Quote Originally Posted by I OU a Beatn View Post
It may be, but I don't think it's that much different. Besides, let me ask you this: what do you think customers are going to do when consoles inevitably get rid of physical media and rely solely upon digital distribution. It's definitely happening next gen because digital distribution is much cheaper for the publisher, and as doughty noted yesterday, it also eliminates the used game markets and ensures a copy be purchased new to be played.

Microsoft should have just stuck to their guns and gone through with it.
But it is exactly what is different in them at this time that we are discussing . As far as speculating on the future I will leave that to folks more qualified in fortune telling than me