According to the title of this article, I’m not even sure how to start this post. Typically, I have something useful to say but this just blows my mind. We keep seeing a bunch of rumors about the next generation Xbox to be 6x faster and much more but this is the first time I’m hearing about this. According to some rumors, the next generation Xbox won’t be able to play used games. How is this even possible?
To some degree, I can see this being very plausible. With the gaming industry taking a huge leap in quality, the next Xbox might feature Blu-Ray support. Now that may sound like a lot like Sony and their Playstation but Microsoft might put their own twist of things on it. Our sources don’t clearly indicate what that may be.
The main thing from what we have heard is that Xbox will feature something called the anti-used game measure. Basically, this will make it impossible to play older model or used model games on the new version of Xbox. This makes me throw my hands up and scratch my head. Why on earth would Microsoft do this? How would they even make this possible? I wish we could answer these questions for you but we are just as lost as you are.
Out of these two rumors, I believe the first one the most. Having Blu-Ray on the Xbox was something that has been missing for a few years. It was only a matter of time that it was added. The fact that we might not be able to borrow titles from our friends or even buy preowned titles at GameStop is making us completely lost.
Is it possible that Microsoft is trying to make it so only the consumer can play the game and stay with your piece of software and force others to purchase the game? What if we wanted a free trial of the game? This basically means we can’t even bring our games to a friend’s house to play for the night. If we wanted to do that, we would have to bring our actual system. I’m sorry Microsoft, but if this is true, why?!
What do you think on this matter? Are you for it or against it? Leave your thoughts in the comment section.
