10 Crazy Facts You Just Have To Accept To Enjoy The Xbox One

2. Less Choice

Yeah, about that... another of the big controversies Microsoft did some serious backpedalling over was the initial plans to totally cut out the ability to play games borrowed from other people or bought second hand. At the E3 launch of the console they reverted to their worst PC instincts once again by announcing some pretty strict DRM which would have rendered it impossible for games that didn't €œbelong€ to you originally to play on the Xbox One. Which is a pretty douchey move, although you can see why they'd make it - maximising profits and all that - and would probably have meant the death of pretty much every high street game shop, which make their real money on pre-owned titles. Although, as games become available as downloads more than discs, they're gonna be going soon anyways. Which is a shame, because Microsoft basically abandoned their brill Xbox Live Arcade service which had allowed indie games to flourish on consoles like never before. The likes of Super Meat Boy have since become cult favourites on the PC thanks to services like Steam, but for a brief and brilliant moment they could pop up on your telly too. Except then they changed the rules for submission and basically made it impossible for anyone without loads of money to publish games on the Xbox One. Still, at least you can play all your old Xbox and 360 games, right? Nah, the new console's not backwards compatible. Yeesh. Well, this is supposed to be a console for the future, and Microsoft are making sure we're not continually stuck in the nostalgic past - instead, we're constantly being shoved towards the bright, shiny future of gaming. So we should thank them, maybe?