Will more single player games require always online on Xbox One?

According to Microsoft they have to use the "POWAH of the cloud fart" in order for the console to keep up with PC.

Does this mean that single player games eventully will be always online games in order to function?

the xbox1 does not require an always online connectionmike4realz

According to Microsoft they have to use the "POWAH of the cloud fart" in order for the console to keep up with PC.

Does this mean that single player games eventully will be always online games in order to function?

BuldozerX

A game that requires online parts is not what i would call a single player game, its like with SimCity , its a sort of mmog with a option to solo.

But i think future games will do things to try and prevent piracy like this cloud thing, what better way to secure your game, then to have a lot of it on your secure servers. But they will also shoot themself in the foot because a lot of gamers out there dont have access to a constant and always on internet, not to mention the problem some of us have with caps on download.

[QUOTE="mike4realz"]the xbox1 does not require an always online connectionRattlesnake_8

I believe they will.  I think MS is going to push the cloud very hard, and use it as a segway into slowly encouraging and necessitating people to make sure they have an Internet connection.  Sure, many Xbone games WILL be capable of being played offline, but slowly but surely many won't.  It's brilliant marketing really: as long as MS can come out and claim that their system is capable of playing games independant of the Internet, people can't much complain when games are required to do so.

This is why I'm not getting a One (right away, at least).  I think that this sudden change by MS is temporary damage control.  It's a move to get systems into peoples' homes.  Once there, who's to say they won't slowly start to implement these polices in very subtle ways?  And it will work.  People will object to sudden, rash changes.  But not so much to slow ones.  Microsoft's approach was the problem, and they are going to try another.

Didn't they say it's now up to the publishers after the whole 180 thing?

I don't know, probably sometime in the future it many games may very well go down that path; we'll have to wait and see.

I think a lot of publishers are trying to push this kind of "connected" singleplayer experience. Games like Destiny, The Division, and others which will require a constant internet connection to play. So in a way they're singleplayer games, but they are also more MMO-like. 

No connection is needed.

No connection is needed.

sukraj

It wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if Microsoft said "Our mistake was hitting them with all this stuff at once - we'll introduce it a little at a time over the next couple of years."

Probably initially, because they were being told by Microsoft they would have a 100% captive audience of online players.