I don't care about the topic, I find the "Microsoft Had A Point" thing much more interesting to be honest, and to be completely honest they did*.
Sure their DRM was a bad idea, but the way they judged the market in terms of its direction, digital games and the way these systems work was spot on. Having a disc these days is a novel idea, but the reality is it's not the same as it used to be, it needs to be installed and most games need a massive downloaded update the day they release, plus pretty much every game needs post release updates. I have no doubt that there are several games in existence that won't even work without content being acquired from the Internet, that's basically the reality we're living in.
Traditional consoles are dead, those days are long gone, these things are bonified closed source PC's now. Both the Xbox One and the PlayStation 4 are essentially worthless hardware packages without the internet, that is the cold hard reality with these systems. Sure, you can use them offline, but you're going to get a pretty terrible experience, all I'm going to say is The Witcher 3 version 1.0 on PlayStation 4, have fun with that.
The 24 hour check-in was completely unnecessary, but as most of us are finding out now, it really wouldn't have mattered for the most part because an internet connection is an absolute necessity for these systems.
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