Adinnieken said:
Subie_Greg said:
It depends on how you read his tweets I guess.
If you read his "electricity goes out, don't buy vacuum cleaner" or "mobile reception is spotty, don't buy phone" tweets, you could take that to mean the Next Box requires electricity to work. Most take it as it requires internet because of the almost 12 months of consistant rumors from multiple sources saying it will.
You can defend Microsoft or this practice if you like. But there is good reason for the rest of us to be worried at this point
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This is your rumor:
"It's not clear if that means that the system wouldn't play used games or how such a set-up would work. Obvious approaches—I'm theorizing here—like linking a copy of a game to a specific Xbox Live account could seemingly be foiled by used-game owners who would keep their system offline. My source wasn't sure how Microsoft intended to implement any anti-used game system in the new machine." - Stephen Totilo - Kotaku
http://kotaku.com/5879202/sources-the-next-xbox-will-play-blu+ray-may-not-play-used-games-and-will-introduce-kinect-2
That's the source of your rumor. Stephen Totilo speculating on how DRM might be implemented.
Now to refute the Always on = Always connected to the Internet, let's look at this image:
http://www.joystiq.com/2012/06/16/rumor-xbox-720-doc-leak/
Very top of the page, under Xbox 360 Limitations, 4 down.
"Can't run Always On/low power states."
So regardless of what Adam said, any reference that Microsoft makes to "Always On" is a reference to operating in a low power state. It has NOTHING to do with being always connected.
There.
You have a semi-official Microsoft document describing the feature "Always On" and what it means. And if you need help figuring out how it's a semi-official document, a firm representing Microsoft issued the removal order for the site hosting the original document.
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You can argue/defend this till your fingers bleed.
You have almost 12 months of rumors from sources saying always connected... not always on. You don't need to explain the difference between the two. Most of the "leaks" have pointed out the required connection for the Next Box. It's not as if these sources over the last 12 months simply confused the Always On to mean Required Internet Connection. Whether it's was something Microsoft was thinking about, then later got rid off... or will go through with is unknown as of right now.
Do I think Microsoft will do this? No. I think it is such a bad move that they couldn't possibly go through with it. But that thinking doesn't discredit all those many sources over the last 12 months. Yours doesn't either.
