Not a good idea xbox. There are so many other platforms for gaming. PC being just as satisfying.

Looks like my tail is heading back to books and old school cartridge games. The old games are better, anyway, for the most part.

I loved God of War and Dragon Age: Origins, but Zelda, Mario, and MUDs will always own my gaming heart.

they'll lock games to some sort of account....and there lies the problem

Its almost a certainty as soon as they do this they will put the price of games up even more.

Its much easier to copy games on the PC and look how much cheaper they are ...

Buying used games is the ONLY way I can afford to play games...

I was excited about the possibility of a new console from xbox...

But if you cant play used ones on their new console...

I will keep my HARD earned cash and spend it on some sort of RC helicopter with LASERS! muhwahaha

I can actually see this happening and have heard of it happening already. I have a friend who was just complaining that he was unable to play his games on the new Xbox because of something with his Xbox ID and apparently his old games won't work because they are registered to that old ID and not the new one? That makes no sense to me what-so-ever, but I can see this happening.

A lot of PC games can't be sold used because once you use the Product ID you can't use it again. Mostly this is in on bigger games like WoW, Star Wars etc, but yea I can see it. Horrid idea, but it will more then likely becoime fact since it is such a horrible idea.

i wouldn't put anything past that greedy nerd, bill gates.

they already charge xbox owners 50 bucks a year to be able to use their (the console owner's) internet bandwidth to connect to a games (the developers server) to play online.

once you buy a game it's yours. it is no longer the property of the seller. the manufacturer doesn't give you money back if you sell it.

this is nothing more than extortion. if you want to play a used game, pay up.

Originally posted by sarra1833
Besides, how could they tell if a game was pre-owned anyway? Are they going to use some kind of scanner when you buy the original game that's tied to both your genetics and your own xbox? If so, that on its own is very very scary.

a little over the top, don'tcha think?

It's more likely that console games will start coming with "CD keys" like old PC games (back when they were sold on discs en masse). The game might require you to register your game online before being able to play, therefore a used copy would be useless unless you've already purchased a new copy and registered it.

This will undoubtedly destroy my console gaming experience as I've relied heavily on used games for entertainment, only purchasing brand new games once in a blue moon due to lack of income. I haven't even played Skyrim yet FFS!!!!

If this comes to pass, I will no longer purchase a single Xbox product. I will invest in a gaming PC and get my games through Steam, where good deals can occasionally be found.

This is where the technology of the product out costs the demand for the product.
At least that is how I see it.
(I have had 2 along with ps2,ps,sega etc etc, I swear I could start a video game museum)

An xbox 360 is like a gamer's wet dream. It is great technology! But semi-expensive to buy/make. And when it was brand new technology, it was crazy expensive.The bet was to make money on the games more than the system if I remember correctly from reading gamer mags.

I think it has come to a point where even though it is a huge market for gaming systems,
the system itself is to expensive to make and make a profit.

That would lead to such actions as making you unable to play a used game in the next system. Kind of like how there is a serial number you have to type into a game on a computer before you can play it.
The Sims as an example where if you lose the game manual you are screwed because the registration code is printed on the manual.

Already, my xbox will not play the games I purchased online through the xbox servers unless I am online with the xbox, and they are not online games.

I have said online may times before...

i have worked in IT for a good few years now and im pretty certain i know how to lock down all consoles...

First please understand people will not run there consoles offline as they then wont have access to updates, and online gaming, which is where gaming is at for the most part....


Right for some background i have worked directly with licensing issues with Microsoft and i also work now for a SSD and RAM manufacturer/designer this gives me decent insight into this field...


im pretty certain gaming will work like this....

everything you purchase will be done digitally, much like the article said tying your game purchase to your system, keeping it on a cloud, and just essentially giving you a much larger area of virtual server space as a library and you pull down your most played games onto your consol, hard copy media is dead

this obviously causes issue for those who want to purchase a game but do not have an online account, or do not have internet access... that would be the easy bit, you provide each consol with a USB (we could even use Esata, USB would be easier) device which is locked down to an individuals xbox (or at least profile).. somthing that is encrypted and you specifically desined it to not interface with a PC that is not certified,, this then means you dont kill the game retail market as you can take your USB device to a shop like Game, plug it into a touchscreen consol, make a payment recieve the download, this is where you could also be purchasing your updates and add-ons from using the same method... this would allow everyone to get system updates... alternativley set up a steam type xbox live app for PC's even smart phones where you can purchase and send the encrypted game to the xbox


you would also tie the downloads into a profile this mean i could take my usb device (with my profile info on it) or pull down my profile onto your xbox (from the profile pull down the game from my cloud) or play the game on my save device but only have it available to the relevant profile...


i know there would be ways around it and you could crack some USB devices etc.. but there are ways around paying for your games now if you want to chip your XBOX lots of people still dont do that... this wont eliminate piracy it will however eliminate pre owned sales and thats what they are focusing on.



as i said hard media is dead, this WILL be where gaming goes... i just cant see an alternative