&gt; With all due respect, countries without decent Internet infrastructure are unlikely to be places where there are plenty of people with the spare cash to blow on a console.<p>I think you underestimate the woeful state of broadband in many developed nations.<p>Here in the UK, many non-rural areas struggle to get more than 8Mbps down, 1Mbps up. With more devices in the home putting demands on connections and many ISPs capping usage (or offering unlimited but heavily throttled connections), downloading or streaming games isn&#x27;t always viable.<p>In my own case, I recently moved house and went from an 80Mbps FTTC connection (the fastest available in my city) to 6Mbps. It doesn&#x27;t take much more than someone at home streaming Netflix while another browses the internet or downloads a 25GB game on the Xbox to make streaming games completely unworkable.<p>I know the situation is very similar in Australia, New Zealand, areas in Spain..<p>We often see this skewed perception from American companies that everyone in a first-world country has consistent and fast connectivity. A lot of US products and concepts just die here for that reason. The original Xbox One concept of being download-only would have been a complete failure here.<p>It&#x27;s not just poor people (who &quot;are unlikely to be places where there are plenty of people with the spare cash to blow on a console&quot;) who struggle for good connectivity.