Re:Where does Microsoft's confidence come from? (Score 1)

I don't know about Ouya, haven't really been following the news on that front, but isn't Steam always-on as well? Or at least tied to your account.
I'm not sure protesting against a certain, uhm, let's call it feature, by going for the competition which has pretty much the same feature lends a lot of credence..

That said, most games these days already come with a code for online play that locks it to your account, and forces you to buy another code if you want to play online after buying the game second-hand. If this rumor proves true it would suck, but it's not a giant leap from where we are now.