The world is rapidly embracing The Internet of Things in all ways in can possibly be implemented. Whether it's our cars, our fridges, our medical treatment, and yes, our game consoles, nearly all facets of our day to day lives in modern society are getting connected to the internet. There are obviously some issues with this, but it's sort of becoming the evolution of modern society and I'm certain that it will only become more and more prevalent as time goes on.
Regarding my personal feelings about modern game consoles needing to always be online, I don't mind it now, but in 10-years when support for the PS4 or XBONE ends that might be a totally different story. I really hope that both companies keep legacy gamers in mind (which they probably won't given how small we are as a group) and keep repositories of patches for most games on their consoles always available for download. If they do, no problem, but if they don't than many modern games will be virtually unplayable. It's really disturbing how heavily patches some games are at launch and how incredibly broken they are without those day one patches. Hell, many games are deliberately unplayable without their initial patches because of concerns over unauthorized people playing the game early before the game launched. It could very will be a mess, and sadly the only way to protect against this would be to either install a massive HDD in your PS4 or XBONE, we're talking 10TB+ and download patches for every game you own before they pull the plug. And you better have backups of that massive drive, because if it ever dies or gets corrupted you'll be SOL. I really hope Sony, MS and Nintendo think about this before they cease mainstream support for their current consoles.