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If your internet connection can't meet Xbox One's requirements, Microsoft advises you stick with Xbox 360. Both Microsoft Interactive Entertainment President Don Mattrick and Microsoft Game Studios VP Phil Spencer stressed the benefits of Xbox One's approach versus its potential drawbacks in separate interviews.
"It's something that when people experience it, it's easier than having people like me describe it," Mattrick said in a GameTrailers interview before the company's E3 press conference. "It really is powerful, and we did a lot of testing, and a lot of consumer research, and we think we made a really good choice."
"Fortunately, we have a product for people who can't get some form of connectivity, and it's called Xbox 360," Mattrick added. "If you have zero access to the internet, that is an offline device."
Phil Spencer used a cell phone analogy in an interview with Destructoid: if you live somewhere without good reception, you won't buy a cell phone. He also recommended Xbox 360 for players whose online connections aren't up to the task.
"The 360 ecosystem is a great ecosystem for somebody that's in a purely disconnected state for long periods of time," Spencer said. "We have built a natively connected device with Xbox One and we think the experiences are moving in that direction."
Whether consumers move on to Microsoft's vision of a connected future or prefer Sony's more flexible online approach remains to be seen.
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Topics:Don Mattrick, E3, E3 2013, Microsoft , Phil Spencer
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MD-Stranger - 4 hours, 34 minutes ago
Ahhh Microsoft, everyday you find a way to offend gamers everywhere. Reply Report 
GamesradarsCamelToe - 6 hours, 7 minutes ago
--so the truth we had been sniffing out-- has basically been confirmed--XBOX DOES NOT PUT THE GAMER FIRST ANYMORE--lets just hope PS doesnt take M$'s payoffs anymore--holding developer specs back to keep xbox1 current --wheres the PC market at again?(can they save us?)--of thats right M$ put them outta business just like they did nintendo--and unfortunately PS is M$'s bitch(no matter how much they claim ANYTHING) Reply Report 
GOD - 7 hours, 50 minutes ago
Microsoft must have done all their research and focus groups with online surveys....Just wait until the first instance of a hack on the system (with big brother kinect you know someone will try) and then Microsoft will be forced to shut down the servers like all companies do to assess the situation while the hackers are cut off. Meanwhile every single Xbox One in the world will turn into a doorstop once it's been 24 hours since their last check in and indefinitely until the servers are back up. At least during the PSN outage the actual system still worked.They also neglect to acknowledge that even some people who have internet can't necessarily get their console hooked up to it. Plenty of people really on wifi these days, and a lot of the younger demographics don't always have good enough signal to reach their console from the room their allowed to have it in.And which console are parents more likely to get for their kids? One of the one's that works the moment you plug it in, or the one that requires you have it connected to the internet and have it's ever watching camera plugged in and turned on? Reply Report 
Balaska - 4 hours, 45 minutes ago
Also the one that is cheapest... Reply Report 
Smash_Bro - 8 hours, 9 minutes ago
In Microsoft's defense...they have a point here. I mean, what amount of the legitimate gaming crowd DOESN'T have access to internet at least once a day? Even the more casual gamers would most likely have internet connections of some sort.It's still a ridiculous requirement for the console's basic functionality, and the PR is being handled atrociously. But I'm sure that it won't be (much of) an actual issue by the time people have their XBones. Reply Report 
ParagonT - 3 hours, 35 minutes ago
Funny that you say that, my ISP has been down for the last 23 hours. Frankly, it happens more often than not. Because I'm locked into this one ISP because they are the only providers in this county. Reply Report 
Eightboll812 - 8 hours, 30 minutes ago
I just wonder that if they see the 360 as an offline console moving forward and Xbone is the online one, how long will the servers for 360 XBL stay on? Reply Report 
Uncompetative - 12 hours, 26 minutes ago
The 360 is great. I've got 155 games for it and even the one with a Metacritic score of 28% (Rogue Warrior) was ludicrously so-bad-its-good fun, bought from Amazon for peanuts. However, I have pre-ordered a PS4.I don't want ONE. Reply Report 
winner2 - 13 hours, 8 minutes ago
I love the human instinct of self preservation and personal prosperity. If I were him, I wouldn't give a fuck what any of the angry people think at this point because I'd probably have plenty of money to retire and live comfortably if things got bad enough for me to step down or quietly disappear. Reply Report 
codystovall - 14 hours, 35 minutes ago
It will be very interesting how xbox one sells, followed by the complaints and returns by people who cant use it. Reply Report 
The Mad Prophet - 14 hours, 34 minutes ago
I imagine that's why they're telling people that cannot use it not to bother buying it. Reply Report 
brickman409 - 18 hours, 28 minutes ago
wow, they're basically telling people not to buy their new system... well at least they're honest! Reply Report 
JAZ9030 - 18 hours, 28 minutes ago
Microsoft has become so obsessed with finding ways to make money, that they lost sight at where the moneys at. "I'm sorry Microsoft the money right here is walking off to buy a PS4 most likely." Reply Report 
rainn'sgaydar - 18 hours, 41 minutes ago
