It's sad that this needs to be proven. Publishers can yell at the top of their lungs that digital is the future, but it discounts the fact that it's customers and the general masses that decide, for the most part, how they consume the products they purchase.

It really irks me that MS hasn't really brought the consumer in on the discussion, and instead is trying to shape this future in the interest of corporate benefits to the major players.

Their whole attitude seems to be to disregard the customer, and misdirect the negatives towards shiny new features which are unproven, and in some cases unasked for.

I do appreciate that they are at least trying to be a forerunner in the DD market, and are in a minimal way trying to look at DD from an ownership standpoint, but they haven't gone far enough IMO to really sell that future. Most of the negatives still exist, and their solutions(family sharing, authorized retailers) are only band-aids on the issues of ownership.

The fact that they even have retail discs still available only proves that DD isn't ready for prime time. Even MS knows that while DD may be the future, it certainly isn't the present for the console market.

There was a tough choice to make a few months ago now thanks to Microsoft the is no choice to be made. PC/PS4.

................... You can still trade in and sell your RETAIL PURCHASED GAMES. Same as before. Same as now. The privacy issue is one thing, but they keep telling you you can trade your games in. You can sell them. You, of course, have to unlink it from your xbox/account. Maybe that extra step is the straw that broke the camels back?

I will agree that the always on kinect, which isn't in this blog?, and the 24 hr checkin suck. They just suck. No way to spin it. But you can trade in your games people. You can trade the physical discs, you can even trade in your digital purchases to some extent.

Now, the bad part about trading games with friends......

"For Xbox games Microsoft makes, in order for titles to be swapped among friends, participants will be required to be on a digital list created by users for at least 30 days. All titles can be swapped only once."

I can see the above as being a bad thing, but good also. I can see it being good as in you buy a game, you dont like it, you can give it to a friend and be done with it. They get the game for free. The bad is you buy a game, you dont like it, you give it to a friend, you can't get it back if you want it back. That friend could swap another game with you but its just too much.

That restriction there is a bad move. You should atleast be able to get your game back, but that's another argument with Microsoft in itself.

once again this is anews page not a opinions page...

I know the vast majority like to see things from the consumer's point of view but it's a very narrow way of seeing things. Consumers would eat away at every bit of money if you gave them everything that they want. The clue's in their name - they CONSUME what you give.

When you buy a house you're not allowed to just uproot all the bricks and mortar and move it somewhere else whenever and wherever you want. You have to have ownership of the land built in as well. All Microsoft is doing is saying - someone's else's XboxOne - that ain't your land. You have to pay a fee to play it there. And they're perfectly within their rights to do that.