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BenVTrigger on 29 April 2013
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VGKing said:
BenVTrigger said:
Carl22said:
The problem is that there is so much smoke, its hard to imagine there being no fire.

Every rumor Ive seen about it has been a negative rumor. When they actually reveal it I expect a bunch of stuff to be confirmed and a bunch of stuff to be refuted. Just dont let it get to you and wait for the chance to give out a "told ya so".


The ironic thing though is 90% of the people complaining about always online are people on internet forums.....who are constantly online.  Most of the people complaining have their Xboxs and PS3s hooked up to stable internet nearly all the time.

Now personally I hope the Next Xbox doesnt require an always online connection but who knows maybe the sheer amount of amazing things theyre adding to Xbox Live makes them require a connection. Thats my point is we dont know anything yet.  For all we know always online could be an incredible experience.  If you have a smartphone its always connected.  People dont complain about their phones.

i don't think anyone cares about always-online, but when always-online is a requriement as in the console doesn't work without an internet connection, that's a problem. Last I checked, there are about 46million XBox Live accounts(Silver + Gold) yet there are 77million Xbox 360s sold.

If the next XBox is truly always online, this means Microsoft will lose out on 30million sales. Hell, people might buy this thing without even knowing that is requries an internet connection. Grandmas don't exactly read the fine print. 

Nothing good comes of making your consumers be always online. The only good thing here is that Microsoft can track your every move and serve you ads that cater to your interests. That's the only real benefit I can think of that comes from always-online. 

You just answered yourself.

MS has sold 77 million 360s, and yet only 46 million active Live accounts. Do you think a company as massive as MS is dumb enough to not be able to read the numbers?  Always Online will be very real, but it will be used in terms of in order to get the full feature set of your Xbox it has to be online.  Publishers will decide if the games have to be or not.