Adam Sessler and the voice of reason, XONE-PS4

Guys, E3 already happened. The time for wild speculation and guess work is mostly over. There's currently no reason to assume the $500 Xbone includes XBL Gold. MS wants people paying them a monthly sub fee more than just about anything else. And c'mon, that'd be a pretty huge detail to just leave out...

I mentioned authentication because you said you must have a high speed connection. But you don't. You can still play offline unhindered if you check in once a day on a really bad connection. I don't see what else could be stopping someone from playing.

The whole "For an optimal experience thing" is just marketing shit that they say so you can go view their ads and play online and get them more revenue. Every movie's optimal experience is the theater yet we all don't have one of those.

On the plus side I no longer have to keep an economist on retainer to convert all the prices from Microsoft funbux. Point: Microsoft(??)

Again, a high speed connection is a must for any nextgen gaming console please don't be silly.

My entire post was not to debate if I need to sign on or off each day but that it's an extra fee to the consumer. If you don't have internet period you cannot play any video game for the XboxOne longer than 24 hours nor can you borrow a game from a friend to play. If that doesn't seem foolish I don't know what is.

Chris Plante is a Microshill. Their entire site(Polygon) is funded with MS money. You could say that they're a bit biased.

Not only have i not seen anything that indicates the ONE will come with a year of xbox live(Have they ever done this?) I'm not entirely convinced they wont raise the price again soon.

Also, the PS4 has more powerful tech and is dedicating more of that more powerful tech to its games rather than to its TV functionality.

@high_nunez said:

Same.

I am grinning and chuckling at this post way more than I should. Especially in the middle of class.