Xbox One No Longer Needs to Be Online, Can Trade-in and Loan Games

<p>It would seem that Microsoft is changing its plan with the Xbox One&comma; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;news&period;xbox&period;com&sol;2013&sol;06&sol;update">as a recent update on the system&comma; given by Don Mattrick<&sol;a>&comma; confirms that the Xbox One will not require an Internet connection and disc based games are subject to lending&comma; renting and trading in&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Since unveiling our plans for Xbox One&comma; my team and I have heard directly from many of you&comma; read your comments and listened to your feedback&period; I would like to take the opportunity today to thank you for your assistance in helping us to reshape the future of Xbox One&comma;&&num;8221&semi; reads the post&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;You told us how much you loved the flexibility you have today with games delivered on disc&period; The ability to lend&comma; share&comma; and resell these games at your discretion is of incredible importance to you&period; Also important to you is the freedom to play offline&comma; for any length of time&comma; anywhere in the world&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Xbox One will only require an internet connection for the initial setup of the system&period; The 24 hour check-in is now a thing of the past and there are no limits on what you do with your physical games&period; So go nuts &lpar;but not too nuts&rpar;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This official announcement comes not too long after <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;giantbomb&period;com&sol;articles&sol;microsoft-to-pull-complete-reversal-on-xbox-one-dr&sol;1100-4673&sol;">Giant Bomb reported<&sol;a> that multiple&comma; trusted sources&comma; stated that Microsoft would be making huge changes to the Xbox One&&num;8217&semi;s DRM policies&period; As of right now&comma; the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 seem to be closer in features than they ever were last week&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;