Mark Cerny: PS4 can be enjoyed without an Internet connection at all

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Wagram said:

Yosp: Did we consider it? No, we didn't consider it. The main reason being that many countries don't have robust Internet connections. It makes sense for people to have Internet connections to play online games, but for offline games there are many countries that we saw do not really have robust internet.

The PS always had world wide appeal and it was never a console that focused on specific places like Japan or Europe or the US, so it would have made no sense for them to try an always on experiment that would have singled so many people out.

MS on the other hand enjoy disproportionate popularity in the US and the UK.