Microsoft is hinting that digital sharing could be returning to the Xbox One as the company looks to expand the capabilities of the console.

"We believe in a digital future on our box," Xbox chief Phil Spencer said. "I know when I say this I always get beat up, but I think some of what we were trying to say last summer was right."

He continued, "We understand what games you own and who you are and how you move around and who you might want to loan rights to your games or gift your games to. We totally believe in that future. And any other marketplace you play in, these kind of mechanisms are out there."

It appears Microsoft is going back to some of the ideas they had last summer when they were preparing to release the console. The backlash was so bad that Microsoft completely reversed almost every policy they came up with.

Xbox One is also promising to have more 1080p games in the future, and told console owners to be patient as the new technology is more "complicated."

"I fully expect [more 1080p games] to happen," said Boyd Multerer to Xbox: The Official Magazine. "The [graphics processing units] are really complicated beasts this time around."

He also claimed developers have yet to fully dive in and figure out the exact capabilities of their new console, and as the system gets older the games will get better.

"The hardware is basically baked, and what comes next is people discovering better software techniques to take advantage of it, especially in the ordering of the data so it flows through all the caches correctly, and I think there's a lot of opportunity there," said Multerer.

According to IGN there were initial concerns about the Xbox One catching up to the PS4's graphics, and now that worry is subsiding.

"They are releasing a new SDK that's much faster, and we will be comfortably running at 1080p on Xbox One," said Jean-Baptiste Bolcato. "We were worried six months ago and we are not anymore, it's got better and they are quite comparable machines."