Xbox One talks the talk, after the fact

Here's an article comment from Polygon.com

"Thing is, Microsoft could still make a strong leap toward a new future of digital ownership without infringing on consumer rights; all they have to do is emphasize digital sales by including new features and perks that aren’t available with a disc version of the game. If they dropped the price of digital versions, made good on their nebulous “family plan” and allowed access to digital games via the cloud as they had previously discussed, a lot of people would probably buy digital over physical.

But instead of trying to offer us the carrot, Microsoft threatened us with the stick instead. Simply put, they don’t seem to know how to do business if it doesn’t involve strong-arming consumers and other companies. My guess is that it’s a byproduct of their long-standing dominance of the PC industry, where they’ve always been able to assume the attitude of “my way or the highway,” but it’s never worked for them anywhere else. Microsoft should have done more thorough market research; if they had, they would have handled this better."

I think this sums up Microsoft's inability to communicate the benefits of their digital platform.  I  don't believe for a second that Microsoft was going to let me share my games with my brother and sister and my wife.  They wouldn't have only killed the used game market but the new game market as well.  It's easy for an Msoft rep to pipe on about how wonderful the game sharing program was after the program is cancelled.  I think it is really suspicious that the benefits of their proposed system were not front and center during E3 while the press and fans were ripping Microsoft a new asshole.