Next Xbox May Have Video Sharing, Publisher Controlled DRM & Tweaked Achievements

<p>The next Xbox news continues to roll in&comma; as <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;polygon&period;com&sol;2013&sol;4&sol;26&sol;4268782&sol;next-xbox-drm-achievements-live">Polygon<&sol;a> has reported on a few new features that the next Xbox will have&comma; such as video sharing&comma; the option to add Achievements without using DLC and publisher controlled copyright protection&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Similar to Sony&&num;8217&semi;s PlayStation 4&comma; the next Xbox will be able to record gameplay and upload it directly to your social media site of choice&period; Should you feel the need&comma; you can set it up so that it&&num;8217&semi;ll begin recording when specific things occur within the game you&&num;8217&semi;re playing&period; Want to show how you got a particular Achievement or the awesome final kill you got in-game&quest; Here you go&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Achievements on the next Xbox will also see an evolution of sorts&comma; as Polygon states that games can receive additional Achievements after being launched&comma; without developers needing to add DLC&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;This is designed specifically to allow developers to tweak player behavior&comma; perhaps urging players to check out specific areas of a game or get past a difficult spot&comma;&&num;8221&semi; says Polygon&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Achievements could also be tied to community events&comma; where all players of a certain game work towards one unique goal in a limited amount of time&period; Cross-System or Cross-Game Achievements were mentioned as well&period; In theory&comma; a developer&sol;publisher could add in special Achievements that unlock when you play two or more games made by them&period; In the case of Cross-Systems Achievements&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s still a idea that Microsoft is said to be toying with&comma; but would most likely be something akin to how the PS3 and PS Vita share Trophies or something that would require you to play a game on the next Xbox&comma; then use an app related to that game on a device like the iPhone or iPad&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It sounds like a feature that would make Achievements even more addictive&comma; should Microsoft get it to work properly&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The &&num;8216&semi;always online&&num;8217&semi; aspect of the system was detailed as well and confirms the news that the Xbox will&comma; in fact&comma; have an Internet Connection requirement&comma; but is used as a form of Anti-Piracy&period; According to Polygon&&num;8217&semi;s sources&comma; publishers will be able to decide if their games need to have a constant connection to the Internet&semi; their decisions would still need to fall within the boundaries of Microsoft&&num;8217&semi;s own guidelines&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Furthermore&comma; Xbox Live itself will see some tweaks&comma; with the Friends list limit of 100 people being done away with&comma; in favor of a more Twitter-like approach&comma; where people follow one another&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This is a decent amount of news to take in&comma; in addition to the news&sol;rumors we reported on yesterday&comma; but as I said back then&comma; none of it is official until Microsoft confirms it themselves&period; We still have to wait for their reveal of the next Xbox in May&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;