By that logic, our solution for when your servers fail at launch will be to find money somewhere else. A simple solution for your simple solution. Reply Report Jonnypan - 17 hours, 52 minutes ago
I think their servers will be perfectly able to handle the paltry number of Xbox Ones that will be sold due to all of this hubub Reply Report rainn'sgaydar - 14 hours, 18 minutes ago
Haha you have a point, but my guess is they'll only turn on leas than enough servers to cover what the preorders say to cover thinking not everyone will play at once. They'll find a way for it to be disastrous. Reply Report MaskedPheasant - 19 hours, 9 minutes ago
It doesn't matter whether you have internet or not nor how fast it is. As Diablo 3 and SimCity show it is the servers that are the real issue. Granted this is bypassed by the 24 hour check-in system but there are still 2 major concerns:1) If Xbone sells decently (which it will due to uninformed consumers & fanboys) Microsoft will think that if gamers accept 24 hour check-ins, they will accept always-on DRM for the next generation.2) They are trying to justify it by integrating cloud computing within games (a la Forza 5 AI). These will require always-on internet and will therefore be broken games due to inadequate servers or the quality of experience will massively drop as your internet connection does: why develop a serviceable AI at the cost of development time when it will be mostly unused?The Xbone is a poor product which has had a poor strategy poorly executed. If seen to be a success - or merely not a failure - the industry as a whole will follow its path of draconian policies. It is in the interest of gamers that this system fails and fails badly, thus scaring other companies from similar policies, resulting in a quick replacement and maybe even giving Nintendo a foothold in the market. Reply Report The Mad Prophet - 14 hours, 16 minutes ago
You've painted quite the slippery slope, for someone that has neither seen, much less used, the console. First, you make the biased statement that it will be bought only by 'uninformed consumers & fanboys', implying that your opinion is the only one that counts and you can't possibly be wrong. Hopefully you can see the flaw in this logic.Second, who cares if it is "always on"? That's where the world is heading, and not by force either. People WANT to stay connected across devices as a matter of convenience. By the time the NEXT generation rolls around, the number of 'offline' customers will be even more marginal than they are today. You can't expect companies to only cater to the minority when it inconveniences everyone else.Finally, you seem to think that 'giving Nintendo a foothold in the market' is the solution to the sins of consoles staying connected. Nintendo, a company that has been beating the Mario and Zelda horses for 20+ years, whose 'next gen' system is barely on par with last gen. This is your solution? Are you still on dial-up, too?I propose a different solution: try keeping your paranoia in check and form an objective opinion only after all the facts are available. Reply Report \ABS\Auto Blog Samurai\data\PC Game Cheats\gamesradar\)
sxh967 - 1 hour, 19 minutes ago
One of the biggest reasons to buy a PS4 over an Xbox One for me is the non-mandatory nature of motion controls on the Playstation platform. ---------------------(1) According to Microsoft's own figures, they sold about 24 million Kinects as of February 2013. You'll also know that Microsoft has so far sold about 78 million Xbox 360s. That means that in simple terms, less than one third of Xbox 360 owners even have a Kinect. Even then, we can't guarantee that everybody who bought the Kinect actually uses it very much. Despite these figures that Microsoft published themselves, they are pushing ahead with making Kinect a mandatory purchase (by making it bundled with the system). In the case of Sony, they announced in November 2012 that they had sold 70 million PS3s and 15 million PS Moves. This is clearly far worse than a third of PS3 owners but at least Fergal Gara of Sony UK said in March 2012 that PS Move had not quite lived up to its expectations. We didn't hear anything like that from Microsoft with Kinect. In light of that, the PS4 will be sold without the Move or Eye, but people who already bought into the Move will be at advantage as they can use it with the PS4. They will have to buy the Eye if they want it but it apparently costs £54 so it doesn't exactly break the bank. The key thing here is that Sony is giving the consumer the choice to decide whether they want to buy PS Eye and PS Move. The Dual Shock 4 has a lightbar that can be tracked by the PS Eye but that's just there in case you want to buy the PS Eye and it's never actually forced upon you. I'm sure there will be bundles where you can get the PS4, Eye and Move for a discounted price because there will be people who want it, but the fact of the matter is they are not forcing it upon people and people will like that. ---------------------While Microsoft is spouting all of this spiel about "Oh if all the owners have Kinect then developers can make better use of it knowing that it won't go to waste" etc, the way I see is that they recognise that the majority of consumers would NOT buy into Kinect if it were an optional add-on. Even before any of the used-game and always-online stuff, the fact they were forcing Kinect upon us turned me off completely. Maybe people who reply to me will say "Well I liked the Kinect.. I see the value in". That's fine if YOU like it. Two thirds of Xbox 360 owners will disagree with you and YOU will be in the minority. Microsoft is not forcing Kinect on us because 1/3 of their installed base bought it, they are forcing it on us because they WANTED to force it on us. Reply Report 
antiAntag0nist - 19 hours, 11 minutes ago
...Really? This is not doing MS any favors. Reply Report Showing 1-20 of 75 comments
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