t even bother trying to carry most games anymore because peeps had rather drive to a gamestop out of town. The last major release that our store even really stocked up on was Modern Warfare 3 and they had like literally dozens of copies taking up rows upon rows on the store shelves with like even more copies stocked up elsewhere. Now when a game comes out they carry only like a maximum of 5 copies because shit like that just doesn’t sell there anymore unless it’s xmas time.

[thebigbadwolfe]

The Gamestop president already came out in support of the new XBox One, so there definitely going to be carrying it.

GameStop says Xbox One, Playstation 4 validate used game business

From the omission in the article, it sounds like the President is hoping that people that buy used games don’t learn about the additional fee until they get home. I wouldn’t be surprised, there have been may times the clerks suggested I buy a game used often neglecting to mention that the used game requires a additional license to play the game online.

[xcalibur798]

You know what infuriates me about this whole “lets kill the used games industry because they hurt developers” is that most of this so-called retrieved revenue most probably isn’t even going to the developers but the publishers instead. Its always been the same with the movie industry and the music industry because all of these initiatives aren’t to protect the artists or developers and they hurt consumers.

[Javid]

So wait, I’m a little confused about this used game policy. Let’s say I buy a used game at Gamestop for half price, does it mean I still have to pay near full price to play it online?

[Cryoh]

Maybe GS will be provided a bunch of discounted activation codes from MS or something. Anything’s possible.

[pherai]

So it begins…

Amazon UK: Wii U Sales Rank Jumps 875% Following Microsoft’s Xbox One Reveal

The Xbox One’s disappointing reveal has shot up sales of the Wii U on Amazon.com. The system was at #390 before the conference, but now has shot up to #40 due to Microsoft’s glorified TV box.

This momentum should carry Nintendo right into the summer as they have big plans for the Wii U at E3 and this fall. The console race has just begun but it’s good to see gamers are picking up a system that’s dedicated to gaming first, and multimedia second.

http://playeressence.com/amazon-uk-wii-u-sales-rank-jumps-by-875-following-microsofts-xbox-one-reveal/?fb_source=pubv1

what a weird reaction. strange to think there are people out there more motivated to buy a wii U not for its own merits but for a yet to be released console’s apparent shortcomings.

[Kusanagi02]

what a weird reaction. strange to think there are people out there more motivated to buy a wii U not for its own merits but for a yet to be released console’s apparent shortcomings.

Cause you’re not getting fucked over with the WiiU. It also doesn’t help that Microsoft is flip flopping so much on this and changing up word to make it seem like it isn’t that bad when it is.

[SoVi3t]

So wait, I’m a little confused about this used game policy. Let’s say I buy a used game at Gamestop for half price, does it mean I still have to pay near full price to play it online?

no it means you pay near full price for the ability to play it AT ALL

[janoDX]

http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2013/05/phil-harrison-xbox-one/

Wired: What’s going on with used games? What about borrowed games? There’s a lot of speculation today. Can you clear some of that up? For example, we have multiple Xboxes in my house and trade games all the time. If we have multiple Xbox One consoles, can we still do that?

Harrison: Absolutely, just like you can today. You take the disc, install “the bits” on every machine you have in your house from the same disc, and anybody in your household can play that game. You have exactly the same restrictions that you have today, as in only one of you can play that game at a time because you only have one disc. But anybody in that house… well, the Xbox Live account… it goes for both the Xbox 360 and the Xbox One, and any user inside that house.

Wired: So as another example, if I took my disc and went to a friend’s house, would I be able to play that game on his machine?

Harrison: Yes, you can. You can take your game around to your friend’s house just as you would today — that’s assuming you have a physical disc — and what we’re doing with the new Live technology is that… with the disc, it’s just a repository for “the bits”. You can put that disc into his drive, you can play the game while you’re there, and then you go home and take that disc with you. But actually, “the bits” are still on his drive. If your friend decides that he really likes to play that game, then he can go buy it instantly, and it doesn’t need to download again. It’s already there. Once he’s paid for it, it’s immediately there.

Wired: So the discs that will be sold will essentially be start-up discs, and then the game isn’t really connected to the disc anymore once it’s been installed?

Harrison: Once you put the disc into your machine, you never need it again. If you want to keep it, that’s great. You can do that. But you can also download the game. You don’t actually have to have a physical disc after that point, but you can then share that disc with your friends which is basically a great way of distributing the content to other people.

Also, let me turn this around the other way. A game can be completely on a disc, with no additional content downloaded. You install the game on your hard drive, and other than pinging for Achievements and other multiplayer connectivity, then that’s it. That’s the end of it. Each game is on a case-by-case basis. But, I think it is very likely, that because of the inherent connectivity designed into the platform, that developers would want to expand and extend an experience over time.

Confused yet again…so the physical Xbox One games will be like PC games?

Hybrid.

