Quote Originally Posted by I OU a Beatn View Post
Both of those were already confirmed. The Xbox One needs to be connected at least once every 24 hours or it wont be able to play any games. The reason for this is that once every 24 hours, your licenses on the games you own are validated to make sure you still have the rights to them and didn't trade it away to another user.

The Kinect listening all the time is also confirmed. You can turn the camera portion of it off, but it is listening to you 100% of the time. The only time it is turned off and not listening is when the console is completely powered off.
What do you mean completely powered off? Is there any other kind of off, or does it have a "standby" mode?

If all has been confirmed then I am not getting it myself its pretty simple, I was simply stating that maybe since some of this backlash has hit they pull back the reigns on some of the these initial things they thought were "cool"