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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RemeAmazePosted:

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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.


Actually in appropriate cases, you would either have family to go to OR places would cover your expenses in a horrific event, but that's besides the point, I'm glad MS has done this, it shows they listen!


Hahaha complete banter, are you genuinely using a hurricane as a point in this argument.

ExoticWolfsPosted:

Console-Support im glad they changed there mind, I was thinking of getting the ps4 becuase off it know im not i think ill stick with the xbox :)


Well, it wasn't a big problem for me or any of us before. I will agree it is a lot better though. :)

YurPosted:

Fine with this.

WoobiePosted:

Totally fine with this, they gotta do what they gotta do..

BondsPosted:

Seems fair they don't want you to miss the first day exclusives

BashfulPosted:

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liamcole123 I'm annoyed that they changed it, the DRM affected a small minority of people, even if you lose your connection, GO OUTSIDE FOR A BIT! In the long run the DRM they originally planned would have been better in the long run! We have now lost out on great opportunities because of people that did not understand the DRM in the first place. It would have revolutionised gaming and now it's gone!


my internet goes out constently sometimes for weeks at a time but I would have rather had to use my phones wifi tether 1 time a day and had those extra benefits when I did have internet and im sure other people could have done the same


Are you stupid, or just ignorant? This doesnt change ANYTHING except now you dont HAVE tohave internet. YOU are the stupid people, sir.


You are an idiot. It changes a lot.
-Digital games can't be resold.
-Can't install games fully to HDD and play without disc.
-Can't lend games over Xbox Live.
-Can't play games from cloud without disc.

PlusnetPosted:

calebeastwood2
liamcole123 I'm annoyed that they changed it, the DRM affected a small minority of people, even if you lose your connection, GO OUTSIDE FOR A BIT! In the long run the DRM they originally planned would have been better in the long run! We have now lost out on great opportunities because of people that did not understand the DRM in the first place. It would have revolutionised gaming and now it's gone!


my internet goes out constently sometimes for weeks at a time but I would have rather had to use my phones wifi tether 1 time a day and had those extra benefits when I did have internet and im sure other people could have done the same


They changed it.

Jono_EvzPosted:

The whole DRM situation didn't actually bother me in the slightest.. I don't lend games to my friends because I like to actually play the games online together/ vise versa. So we both need the game.. and I don't feel the need to lend a game from someone before I buy it. I just look it up online read a couple of reviews and base it off of that.
Anyway DRM in the long run would of been great, due to the fact it was supposed to bring us dirt cheap games for digital download was fantastic but for now that's a fairy tail waiting to happen.

SeanR917Posted:

im glad they changed there mind, I was thinking of getting the ps4 becuase off it know im not i think ill stick with the xbox :)

W0WPosted:

calebeastwood2
liamcole123 I'm annoyed that they changed it, the DRM affected a small minority of people, even if you lose your connection, GO OUTSIDE FOR A BIT! In the long run the DRM they originally planned would have been better in the long run! We have now lost out on great opportunities because of people that did not understand the DRM in the first place. It would have revolutionised gaming and now it's gone!


my internet goes out constently sometimes for weeks at a time but I would have rather had to use my phones wifi tether 1 time a day and had those extra benefits when I did have internet and im sure other people could have done the same


Are you stupid, or just ignorant? This doesnt change ANYTHING except now you dont HAVE tohave internet. YOU are the stupid people, sir.


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