Xbox One
Microsoft has had to deal with a lot of
feedback since its E3 conference just a week ago, where it showed off
its upcoming Xbox One console and announced more details on the way
its online services would work. For the most part, that feedback has
been negative, a fact that Sony has been keen on making fun of. At
the heart of the issue were some restrictions that the company
announced for the console, things that gamers of current generation
of games are not used to dealing with.
One of those restrictions includes the
fact that the Xbox One would have to constantly connect to the
Internet in order to validate your games, meaning that you would be
unable to play games, even offline ones, if your console could not
connect inside of 24 hours. Also, Microsoft was planning to basically
kill the used game market by adding more restrictions on how
purchased games could be handled. Basically, once a game is installed
on a console, it would be locked to it.
But now Microsoft posted a news update
saying that all of the negative feedback has been heard, and they are
changing their plans completely. Now, the Xbox One will work very
similarly to the current Xbox 360 with regards to games. Your console
will not have to connect to the Internet, instead allowing you to
play offline as long as the disk is inside the console. Also, used
games will now be permitted, along with gifts, lending, trading, and
everything else gamers can do with current console games. This type
of complete turn around is very rare for a company like Microsoft,
but it proves that sometimes even the greatest innovators have to
realize when their ideas are not what the customers want.
