Aielyn on 13 April 2013
| Machiavellian said: Weather MS will or will not have online only console, your PR statement would lock MS into something they may or may not do this gen or any gen. The thing is why would they make such a statement. Even Sony isn't crazy enough to make a statement like that. That statement comes from someone who wants the industry to think this way but a business would be crazy to issue something like that because if things change and this is they way things go, well people would be bringing up that statement at every interview. |
If they're not doing it this coming gen, then saying it doesn't harm them this gen - that's my point. As for future generations, it's easily addressed, since it uses the concept of an "opinion". Meaning, if things change in the future, they just go "After further investigation, we at Microsoft have decided that we are able to implement an always-online restriction in a reasonable and fair manner."
And besides that, always-online restrictions at a hardware level is a stupid idea, and will remain a stupid idea in perpetuity. MS rejecting the idea completely would be a good thing.
