1) the library sharing features is effectively a better Steam. 2 people can play the single player at once, no idea on the multiplayer yet. This permits a group of friends to share costs, maximing their library sizes and if there is a game really everyone wants to play, you still need to buy just 50% of the copies. (up to Microsoft to keep their words and organize amazing sales and drive the costs down, allegedely they cannot do this on xbox 360 due to agreement with GameSpot that of course does not want titles to drop in prices or else how would they sell their used catalogue?)
2) by having Digital and Physical out at the same time, they can effectively end the monopoly of GameStop. Unknown if they are willingly to do so though. Note: nothing wrong with used games per se, it is the abuse GameStop does of it that is the problem.
3) you can sell your digital games. Again this is BETTER than Steam.
4) games are also linked to the console, meaning ALL accounts logging to console X can play all the games on console X, regardless of who bought them. This facilitate things like game cafes' as they can buy just one copy of the game and then they can effectively rent it out to all patrons with no extra costs. So get those 10 people on your shared library list to be people that live far from you and just invite over your close living friends to your place.
Up to you to evaluate if these 4 points are better than the negatives. Finally, one negative just because:
I really have to highlight a really bad negative that maybe not enough people understood about. Nation-locking. Once upon a time consoles were REGION locked, meaning an European console would not run US or Japan imports, which was bad enough.
Now we are at the point that a US xbox one won't run games bought in Canada! (or anywhere else for that matter).
This is incredibly ridicolous. It is even worse when half the EU is in the list and the other half is not. WTH Microsoft?? If I move to Sweden tomorrow from Finland (both countries on the list), my xbox one becomes a brick overnight?? Not to speak of poor CD Projekt! they are from Poland, cannot play the Witcher 3 even if they made it
Here is to hoping they fix this.
2) by having Digital and Physical out at the same time, they can effectively end the monopoly of GameStop. Unknown if they are willingly to do so though. Note: nothing wrong with used games per se, it is the abuse GameStop does of it that is the problem.
3) you can sell your digital games. Again this is BETTER than Steam.
4) games are also linked to the console, meaning ALL accounts logging to console X can play all the games on console X, regardless of who bought them. This facilitate things like game cafes' as they can buy just one copy of the game and then they can effectively rent it out to all patrons with no extra costs. So get those 10 people on your shared library list to be people that live far from you and just invite over your close living friends to your place.
Up to you to evaluate if these 4 points are better than the negatives. Finally, one negative just because:
I really have to highlight a really bad negative that maybe not enough people understood about. Nation-locking. Once upon a time consoles were REGION locked, meaning an European console would not run US or Japan imports, which was bad enough.
Now we are at the point that a US xbox one won't run games bought in Canada! (or anywhere else for that matter).
This is incredibly ridicolous. It is even worse when half the EU is in the list and the other half is not. WTH Microsoft?? If I move to Sweden tomorrow from Finland (both countries on the list), my xbox one becomes a brick overnight?? Not to speak of poor CD Projekt! they are from Poland, cannot play the Witcher 3 even if they made it
Here is to hoping they fix this.
