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cannot wait to see what they do with this!!
Also just updated my A50 GEN 3 headsets. Took less than a minute.... now Series X ready !!
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Also just updated my A50 GEN 3 headsets. Took less than a minute.... now Series X ready !!
This sounds good. Can easily queue the game up and download it whilst waiting for Amazon to deliver it. 
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This sounds good. Can easily queue the game up and download it whilst waiting for Amazon to deliver it.
How does that work?
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Are we back to the days of no CD cracks? 
The disc is your license, or "CD Key", so to speak.
You can download anything you like from the store. But you can only play it by purchasing a digital copy, or inserting a disc with a valid license.
Makes a lot of sense really, given all of the pieces were already in place to make this happen.
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Does anyone know with Xbox All Access if I were to get a Series X, can I pay it all off whenever I wanted or will I be stuck to the two year plan?
It says in the T&C that there are no charges for early repayment so you should be able to.
Just thinking this through, does this mean the amazing DRM stuff they announced with X1 is back? It must be for this to work? If the disc is the key, there must be a way to relinquish that key so the disc can be traded in / borrowed etc.
The X1 DRM system was brilliant, such a shame the internet overreacted and the rolled over. This must mean it’s back?
The X1 DRM system was brilliant, such a shame the internet overreacted and the rolled over. This must mean it’s back?
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Awesome, thanks!
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7. Early Repayment
You have the right to repay all or part of the credit early at any time at no extra cost. We will let you know the balance outstanding upon request.
Full terms here: https://cdn.klarna.com/1.0/shared/content/legal/terms/0/en_gb/account_agreement
Also if you are using interest bearing credit and pay off early, they will remove the outstanding interest from your calculated settlement figure. Your settlement figure will always be lower than what your statements say you owe as your statements are calculated on the full loan period and include all interest.
No not really, the system for an installed game will look for 1 of 2 things:
1. A Digital license tied to the account (gamepass or purchase)
2. A real disk for the game
The disks themselves won;t be anything but that.
Ah good point. That’s a shame, was hoping for the return of digital license resale and 3rd party stores. Sounds like an easy attack vector for game duping though?
Depends if people can Jailbreak the OS and if that's the case, they'd just get pirated rips anyway.
I don't think the Xbone has been cracked at all has it? There are some nifty security features built in that are only likely to get stronger for the Series consoles.
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So I just realised there's no optical out on the Series X which is a tad annoying (no idea how I missed that haha) as I still use my ancient Logitech Z-5500. I assume an HDMI / Optical splitter would work OK? I just guess it would need to support 4k60 - anyone else in this situation?
Hmm - I didn't realise that either, I need optical out for my older receiver, dont want to upgrade that just yet as it meets my needs for now
I love how Microsoft have been very open with the gaming media, they released the specs early and invited digital foundry for a deep dive and hands on with the system at the start of the year, they detailed a lot of the specs such as vrs, vrr, the velocity memory architecture, auto HDR etc, they where very confident they had the better system while Sony have been very quiet keeping things close to their chest, almost teasing like they had a surprise or secret sauce to unleash....there's still a lot unknown on the PS5 that hasn't been confirmed yet which doesn't look good
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Tbh I don't think Sony are hiding anything but MS certainly caught them out with how aggressive they have been this gen.