Family Sharing Returns.

In an interview with Gamertag Radio (noticed by IGN), Spencer noted that adding the family sharing feature back "is a little bit of a challenge now that you've got DRM on a disc... We got hung up last year on the kind of enabling features—when does it have to connect to the Internet and all that," he said. "But I think the feature people really cared about—I've got this collection of content, I can do family sharing, share with my friends—there were a bunch of things we had ideas around. I haven't given up on those ideas. There's some complexity now that you've got these discs that have DRM that you've got to figure out. But it's definitely part of our [roadmap] with the overall product."

Spencer allowed that features like family sharing could be available in a hybrid model, where they apply to titles downloaded from Xbox Live but not to discs that can be resold. But such a plan could introduce its own wrinkles, he said. "It's the nature of the beast where we are, but now you're in the spot [where someone says] 'Hey, I thought a Ryse disc from you and you didn't tell me at the time that Ryse [on] disc wasn't going to be able to do what Ryse [on] digital's gonna do.' That's not an excuse for not doing it, [but] any of these features I want to make sure I'm doing it the right way. People should know we are thinking about these features. They haven't gone away."