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Always-Online, Would Be A Terrible Business Decision For Microsoft's Next Generation Xbox

Forbes - The next Xbox may have an always-online requirement, according to sources across the internet. These back up earlier leaks that suggest the next-gen video game console will be “Always Online, Always Connected.”

We live in a world of constant internet connection. At least, in the developed world having an internet connection is basically like having heat and electricity and running water. Most people who end up purchasing next-generation video game consoles will have them online all the time.

Knight_Crawler4031d ago

More 720 articles...just what N4G needs.

Well hopefully E3 comes fast as I am sick of all these 720 articles on N4G and these rumors are making people forget that the PS4 needs love too.

indysurfn4031d ago

Consider if Microsoft servers went down no games. Consider if your internet bill was late no games until next pay check. Consider in just your area the internet was down no games(often). Consider if satellite went down during a storm no games. Consider just your cable modem was down when you got home Friday, no replacement until Monday no games.

indysurfn4031d ago

Right now I can use VBA, and Yahoo messenger to record what anyone is doing that is on my yahoo friends list. I can even tell the webcam light to not come on. And record the sound. That is just a single programmer. Now consider Microsoft has this Kinect in the machine that can tract you moving, four different people. What if I DIDN'T want that while I'm not playing video games? What if I actually wanted privacy. Forget conspiracy theory, that would be fact. What if I don't want someone tracking which machine my game is currently in? What if I want to be able to sell my machine in the future? How much control will I have on all the game? Will their be a lot of people that want a machine with a lot of JRPG's and shooters on it for what I want to sell it at? What about all the games attached to it(since Microsoft is not denying even that). In 2005 like fools all those loyal Sony fans brag they WOULD work a extra job, and pay 600-2000 dollars for a PS3, and they got what they asked for! Which is why PS3 got behind in sales and lost the 'war'. Let the X-bot tell Microsoft we will be EX-bots because we are not going to pay a lot for this muffler! Don't be the blind pledger of loyalty. I'm not buying one if this stuff is true.

Prcko4031d ago

you don't say...
http://i.minus.com/ibwI1puh...
i still hope this isn't true

stage884031d ago

That gif is actually quite worrying.
Definitely getting PS4 for next gen.

Why o why4031d ago

this is getting too much....lets gets some gaming news approved. we get it. AO is Crap If True....until then......urghhhh

-Mezzo-4031d ago

But this is Xbox720 News, a Next-Gen GAMING Console.

CommonSenseGamer4031d ago

Its an opinion based on rumour. Please explain how this is news.

Why o why4031d ago (Edited 4031d ago )

nothing against you mezzo...Its just unanimous already. Nobody thinks this is a great idea except the xtreame fanatics and Microsoft IF true.

Its getting to the point where some are spinning this glut of negative press into some don draper'esc masterstroke marketing plan by ms.

greenpowerz4031d ago (Edited 4031d ago )

People getting all worked up about this online rumor. If people really had real info on the xbox 720 and this was real there would be other specs and plans leaked that are more important to gamer fans of the xbox and haters.

No one finds it odd the rumors are just about *always being online* but nothing else? This always online rumor conviently picks back up a day after the leaked two GPUs in the 720 LMAO

I'm Glad MSFT won't respond to rumors and speculation. N4G blocks all the good rumors of the 720 and only allows the bad.

Don't respond to me with that *it was a April's Fools Joke* crap. The rumors of the 720 having two GPU/APUs is months old. An insider with info or understood the specs trolled the info, planting it on April first where this rumor could get the most attention to discredit the info.

Media is trying to force MSFT's hand led by the opposition of MSFT and the two GPU news angered a lot of trolls.

All this is about the opposition's fear and the media's exploitation of it.

Software_Lover4031d ago (Edited 4031d ago )

This is what I really want to happen, and I'm being serious.

