Microsoft confirms day one update must be downloaded for Xbox One
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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DopestDope_EvaPosted:
VisionaryMGMT Update 1.1: All DRM is back.
I would lol so badly.
lol, would be so funny if that happened...
generalhunterPosted:
I have to say i was torn, i currently have a 360 but was definitely looking at moving over to PS4 due to MS approach to the used game market. However... the PS4 games announced so far are very uninspiring, so despite the higher price it looks like i'll be sticking with Xbox afterall.
JJmodernPosted:
Zero_Point_Five Why are people bothered about the kinect always being on?? you can just make it face a wall or turn it off
Its just people and there egos who think there important because they sit and play video games all day think the government is interested in them even though there a nobody to society.Even though they do everything the government wants them to do by consume and pay there taxes and do every day life stuff
AlexPosted:
Snowfl4k3z they should've put the update in the xbox one already because it's not even sold yet so they include the update when people buy it.
it will be sitting in a factory for months before its sold :FP:
GregPosted:
Why are people bothered about the kinect always being on?? you can just make it face a wall or turn it off
slapshot101Posted:
Joe- I like the way that microsoft is updating to please users. They're taking a approach that will keep customers coming.
I am suprised with the response by the community that this has not come sooner.
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