Next Xbox Practically Confirmed "Always-Online"

[Innegativeion]

I don't think "practically confirmed" actually means anything... at all. By it's very nature this term doesn't carry any weight. Can't we just wait the couple weeks for Microsoft to announce the damned thing?

Anyway... I'm kind of ambivalent about this. If it is true, then that'll be horrible and disgusting etc. etc... but I'm optimistic that people aren't SO stupid that they'll lap that shit up. I predict a lot of people trying to use it at once, a Microsoft server crash, and a lot of returns. Thus resulting in a HUGE precedent for Sony, Nintendo, and any other future consoles/software platforms to NEVER do something like that.

If it's not true, then thank god Microsoft has some sense.

 

[Seydaman]

Yet they also say it's up to the publisher... so I wonder if the only games requiring always-online are going to be Activision games and EA games...

Wait, how can you have offline games on an always-online console? The reason an always-online console is such a disgrace is that it requires an internet connection to do anything on.
If it's capable of running games offline then it's not always online, it just happens to have some games that require an always on connection to play... which is exactly what we have now.

Also I like that it runs on what is basically windows 8. That isn't a console, it's a crap computer. I really hate how the companies now are killing the major advantage of a console running a bare bones OS and virtually no other software so all the processing power could go straight into the games. Now they are sticking computer OS's in the consoles and giving them constant social media connectivity and a bunch of other crap. That advantage has been shot in the head. Well done.

So what you're saying is, better off playing pure PC?

I can drink to that.

OT: Bad marketing and press move. And the bad sales won't just come from the hardcore crowds either, it will be Bob that says to Laura "Oh yea, don't get that next Xbox, I couldn't get it working for my son/daughter and it crashes/breaks all the time! Complete waste of money"

 

[Auron225]

AAhahahahahaha!!! XD

Maybe I find this funnier than I should. I've never owned an Xbox and don't really have any particular grievance with it but my brother has been, for years now, insisting that Microsoft would eventually win the "console war" and before long nobody would remember what a Playstation was.

Then they go and do this =P

 

[Use_Imagination_here]

Yeah not even bothering with the new consoles anymore. Been hearing nothing but shit news, and we don't need new consoles anyway. They should wait at least a few years for the processing power upgrade to be relevant. If people want extremely good top of the line bleeding edge graphics they're always gonna have to use a good PC anyway.