Second-hand Xbox One games and Internet connection details

Two of the issues that remained unanswered during the presentation were the Internet connection of the console and the other was the management of second-hand games. Thanks to our colleagues at VidaExtra both cases are clarified.

The Xbox One console will not require a permanent Internet connection to play, but will require a periodic connection, once every 24 hours for your console or good 1 time every hour if you connect with your account from another Xbox One and play your games, which are created in the cloud. Regarding second-hand games, they can be run, and the user will not pay anything for it.

"Details of permanent Internet connection"

It is confirmed that it will not be necessary to have a permanent connection to Internet, but we will have to connect it if 24 hours have passed since the last time we play to be able to play from our console.

The Internet connection will be a non-permanent requirement but necessary for Xbox games. You will not be able to play an offline game for more than 24 hours.

When installing a game on Xbox One, a copy of the installation is created in the cloud, so that it will be possible to access it from another console with our account to our games and enjoy them.

In this case, the console must have a connection every hour if we access our account from another console other than the primary one, we must connect it every hour.

Used games, second hand market

Microsoft has released information about its plans for used games / secondhand . The company will not receive any type of compensation for the use of second-hand games.

Microsoft gives free rein to the purchase and sale of games by offering freedom to developers and publishers to choose under what conditions.o there will be payments of this type linked to the Xbox One, so the decision will always the editors will take it.

Microsoft, as a publisher, will always allow games to be shared between friends and resold in stores. The third parties in charge of putting the games into circulation will decide if they can be resold in stores or not and under what conditions.

The Xbox One will allow us to give a game in physical format to a friend by transferring the license, something for which Microsoft will not charge us anything either. Of course, this process can only be done once and to real friends that we have had on our friends list for at least a month.

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