enthuz
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Used game blocking would hurt me too. I support the used game market, unless I can find a new copy within $2-5$ of the cost of the used.
We can squash this rumor now.
"Durango itself will also always be online like any other device (correct with rumors), but it will not be a requirement to play local content and it will not prevent playing used games."
Microsoft Xbox Roadmap (2013) -
This is coming from the people who started the original rumor to begin with.
So essentially, don't get rid of your current 360 if there happens to be games you continue to want to play. Otherwise, you'll be shelling out another $150 for this Xbox Mini?
"When used with Durango, it offers connectivity with it for backwards compatibility with both disc based and On Demand games, and it’s no more different than what Sony will be doing with Gaikai for playing PS3 games on PS4, only with Xbox it will be done locally and not through the cloud. "
1) A local backwards compatibility solution? Oh hell yeah. Place the new Durango side-by-side with the Xbox Mini and you eliminate either needing a big 360 alongside a big Durango or swapping out your old and new console whenever you want to play an old game
2) So... there will be no connectivity from the current Xbox 360 to Durango for backwards compatibility. That means backwards compatibility (using one primary device for both new and old) would actually COST $150 since you'd need a new Mini to connect.
Again, both consoles can be placed side by side and be always be plugged into the TV... but that's not actual backwards compatibility. So, $150 for the convenience of playing both new and old games on ONE console (connected to a hopefully very small Mini) or $0 to keep both machines hooked up and used independently. Hmmm... I guess it'd depend how much I missed my old games or if I just didn't care to lug out the old machine if I start playing the new one a lot.
I realize this is all leaked rumor/speculation/whatever, but I am responding in kind (i.e. My response as if the leak were true, or were to come true)
I think it might be different, actually. Depends on their implementation. There was an original xbox game I loved so much that I bought it, intending to use for my xbox 360. It wasn't ever made compatible... since MS needed to code in backward compatibility support and provide it as an update. This was true of the major titles like Halo but not everything came across and eventually they stopped updating games. Their backward compatibility was completely and entirely software based, since both systems used entirely different architectures.The sad thing is that this is no different from when the Xbox 360 came out. The Xbox 360 couldn't play Xbox games unless you had the $99 hard drive. The difference is that the hard drive was included on the more expensive package.
Not anything related to this thread at all..... but to answer your obvious question, yes.
Why would you get rid of your current console if you were interested in playing old games in the first place?....
In my opinion they wont block used games, unless they have some kick *** alternative solution. Gamestop's top guy (I think) has given the next box glowing reviews. This same company has already gone on record to state that they are opposed to a used game block. For them to be so enthusiastic about the next one there has to be something in it for them. I doubt they would have been that positive otherwise. MS could consider allowing companies to provide online rentals. It is one way to stop the used game market.
As for always online, that may apply to some features, but would be suicide for it to be mandatory.
Can you provide a link please?