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The Xbox One doesn't have to be online all the time, but it does have to be online. Not just once in a while—once a day, according to Microsoft vice president Phil Harrison.

In a Q&A on their press site for the new Xbox, Microsoft tackles the always-on question with a strangely-worded answer: "No, it does not have to be always connected, but Xbox One does require a connection to the Internet."

At the event in Redmond today, Kotaku boss Stephen Totilo asked Phil Harrison for clarification on this. And what Harrison told us might not please people who enjoy playing Xbox on military bases or other locations without Internet.

"There are many devices in your life that require the Internet to function," he said. "Xbox One is no different in that it requires, at some point in the beginning and at various times through its on state, to connect to our cloud and to our Internet. That is to deliver Xbox Live functionality, that is to deliver download content to you, that is to deliver some of the innovations around TV and entertainment that we showed today. But it doesn’t require it to be online all the time."

So how often does it check your connection? "Depends on the experience," Harrison said.

"For single-player games that don’t require connectivity to Xbox Live, you should be able to play those without interruption should your Internet connection go down. Blu-ray movies and other downloaded entertainment should be accessible when your Internet connection may be interrupted. But the device is fundamentally designed to be expanded and extended by the Internet as many devices are today."

And here's the bombshell:

Kotaku: If I’m playing a single player game, do I have to be online at least once per hour or something like that? Or can I go weeks and weeks?

Harrison: I believe it’s 24 hours.

Kotaku: I’d have to connect online once every day.

Harrison: Correct.

So the system is built to work even if your Internet connection goes down, but you still have to be connected at least once a day to use it, according to Harrison. We're not sure exactly what would happen if you don't connect once per day—and that timeframe could change—but this doesn't sound good for anyone who was hoping to use Xbox One without an Internet connection.
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Annnnnnnd, the company has shot it's self in the foot.
 
I wouldn't say it's shot itself in the foot. The Xbox ONE was JUST revealed yesterday and all sorts of news, rumours, interviews etc are going around not even 24 hours later. Don't jump on it the first moment you get. I'm sure things will change and become much clearer over time before it is released.
 
GamerPerfection said:
I wouldn't say it's shot itself in the foot. The Xbox ONE was JUST revealed yesterday and all sorts of news, rumours, interviews etc are going around not even 24 hours later. Don't jump on it the first moment you get. I'm sure things will change and become much clearer over time before it is released.
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Since the first of the year GP there has been death plaguing rumors about Xbox one with the internet community clearly saying they will not support a internet constant game system.  In that article it has confirmed what everyone feared, the game company is shooting it's self in the foot. Fact.

And if not the constant internet, then their used game policy will be the death of them.
 
The death of them? You are exaggerating. As I said it's extremely early days. I think it's stupid if anyone says they won't be interested now before further updates are announced about it. There's always changes that take place before release. But as soon as they do the reveal you claim they've shot themselves in the foot, without even seeing anything further.
 
It's almost like what that resigned MS exec said on Twitter about a month ago, but it's still early though. If gamers do not have the Internet while playing a game on this console, they may be out of luck.
 
I agree with DS that the Xbox One would be greatly less popular because of these requirements.

But, I think many Xbox users won't move to the PS4, or Wii U since other consoles may have similar requirements in the future after the official release or years latter, and the PS4 can't play PS3 games on the disc which stinks if you want to play older PS3 games, or the Wii U can't play gamecube disc games.

I think more gamers will choose PC which has a lot of similar gaming titles found on Xbox, but they buy them on Steam, Gamefly for PC, Amazon and Gog.com for cheaper prices. Plus, there are a lot of free to play like Team Fortress 2, League of Legends, Runescape, etc which increases the bang for the buck for PC.

With PC, gamers control both the hardware, and the games since if a game like Simcity requires an internet connection, there are probably hacks/mods to play offline, or gamers can choose not to buy the game, and buy another game instead of being force for every game to be played online.
 
GamerPerfection said:
The death of them? You are exaggerating. As I said it's extremely early days. I think it's stupid if anyone says they won't be interested now before further updates are announced about it. There's always changes that take place before release. But as soon as they do the reveal you claim they've shot themselves in the foot, without even seeing anything further.
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Perhaps I did exaggerate a but, but were beyond early days. Rumors of the Xbox one has been around for months and MS has confirmed a lot yesterday, a lot for the bad.
 
If Microsoft literally said about every 24 hours, then it's true. Why would they say that if it wasn't? Anyway, that's dumb. What if you don't wanna or can't go online.
 
I honestly can't see other companies adopting "always on" requirements of any sort. It's too much hassle for them to maintain, far too easy to interrupt and offers no real benefit to the end user but can most assuredly cause massive problems. And I do think that lots of people aren't going to stay with microsoft and their always online (and used game) policy. There was a massive outcry against always on requirements for numerous reasons and that hasn't really gone away. People still are not happy.

I'm not sure what you're getting at with the backwards compatibility here... Since the xbox one doesn't have backwards compatibility either. Though that may not stay true for Sony since it's possible they could use Gaikai to stream older games over the internet for users. (And I'd imagine they'd almost have to be working on a method to allow digital games to be converted over.)
And I fully admit, I'm kind of pissed off that Sony won't offer some method for backwards compatibility (even if it's just a tiny box with a modified cell processor that hooks up to the PS4 and uses PS4 ram/GPU to run PS3 games and they sold it for like an extra 50$ or even that was part of the premium PS4).

I do imagine though that it won't be long before someone figures out a way to strip out or cancel out xbox one's always online (and by extension the used game policy) aspect. (They probably won't be able to connect to xbox live ever again... but if they weren't going to use their system for online anyway, this may not matter to them.)
 
VirusZero said:
I'm not sure what you're getting at with the backwards compatibility here... Since the xbox one doesn't have backwards compatibility either. Though that may not stay true for Sony since it's possible they could use Gaikai to stream older games over the internet for users. (And I'd imagine they'd almost have to be working on a method to allow digital games to be converted over.)
And I fully admit, I'm kind of pissed off that Sony won't offer some method for backwards compatibility (even if it's just a tiny box with a modified cell processor that hooks up to the PS4 and uses PS4 ram/GPU to run PS3 games and they sold it for like an extra 50$ or even that was part of the premium PS4).
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I think MS plans to do this, if some rumors are true.

And I can see Sony doing the always online if MS pulls it off.
 
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