Microsoft has shown that nothing will turn the attention of toothless regulators worldwide. They can do anything they want.
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NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 9 months agoYou can still buy 100% of the games on gamepass. I don’t see Microsoft stopping individual sales as I’d expect that action to draw the attention of regulators
echo64@lemmy.world 9 months ago
TurnItOff_OnAgain@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Pretty sure you get a discount on them for being a game pass subscriber too. At least in some of them
Poiar@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Those discounts are nothing as compared to buying used.
I so hope that the next consoles will have disc drives…
Matt@lemdro.id 9 months ago
Considering Microsoft is supposedly releasing a new revision of the Xbox Series X and S next year without disc drives, I wouldn’t get your hopes up. Given the direction the industry is moving, I wouldn’t be surprised if the PS6 and whatever Microsoft calls the next Xbox are all digital only.
Callie@pawb.social 9 months ago
My money is on Series Z(ed)Xbox
tal@kbin.social 9 months ago
I'm a little fuzzy as to why the first-sale doctrine exists for physical goods but not for digital goods. It seems to me that any reasonable economic rationale should affect either both or neither.
Katana314@lemmy.world 9 months ago
The Series S and Game Pass have shown that people like discounts; so either competing console is going to run into issues attracting customers if they never offer them in any form. That’s currently an issue for the Nintendo eShop.