New Xbox 720 Rumor Says It Requires Always-on Net Connection

[Shawn Zipay]

The latest rumor going around, this time by VG247 is that the next Xbox will require you to always be connected to the Internet in order to play a game in order to combat piracy. That doesn't seem too bad there.

Additional rumors talk about the hardware side of things, so let's take a look at what is being said.

- Will have a Blu-ray drive
- Dual GPU configuration
- GPUs are "equivalent to AMD's 7000 line of videocards
- Four to six cores for the Xbox 720 CPU: one for Kinect, one for the OS
- Always on connection required
- Next-gen Kinect built into the console
- No mention of the new console until next year from Microsoft

Again, these are all just rumors so be sure to take things with a grain of salt.

[Infernalis]

Re: New Xbox 720 Rumor Says It Requires Always-on Net Connection

I think you will need a connection to the net to register the game on your account, then you can play without connection. Otherwise they're shooting themselves in the foot.

[Anarchy1]

Re: New Xbox 720 Rumor Says It Requires Always-on Net Connection

How does requiring a connection combat piracy? I guess they didn't talk to Ubisoft?

[Stev0esque]

Re: New Xbox 720 Rumor Says It Requires Always-on Net Connection

I think I have stopped believing these rumours. They all seem to come out of the left field and seem too stupid even for microsoft and Sony.