yeah those where the days where every system had a platformer that featured a fuzzy animal thing.

LMAO

I was being honest though. Do people really have personal attchments to microsoft?? I find that weird, I used to when games like Mass effect and Bioshock were exclusive to 360 and games like fable and Banjo was on their way. Since 2009 the 360 has started to loose it soul, its still kinda my preference for 3rd party because of the controller but i don't see much going for microsoft in next gen... 

From my understanding they don't have an awesome blog like sony, or do cool little things like Nintendo directs. Essential Microsoft has no personality. Sorry but not sorry. 

I would for a microsoft fanboy to explain their attachment to the xbox brand. Is it Halo? genuinely interest :)

I was meaning the 360 relaunch at $99 as a set-top box, not a new XBOX device that functions as a set-top box. It's so confusing that XBOX 360 is simplified to XBOX. This is as confusing as if in 2011 people said Sony is launching a new PlayStation but this isn't the next PlayStation that succeeds this PlayStation, it's just the next handheld PlayStation.

Why?  Nothing has officially come from Microsoft saying that the Xbox 8 will require 100% a online connected console in order for owners to play games.

There are rumors.  There is an attempt by a Microsoft employee to say something funny.  But there is no official statement as to what features the Xbox 8 will have as far as DRM.  In fact.  As someone who watches Microsoft's patents very closely, there isn't even a single patent awarded to Microsoft that would seem to suggest Microsoft is even attempting to do anything differently from the what was implemented with the Xbox 360.  There are Kinect patents that move the bar as far as Kinect functionality, there are even Achievement and Avatar patents that seem to move the bar in terms of what Microsoft currently offers, but not DRM. 

Why would Microsoft even need a persistent DRM technology when it already has DRM that works with the Xbox 360?  There wouldn't even be a logical reason to take that off-line function of the current DRM and make it always connected.  The only need is to ensure that purchased content is licensed to one of the individuals playing the game or it's licensed to the device. 

If the content isn't licensed to the device, then yes it would need a connected console to verify that one of the players is licensed to use the content.  But again, that's how the console works today.

You equate information by employee that is driving away customers with a "random press release"?  Any company that would do a press release like this would fire their customer relations management for putting that out.

Nice of the person that said so for the official statement.
This sort of war behavior will probably stay for a couple of more weeks and then it will be a massacre.

how'd you know it was being the Xbox 8? you mean like windows 8? you Xbox infinity would sound cooler imo.

btw he wasn't funny either. and that licensing thing, you mean in a way to prevent piracy?

Funnily enough, Mary Jo Foley was once a huge supporter of IBM OS/2 Warp.  She hated Microsoft in the 1990's when she wrote for PC Magazine.  I always find it curious that she now follows Microsoft.

Also, Paul Thurrot was a Windows 95 beta tester, as well as several other Microsoft products since.

If it truly wasn't online only, they would have made a comment about how they think 'always online' is anti-consumerist.

Your still going a little over the top
obviously it was a silly comment
understansing that it was you should have just ignored it
really you could have let it go

again though

personally
really
i'd have continued without reporting it
casting that aside now
Kowenicki, its obvious some "negative xbox" news/comments were going to come from this thread, not just VG...but on youtube n4g and a couple of other sites

your right, if only everyone was honest in their comments