I live out on an acre in the country 30 miles from the city and the internet options here are very small. Yet I still get a 15 megabit connection, which is more than enough than what the X1 is going to require. I have a range extender to beam a signal to my chicken pin for my IP cam. If my chickens can get internet out on my property, surely others can.
I'm kidding, but hey, I'm sure there's a point in there somewhere.
Honestly though, I subscribe to video steaming services, iTunes, and other services (like Steam, Carbonite, Xbox Music, PSN Plus) that require me to be online to use them at all. I'm used to it and every one of my consoles (this gen) is always connected anyways. Sometimes, when my 360 or PS3 isn't online for whatever reason - I go out of my way to get them on before I start playing a game. It actually feels strange to me when they are offline, like being at a party but locked in a room by yourself with your own boombox.
I guess if one were looking for a silver lining in all this, it might be that
bottom-feeders-turned-mega-corporations like Gamestop are not the ones benefiting the most and more money goes to the developers (even publishers) that actually made the games happen in the first place. Maybe even prices can come down, basically like we saw happen with Steam. The model of Gamestop raping customers for trade-in values and shafting publishers by undercutting them by $5 doesn't seem sustainable, to me at least.
