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SnesTea on 08 June 2013
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nightsurge said:
Wright said:
nightsurge said:
  • The Xbox One requires a "check" to occur once every 24 hours, when gaming. Or once every 1 hour when gaming from a console that is not your own.


This is the dealbreaker for me, and I ain't no hater. I like to carry my 360 to my friends house (Because they all have Ps3) where I don't want to put up with the hassle of connecting my console to my friend's broadband because no. I can put my 360 with the HDMI cable and the other thing I don't know what its name is that puts the machine onto electricity and that's it.

 

Really? The dealbreaker is that you can't spend 10 seconds to connect to your friend's wifi? Or spend 10 seconds to connect to your cell phone broadband for a minute?

Why should he have too? It's a console. The whole point of consoles is to have a simple connect-to-TV box that you can play games on. Just like every console...oh you know, ever.  If I want to play N64, I can plug it into my TV and go. And I will be able to do that in 20 years. And I was able to do it 17 years ago too when it came out. Xbox One on the other hand, requires an online check-in. Remember playing Halo 2 on Xbox? Yeah, you can't do that anymore. So what happens to your 400 dollar console when MS shuts down the X1 servers?

The problem with Xbox One is that it assumes that everyone has access to internet or mobile internet. Not everyone has a smartphone or a computer. Hard to believe I know. But MS is alienating a potentially huge userbase by including this DRM. DRM has no place on a console. If people like your game, they will buy it.