Microsoft’s Xbox One: Owning Your Video Games Is So 1994
Adding to the list of negative press:
Worth watching:
No longer will video games be like books or old-fashioned music CDs, self-contained content that works anywhere, anytime, and can be resold or lent to any of your friends. Xbox One games are part physical disc, part online service, and tightly controlled both my Microsoft and the game publisher.
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“This new generation of games,” as Microsoft describes it, is worth putting into context: It’s the final stage in the transition of video games from goods, sold as a physical object that you own, to services, delivered online in tandem with a disc you buy in a store.
You own an object, but you merely access a service.
Adding to the list of negative press:
- 8-4 Play Podcast: "They're fucking the consumer so they can help out publishers. That's exactly what's happening here. Let's just be crystal fucking clear."
- Adweek: Gamers Grow Increasingly Incensed with Microsoft's Xbox One
- Attack of the Fanboy: Dear Xbox One: It’s Not Me, It’s You (seriously, read this)
- BBC: Xbox One: Microsoft defends pre-owned games rules
- Bloody-Disgusting: Microsoft Answers Our Lingering Questions About The Xbox One
- Blorge: Why gamers hate the Xbox One
- Business Recorder: Sony PS4 to wipe out Xbox One?
- Buzz Focus: Microsoft Xbox One Gives the Silent F-U to Ebay
- CNN: Microsoft talks game-sharing, 'always-on' Xbox One
- Complex: Microsoft Finally Reveals Xbox One Details, It's Mostly All Bad News
- Destructoid: Xbox One kills game ownership, here's what Xbox fans say
- Eurogamer: Microsoft kills game ownership and expects us to smile
- Examiner: Xbox One: What gamers need to know about Microsoft’s used game policies
- Financial Times: Microsoft gets flak from core Xbox gamers
- Forbes Contributor: Microsoft Confirms Gamers' Fears Over Xbox One
- Forbes Contributor (2): Microsoft's Shortsighted Approach Might Have Already Killed Xbox One
- Forbes Contributor (3): The Xbox One Might Let Sony's PS4 Win By Default
- Gadget Review: Official: Xbox One Internet Connection Required to Play Games
- Gameranx: Xbox One's Privacy Concerns Arise Again In Light Of Microsoft's Involvement With PRISM
- Giant Bomb: The Giant Bomb staff deciphers the digital-rights policies for Microsoft's new console through interpretive dance
- Giant Bomb (2): Major Publishers Silent On Xbox One Used Game Policies
- Hit-Reset: Why We’re Not Getting An Xbox One And Neither Should You
- IncGamers: No, the Xbox One is not just like Steam
- Kotaku: The Xbox One Just Had A Very Bad Day
- Kotaku (2): When Will Gamers Say Enough Is Enough?
- LazyGamer: Microsoft confirms insane Xbox One DRM
- MCV UK: Indie retailers desperate for Xbox One pre-owned answers
- MCV UK (2): Publishers quiet over Xbox One pre-owned intentions
- Metro UK: Xbox One and the corporate war against consumers
- NBC News: Microsoft clarifies policies on game licensing, privacy, and DRM for Xbox One
- NowGamer: Xbox One: It's For Publishers, Not For You
- PC Magazine: Microsoft Xbox One: No Internet? Big Problem
- Polygon: Xbox One policy is a lovely marriage proposal to big corporations
- Polygon (2): Indie developers sound off on next-gen consoles and the importance of self-publishing
- Polygon (3): Microsoft's Xbox One policy answers raise even more questions
- RedOrbit: You Can Share Your Xbox One Games (Sort Of)
- Shacknews: Publishers comment on Xbox One used games policy
- TechnoBuffalo: Xbox One and Used, Borrowed and Sold Games – The Official Word
- TechnoBuffalo (2): Xbox One: Unless Microsoft Changes Their Policies, I’m Out
- TechRadar: Xbox One 'always online': What does it mean for gamers?
- TechSpot: Xbox One will force gamers to stay online after all
- The Diplomat: Has Microsoft Already Ruined the Xbox One?
- The Guardian: Xbox One requires daily net connection
- The Wall Street Journal: Microsoft’s Xbox One: Owning Your Video Games Is So 1994
- Time: Microsoft’s Xbox One Used Games Policies Are Clear as Mud
- VG247: Xbox One: the record is broken, long live the record
- VG247 (2): Xbox One pre-owned: analysts, publishers, indie retailers weigh-in
- WhatCulture!: Xbox One: 10 Shocking Things You Won’t Believe
Worth watching:
- AngryJoe: Xbox One: Angry Rant Pt. 2
- boogie2988 (the guy who does Francis): Xbox One: To buy or not to buy and why.
- Hip Hop Gamer: Xbox One Exist Cause Of Gamers, Gamers Can Also Make You Disappear "We Come First"