Official Xbox One Thread

[Josh]

I recommend not watching it at all.

The still tells me all I need to know.

[Mzo]

The Onion is really funny. Those fake specs were completely devoid of all humor, though. Weird.

[YellerDog]

I think they accurately depict the boredom of the actual press info.

[Yoshi]

SSJN is going to be (rightfully) pissed:

If you want to trade in an Xbox One game you will need to find a shop that has agreed to Microsoft's terms and is therefore connected to the Xbox One cloud.

The game will be registered as traded in and will be wiped from your Xbox Live account. The shop can resell it for whatever price it likes but the game's publisher now takes a cut and so does Microsoft, a source-based MCV report revealed.

Anyone buying that second-hand game will need to pay an activation fee of £35, a separate unconfirmed report on ConsoleDeals.co.uk claimed.

The same report [did not say a shop's cut from that second-hand sale could be as low as 10 per cent -Bertie] said shops could be forced to sell second-hand games at a maximum discount of 10 per cent.

Combine that measly 10 per cent discount and the £35 activation fee and you have figures that add up to not much sense at all for the shopper.

"We have only confirmed that we designed Xbox One to enable our customers to trade in and resell games at retail," said Microsoft on the matter.

We know that Xbox One games will be tied to both a gamer's account and their Xbox One. Everyone who has an account on that Xbox One can play the game linked to it. If the game is played elsewhere on another Xbox One, however, only the owner's Xbox Live account can play it.

Rumours of an activation fee are what we believe has been holding Microsoft back from explaining second-hand Xbox One sales so far. Whether that's because the fee is high, as claimed here, or because there are specific retailer partnerships to announce, as also suggested here, isn't clear. Both, perhaps? E3 should clear the matter up, unless Microsoft's forced to respond sooner.

[Diff-chan]

This system is a trash heap. Really sick of it.

[Some Stupid Japanese Name]

Pissed? I'm lolling right out The door.
Microsoft is ensuring my two console dream becomes reality.

[Deewtaei]

Pissed? I'm lolling right out The door.
Microsoft is ensuring my two console dream becomes reality.

Seriously though, how many of us actually believe the US market WON'T eat this thing up?

[Some Stupid Japanese Name]

The numbers make no sense, and they dont seem to take price drops into account.
If theyre only talking new release stuff, it looks like if it takes $35 to activate, based on the industry (read: gamestop) practice of discounting used items 10%, that leaves ~ $20 for the customer amd shop owner to split.
In other words, MS wants to turn used game sales into the same no profit making business that new games have become.
Killing all retail store incentive to carry your product is a sure way to push peoplle to digital sales. It work with pc games after all.

[AaronChance]

It'll do well in the US and UK. Better than Sony even. It won't destroy the PS4 though like the PS4 is going to do in the rest of the world.

[Some Stupid Japanese Name]

Seriously though, how many of us actually believe the US market WON'T eat this thing up?

I am hoping enough poor people realize they can buy a game on ps4, and then it will have X value when they're done with it as opposed to buying a game on xb1 and it will have Y value, where X will be much greater than Y.