

The era of console games being primarily tied to cartridges or discs is indeed over, as Xbox One discs will now be little more than a vestigial form of offline game distribution, a mere means to get initial code onto the hard drives and linked Xbox Live accounts from which they will actually run. Xbox One Eighty: Microsoft fails to sell the future, retreats to the pastĪfter at least a year and a half of constant rumors, we finally have concrete answers from Microsoft on how its next console will handle used games, Internet connection requirements, and more.Is the world ready for a disc-free game console?.EB Games transforms its used game stocks into a massive lending library.

For console games, downloads are approaching a tipping point.Report: Cheaper, disc-free Xbox One option coming next year.Reader comments 230 with Any future for used games?
