The Big XBox Coming Out Party Feat. Don Mattrick (now XBone Discussion)

**Emperor Smeat** · 06-20-2013, 06:20 PM

According to a source(s) close to EGM, Microsoft is currently rumored to be revamping the Gold system to be a lot more comparable to what PS+ offers.

Also rumored to be considering bundling in free subscriptions to Gold with Xbox One consoles besides the usual 1-month free new accounts get on the Xbox 360.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...ree-xbox-live/

For those hoping maybe Microsoft considers a non-Kinect version or drops Kinect altogether, Microsoft stated that's not happening since the Xbox One was designed with Kinect as the main focus. Also explained their reasoning behind the sudden policy changes for the Xbox One in an interview with Giantbomb.
http://www.giantbomb.com/articles/mi...oli/1100-4675/

Supposedly the Family Sharing plan or idea was rumored to end up being nothing more than just an extended demo playing of games and not actual game sharing. Would also explain a bit why Phil Spencer hinted same console online co-op wouldn't be possible with this idea.

Quote:

When your family member accesses any of your games, they’re placed into a special demo mode. This demo mode in most cases would be the full game with a 15-45 minute timer and in some cases an hour...When the time limit was up they would automatically be prompted to the Marketplace so that they may order it if liked the game.