QUOTE(ekruob @ Jun 7 2013, 10:36 PM)
Is 10 family members, as stated... or 10 family members only on the one console? (note the difference there will be extremely important - many families with several children will have more than one console).
... and the obvious corollary; how do they enforce 'family' versus 'room-mate' / 'distant-cousin' / 'ex-step-sister' / 'guy I met in public house yet now bestie for life' ?!
How this 10 family member sharing is going to work is one of those points that really need clarification.
I have a friend who is really excited about this because they have lots of family members all over their state who play xbox and they think they will save huge amounts of money by all being able to share the same game. I just don't see it working like that.
There has to be some type of restriction or limitation on this to avoid "game clubs" of 10 people forming all over the internet to share costs o games. The question though is what will they be.
I suspect it will be somehow tied around a "master console" where everybody must log onto that console once every X period of time and then in between can access the library on any other console. It is also possible that it will require all accounts to be linked to the same credit card to make it less appealing to let people you don't know well get access to your credit card.
Anybody who thinks you can just select any 10 people and link them together and share all your games hasn't been reading the microsoft philosophy on this console. However, there are very few details yet on how this is going to all work and I think that is intentional.
The details are where the Xbone starts to have issues.
Another case in point is this whole integrated TV thing. I think again that is something that looks better on paper then it will actually work. I saw something on this forum about somebody expecting to be able to get rid of their cable box and watch live sports - isn't going to happen. The Xbone does not have a tuner at all in it so it is going to have to rely on your cable box to get a signal. Then the xbone is going to have to control that cable box and unfortanely for many that is going to almost have to be by IR blaster (some boxes may have serial access but many will need IR blasters). IR blasters are a pain to setup, a pain to maintain, and are SLOOOOOW. Again, on the TV side I expect when the details come out on how you have to connect the TV to your xbone and how it really works in practice come out, it isn't going to be near as appealing. If MS really wanted the xbone to be where you watched TV, they needed to go with a tuner and something like a cablecard and actually let it replace your cable box, but they are not doing that.
The devil is in the details and the more details come out about xbone, the worse it looks.