Interesting article that provides more insight into the situation.

"Microsoft was wounded by the reaction to its E3 press conference, and I think they genuinely want to do the right thing," said Pachter. "The 'always connected' requirement arose from their desire to provide instant access to games, rapid switching between games, TV, Skype and Internet browsing, etc. However, to accomplish that, they required games to be written to the hard drive, which prompted a need to ensure that the same game wasn't copied multiple times to different Xbox Ones, hence the onerous DRM."

Seems to me it was like what they did with Windows 8. They put that silly metro interface onto the desktop version that professionals would be trying to use to get serious work done. These same certainly don't want that metro interface thrust in their face, or getting between them and their work. I guess what I'm saying here is there is a pattern of behaviour on the part of Microsoft where they do things for their own benefit rather than think of the user. They still haven't adjusted their thinking from back in the day when everybody was forced to use their products.

Forcing XBox users to be online was in the same vein - they wanted XBox users to take part in the rest of the ecosystem they are trying to sell, and that backfired.

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