Microsoft Says If You Don't Have Internet: Get Xbox 360, Not Xbox One

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It's not necessarily "without Internet" but anyone with dial-up, satellite during bad weather, or whose broadband ISP is having a multi-day outage.
 
People who don't have internet will never even hear the comments from this Microsoft guy, so it is really a non-issue.
I have great internet, never buy used games, and don't pirate games. So I have no issues with Microsoft's new design of the Xbox One, in fact I have already pre-ordered mine from Amazon.
 
Adam Orth, now in charge of Microsoft PR. Seriously, let's just pretend for a second that XBox isn't hardware inferior and $100 more for a camera no one asked for. Let's just live in a fantasy world where it's a good system. Microsoft has completely failed to drive that home, and are running themselves into the ground. People that make ridiculous sums of money were hired to put together an E3 presentation that increases the hype around this console, and they have managed to worsen it. Yes, this comment was in response to what people on nuclear subs should use. But it's not just about nuclear subs, it's about the large population of people in America who do not have a connection over 1.5 mbps. Xbox's primary audience is the US, a good number of people interested in CoD and shooters like it are military supporters. They are not just losing potential customers, they are spitting on their strongest bases.
 
Wow, even in rural U.S. which makes up a large portion of our vast country, you can't get internet. Too far for DSL, and cable won't invest the money to run cable to your property, and satellite internet is too slow for gaming and very expensive. All those people are getting PS4's.

Sorry microsoft, maybe you should listen to your customers before trying to weezle more money out of them. Like the craptactular windows 8 and now this.
 
What an absolute train wreck Microsoft has become under Ballmer. First they fight their customers on the Windows Start button and then finally relent only to bring it back as a simple trigger for Metro - almost like a back-handed slap in the face for loyal customers. Now a SECOND spokesperson tells people to 'deal with it' to the point of suggesting that they don't upgrade if they can't take the requirements (or meet them for that matter - yeah, screw you farmboys!!!) My only explanation is that Ballmer has offered a prize to the first employee who can bury Microsoft the quickest and everyone is lining up to throw Bill's company into the shredder at lightning speed. A World Class Corporation, once the admiration of the World, reduced to this pathetic, unprofessional pig-headed disaster of a tech company that even children know enough to mock openly in the street...How anyone on that Board sleeps at night with that buffoon in charge is quite beyond me. The Shareholders need to act - NOW!
 
Let me give you the real response, before it was translated into microsoft speak.

'Don't like the xbox one, buy the ps4, its cheaper, more powerful and doesnt have draconian DRM'

Of course now its about getting rid of the disk. They have to have draconian DRM because they want to move the industry away from discs!

Tho which i respond. They could easily have the exact same system they have now, and make a few minor changes and people would consider it just fine. All they have to do is remove the 24 hour check in. Once a game is authorized its authorized forever. But then you ask, how do you handle people selling games. Easily, to sell a game you log in and deauthorize your copy. From that point on it can be reauthorized by anyone. So you log in, deauth, and sell your game, and that's the end of it. This should be free. It costs next to nothing to authorize or deauthorize a game, which is easily covered by the $60 game price in the first place.

And if one says, well why should they run a system to authorize and deauthorize games just so you can sell them! If they are shelling out the cost for this, then they should get a cut of the profits! To which i respond, you dont need to authorize the games in the first place. As long as they want to keep a DRM auth system in place, thats their choice, they need to add on the deauth part for free. If they have already determined they need/want the authorize system in the first place, adding the rest will cost them next to nothing.

People probably wouldnt care if they only had to log in once to authorize a game, and then not be hassled by it again. But microsoft wants to get a cut of the used game market. Thats the bottom line, its not about whats good for the customer, its about more money.
 


You're right the people without internet won't be able to read this. But there are a lot of people who do have access to internet due to their mobile connection (Edge, 3G, 4G, LTE). The thing is they can't use the XBOX One because it's only a mobile connection.

The statement by Microsoft is an arrogant one at best. Too bad those people without broadband connections will be going to Sony for a Playstation 4. Who's going to pay $199-299 for just the XBOX 360 these days. Any 360's purchased will be used because that's how much they are now worth. Microsoft won't be getting the money for it.
 
If you can't afford quality internet then go with 360. Seems pretyy straight forward to me. Xbox one is not for the poor.
 
So basically the next 2-3 Halo games are going to have a 360 version and they will encourage developers to keep making games for the system throught out this current console generation?
 
Microsoft you just don't get it do you!? People buy a console expecting to be able to play off line and their games to work every time without exception! Don't go blaming this on the lame excuse of piracy it won't work. Don't go blaming your customers either you already tried that with Win8 and the Start menu/pinning apps to the task bar. Just admit it you f---ed up! You didn't just leave the door open for other consoles like the PS4 and Wii U (just to name a couple) to take away your market share, you ripped it right off the damn hinge! Unless you can change this and do some major PR damage control I see a rather bleak future for the Xbox One compared to the 360 in terms of sales. Great games from your developers will not make up for dumb ass moves on your part!
 
so they expect me to pay for the machine and pay for the games and pay for ISP ?

sorry MS , you should give me world wide Internet to ask me that.

I have an Xbox in my Van for the kids .. are you saying if I am travelling a long 20 hours trip , my kids wont be able to play Xbox ?

 
Yeah, right on Microsoft, you tell 'em. And anyway, its only poor people who don't have the internet so they cant afford an xboxone anyway... Tell 'em that too...
 
You guys are forgetting how dumb and sheeplike 95% of the population are.

Spend 30 minutes playing CoD or any other online shooter and listen to the retarded crap spewing out of everyone's mouth. I seriously doubt 95% of the xbox 360 owners are reading this. They are not going to put any thought into their purchase. They are going to go out and throw down their money for this piece of crap just because it has the MS logo on it, they can shoot n00bs online, comment on each others mothers skills in bed, and send pics of their genitals to any girl who speaks up in chat. I hope all their ISP's go down for a few days straight after they do.

The rest of us, the intelligent crowd, will vote with our dollar and buy a ps4.
 

Yeah, and his name is Steve Balmer. He has the anti-Midas touch - everything he touches turns to turds.
 


except, and this is a real possibility, publishers dont make games for the ps4.
the ps4 may be the runaway winner in every other aspect, but publishers hate the used market,
they screw people hard on the price of new games (i hear anything from 2$ per new game sold up to about 7$)
if they dont want used, they only make microsoft
do you really think most people are smart enough to not get a xbox one?
its sad, but right now im fearful that gaming for me is going to die because of microsoft.



have fun paying at least 60$ for every game, regardless of how old it is, microsoft has a policy to ever lower the price of games purchased online, and with no used market to speak of, they have no reason to ever lower the price.



no matter how many times i see that, it still makes me laugh.
 
That has to be one of the stupidest comments I've ever seen, at least from a PR standpoint. It appears that Microsoft has been taken over by imbeciles (and that's the politest term I can come up with). If they keep acting this dumb, I'm going to start feeling sorry for them.
 
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