Home Area 51 Gaming Gaming Xbox Next Xbox to prevent you from playing used games?

xboxLike hell...you do this and you will see Nintendo and PS3 sales BLAST the xbox right out of the water.

Gaming news site Kotaku reported yesterday that the so-called Xbox 720 will incorporate some type of anti-used game technology. Citing a "reliable industry source," Kotaku admitted that it's not clear how such a technology would be set up and if it means the Xbox wouldn't play used games at all.

One theory is that a game would be tied to an Xbox Live account so that only the original buyer could play it. But as the gaming site points out, that type of restriction could be beaten by Xbox owners who simply keep their consoles offline.

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