Roughly a week after being effectively shown up at E3 by Sony’s more gamer-friendly approach with its PlayStation 4, Microsoft on Wednesday announced that it had revised some of the relatively restrictive policies it had originally announced for its own Xbox One. Microsoft pulled the proverbial plug on the always-on Internet connection that originally was to be required, for instance. It also relaxed its stance on trading, lending, reselling and renting disc-based games.
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Crushing Criticism Prompts Microsoft Xbox One About-Face
Posted by: Peter Suciu June 20, 2013 01:48 PMRoughly a week after being effectively shown up at E3 by Sony’s more gamer-friendly approach with its PlayStation 4, Microsoft on Wednesday announced that it had revised some of the relatively restrictive policies it had originally announced for its own Xbox One. Microsoft pulled the proverbial plug on the always-on Internet connection that originally was to be required, for instance. It also relaxed its stance on trading, lending, reselling and renting disc-based games.