Adinnieken said:
Subie_Greg said:
You can argue/defend this till your fingers bleed.
You have almost 12 months of rumors from sources saying always connected... not always on. You don't need to explain the difference between the two. Most of the "leaks" have pointed out the required connection for the Next Box. It's not as if these sources over the last 12 months simply confused the Always On to mean Required Internet Connection. Whether it's was something Microsoft was thinking about, then later got rid off... or will go through with is unknown as of right now.
Do I think Microsoft will do this? No. I think it is such a bad move that they couldn't possibly go through with it. But that thinking doesn't discredit all those many sources over the last 12 months. Yours doesn't either.
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It's the same DRM that exists with the Xbox 360.
No, you have speculation. You don't have credible sources. The most credible source there has been for the next Xbox has been Super DaE and even HE has refuted the notion that it required an Online connection for DRM. The rest are anonymous sources unable to provide evidence or proof.
Again. Your sources for the original rumor is Stephen Totillo at Kotaku. He speculates that DRM would be always online. That's in 25, January, 2012. It isn't until 3, February, 2013 that The Edge staff through a "credible source" confirms that the next Xbox requires an always online connection for DRM. No proof or evidence is given, just confirmation of an unsubstantiated rumor originally incepted by Stephen Totillo. A few months later, you have Kotaku using additional "credible sources" to support the very rumor they began.
Yet all through this, you have a credible source, since everything he has produced has been 100% accurate so far, saying he saw no evidence of always online DRM, as well as several other anonymous sources currently working on games for the system saying the same thing.
You can't have two camps saying two different things. One is right and one is wrong.
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I will also chime in that if MS send a development system to a developer and for them to do anything on it, it must be connected to the internet sounds like a pretty good DRM measure from MS to ensure that their system remains in the hands they send it to. Does this mean that this will be a consumer part of the console, I think not. I have heard that this is something people have experience with the development system but there is no confirmation of it being in the consumer version. Also by this time, I am sure if this was going to be a consumer feature we would have seen documentation on it by now since everything else leaks these days. The only info we have is that someone tried to do something offline on the dev system and could not.
I think everyone is pretty confident that the PS4 and the nextBox will always be on and always be connected to the internet. Sony pretty much already confirmed this point but also stated there will be an offline mode (they did not give any details on what it will be).
MS hasn't made any statements because they have not revealed their console so silence does not mean anything is true it just means MS has nothing to say until they reveal the nextbox.
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