Microsoft: Next Xbox will work even when your Internet doesn’t

[daze23]

another one of these thread...

Microsoft: Next Xbox will work even when your Internet doesn’t | Ars Technica

Should single-player games, Blu-ray playback, and live TV viewing be possible on a gaming console with no Internet connection? Most gamers would say "yes," but they have been worried that Microsoft feels differently; the next generation Xbox has been consistently rumored to require a permanent network connection.

It won't.

According to an internal Microsoft e-mail sent to all full-time employees working on the next Xbox, "Durango [the codename for the next Xbox] is designed to deliver the future of entertainment while engineered to be tolerant of today's Internet." It continues, "There are a number of scenarios that our users expect to work without an Internet connection, and those should 'just work' regardless of their current connection status. Those include, but are not limited to: playing a Blu-ray disc, watching live TV, and yes playing a single player game."

The quotation also implicitly confirms another rumor: the next Xbox will sport an HDMI input, to allow cable boxes to be hooked up for live TV viewing. Our sources tell us that the console will be able to provide TV listings and similar information.

How far this offline support will extend still isn't clear. It could take the form of a fully offline mode akin to that on the Xbox 360 (insert optical disc, install game, play, all without an Internet connection) or it could be more like Steam (install and activate online but enable subsequent offline play once this has been done).

While one could argue that "installing a game" is one of the "scenarios" that gamers "expect to work" when offline, a more Steam-like approach would be consistent with rumors that the next Xbox will use its Internet connection to block installation of secondhand games.

Still, though the next Xbox won't make everybody happy, it looks like fears that the console will be useless when your broadband goes down have been overblown.

 

[Why-Fi]

there you have it

 

[BlvdBrawler]

Those of us with common sense knew this months ago.

 

[MeachTheMonster]

 

[Mr. Somebody]

Hey cool, xbots got something.

 

[Dwight Howard]

Still no reason for me to buy after seeing the PS4 specs, tha fukk I look like buying the least powerful system?

 

[Real]

Looks like i gotta buy both systems again


#nokids
#nodebt

 

[Ayo]

Still no reason for me to buy after seeing the PS4 specs, tha fukk I look like buying the least powerful system?

You've seen the next XBox's specs? Do you work at Microsoft?

Oh, you're forming an opinion about an unreleased/unknown/unannounced product using rumors. Sounds like you have a case of fanboy-itis

 

[Dwight Howard]

You've seen the next XBox's specs? Do you work at Microsoft?

Oh, you're forming an opinion about an unreleased/unknown/unannounced product using rumors. Sounds like you have a case of fanboy-itis

I've read that PS4 specs are stronger than XBox. At the end of the day I'll probably both but I'm pretty sick of Microsoft pimping my pockets. That's the main reason I switched from 360 to Ps3. The fukk I'm paying to play online for?The fact that they were gonna go with this always online shyt is a terrible look. Far from a fanboy btw, I own pretty much every major gaming system.

 

[Lakers Offseason]

Did niccas really believe the BS that it wouldn't work offline? LMAO. Come on brehs

 

[diggy]

Did niccas really believe the BS that it wouldn't work offline? LMAO. Come on brehs

Im not into console wars n shyt but I wouldnt put it past companies now if it were actually true

 

[daze23]

all of a sudden everyone's reasonable

 

[Rekkapryde]

I'm calling



































won't be like this on subscription models.

 

[B86]

Still no reason for me to buy after seeing the PS4 specs, tha fukk I look like buying the least powerful system?

You look just like a person that bought a ps3 cuz it had higher specs..... Funny it still takes 10 minutes to even run a fukkin system update on a ps3

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[Rekkapryde]

Funny it still takes 10 minutes to even run a fukkin system update on a ps3

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My system updates go fast as fukk. You still on that netzero huh bruh..