Xbox U-Turn

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So it seems that either sometimes big businesses do listen to their customers or simply bow to pressure from the industry as it appears Microsoft have done a complete U-turn on their recent announcement regarding online checks and second hand games. In a post on the Xbox website Don Mattrick has announced that: Xbox One will no longer require an online check every 24 hours You will be able to sell, lend, and rent games without any restrictions and the console will have no regional restrictions The full announcement can be found here and is a major and very embarrassing change of stance for Microsoft the question really is whether they've backtracked because of the customer complaints or because they're worried about losing market share to Sony. If the change is down to consumer complaints I wonder how much we need to complain to get them to change their minds on backwards compatibility??

So it seems that either sometimes big businesses do listen to their customers or simply bow to pressure from the industry as it appears Microsoft have done a complete U-turn on their recent announcement regarding online checks and second hand games.

In a post on the Xbox website Don Mattrick has announced that:

Xbox One will no longer require an online check every 24 hours

You will be able to sell, lend, and rent games without any restrictions and the console will have no regional restrictions

The full announcement can be found here and is a major and very embarrassing change of stance for Microsoft the question really is whether they've backtracked because of the customer complaints or because they're worried about losing market share to Sony.

If the change is down to consumer complaints I wonder how much we need to complain to get them to change their minds on backwards compatibility??