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Would you welcome original Xbox One features on next generation hardware?

Thoughts?


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Mainly the "always-on" feature and the way game licenses would work, would that deter you from console gaming?

I think it's an inevitable future, so my answer would be yes.
 
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It wouldn't bother me much, but I certainly wouldn't welcome it.

It'd be a lot better than my Series X, which has been broken for the last two years. Aka, the "never-on" feature.
 
In Microsoft's proposed model, discs became essentially one-time-use (no selling or trading to others). The trade-off was that they would "let you" digitally share games or transfer your digital purchases to others "under a very strict set of circumstances" that were never fully ironed out.

In a lot of ways, it's pretty close to what the Switch 2 is doing with their virtual game card nonsense.

But even modern consoles, despite being online 99% of the time in most cases, realize that you have to have a longer grace period than one hour.
 
I wish I could plug my Cable box into my Xbox so I can control all those cable channels I watch from a single set top box.

It would be like the central part of my living room experience. I could bounce from playing a round of shooter game over to catch up on some breaking news on that CNN, then back to hanging out with the boys in an Xbox chat party.
 
The idea of being able to treat a disk based game as a digital license (and not have to insert the disk to play) is pretty cool.

But everything else surrounding it, the things that enabled that, were a no-go.
 
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