New Xbox

[uebermann]

[Spider]

Yes, very good news from MS. Now I'm happy.

Consumers have won.

[uebermann]

[uebermann]

btw, don't know if anyone saw but Sony accidentally bricked a bunch of PS3s with their latest update:

http://community.us.playstation.com/t5/ ... p/40712247

They are still working on finding the problem and pushing a patch out. This is bad timing considering the news MS just put out there heh.

[Spider]

Heh. Maybe MS was sitting on this...saw the PS3 news...and pulled the trigger.

At least their actually listening. That's really something.

[eric]

Wouldn't you rather cut the devs a check instead of middlemen like Gamestop? Imagine if you could purchase a "used" digital game from somebody on XBL, and you just paid a fee of $5 or something. The first buyer pays full price, but others can pay to have that game from that user. Or perhaps a bid/auction system where Microsoft/devs could get a percentage (say, 5% or something hypothetical) of the auction sale for the used game? Then, used games would have a fair market value after the initial purchase.

[Spider]

Never set foot in a gamestop, honestly. I prefer ebay, or craigslist, if I want to buy direct from someone. Otherwise, I'd just buy used on Amazon. Mostly, I just rent, so whatever.

Its already a fair market. People shop at gamestop....for some reason I've never understood. Maybe they can't handle waiting a couple days for UPS to deliver something?

[eric]

Well yeah, but the idea is to get rid of the antique DVD format, and move to digital content. It would be like you buy it from eBay, except digital.

[uebermann]

[John Galt]