Xbox 720 Might Reject Used Games

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Xbox 720 Might Reject Used Games

Posted by timothy on Thursday January 26, 2012 @06:36AM from the insert-coin-to-continue dept.

silentbrad writes "Online passes are a recent staple in staving off used sales. Limiting what used buyers can access is a protective measure for publishers, much to the chagrin of parts of the gaming community. Chris Kohler of Wired argues that the death of used games is inevitable, and passes are the first step toward something exactly like a native anti-used game something integrated into consoles. He notes, of course, that digital is the future of buying games, but in the meantime we may be looking at 'an interim period in which the disc as a delivery method is still around but ... becomes more like a PC game, which are sold with one-time-use keys that grant one owner a license to play the game on his machine.' Also at Kotaku, the source for the Wired article (which is the source for the IGN article)."

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You know why they call it Xbox 720 by Anonymous Coward · 2012-01-26 06:38 · Score: 5, Funny

Because you should turn around twice and walk away.
1. Re:You know why they call it Xbox 720 by Anonymous Coward · 2012-01-26 06:43 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  goddamnit if you started facing it you'd just turn around twice and walk into it.
2. Re:You know why they call it Xbox 720 by tripleevenfall · 2012-01-26 07:58 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Some of us want a more robust gaming experience than TuxSweeper, et al
3. Re:You know why they call it Xbox 720 by GuldKalle · 2012-01-26 08:32 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Depends.
  Old car: $2000 / 1000 kg
  Old game: $20 / 100 gram
  Games are worth 100 times more than cars.
  
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  What?
4. Re:You know why they call it Xbox 720 by ColdWetDog · 2012-01-26 09:24 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Depends.
  Old car: $2000 / 1000 kg
  Old game: $20 / 100 gram
  Games are worth 100 times more than cars.
  You aren't smoking either of them, dude.
  At least, I hope not.
  
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  Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
5. Re:You know why they call it Xbox 720 by KhabaLox · 2012-01-26 11:09 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  (after all, I do not copy a lot of physical objects).
  My wife and I made two little copies of me.
  
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  Ceci n'est pas un sig.
6. Re:You know why they call it Xbox 720 by SeaFox · 2012-01-26 19:25 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Yeah. Teenagers should stop buying video games and instead save up for a car.
  When was the last time you heard of someone getting laid with their new video game, anyway?
Re:Bought fake Insluin, hope someone has some info by Anonymous Coward · 2012-01-26 06:48 · Score: 3, Funny

Well last night I went to refil my insulin pump, and woke up nearly dead today. It was just water, or saline, or who knows.
It was probably dihydrogen monoxide. That stuff is found in cancer cells, and is the major component of acid rain.
Re:Death of xbox 720 inevitable by Anonymous Coward · 2012-01-26 07:28 · Score: 2, Funny

Scores, you say? Well, shit, the 720 is surely doomed if scores of people won't buy it! That's, like, a hundred people!
Re:In related news by scot4875 · 2012-01-26 08:55 · Score: 3, Funny

And there will likely be real-world technical reasons to kill live on XBox 360 games.
--Jeremy

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Jesus was a liberal