Can we just get a piece of legislation that requires unlimited lifetime access to digital purchases?

Nobody would mind at this stage if we had a shred of trust left. We're so deep in enshitification these days that every change is expected to come with deeply negative consequences.

If the new Xbox came with a big joystick I'd expect to have to shove it up my ass for age verification. Whatever they'll cook up it'll somehow fuck us and we'll sure as hell pay a subscription for it.

Anti-trust when? Clearly collaboration at this stage

No problem.

The gaming industry doesn't have a monopoly on the concept of entertainment, and I can spend my entertainment dollars elsewhere.

You will sell nothing, and be happy.

As someome in the military, the console used to be the perfect device to recieve new media while you were deployed somewhere with no internet. Video games, movies, and albums used to all come on dicscs a console could read and play on the spot. The internet has created an environment where companies no longer ship a finished product on the disc, and relying on a world where all consumers have high speed internet. It has also pushed individuals that wont have internet for months at a time towards piracy. This also hurts research scientists / students out in places with poor internet service. I fully support companies that send their finished product out on some sort of physical medium that can operate as intended without a software update over the internet. Anything else is just a license key and should be clearly marked as such.

Awesome. At least they're not pretending to be different from Steam anymore. Good for the Steam Machine. Full PC with gaming.

I haven’t had an optical drive in any computer or console or other device for many years at this point

I can understand the reasoning why people think this is a bad thing but it seems this is just where things were going anyway, vote with your wallet I guess

We should be able to expect that no one has the right to delete anything off our owned hard drive, or by any action make that data unusable for the purpose it was designed and sold for, without our permission.

That should be our right.

Or games for that matter

Prepare for the second video game crash. Of course it will be the fault of piracy. Yarr.

Oh no who could have seen this coming! If you treat customers badly enough, they'll jump ship. Wow. News at 11.

I can't wait to see the launch of the next generation of consoles. Valve has been absolutely battered by being the first out the gate in this hardware market, and I'd be surprised if the next gen consoles are not anemic and expensive.

Hah, called this immediately on Sony's news. All of the console makers have been waiting for one of them to jump. This is the console equivalent of Apple dropping the headphone jack and everyone else following suit, but much worse.

If there's no physical media what's even the point anymore. If it was like the old days where you just downloaded and it worked but now it's all always online.

The easy way to solve the issue would be to support USB drives, they won't, but they could.

I have a USB 4K drive connected to my PC right now.

10 bucks says this thing never makes it to market.

What an incredible coincidence! I have no plans to buy Microsoft products. I’m an unrelated note, my soldering skills are going to improve for some reason.