Blant de få funksjonene som ble lagt frem under den opprinnelige Xbox One-annonseringen (før Microsoft endret planene sine) som ikke ble totalt slaktet av fansen, finner vi Family Sharing.
Family Sharing skulle gi hele familien (eller venner) muligheten til å dele spillsamlingene sine seg imellom, men denne muligheten forsvant da Microsoft blant annet fjernet kravet om obligatorisk periodisk (en gang i døgnet) internettilgang for konsollen deres.
Det betyr imidlertid ikke at selskapet har helt glemt Family Sharing-tanken:
- We looked at the digital features that we had talked about last year and as a gamer there were a lot of those features that I think really resonated and were smart features for people who really have a lot of games and maybe play on a couple consoles or have bunch of people in the house or want to share with friends, kommenterer Xbox-sjef Phil Spencer til GamerTagRadio.
- As I look at our monthly update roadmap, those kind of features are in our roadmap. There is a little bit of a challenge now that you've got DRM on a disc, fortsetter han.
Nokså uforpliktende kommentarer, men løpet er definitivt ikke kjørt for Family Sharing enda. Såpass kan vi slå fast.