Xbox 720 to require Internet connection?

Heh. And you guys called XBox One XBox 720.

This simply means my next gaming console will NOT be an Xbox. Thankfully, we have other choices.

Not happy enough with screwing over their fanbase with the Red Ring of Death for the 360......they want to further anger their customers by making it so they can only play with a constant solid internet connection at ALL times.

Well.....thats one clear way to make the Playstation 4 the definate choice for the next gen.

Everybody......give yourselves to SONY. They love you......they always have.

Just because GameStop screws people, doesn't meant you should screw your customers.

bull shit xbox

this better all be rumors.... because that's a fucking joke... Constant connection? no used games? why the hell do they think they can just try to control everything like that? what about their users who don't have much money? they rely on used games... and they can't always have internet.. I thought sony was going retarded.. now i see it is microsoft.. On top of all that shit.. they will probably raise the price of games another $10 just to rip us off even more... $60 for video games as is, is fucking retarded... now we will probably have to pay $70, not be able to buy used games, HAVE to have a constant internet connection, pay for membership, and probably a dozen other things just to play Xbox... and it wouldn't surprise me if membership was required... if they seriously do this shit.. fucking video games better drop down to a max of $30 goddamn dollars.. or they can go **** theirselves..

microsoft are maybe greedy but they are not stupid

they know that Diablo 3 always online DRM was a complete failure on every level

they won't do it, mark my words

i wonder who on earth buys this -- i hope only 1 person buys it, because it would put an end to gaming as we know it if it catches with ridiculous drm -- ps4 and 720 - well defentally not take from wii us thunder if they put drm in

I wonder what cheat they'll pull with the name, it's really the XBROKE 3 finally but they'll call it 4 anyway, I bet on XBROKE 4PLAY, or XBROKE4CAST.

*falls over laughing* oh my GOD. what next. armed soldiers to put a gun to your head while you play?

the PS4 and new Xbox are going to go absolutely bat**** with the drm. You'll be paying full price to rent the game for a few days.

the only reason i'd buy one is to turn around and ebay it. probably not even allowed to do THAT. system is locked to the person who buys it

Keep chasing those clicks, Eddie.

No good fucking hack.

I also heard a rumor from a very reliable source that Sony and Microsoft might be coming together to make 98k televisions and 7D display headsets that will ship with the new tablet controllers.

What a joke!

And I thought Diablo III's DRM was bad.

Microsoft STAHP!

I'm probably going to buy an Ouya

Meh. **** this DRM, and **** everyone who is willing to bend over and take it.

Well it will certainly give Microsoft the ability to WATCH its customers more closely, won't it? Remember: This is the company that, having acquired Skype, promptly gave the US government the technical information it needs to be able to decrypt any Skype call.

Requiring an internet connection will hurt sales. There are times when internet connections go down and people just want to play a game. There are times that I play offline just so I am not bothered. The majority of Americans do not have broadband.

It's like M$ is wanting me to switch to PC gaming full time. If the "required internet connection" is true then I'm saying goodbye to console gaming. I live in the outskirts of town where there is only 1 available ISP (Hughes Net) and they purposefully put a .7 second delay on uploads making multiplayer impossible. I can't even connect to Xbox Live. I have to take my console to a gaming lounge to update. And most of this country's rural internet works this way. It's downright embarrassing that most other first world country's have a better internet infrastructure. Until this is solved you can count myself and millions of others out of the Next Gen phase.

everytime new things from the xbox 720 are exposed why do they focus on the worst things as online? tehy should be focusing on a better Games line up ps 1 didnt have the graphics of the wrld but sure it still entertain me and thats sad in some ways ah Ada wong wise hot lady : All style no substance ---__--

I hope the console will also support digital purchase of games... here games cost as twice as in rest of the world... that's why I love steam. but than again, downloading 50 GB game to x720 is kinda ridiculous as well... it will also require for the console to have a massive HDD...

I'm curious to see how will they tackle this problem.

Can you guys shut up until we actually get official information. Same old bs you keep pedaling. STFU until there is real news not the same old tired BS rumors from different sources. I bet I could post something and you would repost it. Wait till the Sony event to mention anything else. Goodness.

I guess MS release this bad news just before PS4 reveal, knowing that PS will also have those features. There for, Sony will be the first to deal with the angry gamers and spoiling the PS4 launch. Good move MS. ;-)

What fun it will be to watch console fanboys swallow their pride (and their wallets) and buy these next-gen consoles regardless of blocking used games and constant internet connections.

I call BS. The edge is a little known website that drives virtually no traffic except by relinking yet it has sources that know almost every detail of both consoles and those sources also conveniently failed to mention that Sony just filed a patent to place RFID chips on its discs to eliminate the second hand market and the story paints Playstation as the console to get and Microsoft as the big bad wolf? This story stinks!

I'll never support Microbribe monopoly. Regarding used games, they should put the resellers out of business because it's destroying the market. The developers get NONE of the revenues generated off used sales, ONLY THE STORES that sell used games make that extra money off of doing nothing in the creation of the games, but the reselling of them=pure profit. I don't blame Sony or any developers for wanting to put stores that sell used games out of business.

I'm sure microsoft know better than to forcefully interfere with secondhand sales of consoles and games. They're not foolish enough to hurt their own sales.

A lot of retailers offer deals on secondhand trade-ins now. It used to just be limited to videogame stores, but now we see Virgin Megastores, HMV, and similar entertainment retailers participating. It would be wiser to find a way to skim a cut off those secondhand profits than to anger those retailers by removing them from the equation.