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Xbox One will Require an Internet Connection to Play

12:54 PM - May 22, 2013 by RaychelSnr

The Xbox One will require an internet connection after all in order to play games, which comes to the chagrin of many gamers. According to press material from Microsoft, the Xbox One will require that you connect to the Xbox Live servers once a day to continue playing it.

This of course presents huge issues for people where internet is limited, especially our men and women in uniform overseas. How Microsoft plans to work that detail out is unknown at this time.

Microsoft's seemingly puzzling answer to this is that, "No, it (Xbox One) does not have to be always connected, but Xbox One does require a connection to the Internet. We�re designing Xbox One to be your all-in-one entertainment system that is connected to the cloud and always ready. We are also designing it so you can play games and watch Blu-ray movies and live TV if you lose your connection."

This is a bold move by Microsoft, and the type of move that could easily backfire on the company.

What do you guys think? Are you worried about the 'almost always on' connectivity required from the Xbox One?

Member Comments

# 21 csofva @ 05/23/13 12:16 AM

sounds like another way to take all of our money. playstation it shall be

# 22 ocat @ 05/23/13 01:51 AM

I'm guessing this is all to do with piracy, it's actually quite clever from Microsoft. Instead of trying to inject anti piracy measures into the software and the hardware, it will be all taken care of on the server side. I assume our xbox live accounts and gamertags will all be stored on the Microsoft servers and not on the actual console, so unless you are a super hacker and can get into the MS servers, the Xbox One might become the first piracy proof console.

# 23 Dr Death @ 05/23/13 06:03 AM

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Originally Posted by ocat


	I'm guessing this is all to do with piracy, it's actually quite clever from Microsoft. Instead of trying to inject anti piracy measures into the software and the hardware, it will be all taken care of on the server side. I assume our xbox live accounts and gamertags will all be stored on the Microsoft servers and not on the actual console, so unless you are a super hacker and can get into the MS servers, the Xbox One might become the first piracy proof console.

If you think that there is anything "Hacker Proof" then you are fooling yourself! ANYTHING can be hacked. If Microsoft is gullible enough to believe this... well... so be it...

# 24 Jakeness23 @ 05/23/13 05:21 PM

"Xbox, turn on my PS4."

Definitely PS4 for me, they have better exclusives in my eyes and all sports games release on both consoles with the exception of The Show. For me, it's a no-brainer.

# 25 nflnutt @ 05/23/13 07:14 PM

"We are also designing it so you can play games and watch Blu-ray movies and live TV if you lose your connection." Apparently all the whiners in videogame land forgot to read this quote.

# 26 victorkingchamp @ 05/23/13 07:44 PM

I feel like Microsoft is giving Sony a great chance to reclaim the market outside of Japan with this move. I feel like the early PS4 and XboxOne games will rely too heavily on graphics and suffer in the gameplay department. So I'll stick with my 360 and PS3 until i feel truely excited about the next gen consoles. Right now I'm indifferent....

# 27 RandyBass @ 05/24/13 12:06 AM

What am I supposed to do when I am in Djibouti, and want to take a break from my study of the long horned beetle?

# 28 superjames1992 @ 05/24/13 12:32 AM

I want a gaming console. Unfortunately, the Xbox One seems to be more concerned with non-gaming features than the games themselves.

While I have my 360 hooked up to the silver Xbox Live account, anyways, I still don't like this news. It wouldn't really affect me, but to have to have my Xbox One (if I got one) hooked up to the internet would kind of suck. I had to live in a camping trailer without internet for a few months in 2007 while I was in the process of moving in 2007 (the house sold before school was out). I guess I would have been SOL if I had an Xbox One then.

With that being said, I'm not looking to jump to "next-gen" consoles anytime soon, anyways. This news makes it more so.

I've never bought a Playstation console before, but if/when I make the jump to next-gen, I may be leaning that direction.

Aside from sports games, I don't play much console gaming anymore, anyways. PC gaming FTW.

# 29 Ward13 @ 05/24/13 01:16 AM

I already have a cable box... PS4 it is!

# 30 McMurrayfan @ 05/24/13 08:53 AM

Microsoft is trying too do to much trying to compete with sony, i don't want to watch the NFL on my xbox i want to play games, for years ive bin both a xbox and playstation guy.....but i think this year i may go playstation exclusive

# 31 MontagueBall @ 05/26/13 04:17 AM

Thanks Microsoft. You just made my decision to go with the PS4 all that much easier.

# 32 turty11 @ 05/27/13 10:32 PM

i am starting to think microsoft doesn't mind going out of business in the console gaming industry

# 33 beast10 @ 05/27/13 10:36 PM

Xbox is screwing up...

# 34 bigbuckeyeboi @ 05/28/13 04:58 PM

What about if you're having a bad month monetarily wise and your internet bill comes up short on the budget. So you just can't even play your Xbox because you can't connect to the internet? Wow I was a die hard Xbox guy until this. It seems kinda arrogant of them if you ask me. And how can they just assume that everyone even plays online. Looks like I'll be switching over to be a Sony PS4 guy now.

# 35 dragonjaii @ 06/08/13 12:05 PM

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Originally Posted by MontagueBall


	Thanks Microsoft. You just made my decision to go with the PS4 all that much easier.

Exactly.. what are they thinking man.

# 36 Brandwin @ 06/09/13 02:06 PM

I think it's pretty stupid to have to always be connected. People may go out of town and not have internet where they are, storms could knock out internet service, you could move houses and may not get internet for a few days, so on and so forth. I just feel it's dumb to always have to be connected.

# 37 11thomson @ 06/12/13 11:00 AM

i love these images.............

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