This is why any requirement that the next gen XBOX must always be online is a bad idea
We are among the users that haven't been able to connect for the past several hours. Local games work, but anything that requires authentication from the Microsoft servers is offline even if they don't actually stream from those servers.
Xbox Live is currently experiencing a significant service disruption, with many users reporting problems when trying to sign in to Microsoft’s online gaming platform. The outage — which…