Or they'll just buy a PS4. That's a huge FU to fans of the previous console. "It's not our fault you can't get online, sorry maybe the Xbox One is too much for you, maybe you'd do better with something more simple like an Xbox 360."

I don't know about him but Comcast and cable internet is still rather flaky around my parts and I'm just outside of Chicago (IL not WI), and it can be down for a day or two in extreme cases. Or you go over your data cap and can't play anything until you log on to your desktop and re-verify your account.

The Hell? I thought that you were suppose to ENCOURAGE people to buy the One, not push 'em away!

XBOX ONE: EPIC FAIL!

Nintendo Wii U?  Looks better more and more, doesn't it?

PS4:  The clear generation winner and they didn't even have to enter the stores.

Seriously; The idiots in charge of removing the "Start" button and making that Metro design must be the same brain trust that assumes everyone has quick allways-on internet and doesn't sell/trade/lend games.  Where do these jokers come from?

So why did they fire the "#dealwithit" guy? Everything he said that people said was sarcasm or jokes was 100% accurate. I tried to tell people he wasn't joking and I was told he was, oh well.

Also, their grand plan for people without internet is to get a 360? So since someone doesn't have internet that makes them some kind of second class citizen that has to use a console around 8 years old? A console that also won't have many more quality releases?

You're making Halo 5 right? What if they want Halo 5 but don't have an internet connection? Is it going to be on the 360? No. So #dealwithit?

Go to hell Microsoft.

so if he says to buy a 360 why make a new system?

I really don't mind 24/7 checks on paper but what if I lost my internet router due to problem or I would have to cut the internet due to not enough money. Games matter but MS thinks everyone always will have access to the web. Did they learn anything with past companies quickly backing away from DRM.

Used games is not a major issue one way they could of solved this if you sell your game you must go online and deactivate the CD key that it came with said product. Used games must have a working CD key to be accepted. It would require internet access only when you purchase the game or sell it. Simple easy stupid.

This will make Xbox One case of being inviting to consumers much harder to justify and comments made by people who probably shouldn't comment doesn't help. MS should not be punishing those with not secure internet connection not being able to access they paid hard earned cash on.

So in the end. Same specs, $100 cheaper, both have great games, and both will charge for there servers PS4 is a easy choice. I get 1 1/2 games with it then. Halo will have to snooze for a couple years till the console and game price comes down.

Wow, Microsoft is really screwing up. I am a huge Microsoft fanboy, but in the past 24 hours I have gone from "Day one" to "I really don't know when I am getting one. My current plan is to get a PS4 (Since I currently don't have the PS3) and keep my 360. I really don't know if or when I will get the Xbox One. This is coming from a "realistic" Fanboy.

How in the heck do guys like this make it to a position without knowing jack about the gaming community and how it thinks? SERIOUSLY! In the XBone'(d)s press release all they talked about was how people could do TV with it and what it does with TV..... This guy is talking about a system all about games? THEN he tells people who cant get access to CABLE (50 - 100 bucks a month) internet to just stick with yester years xbox 360? WOW MS.... wow... i know a great place in the desert if your looking to hide a body. No one will ever know .....

"Gamers are smart"

Smart enough to know bs when they see it,

and that was 8 full minutes of typical corporate bs.

Cant compete with the value of a PS4 and PS+.

They also care about what us gamers want.

Dear Microsoft. Here's a question no one seems to be asking. What happens if the system goes down on YOUR end? If all of my very expensive games that you keep trying to tell me I don't actually own are going to be stored on the cloud, what happens when Live has an inevitable technical issue and goes dark? What happens ten to fifteen years down the road when you release the Xbox Two720hutthutthike and drop online support for the One, like you did with the Original Xbox and are planning to do with the 360? On the Original and 360, not having Live service was no problem because, y'know, people actually OWNED the games they bought for them and could still play them offline. But what's going to happen to the hundreds and hundreds of dollars of games that you say I don't own when I have to check in to an online service that you are no longer providing? Did you think that far ahead? Or rather, did you think your CUSTOMERS wouldn't think that far ahead and realize that you could pull the wonderful "investment" that is the Xbox One out from under our feet whenever you feel like it? I guess you haven't. I mean after all, we are just gamers, and your attitude to us since the One announcement has shown beyond a shadow of a doubt what you think of gamers and the gaming community. Hopefully your sales come launch time will reflect exactly what the gaming community feels about you and your business policy.

Simply put, we don't give a rats behind about our costumers, we just want your money.

I already have a 360. I'll buy a PS4 instead.

I'm curious to know how these changes are for us, the gamers? 'Cause from where I'm standing, the benefits go mostly in the direction of the people who receive the extra money we have to pay to them... Anybody?

This guy knows what he's saying..  It makes perfect sense even though I'm getting both...   More people are online then not..  Xbox one is going to rock

On the one hand, Mattrick's answer is good news: it means Microsoft will be supporting the Xbox 360 for years to come. On the other hand, it's a huge fumble. The only people who are worried about the XBone are the people who are aching to buy next-gen consoles. And to them, Microsoft says: deal with it.

EA has just handed the baton of the Most Hated Company in America to Microsoft this week.  And you know the funny part?  They are the biggest supporter of MS.  And probably the ones who drove MS to include these ridiculous restrictions.

LOL!  What a bunch of tools...

Guess who's losing his job after E3!

to be honest, im gonna get both systems, though i will be getting the ps4 first and it will be my main console for this generation. ill have the X1 for exclusives and such.

For those who are serious about the mistake that the Microsoft gaming company is bout to make, go to http://www.xboxshun.com/ and a petition to boycott until restrictions are changed.  Divided We Fall, United We Stand!!!

Xbox is done for due to greedy execs and businessmen. He said that it was built by gamers for gamers and it WASN'T. It was built by greedy execs and for mainstream media companies and Television consumers. And the corporate check-in every 24 hours or you don't get to play is a vile, horrible thing to do. Starts to make me think of the PRISM leak.

ITS HABBENINGNG BEAOPEL