Once, about a year after I bought it, I did connect, and after it updated itself, our profiles and records for Kinect Sports Rivals disappeared, and we had to restart our achievements. The Xbox One hasn't been connected to the Internet for years, which is the way I want it.

I have a handful of games, most of which use the Kinect (it came with Kinect Sports Rivals, Dance Central Spotlight, and then I bought Kung-Fu for Kinect and Fru). I love my Xbox One, which we bought many years ago for its Kinect so we could stay physically active at home. My question to you Arqade readers is: if I connect my Xbox One to the Internet again to update it, will the update make things worse by making the Xbox One stop working unless I keep reconnecting to the Internet? Has anyone here tried disconnecting the Xbox One from the Internet, and found that they couldn't use it?

But I have a new game (NHL 2021) that won't install unless I update it. I haven't connected my Xbox One to the Internet for years, and it still plays all my old Kinect games perfectly.

Xbox one offline update without usb