True - but connecting on my terms when I want content or to play MP games is very different than being required to check in daily or else my $500 device is useless.

I don't know about lying so much as if they were involved - voluntary or by court order - very few at MS (and the other companies), especially the PR dept, would even know. And since it is supposed to be a top secret program - they couldn't acknowledge it if they did know/participate.

I play mine offline when the cable goes out, or Live goes down, or I take it to the beach house ...

I'd argue that the uninformed buy is more likely influenced by the buzz. They'll see a few things about XboxOne is bad on twitter and facebook and not dig in at all. The power of one informed, but opinionated person to sway their circle of contacts is huge through social media.

How about -

How as consumers do "we overcome" these "challenges?"

You left out at least one option:

Having internet and having internet with the ability to be allowed to game on it and having enough speed to do so are very different things.

It doesn't take all 300,000 severs going down to bring down a network. Do you think when Live is down now that all the servers died? No, it can be anything from failed switches, hacks, software issues, construction cutting a line to a facility. There are host of things that bring down networks. Assuming the…

This. Other than when I've gotten new ones I don't think I have ever synched my 360 controllers. Maybe once or twice since launch at most. I think the author is doing it wrong.

Or it's their ace in the hole to counter any positive bounce MS gets at E3. Dropping a "we're DRM free" bomb in MS's laptop on the big stage would make whatever else MS did largely irrelevant unless they make a similar statement. It's the hot button issue right now along with always on. Best to use them to counter…

You have to look at it systematically. And th publisher get the money when you buy the game, not the developer directly.

I don't know about you, but I don't buy games to collect. I buy them to play, unfortunately time is limited so I stick to the fantastic games for the most part. When I do have more time I sometimes travel further down the line. Or put another way, I buy a game probably every 6 weeks or so. I would take the AAA…

Well I'd offer the rebuttal that there are a lot more game options now. There are plenty of games that offer solid gameplay that doesn't do anything new or innovative. There are also games that offer that + try to advance thins in some way, add a good story and some memorable characters. Given the abundance of game…

To be fair - the guy quoted in shack news say 'no self publishing' and the guy in this article says we will support indie devs. I think that is pretty much what MS thinks they do on the 360 - they 'support' development without allowing self publishing.

The rage is more that first and foremost I want a gaming system. The other stuff can be nice to have, but gaming is the primary driver for my purchase.

#1 - one week

You'll still need some form of 'old fashioned saves.' Things happen, like the power going out that I don't want to lose even say 10-12 hours of an action games single player story, let alone RPGs and other longer games. Also, sometimes I like multiple saves to try different stuff, undo crazy decisions, etc.

No but they are walking past it in the aisles because they think it is an add on for something collecting dust in their closet....

Sounds more like not evolve it - it seems they want it to work the same way it does not.