@FollowY0urBliss Parents are FAR more likely to purchase a gaming system that will play the games they already bought for their children, as to them it means that they can hook-up the new system and pack away/move to another room the old system, and the kids get an instant library to continue to play with while saving space on their primary TV/entertainment system.
That's something Nintendo has understood for YEARS, and something PC gamers don't really need to worry much about. The tech is readily available to accurately emulate the 360 on the new system, they just don't want to do it as they fear it'll steal away from the first year sales of new games.
Personally? I think they're idjuts. You WANT to sell the console to as many people as possible as quickly as possible. That will lure in more publishers and developers (larger market = larger potential profits). After the first few years and a larger library, backward compatibility becomes a lesser issue as people sell their old 360 games to buy new One games, and will re-buy the 360 games they miss/missed for download (hope they offer larger hard drives...all that install is gonna suck it up FAST. Should've gone for a 3 Terrabyte drive like my PC has).
@izeage That's for re-selling digital content, much of which is licensed as "rental" (like your e-book purchases). This is regarding a company using a system to effectively destroy a physical marketplace and forcing its' purchasers to be unable to resell their legally-obtained products, unless the re-purchaser wishes to incur a penalty/tax.
Last time I checked, I was able to sell my old DVDs and CD's online or in used-stores without issue. What makes MS think their X1 is so great as to be above first sale doctrine?
@Rutgerhauer Unless they have some sort of system as a work around - like a 3 day, 1 time only usage code to play a non-first-play game without penalty or something.
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