Good for MS.
I knew from other interviews that they had neither abandoned their goal of purely digital services, nor had they watered down what they were trying to do. I imagine that they'll integrate more and more of the DRM and purely digital side of the business more and more over the life of the One. I am, after all, going to be making all of my purchases via digital distribution on the One (like I [i][b]already do[/i][/b] with Steam) as long as it's a viable option and offered by the Devs.
Whether you're locked into an infantile state of paranoia over DRM and purely Digital Content or not, it [i][b]is[/i][/b] the future of the industry. It's where everyone will be going, or they get left behind. Sony has designs like this as well, they've said as much.
But which ever way this goes, with fast introduction or taking several years to gently work people into it, the entire industry will be there by the time whatever console generation follows the PS4/One. By that time, discs will pretty much be obsolete and only for nostalgia.
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I agree, I find it funny how everyone was freaking out. Personally I welcome the chance to have sales like Steam does, would be awesome to have a Steam AND Xbox Summer/Christmas sale.
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That's very much what I'm envisioning. And I honestly believe that it'll happen before this new console generation finishes out. Like I said, I'm already planning to purchase all of my Xbox One games digitally as long as the individual publishers allow it. And using the 300k strong Cloud... well, I'll never have to worry about not being able to play my games since they will all be on my HDD plus have a copy on the cloud. It's going to be a great step forward in Gaming.