Microsoft confirms day one update must be downloaded for Xbox One

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Microsoft revealed earlier today that it's bowing to pressure from some parts of the gaming community and changing its policies regarding used games and mandatory internet connectivity on the Xbox One. While these changes will appease some, they certainly won't please everyone, with some features being dropped as a result of the revised policies.

While the requirement for the console to check in online at least once every 24 hours has been dropped, Xbox One buyers will still need to connect the web the first time they use their console. IGN spoke with Microsoft's Marc Whitten earlier today, who confirmed that users will need to download and install a required update at first launch.

"There was always going to be a day one update on the console," said Whitten, "and that's frankly just a difference in manufacturing schedules versus software schedules. We just wanted to be clear that that hasn't changed, that you have to go online to get the software for day one, then you wouldn't have to be connected after that."

While Whitten didn't reveal details of just what the update might include, or how large it might be, he did say that any web connection will do. In response to an enquiry about whether users will be able to download their update through smartphone tethering, he replied: "Sure. Any way that you can get connectivity to the Live service would enable that to come down to the console."

He added that Microsoft considers that that won't be an issue for the majority of customers: "We believe that most people, frankly, are going to continue to take advantage of the connected state and all that comes with it."

Whitten also noted that Microsoft hasn't changed its stance on Kinect, and that the Xbox One will still require the sensor in order to play games. "We still believe Kinect is a really critical part of the architecture," he said. "We think it changes the way you can interact with your experiences... and we want game and interactive entertainment creators to be able to know they can take advantage of it, and we want it to be completely consistent for our users. So we still are very comitted to how Kinect transforms that experience."

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TylerPosted:

Okay so this doesn't change much except the fact that you always need the first update when you get your console. Just like a Dashboard update, I don't see the big problem here.

VoyboyPosted:

Lillard
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JJmodern
darkowl1991
allthat255
Hundreds DON'T DO IT MS DON'T CAVE IN
I don't see the big deal about the mandatory internet. It's 2013 christ. Who doesn't have internet? And the people that don't have internet wouldn't be able to afford a new console anyway.
I know for damn sure if there's ever a problem with my internet I don't play anyway.
you lonely fools that play single player offline go buy a ps4, nobody cares about you anyway.


Yea because everyone everywhere has internet huh? I live in New Orleans, where if a hurricane hits and power and internet goes down, we don't have internet for weeks after power is restored. With that crap, they would had been making a billion dollar mistake. Besides these days internet is a luxury, and not everyone with little income can afford it.


Well I pretty sure you would have to worry about more things than playing your xbox.


I LoL at these type of statements when people try and use an extreme instance on a simple object


Who cares? Im not that addicted to Xbox. Boohoo ****** dont play for a week.


You guys complain about the internet connectivity problems on the internet. I don't get how it affects you at all.

On that hurricane idea, you can evacuate with all your stuff before it hits, just like any other hurricane. If you were stupid enough to stay in a horrific hurricane, you deserve to lose your internet and other stuff.


If you left you would still lose internet unless you spend $20,000 on staying in a hotel for 4 weeks.

SuffolkPosted:

Undersatandable...

OrigamoPosted:

I don't really care about this. Pretty much anyone who buys this has an internet connection.

WokzePosted:

roekzors
wok
ThisIs50 Why not just sell them already updated!?!?!


I Think its because they only just changed it all, so they cant because they have already gave them to the retailers, if not, im really not sure why they cannot update them their selfs.


First of all. There is no way Microsoft already gave Xbox Ones to retailers, secondly I believe it said in the article, they have begun mass production with certain hardware specifications and can't go back.


Oh okay, was just guessing as they are already on sites, but yeah, annoying for some people, i dont mind as such though.

roekzorsPosted:

wok
ThisIs50 Why not just sell them already updated!?!?!


I Think its because they only just changed it all, so they cant because they have already gave them to the retailers, if not, im really not sure why they cannot update them their selfs.


First of all. There is no way Microsoft already gave Xbox Ones to retailers, secondly I believe it said in the article, they have begun mass production with certain hardware specifications and can't go back.

mattyjo123Posted:

BoomyNote21 If connecting to the internet ONE SINGLE TIME is such a problem, then buy a Playstation 4. If you truly have no internet access at all, then simply buy a PS4 and stop complaining about the Xbox One. If you're complaining about backwards compatibility, first off, PS4 doesn't have it either. Second off, if you really want to play 360 games, just play them on your 360... And if you're complaining about Kinect "always watching", then you're just paranoid, and my recommendation is to just make it face a wall or put something over the camera. Even though you CAN turn off the camera, it's just the microphone that listens for "Xbox On".


I think its silly why some people on this site is complaining about not being able to recieve an internet connection ONE TIME when they first get the Xbox One, if they can get onto TTG, then they must have some form of internet connection, if not they could even borrow a friends cell phone and use the tethering option, as stated in the article, i totally agree with you. dont like it get a PS4, people just complaining for the sake of complaining nowwadays...

BoomyNote21Posted:

If connecting to the internet ONE SINGLE TIME is such a problem, then buy a Playstation 4. If you truly have no internet access at all, then simply buy a PS4 and stop complaining about the Xbox One. If you're complaining about backwards compatibility, first off, PS4 doesn't have it either. Second off, if you really want to play 360 games, just play them on your 360... And if you're complaining about Kinect "always watching", then you're just paranoid, and my recommendation is to just make it face a wall or put something over the camera. Even though you CAN turn off the camera, it's just the microphone that listens for "Xbox On".

WokzePosted:

ThisIs50 Why not just sell them already updated!?!?!


I Think its because they only just changed it all, so they cant because they have already gave them to the retailers, if not, im really not sure why they cannot update them their selfs.

WokzePosted:

well that wont effect me, but will defiantly disappoint alot of people.


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