XBox Leak! Always connected Gameplay?

With the PS4 and Wii U out in the open, we're pretty anxious about what Microsoft is planning for its next Xbox. The leak, from VGleaks and provides screen shorts from an Xbox Development Kit (XDK) for Microsoft's upcoming console. Those grabs state that each new console will house a hard drive with enough capacity to "hold a large number of games." More than that, "play from the optical drive will not be supported." That lines up with what Katoko said. 

Now more alleged leaks are pointing to the console having an always-connected format with games to be installed directly to a hard drive.

A supposedly leaked document from the Durango XDK dev kit outlines that the console will also have a Blu-ray player and a "high-fidelity" Kinect Sensor that will be needed to operate the console.

Of course it will have an always on policy. You won't buy a physical game; you will buy the right to play a game. That won't be transferable to another person. There is a ton of money moving in the secondary (used) game market that Microsoft and publishers don't get a dime from. This is part of the hardware/software manufacturers fighting against that by creating a game ecosystem where it is no longer feasible to have a secondary market.

And it's coming, boys and girls. No matter how much you rage against it. Because they make the games and you want them and they will condition everyone to get used to buying like this.

People raged against Diablo 3 and it's always on policy. But they still sold a metric crapton of games. The newest Sim game is doing it. It will become more and more common until it is the norm to simply purchase a license to play your downloadable game tied to your hardware (and your credit card).