At one point, many would-be buyers of the Xbox One feared that Microsoft wouldn’t allow them to play used games on their machine. It’s nice to see the company hasn’t followed such a structure. In fact, it’s introduced a new plan that will allow players to share their game experiences even more than ever.
Senior director Albert Penello talked about the expansion of the program, which would allow players to trade or loan out downloadable games to other players, though there’s not a specific date as to when it would launch into action. Day one may be likely, but that’s not confirmed yet.
Penello stated, “We were trying to implement the ability to trade (and) loan digital games with your friends, which is something that no one else was doing. I believe, in retrospect, that people have calmed down and gone back and actually looked at what we said, people are starting to understand, ‘Wow, they did want actually to allow me to loan and trade’ which other digital ecosystems don’t want to do. And so, yeah, I think we need to do that. That has to be part of the experience. Right now, we’re focused on launch and we switched the program back to discs, because that’s what customers wanted.”
The Xbox One is set to launch worldwide on November 22.
Source: GamesIndustry International
