Xbox 720 requires Internet connection to load games?

It shell be amusing when uninformed people buy a 720 and can't figure out way they can't use it. the amount of confused costermers that will flood there call centers will be mind blowing. 

No one, not video game journos nor fans, should listen to ANY rumours about the NextBox - especially after all the rumours we heard about the PS4 (including those that came from supposed testers) that turned out to be utterly false.

Just wait for Microsoft's unveiling event - until then people are just guessing.

Every time we as consumers get screwed over by a big company deciding they can essentially do whatever they want and people will buy their product, we lose consumer power. If this rumour turns out to be true, you can believe I will be making sure they don't see any of my money. As a community gamers need to start fighting back against these sanctions the companies are putting on their products. If they put AODRM on their product and you buy it, you're telling them that it's fine for them to have AODRM on.

Funny how people iz freaking out, even though none of this was confirmed, and I would like to think that Microsoft wouldn't be so stupid as to go to an essential internet connection all the time just to use their device, PS4 would take over in an instant and microsoft would lose a lot of money, considering that there are also people without an internet connection, at least not a permanent one, so no, I think this rumor deserves a seal of BULLSHIT.

lets just hope to god, that at e3. they change this whole, "always online idea" and that this doesn't come true.  because if this does, the sells for the xbox 720 and PS4 will look much like the sells for the Xbox and the PS2. 

If true, the money paid on games in hindsight would practically be paying for a rental access service for a console that would never become a classic like an offline Dreamcast. God forbid but imagine how dlc could be forcefully sold to allow your games to load without the game shutting down? Hideous.

they can't see a problem with always on DRM?  That's what it is, no matter what they choose to dress it up as. 

Metaphorically,  it's a form of tyranny in chaining up gamer's, depriving us of the physical sense of ownership of games we buy.

Wifi loses connection sometimes so if anyone owning next xbox dont want their game to be
 interrupted must have to connect via ethernet cable...

It's pretty disgusting how they're actually taking the attitude of defending this & almost forcing it upon people. Like they're ignorantly praising it in the face of millions of people telling them it's a bad idea.

April Fool's Day was on Monday, fellas.

i would threaten to 'mod' my 720 to prevent this, but do I REALLY want to void my warranty with an MS product?

No thanks. PS4 all the more!

Wait guys I know how to fix this. BUY a PS4

If this true, Microsoft is digging their grave deeper and deeper.

How is this NOT going to win GOTY 2013?

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B009SPZ11Q/?tag=b0009-20

Game over. No pun intended.

In a way it makes sense, xbox live always requires a internet connection, but this are just rumors, I don't think it would be a good idea in terms of business, I will wait for a official announcement, why do I keep coming to this type of articles??? Most of them are so unreal, PS4 proved that most of the rumors about it were not true, and I think it will be similar with xbox

I'll "Deal with it" by buying a PS4 instead.

You just saved me about 500 dollars.

Wont buy - thanks!

How funny it is that their aim is to tackle piracy in order to win more money, yet they forget that this will result in a huge drop of customers, which will itself lead to the same problem they tried to get away from...Pathetic,

It's a neat idea, but I can't see it being implemented. Broadband speeds would have to be top level constant and then there's the rural areas that don't have or have limited coverage. Then the providers themselves would have to restructure plans to allow for the constant data usage. Just too much work

If it's going to happen it'll happen in 2 generations time in my opinion.

That's cool. I'll just mod my console and say fuck you to your "always on" internet connection.

Hey Eddie Makuch, get on the phone to all whom you know at MS and tell them to check out this forum thread. Tell them to do it before they find themselves out of a job because the company isn't going to have the income for the Next-gen if they take the rumored route!

Thanks.

If this is indeed true, the sad part is that some of the console buyers will not be aware that this console requires internet connection (e.g. parents buying the console as gift to their children).

this cant be solid.  they know this would cost them alot of customers. plus they know everyone has a stable internet connection.

Ok, why the hell would I want this then? I play a lot of campaigns and other offline arcade titles and not just multiplayer. Why would I have to be online to play a campaign portion of the game? And I have never used a Kinect in my gaming. Why would I want to use that either? Microsoft isn't doing squat to quiet these rumors which makes them seem all the more true.

I so hope this isn't true... 

I hope this is only to gain attention of the people and not really something they are going to implement, otherwise they are limiting the amount of people who will buy this console. Not everyone has access to fast, unlimited internet.

And if this is an attempt to stop piracy. Piracy is only a matter of time.