• NOT_RICK@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    You 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

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        1 year ago

        Those discounts are nothing as compared to buying used.

        I so hope that the next consoles will have disc drives…

        • Matt@lemdro.id
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          1 year 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.

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          1 year 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.

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          1 year 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.

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      1 year ago

      Microsoft has shown that nothing will turn the attention of toothless regulators worldwide. They can do anything they want.