Paul Thurrott weighed in on the NeXtbox rumors shared some info from his sources

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nnodley said:

AbbathTheGrim said:
You guys shouldn't get ahead of yourselves and think that with an announcement we will finally see if whether the Nextbox will need always online to play games. We may even need to wait a little longer than that if they decide not to talk about it during the reveal for strategic purposes. We may even find ourselves in the situation when we would need to wait some weeks to find out, depending on how Micro approaches the reveal and if the Nextbox indeed has the online requirement.

Just bringing this into consideration as to remind people that we may not know all Xbox details with a reveal. I mean, I've known of console reveals where they don't even show the freaking console.

What the hell are you doing getting banned Abbath?  Looks like my prediction last month that you would not live till the morning or something was wrong.

Anyway, yeah I honestly don't see them announcing if it requires to be online to use at their announcement or they will put a slight bit of info in and making seem like it's not a bad thing.  I think only if the rumors are false will they say something about it.

I expect this info to be revealed (if true) once people start asking Micro directly after the reveal. Much like people asked Sony questions after the PS4 reveal. Don't try to salvage that prediction of my death, you failed miserably with it DEAL WITH IT! :P

Max King of the Wild said:
"500$ for a normal unit, or 300$ for a subscription model.
It was also relayed to him that the device does indeed require a constant internet connection to function.

He also mentions that nothing that he has read about the next Xbox sounded negative to him"

So a high price with a stupid feature doesn't sound negative?

If he is a fan of Xbox it makes sense that he won't find anything negative about it. If he already pays for Live, a subscription is nothing to him as he would be paying for something he already pays for. Unless Micro raises the price for XboxLive once again. I know that Xboxfans don't complain about raises in Live prices but I bet that even they have a limit.

I think paying for subscriptions and paying for Live may be a factor for new people buying consoles and whether they find the whole pricing and purchase models acceptable.