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walsufnir on 20 March 2013
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D-Joe said:
walsufnir said:
curl-6 said:
I find the "always connected" thing very hard to believe, not even 2011-present Nintendo would be that stupid.


This would also be an issue in Europe: EU makes very strict constraints on power-usage of devices. I think users have the *option* to stay always connected but it can also be disabled. MS knows that there are countries which offer only limited data-plans or have other restrictions to internet.

The problem should be why would people think always connected(or always on)=require online?

If it was mandatory for you to be online, it would say it straight up, they wouldn't just skirt around the issue with devs.

We need to remember this doc is for devs,not normal customers


Also it reads "Durango will implement different power states so that it can always be powered on..." To me this sounds optional but everyone reads what one wants :) And this is even more strange when I read PS3-users that use the "feature" of downloading patches/updates over night (of course only via psn+ - you get what you pay for) so that they don't have to wait for patches/updates for their games. Yet, PS3 doesn't provide (afaik) any low-power-mode.