Microsoft Creative Director hints at always-online requirement for next-gen Xbox

There have been a lot of rumours going around about what Microsoft may have planned for the next-gen Xbox, but the most prominent and unsettling one so far has been the rumour that the console will require an always-online. A series of strange tweets from Microsoft Studios’ Creative Director, Adam Orth, discovered by NeoGAF, have all but confirmed that the company’s next-gen console will require a constant Internet connection.In the tweets, Orth talks about how just because some things aren’t completely reliable, they shouldn’t be unused. He uses some analogies for this. “The mobile reception in the area I live in is spotty and unreliable. I will not buy a mobile phone,” says one tweet. Another says “Sometimes the electricity goes out. I will not purchase a vacuum cleaner.”Orthy tweets, “I want every device to be “always on”.” He follows up on this by saying that, “Those people should definitely get with the times and get the internet. It’s awesome.”We contacted a Microsoft representative about the possibility of requiring a constant internet connection to play games on the next-gen Xbox, but the answer was a simple, “No comment.”Click here for full story