I personally think this will seriously hurt the gaming industry; sure people will cave when the right exclusives come out but I personally will not support a system which I have to be at the mercy of that particular company by checking within a time limit to the internet
just yesterday I had a discussion with another vgc user in another thread; both MS and Sony have roughy around 30 million users who have never connected their consoles to the web, now if MS(and possibly Sony) continue with this "must be connected within a time limit" then they will potentially loose roughly half their initail install base, and I will be buying a Wii U and just play my Vita/3DS/and my huge backlog of games from previous gens.
I might just be one of the minority but MS(and possibly Sony) have lost my money(oddly enough I would still play my Vita)
