Rumor: Xbox 720 always-online false, is backwards compatible

Reports of a totalitarian Xbox locked down by required internet connection and limited-to-no backwards compatibility have been greatly exaggerated, if an anonymous source who claims to be close to Durango's development is correct. The mini-manifest shoots down frenzied speculation of an always-on future:

"You are not required to be connected to the internet in order to play Durango games and [Microsoft] were NEVER considering doing such a thing," it states.