![]() As recently as November 2019, 13.4 percent of US households reported having no Internet connection at all. Studies show that even the US and Europe, whose states and nations rank high in terms of Internet quality, still have millions of households with low or no Internet. And that’s not even mentioning the many multiplayer games that require a strong online connection for a reasonable play experience or the offline games that require not only day-one updates, but sometimes months of patching and downloadable fixes before they begin to resemble the product consumers had hoped for. More recently, the Xbox Series X requires a one-time online check-in before some disc-based games will work.īoth Sony and Microsoft also introduced disc-drive-free options for their latest consoles, perhaps presaging the day when those drives are gone from consoles for good. The topic perhaps reached its global breakthrough with the November 13 announcement that the Xbox One would require a day-one update to function. Pointing out the frustration of large day-one updates has been a feature of the gaming industry for more than a decade now. But for the significant portion of the world without a quality Internet connection, it can sometimes feel like the game industry at large is leaving them behind. Sean MacEntee / Flickr reader comments 167 withįor many players these days, the video game industry’s increasing reliance on online connections is an afterthought.
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