Microsoft Introducing Serial Key Locked Console Games With Xbox 720?

If you haven’t heard the internet chatter, Microsoft is working on the next generation of Xbox, believed to be called the Xbox 720. I think they should just take the plunge and go 1080 but heck that’s just me.

New reports are coming out of multiple sources suggesting that when Microsoft introduces this new gaming console it’s not only going to have a ton of bells and whistles but it’s also going to introduce serial key locked console games.  This news is coming out of gaming site Kotaku.

With mounting pressure coming over piracy concerns and the game studios losing profit share to recycled game giants like GameStop, Microsoft is said to be testing games that are serial locked like software.  According to TMCnet this serial locking could work like Microsoft software does where you must have an activation license to make the game operate on your console.

Kotaku was able to get a statement from Microsoft:

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