Sounds like 1984.

Good example, Donkey Kong Country and it's sequels were on the Nintendo Shop for Wii. Then suddenly, they were yanked and now new owners can't get the games, so it basically drives people to ROMs.

I don't care if other people care, you do. You're not listening, they didn't say it doesn't need to be always on, it's up to the game makers. So it CAN be always on.

I don't personally care from an ethics standpoint, companies stopped producing their games, so fuck 'em.

The fact that using emulators and ROMs is illegal baffles me, especially when the games are impossible to find and are no longer made. I've used emulators a lot and had no idea it was considered piracy, which it technically is but it's just weird.

It's not just going to be once a day, they kept changing it and even said "it depends on the game", a developer could make it an always on requirement if they want.

People think the controller looks good, but it looks awful to me, like a MadCatz clone of a controller. The giant Xbox bar thing at the top seems really out of place too.

I have Comcast, not DSL, and it's faster than that. Keep pretending it's an issue almost no one faces though.

Uh, no. They changed what they said a bunch of times, claiming the always on requirement is necessary every 24 hours even for single player only, then claiming "it depends" and basically being full of shit.

How does that Microsoft brand dildo feel in your ass?

Good for you, but in the U.S. there are tons of places with weak internet connections, or places that can't even get anything better than DSL.

Considering it can be hacked into fairly easily or co-opted by the government and these things happen all the time, you're a dunce.

Mandatory Kinect usage is also a little disturbing. The camera is listening out for you even when it's "off" (it's never really off), and while Microsoft has issued a statement saying it has "strong privacy protections" in place, people are still rightly concerned that a machine -connected to the internet and…

Yup, it'll be more often than that. Always Online DRM is a fucking disaster, I'm absolutely going PC only or PS4 after this news. People got really mad on here when I didn't want the new Xbox based on the mandatory Kinect, this is way worse!

"Depends on the experience" he even says it.

Yup. The internet morons who act like everyone has perfect internet connection is fucking infuriating, they always come out on stories like this.

PS4 it is, if I get a new console.

My connection dies off and on throughout the day, and Comcast insists nothing's wrong and won't come out to even check it.

My spotty Comcast connection means I won't get an Xbox One.

Always On = Will shut down if your connection goes down. It happens a lot for some people...so you're sounding kind of silly.