Xbox One will definitely be in used games market, details still blurry

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Microsoft isn't prepared to share how used games on Xbox One will be handled – which had adverse effects on retailer GameStop's stock price yesterday – but the company is definitely going to be in the market.

"We understand the secondary market is incredibly important today in the current generation. It will be incredibly important in the next generation," Phil Spencer, Microsoft Corporate VP of Microsoft Studios, said in an interview with us. "I love the fact that my identity, my saves and my content can go with me to any console I move to. The ability to have me and my content save in the cloud who I am, and I can move around, that obviously requires some capability to know what content you own, associated with you and how you move."

He also danced around the always-online issue, something that already caused one public firing at Microsoft.

"We also understand that sometime people's internet goes down and I shouldn't stop watching a movie or stop playing a single-player game when that happens. We'll support a tolerance where we can," he noted, but we were seeking specifics on how long the console could be offline. "You asked about the boundaries, how long will that work? I'll just tell you we don't know yet. We'll tell you when we have the answer and we can tell everybody. But we understand that secondary market is important to the ecosystem, no doubt."

Asked about the game trading that Microsoft previously mentioned, Spencer said, "Yeah, these are some of the specifics... honestly, I'm not really dodging, I just don't want to tell you something we haven't fully baked yet.

"We basically set this reveal up so we could show the hardware, announce the name, talk about worldwide launch this year, show EA and Activision on our stage during our announce – which I think was a pretty compelling point to have both – with their biggest franchises in FIFA and Call of Duty," he concluded the topic. "Then we're gonna use E3 to game, game, game."

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Source: http://www.joystiq.com/2013/05/22/xbox-one-will-definitely-be-in-used-games-market-details-still/

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FrogPosted:

I'm glad with the recent news that they released on this subject. They will definitely make more sales now.

slapshot101Posted:

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IrishMann
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ExoticWolfs I think this is going to be great! :) I would like to know the price of it.


I think it's set at something between $750-850 USD, that's the price of it in Norway :p


My price range in GBP is 600. I hope it's no more than this.


I am not paying any more than 400 for the Xbox One. If its more I am going to just start gaming on my PC.

Too bad it is retail at $499. That is way overpriced in my opinion. I think that gamestop's stock will keep dropping with the news of the Xbox One, if I owned shares in it I would have sold them the second I heard any rumor of the One not supporting used games.

NasyrPosted:

IrishMann
-Maatzy-
ExoticWolfs I think this is going to be great! :) I would like to know the price of it.


I think it's set at something between $750-850 USD, that's the price of it in Norway :p


My price range in GBP is 600. I hope it's no more than this.


I am not paying any more than 400 for the Xbox One. If its more I am going to just start gaming on my PC.

LumPosted:

-Maatzy-
ExoticWolfs I think this is going to be great! :) I would like to know the price of it.


I think it's set at something between $750-850 USD, that's the price of it in Norway :p


My price range in GBP is 600. I hope it's no more than this.

MatsyPosted:

ExoticWolfs I think this is going to be great! :) I would like to know the price of it.


I think it's set at something between $750-850 USD, that's the price of it in Norway :p

MatsyPosted:

Im so excited for the xbox one! (:

ExoticWolfsPosted:

I think this is going to be great! :) I would like to know the price of it.

SeedPosted:

GRAPHlCS they better hurry up and say all the details.


I know they keep us so blurry on details we don't know what to expect, its frustrating.

SeedPosted:

Im thinking about investing in this xbox

mysticalrainbowPosted:

360xAngle OMG! THE XBOX ONE LOOKS AND SOUNDS SH!T!!!!!!! WHAT THE HELL WHERE THEY THINKING AND I WILL NEVER BUY ONE BECAUSE OF THAT AND OTHER RESPONS + IF I DID BUY ANOTHER CONSOLE IT WOULD BE A PS4 OR A AN OTHER XBOX 360!

OMG! MICROSOFT WHAT WHERE YOU THING! + I WOULD LOVE TO SEE SOME JTAG THE XBOX ONE LOL!


Just keep in mind how little information has been released about the PS4 (Very very little). If I was you I wouldn't assume the PS4 will be some amazing Jesus console. Both of them will have flaws.