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My understanding about the 'family' sharing is that only one family member, other than yourself, can play at the same time.  Still, I see the appeal.

Yep, that's what Phil Spencer said. But it's a moot point now. I was also hoping that the DRM policy (which was essentially the same as Steams, with the added advantage of family share) would encourage bigger digital "sales" (as in 'this week, 75% off!!!') like are the case on Steam all the time.  Hopefully that's still a possibility since every title is supposed to be available digitally.

Oh well.

My understanding about the 'family' sharing is that only one family member, other than yourself, can play at the same time.  Still, I see the appeal.

Of course, if they want to roll out sharing for digitally purchased titles, they can.  There's nothing stopping them.  Maybe a little spite?

Gamestop shares are up 5% in after hours trading.

Yeah, but we also lose this:

"But gone now is the ability to share a game library among up to 10 family members, Whitten said. Gone too is the ability to roam, popping into a friend's house without a copy of your game and simply downloading it from the cloud to play. While games will still have to be installed, the disc will have to be in the tray for the game to function, a system which verifies a gamer owns the title they're playing."

I was totally stoked about the family game library.  Bummer.

The DRM thing will happen naturally over time.  Look at the Vita, where most game purchases are made through the online store.  It is inevitable and I am OK with that.

But trying to force it this early on would just result in massive industry contraction, more unemployed developers, and ultimately, a lot fewer games.  The console business is not equivalent to PC gaming, most of the consumers are very different and a substantial portion of them are not as connected.

I'm really shocked that they pulled a 180 on this. Although it still doesn't change my mind about getting PS4 this year. The DRM policies were never my issue with the Xbox One.

Giant Bomb reporting that MS is dropping the whole DRM thing and 24 hour checks.

http://www.giantbomb.com/articles/microsoft-to-pull-complete-reversal-on-xbox-one-dr/1100-4673/

No more always online requirement
The console no longer has to check in every 24 hours
All game discs will work on Xbox One as they do on Xbox 360
Authentication is no longer necessary
An Internet connection is only required when initially setting up the console
All downloaded games will function the same when online or offline
No additional restrictions on trading games or loaning discs
Region locks have been dropped

Let us hope so.  I still am in disbelief that they tried to pull this nonsense.

Memories...

Hahaha this cracked me up...

Preordered my XB1 last week. I can see possibly getting a PS4 late next year, assuming I hear good things from my local friends and those here who are getting one.

Can I live without playing next gen Halo?

Probably. I kinda wish they would let the franchise hibernate for a while.  Halo 3 coming out 3 years after H2 was a big deal. I was ready.
The Master Chief reveal at E3 this year was more like "Oh hey, that's that game I played late last year."

I didn't preorder any titles yet, but Dead Rising 3 is high on my list, followed by Ryse and Watchdogs.

I know Jon pre ordered as well.