Penello said that people weren't ready for an all digital xbox one and he was right. People weren't ready to give up their physical sharing/trading/etc, and they weren't ready to embrace the kind of DRM needed to enable digital sharing/trading without mass exploitation.
Nothing he said is incorrect. It's blatantly fucking obvious.
If you want to use what he said like a tree branch and swizzle it around in your backside in a rage inducing manner then its your butt, but he was 100% correct that people weren't ready.
At
some point in time, culture and infrastructure advances
will mean that the people who are still stuck to physical media will become the equivalent of "that guy" you know who swears by vinyl records vs digital music. I.e. irrelevant to where the majority of the market is, and those people aren't going to be catered for.
Just like how people who value not having DLC in all of the things or not paying simply to play games online don't matter a shit to the console market right now. They can be as angry as they want, nobody cares. The pay to play online model is now a thing and that is that.
At one time, their voices would have been huge. Now their opinions are easily brushed to the side because society/culture/infrastructures have made the paradigm so much of a "thing" that people just see it as "how it is" now.
If Marc Whitten says they aren't bringing the exact same DRM policies back, it has
zero to do with whether they felt people were ready for an all digital xbox, because an all digital xbox does not require the exact same DRM policies in the first place. They could have easily said "ZERO sharing abilities" without any of that DRM and there's your all digital box without the DRM.
By the time people are ready, digital sharing/trading schemes could have evolved in such a way that an all digital console can easily come along without treading on those particular shoes and therefore not needing that DRM at all.
I'm sure I'll be hated on by certain peoples due to my refusal to follow the overly negative narrative and my aggressiveness towards the exaggeration[and misconstruing] of their statements, but I don't care.
Screw you