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Post Microsoft releases more details on XBOX 1.
Get a load of this, fellas.

Apparently, The Xbox One will let you play your ‘home console’ for 24 hours without an internet connection, then will require that you log on to continue playing. If you’re logged on to someone else’s console, you’ll have to check every hour. That’s even for single player games.

Microsoft says that this internet connection will allow developers to create ‘massive games in the cloud’, which was one of the big features touted at the launch event. This means that large sections of some games may require a cloud connection to operate as planned. The Xbox One will always be running in a ‘low power’ state in order to automatically download updates when you’re away.

Here’s what Microsoft says are the network requirements for the Xbox One:

A persistent connection is ‘not required’, but one is if you want to ‘verify if system, application or game updates are needed and to see if you have acquired new games, or resold, traded in, or given your game to a friend.’ 1.5MB internet connection is recommended.

Apparently, you can game offline for up to 24 hours on your primary console, or one hour if you are logged on to a separate console accessing your library. Offline gaming is not possible after these prescribed times until you re-establish a connection, but you can still watch live TV and enjoy Blu-ray and DVD movies.

On the games licensing front, Microsoft says you’ll be able to buy any game you want on day one on disc or in digital format. Disc-based games will get sold through all of the regular outlets, and the online games will be handled by Microsoft. Once you purchase a game, it will sit in Microsoft’s cloud for you to install at any time. Once you install it, it will be on your console, but if you want access to it at a friend’s house, you can log in, download and install it there, without any disc.

One of the big controversies surrounding the Xbox One has been how it will handle used games. This is another very tricky area, because, while Microsoft says that used games will be able to be sold, it also says that it’s up to the publisher to decide whether that’s possible. A publisher that sees no benefit from that used game sale.

“Today, some gamers choose to sell their old disc-based games back for cash and credit,” says the post. “We designed Xbox One so game publishers can enable you to trade in your games at participating retailers. Microsoft does not charge a platform fee to retailers, publishers, or consumers for enabling transfer of these games.”

There’s still one question here with regards to whether publishers will be able to get a slice of those used game sales. That’s carefully stepped around in this statement, as it says ‘can enable you’, and says that Microsoft itself doesn’t charge a fee. Either way, it seems doubtful that they’d agree to used game sales unless they got some benefit from it.

One of the spinoffs controversies that came out of the Xbox One launch was concerns around whether Kinect was going to invade your privacy. The sensor is required to turn the Xbox on, and it ‘listens’ for your voice to turn itself on.

“By design, you will determine how responsive and personalized your Xbox One is to you and your family during setup,” says Microsoft. “The system will navigate you through key privacy options, like automatic or manual sign in, privacy settings, and clear notifications about how data is used. When Xbox One is on and you’re simply having a conversation in your living room, your conversation is not being recorded or uploaded.”

Microsoft also says that you can turn your Kinect sensor completely off as well. When the system is off, it’s only listening for a single ‘Xbox On’ voice command, though common sense says that means it’s ‘listening’ to everything else as well. But you can disable that voice on feature completely, meaning that the Kinect can be powered down in an absolute fashion if you wish. If a game requires Kinect, you’ll have to turn it on.

Sauce is a shitton of articles from MS.

I don't know if they're TRYING to kill console gaming, or are just plain silly. Your thoughts?

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I just love how PS4 is completely owning xbox in every aspect.

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Microsoft got so pissed, apparently, that they're not going to release the xbax one in japan. It's apparently getting it the same time the north koreans do.

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