Xbox One - November 22, 2013

[CLW]

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.

There aren't going to be consoles when that happens. It will all be in the cloud and you will pay a subscription fee to use "Sony's" (or whoever's) service.

Customers won't be buying a physical product so they will have to decide which company's terms of service are best for them.

However, all gens including the next one revolve around the purchase of physical products. As such, consumers expect/demand the ability to trade the physical products they bought on the open market.

MS would have "stuck to their guns" if the writing wasn't on the wall and obvious to everyone but you that they were going to lose the console battle to Sony the only ? was by how much.