Xbox down: Microsoft explains bizarre outage – and prompts concerns about the future

Technical problems meant that players could not use their consoles – even if the game they were playing needed no connection to the internet

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After the recent Xbox outage even blocked people from playing offline disc-based console games, Microsoft is trying to soothe concerns that you don't truly own anything under Xbox's license system. In a statement to The Verge, Xbox technology chief Scott Van Vliet says that while physical game discs are subject to lice

Recent PSN and Xbox Live outages show why Sony's move to end game discs in 2028 should worry gamers who value owning what they pay for.

An Xbox executive said yesterday's outage was due to "a licensing service that sits outside of Xbox."