For whatever reason there were a lot of Xbox 720 rumors flying around today. It's kinda silly to start speculating on a console that first off won't be called 720 and secondly, is at least 2 years away. However that doesn't mean we shouldn't do it. What else are we going to do? All these TPS reports? pshaw
The big rumor here is that the new Xbox will have some sort of built in feature that will prevent it from playing used games. As someone that picks up used games all the time, I have no emoticon that expresses my frustration with this rumor.
I get the problem the video game industry has with the used game market. Every time someone buys a used game the publisher gets nothing, but how is that any different that say a car, or a book, or a DVD copy of Hard Ticket to Hawaii? Once I have bought a copy it's mine to do with as I please. If I want to let a friend borrow it, or get ripped off selling it to Gamestop, that's my prerogative.
The only way I can see the general gaming public not losing their shit about this is if they decided that in 2013 we're ready to skip the discs all together and just go with digital copies of games. I'm sure that won't get anyone's bandwidth throttled.
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