@grognard You vastly underestimate the number of people who play exclusively or mainly offline. I would never buy an always online console because that would mean I could not bring it to my cabin as I don't have internet access there (hell, I barely have phone service there). And I have little enough choice of evening entertainment there as it is. So yeah, forcing online to play purely single player games is a stupid move that MS rightfully got flak for.
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