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Microsoft released this week that some of the main features that have been talked about on Xbox One will require an Xbox Live membership. Some of them are surprising, while many aren’t mainly because they are features that you would use online playing.
With that being said, anyone who has owned an Xbox 360 is not all that surprised. We have been paying for these features since the creation, but in turn we also receive better matchmaking and more servers. This will also continue with the Xbox One. Sure your in-game DVR will work with the PS4, but it doesn’t say that you will be able to share it without one. Unless you’re in to recalling your greatest achievements to the people in the room, like the 40 year old reliving that touchdown pass while still wearing his letterman’s jacket, then it will be as useless to you as someone without the Live account. There is a little nerd-rage on the internet about this issue, because they are toting these features as ready to go, right out of the box. Yet even with the new Xbox One unboxing video, it has yet been denied or confirmed if the Xbox One will be carrying on the tradition of coming with a month of Xbox Live services for free. If it does, once they get a taste of those new features and how they will use it, they will shell out the $60-ish for Live.