More Xbox One details are coming at you tonight courtesy of Microsoft. More from their extra long FAQ says that you can buy games on a disc or digitally on the same day. Furthermore, they say that you can install the game to your hard drive and will never need to use the physical disc again as the game is stored locally and in the cloud.
This ties into the fact that you are able to access your game library from any XBone console that is connected to the Internet.
As for the topic of used games, Microsoft says they do "not charge a platform fee to retailers, publishers, or consumers for enabling transfer of these games." Publishers can enable you to give your disc-based games to your friends. There are no fees charged as part of these transfers, says Microsoft.
However, there are two requirements for this. You can only give games to people who have been on your friends list for at least 30 days and each game can only be given once.
So you can trade your games in for no fee, but you can only let a friend borrow your game once? And even beyond that, there is no guarantee the publisher will allow it since they very carefully selected the words "can enable" almost as if there is a choice for the publisher to ultimately make there. And where do game rentals fall with this? Are those as effectively dead as we all assumed they would be when these rumors started to circulate weeks ago?
You can read more on these license issues over at the Xbox.com website. Maybe you can make better sense of it than I can right now, but it really doesn't sound all that great from where I'm sitting.
This ties into the fact that you are able to access your game library from any XBone console that is connected to the Internet.
As for the topic of used games, Microsoft says they do "not charge a platform fee to retailers, publishers, or consumers for enabling transfer of these games." Publishers can enable you to give your disc-based games to your friends. There are no fees charged as part of these transfers, says Microsoft.
However, there are two requirements for this. You can only give games to people who have been on your friends list for at least 30 days and each game can only be given once.
So you can trade your games in for no fee, but you can only let a friend borrow your game once? And even beyond that, there is no guarantee the publisher will allow it since they very carefully selected the words "can enable" almost as if there is a choice for the publisher to ultimately make there. And where do game rentals fall with this? Are those as effectively dead as we all assumed they would be when these rumors started to circulate weeks ago?
You can read more on these license issues over at the Xbox.com website. Maybe you can make better sense of it than I can right now, but it really doesn't sound all that great from where I'm sitting.
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