New XBOX reveal

[RblDiver]

My understanding is the online thing is a big feature indeed, but may not be *required* per say. It sounds like it's more or less up to the individual developers whether they require it or not (so, I'm guessing Ubisoft will have online everything, even first-person-only games, as a sort of DRM scheme ><).

As to the console itself, I'm hopeful. Seems rather gimmicky, but advances in technology are always cool (see all the neat stuff people are doing with the Kinect apart from gaming).

Lack of backwards compatibility sucks :/