Microsoft: Next Xbox will work even when your Internet doesnt
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Sapphire Dreams
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Take that Orth !
It's great to have come up with distinctions yourself but why hasn't Microsoft come clean already. They have released so much info about the unit already why not this? Could they actually be less capable of communicating their intentions than you are?
nhlducks35
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Neko Mimi Mode
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Ars Technica are Microsoft fanboys. Seriously.
In case you didn't get the hint though, one of the reasons why this email would be sent and that many working on Durango would not know of it's policies are because they were changed, possibly in light of Sweet Billy-gate.
la flama blanca
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Too bad we don't have a SDF here.
Risk Breaker
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According to an internal MS email, huh? Sounds almost as definite and official as the thread title, yep.
Baconsammy
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His comment means absolutely nothing. If there weren't unfounded rumors, there would be no need for an internal memo. The memo in absolutely no way confirms that a change in policy has occurred.
And now Kotaku and Edge can claim, "Hey our reporting was accurate. They must have changed things. Aren't we great?!"
I guess it's a good thing people complained so loudly when they did.
MightyHedgehog
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No one's praising them for that, specifically. People are just happy that there's a credible answer to a vicious-sounding rumor because things only really got bad once the 'three minute shutdown' scenario rumor hit. Now that things are reasonable again, people are just relieved and now want to hear more instead of spending posts damning MS and the next system. People on one side of the fence fanned those flames pretty hard, so it got out of control and MS should have probably done something sooner to address it instead of refusing to comment. The Orth thing was like a gasoline can being thrown onto the fire, seemingly confirming it. Whether MS changed their minds on it in midstream or if it was never quite the case the way the speculation got out of hand, we may not know. On a sidenote, I'm totally excited to read about this if Dean Takahashi is covering it again. If MS did this in response, good on them for listening to reason. If they didn't, okay, fine.
They...have...not...officially...announced...anything..yet..so..there...is...nothing...to...refute
BRocknRolla
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I believe it's a reference to the idea that publishers will be able to decide whether or not their games will require an always-online connection. Sony said something similar that there won't be an always-online connection for the console, but publishers have discretion with their games if they want to require it. (It was some interview, but I don't recall where I read it.) I would be surprised if MS was doing anything different.
This reads as instructions. Note the email doesn't say that Durango DOES do those things. It says that users "expect" it to do those things and that it "should" do those things.
Why is Microsoft only sending these instructions to the Xbox dev team now? Aren't they revealing this thing in like 2 weeks?
Why is Microsoft only sending these instructions to the Xbox dev team now? Aren't they revealing this thing in like 2 weeks?
Deadly Cyclone
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Microsoft has not released anything about the Xbox (publicly)...
This rumor confirms "always online" was the original policy. Now the rumor is that they have changed their minds on it.
Uno Venova
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That could be right, and would explain why there was so many rumors about it leading up til now.
TheLegendary
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Companies reiterate policies if there is confusion or uncertainty all the time. Or perhaps they may want to reaffirm their team to make sure that everyone is on message if there was some horrible PR nightmare going on in case they deal with the public in the future. Of course if the actual intended audience was not the recipients of the email and the goal is to leak it to the public then you know why they sent it quite clearly. It's likely a combination of these factors in this case.
Hero_of_the_Day
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Yeah, thread title is a little misleading, but I think it's legit. As others have said, seems like something they leaked on purpose to stop the flames.
the price lol.
Baconsammy
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LOL what? They've literally released nothing other than an invitation to its unveiling. The docs from them that did leak mentioned absolutely nothing about forced-online. The only thing that was mentioned in the docs was that Kinect was mandatory for the device to function.
This is pretty much expected news. Of course it does these things in offline mode. People thinking the thing would do absolutely nothing when it's not hooked up to the internet was just crazy. Hearing on a podcast someone going "well, it has to be able to do something offline so you can set it up the first time," I was thinking "are you stupid? Do you think the fucking thing will just say '404' if there's no internet?"
Durango playing blurays in offline makes sense too. I mean, it's not like it's in MS' best interest to insure that that Miramax movie is legit.
Now what's going to be interesting is what MS does with the 'always online' mode they're supposedly including. There's some cool possibilities there.
Durango playing blurays in offline makes sense too. I mean, it's not like it's in MS' best interest to insure that that Miramax movie is legit.
Now what's going to be interesting is what MS does with the 'always online' mode they're supposedly including. There's some cool possibilities there.
Yes. That's how big projects are usually handled.
statham
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like what?
Kinect and Xbox Live.
Fine Ham Abounds
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This is good news, but I can't shake the small sense of foreboding I'm getting from possible interpretations of saying something will "just work." I think this whole business has made me paranoid
Hero_of_the_Day
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GANGSTERKILLER
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Now show me Project Gotham Racing 5 on May 21.
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la flama blanca
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DragonSworne
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If this email is real, then Durango is the confirmed codename of the project.
Has durango ever been confirmed? I thought it was still a rumored codename.
Has durango ever been confirmed? I thought it was still a rumored codename.
So ARS is colluding with Kotacku and Edge?
This was a memo to people working on Durango within Microsoft, no third parties. This was a controlled leak.
hydrophilic attack
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Good to hear.
Sounds like the opposition to it on the Internet worked.
Well done GAF!
Sounds like the opposition to it on the Internet worked.
Well done GAF!
Uno Venova
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Yeah they called in durango in the leaked XDK from VGleaks.
Punkster_NY
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you got to love these controlled leaks.
Feel free to link us to all this info on the unit Microsoft has released.
Not certainly.But it can be seen as internal clarification to re-introduce the next xbox vision and scope, since the always online rumor is widely reported.
The always on-line function is pretty software parts, you can't assume all other function group like mechanical, design, testing, sales department,etc, know how some specific function will go on.
xaosslug
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from the way the email reads, it looks like MS is nixing whatever shenanigans they were up to due to public outcry. Sounds good to meeee! FUCK forced 'always online' bullshit! :-D
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