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[AGG] Xbox One: confirmed the restrictions on second

(Note: see the two updates to bottom news.) Microsoft did not mention the event tonight, but the popular magazine Wired has had a chance to see up close the Xbox One interviewing designers, and among other things has emerged a critical information, which in recent months has worked hard the disussioni of users due to various rumors emerged.


Wired explains that while it will not block completely used, the console will introduce a control on the use of games on multiple consoles, connected to a new ways to use the games. One of the novelties of the console is the fact that all games will be installed to hard disk in order to be played, and which can then be executed even without the disc in the drive.

This would create an obvious problem: people could buy a game, install it and then resell the disc or pass it to friends who would install him in turn. For this reason introduces a system whereby each disk will be physically tied to the person who did the first installation and other players who want to install the game from the same disc would have to pay an additional fee for the right to use it.

Is unclear for now the scale of this kind of "tax on used," nor what would happen in the event that players were to install the disk without an Internet connection, and therefore without the ability to record/verify ownership of the game. Moreover, a further question arises: what will happen if we buy a game, do we prove, we don't like and we want to return it to the store to exchange it for something else? And if a user wanted to simply play a title used by keeping the disc in the console, it would still be required to pay the additional fee? We will update you as soon as there will be news on this thorny subject.

UPDATE 1 : the official Xbox support has explained on Twitter that Wired has misunderstood the question and that site was asked to remove the information. Apparently it will not require any additional fee in order to use the used games.

UPDATE 2 : Eurogamer spoke with Phil Harrison of Microsoft in this topic, and Harrison confirmed that those who want to install the disk to a friend will have to do it for an additional fee, for now not yet quantified. Harrison explained, however, that Microsoft has a solution for the second hand market, though for now it has not been explained what it is. We will update you on developments of the story.