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The poor schmuck in rural Nebraska with 25kb service won't be able to play the Xbox One period- MS has already proposed a min speed of 1.5mbps. And if you are
by ensignavenger 13y ago
The poor schmuck in rural Nebraska with 25kb service won't be able to play the Xbox One period- MS has already proposed a min speed of 1.5mbps. And if you are in an area (like pretty much most of the US and the majority of the rest of the world) where your service goes down periodically for more than 24 hours, you will be locked out of playing any games while it is offline. Or if MS gets hacked like Sony and their network goes down for an extended period (at least PS3 owners could still play offline!). Or when MS decides to abandon the platform ad turn off the servers... no pulling out your old Xbox One to play some classic games (I still have an old Atari I like to play occasionally!). Or if you have to cancel your Internet for a few months to catch up on the bills or while moving you have to wait a few days to get you Internet turned on- there are so many points of failure in this fiasco. As a (former) Xbox fan and advocate, I won't be going anywhere near this one.
- rsync 13y agoYou have elegantly and succinctly described "defective by design".
- sigkill 13y ago>of 1.5mbps. Wow. There's this whole rest of the world that would kill to get that speeds. I'm confused as to why MS would try to alienate basically everyone not in NA, EU with that kind of a minimum requirement. People in Asia and Africa can pay up that kind of money for the console, but there aren't infrastructure to get you that kind of internet speeds in a budget.
- gtirloni 13y agoThere are PS1's being sold until today for people who can't afford the other version. My point is: I doubt XBOX360 will disappear. Got fast internet, crazy TV and can afford it? Get XBOX1. Your internet is really bad, XBOX360 just like always.
- dragontamer 13y agoAKA: Microsoft does not have a competitive next-gen product for those without good internet connections. Like Soldiers, 35% of America... and even then, the larger part of Europe won't have servers for the XBox One launch. So even if you do have a good connection in say... Poland or Japan... you can't play XBox One at all.
- Zakharov 13y agoAre you sure that min. speed isn't just for multiplayer? I don't see why the call-home would know or care how fast your internet is.
- jordanwallwork 13y agoYou can use a mobile connection to check in, so clearly speed isn't an issue, I'm pretty sure that the 1.5mb min is just for multiplayer gaming
- escapedminds 13y agoI don't know, my 4G/LTE phone gets vastly superior upload (though expected)/download speeds to my cable connection, far better than any wired internet package I can get.
- iopq 13y agoI remember how Blizzard servers would often lag or go down for maintenance and there would be no LAN option to play SC2 with friends. It sounds good in theory to some people (just be online all the time!), but it's placing blind trust into a third party. I did not buy the SC2 expansion. I literally went back to playing Brood War over LAN with coworkers. (I beat them 1v3)