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JohnTHaller

The quick summary:

+ No more needing to connect in every 24 hours to validate your game. It connects once the first time you run it.

+ You can now lend, share and sell disc-based games exactly as you can with PS3 and Xbox 360 discs

- All other advanced sharing features have been dropped (share with 10 friends/family, virtually lend to a friend, etc)

- Discs will need to be in the tray to play

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I really don't understand why they aren't trying to do something in between.

If you download/buy a game from xbox live you can virtually lend it and a connection is require to lend the game (and temporary disable your access to that game). If you own a physical copy you can lend it as you did before. Everyone's happy and if the new system is that good and the consumers are happy then maybe the next system could be through xbox live only.

That's what they are doing. Combining New and old.

they might be shocked by the responses on youtube for the PS4 sarcastic video of sharing games.. LOL..

Not surprising. I'm generally shocked that the people that comment on youtube videos are actually able to turn on a computer considering the quality of their writing.

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