-You buy the game and you can install it at no cost with the disc. Meaning that you don’t need the disc to play it.
-The disc can be used to boot games when the game is “used on another console”
-Once the game is installed on another console and take the disc with you, if your friend wants to access it, he can pay the game and it will work like a “Game on Demand”

[RagingDemonStorm]

So wait, I’m a little confused about this used game policy. Let’s say I buy a used game at Gamestop for half price, does it mean I still have to pay near full price to play it online?

With the rumorred once every 24 hour mandatory internet connection this might extend to offline play as well

[ElderGOD]

So how long before you’re forced to own two copies of a fighting game and have two accounts just so you could play two player offline?

How long before that gets changed to buying a single character then paying for each additional character?

Oh wait, we already got DLC.

[Chachi]

All of these measures will be negated by modders anyway.*

*Chachi does not condone the act of modding or compromising your warranty by opening your console to do pretty shit to it. If you wish to mod your Xbone, practice on your PC first.

[bmckay]

Hybrid.

-You buy the game and you can install it at no cost with the disc. Meaning that you don’t need the disc to play it.
-The disc can be used to boot games when the game is “used on another console”
-Once the game is installed on another console and take the disc with you, if your friend wants to access it, he can pay the game and it will work like a “Game on Demand”

Close.

There is no “can” install. There is only a “must” install.
The game disk can be used to boot AND automatically be installed on another console and can be played when signed into the original owner’s gamertag.
Regardless of what is done with the disk, if your friend wants to play after you leav, he must either sign in with your gamertag or pay some indeterminate amount of money.

[Sonichuman]

These Fuckin idiots really dont think. I guess they believe that everyone that buys their system is filthyrich and willing to pay Entire salary on new games. Not realizing that the one industry that makes them the most money on hardcopies sold, Gamestop, makes the majority of their money on Used games! There goes gamestop, there goes a chunk of your money. Fuckin tools. I cant wait to see ps4 blow them out of the water and make them change their BS stragety that they got from some idiots with top hats and has never been in a video game store. We just switched from ps3 to xbox for tournament standards, wtf lol. Right back to the playsation it will be.

Isn’t gamestop the place where a majority of the games are sold in the first place. If they really wanted to, gamestop could choose not to carry their system or the games and basically kill it, right?

As of the moment yes…GS holds the majority hold over all game sales. Places like Walmart, Target and what not don’t get nearly as much revenue from games and they don’t really care either because they sell other things that make far more profit.

[maxx]

http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2013/05/phil-harrison-xbox-one/

Wired: What’s going on with used games? What about borrowed games? There’s a lot of speculation today. Can you clear some of that up? For example, we have multiple Xboxes in my house and trade games all the time. If we have multiple Xbox One consoles, can we still do that?

Harrison: Absolutely, just like you can today. You take the disc, install “the bits” on every machine you have in your house from the same disc, and anybody in your household can play that game. You have exactly the same restrictions that you have today, as in only one of you can play that game at a time because you only have one disc. But anybody in that house… well, the Xbox Live account… it goes for both the Xbox 360 and the Xbox One, and any user inside that house.

Wired: So as another example, if I took my disc and went to a friend’s house, would I be able to play that game on his machine?

Harrison: Yes, you can. You can take your game around to your friend’s house just as you would today — that’s assuming you have a physical disc — and what we’re doing with the new Live technology is that… with the disc, it’s just a repository for “the bits”. You can put that disc into his drive, you can play the game while you’re there, and then you go home and take that disc with you. But actually, “the bits” are still on his drive. If your friend decides that he really likes to play that game, then he can go buy it instantly, and it doesn’t need to download again. It’s already there. Once he’s paid for it, it’s immediately there.

Wired: So the discs that will be sold will essentially be start-up discs, and then the game isn’t really connected to the disc anymore once it’s been installed?

Harrison: Once you put the disc into your machine, you never need it again. If you want to keep it, that’s great. You can do that. But you can also download the game. You don’t actually have to have a physical disc after that point, but you can then share that disc with your friends which is basically a great way of distributing the content to other people.

Also, let me turn this around the other way. A game can be completely on a disc, with no additional content downloaded. You install the game on your hard drive, and other than pinging for Achievements and other multiplayer connectivity, then that’s it. That’s the end of it. Each game is on a case-by-case basis. But, I think it is very likely, that because of the inherent connectivity designed into the platform, that developers would want to expand and extend an experience over time.

Confused yet again…so the physical Xbox One games will be like PC games?

Hybrid.

-You buy the game and you can install it at no cost with the disc. Meaning that you don’t need the disc to play it.
-The disc can be used to boot games when the game is “used on another console”
-Once the game is installed on another console and take the disc with you, if your friend wants to access it, he can pay the game and it will work like a “Game on Demand”

dont forget it automatically downloads the game onto a friends system. doesnt sound like you have a choice in the matter…lol videogame spyware.

[Beat]

Why is there so much drama over this DRM/used game fee/kinect spying/TV box bullshit?

Just buy a PS4- that way you don’t have to deal with it.