Microsoft committed to providing offline, single-player experiences on Xbox One

orly? you don't even develop games anymore. your commitment was to the game publishers who wanted the always-online and you took the fall for them.

I never play any multiplayer. I enjoy a good single player game without having to deal with online gaming "elitists", whinning brats if you use a different strategy as them, and racists.

SNES MASTER RACE!!!

The good ol' days when playing multiplayer actually brought people closer together...

How I miss them...

Give us another Sudeki, that game was fun

Almost every action adventure game I've played has been single player, and will be in next gen too. I don't see that this is news.

I'm kind of in the in between... I like single player straight store experiences, but mostly I like couch co-op experience, playing a game through with my brother. Many games are released and they now only offer online co-op.

Thank goodness, I thought I was a dying breed for being only interested in single player games.

you don't care about your costumers and you do this to win back . who think ps4 will win thumb up

What's a 'conerstone'?

SP is why I started gaming and why I would continue gaming as long as they continue to support the SP world out there. But, if they expect me to pay $60 for an SP mode 5 hours long in a MP game like COD or BF4, they're wrong. I'll stay with fewer purchases for directed SP player games. It seems like the console companies, and some developers, are pushing all this social gaming crap philosophy! Well, I don't game to make friends, I've already got plenty and can actually go to coffee, lunch, or dinner with them. Sorry, just the truth. I'm playing to play, that's it.

As for playing indie or arcade games, I've yet to see or find one that actually interested me. They all seem to shallow or low quality from what I like.

M$ always goes for the money . It would definitely have gone for an always-online connection if nobody had made a complain. That is where money is. Then, It would be able to control everything and we would be a slave of this blood sucking corporation.

We all know M$ just purposely put a leaked news on the alway-on connection to get the feedback. When everyone turned against this idea, M$ rapidly replied it always listened to a consumer and had a plan to support offline at the first place. That was bull--shit!!!

What a wanker! The amount of crap people talk these days is unbelievable.

I'm not a big fan of multiplayer driven games. I'd take a Fallout New Vegas over any multiplayer game any time any where.

This is good news.

Just how long have you believed this M$ ?. Months ago you were determined to have always online yet now you suddenly say that single player is important to you ?, you have to try to make this more believable M$....right now it sounds like another desperate attempt to sell the console. If we are so important then why not prove it ?, tell us why your changing your stance now just before launch and why you believe single players are so important when you were saying the exact opposite afew months ago.
Right now, it looks like more BS.

I highly doubt that, consoles are all about multiplayer anymore because that is where the money is.

Requiring people to do an online check just to play their games didn't seem very offline friendly.

It's kind of funny that single player games have become the token black friends for Microsoft, " I don't hate single player games! One of my favorite games is Brothers!" sounds a whole like "I don't hate black people! one of my best friends is black!".

Dear author: You misspelled cornerstone in the sub line. Just FYI

please tell me what you can actually do if you don't have online and live. so far i can only see playing music/movies and playing a few offline games and nothing else. if you dont have live on the xbone then its the same as being offline cause of all the pay wall thats just crazy, at least the ps4 (without psn) lets you share gameplay, use the browser, play offline, music/movies + online movies (like lovefilm and online music). there so much more stuff then the xbone.

Yeah yeah, keep covering the shit from several months ago. They would have kept all their restrictions if it didn't cause such an uproar. An "offline experience" isn't something you should have to show off, it should just be given.

What about with the Deal with it attitude, I guess the pre orders must've been lesser and so the sales will be lower therefore instead of consumers the Mircroshaft has to deal with their attitude and listen to consumers rantting for offline experience. now remove the kinect please, because kinect doesn't look good with my tv setup.