I want Microsoft to show the console, games, and be all spectacular. People are waiting and anticipating "always online" or "blocking used games" to come up. When the presenter says thank you at the end the music starts playing and he walks off the e3 stage not saying a damn thing about it. The lights go out and everyones jaw is on the floor because they didn't say anything regarding the rumors. Then 10 secs later he runs back on stage and the lights come on......

Oh yeah I forgot, no used games will be blocked and you can play games offline, if anyone wanted to know.

then walks back off stage. I would piss my pants.

IronFistChinMi4031d ago

He has to drop the mic as he exits as well. Lol

indysurfn4031d ago

I agree it is always just about being online. Just like back in 2005 the PS3 news was always about it costing 600plus instead of the traditional $300. There where constant rumors until finally it was by Sony confirmed with bragging! The thing is it is obviously a test market to see the reaction. That is why they retracted the tweets without denying the rumor. MICROSOFT in my opinion just like Sony did in 2005 are testing the reaction! They got many a blind loyal Sony fans that said they where in for a high price and they got what they asked for. And since most did not buy until price drops years later, they missed the chance to win the war. Same will happen if Microsoft fans are just as big a set of douche bags!

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Marvel: Ultimate Alliance Has Appeared On The Xbox Store

Activision and Raven Software's 2006 action role-playing game, Marvel: Ultimate Alliance, has found its way to the Xbox Store.

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LG_Fox_Brazil11h ago

Used to love this one, but X-Men Legends 1 and 2 will always be my favorites, especially Rise of Apocalypse. Would pay some good money to play it today with online multiplayer, back then I had no way to get a modem

RavenWolfx2h ago

Yeah, I loved the Legends games so much.

ZeekQuattro10h ago

I remember buying them dirt cheap on the PS4 and then a few days later I read they were delisted. I was wondering why the bundle was price so low and got my answer when that happened.

Knightofelemia8h ago(Edited 8h ago)

Sad to say this is one game franchise next to the Xmen that needs a sequel. I use to play the hell out of Xmen Legends and Marvel Ultimate Alliance. Was great when my cousin had the OG Xbox play with four other people and then playing online. Great games glad to see it reappear even though I own the discs love the mechanics of this game.

Terry_B8h ago

It got a sequel..but for dumbass #reasons as a switch exclusive.

shinoff21838h ago

It looked so horrible to. They should've kept it similar to the first two.

Asplundh7h ago

Because Nintendo funded it, they did the same for Bayonetta.

Knightofelemia7h ago

I totally forgot about the Switch sequel.

jukins7h ago

Misleading. This page is whats available for people who owned the game prior to delisting.

Abnor_Mal7h ago

The first game was the best imo.

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Hades 2 Is Already Fixing The First Game's Biggest Problems

Ben Sledge from TheGamer Writes "I’m already impressed with Supergiant’s commitment to improving body diversity in the Hades 2 technical test."

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Nacho_Z11h ago

There's a reason they're called 'gods' and not 'regular people'. It's nice they've diversified even more but gods looking godly wasn't exactly a glaring issue with the first game.

Juancho5111h ago

Hey! Gods suffer from obesity and diabetes too!

Blastoise11h ago

This is the dumbest article I've read in a long time.

Michiel198910h ago

No one had an issue with that besides a very select group of people that try to push their own agenda.

Crows9010h ago

Exactly. Not even sure they're necessarily committing to body diversity either.

The designs look fine not stupid.

gerbintosh2h ago

Who haven't even played the game either

Inverno9h ago

The writer of the this article clearly doesn't know what a real god looks like and has never seen them /s

Tody_ZA9h ago

Thanks for bringing up a bunch of garbage thoughts that never crossed my mind when playing the first game because I was too busy playing the game to worry about the portrayal of the physical bodies of gods.

Foolish me, when I read the title I thought we were talking about game mechanics.

Piss off, honestly, with this asinine bottom of the barrel try-hard-to-be-relevant trash.

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Fallout 76 needs Ghoulification to make Appalachia more interesting

Players are taking to Reddit to let Bethesda know they want ghoulification added to Fallout 76 in a future update.

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