I Was Wrong. Xbox Live is the Killer App. Kinect Won't Hurt Though!

[DirtyP2002]

Osc89 said:

Jega said:

Microsoft is preparing 300,000 servers for Xbox One on day one.

This is apparently spin, according to Jonathan Blow:

More cloud processing BS: http://www.joystiq.com/2013/05/24/report-xbox-one-performance-upped-by-cloud-processing/ … Someone please call their bluff on this.

Also, someone please ask if these fabled 300,000 servers are real hardware, or just the total size of Windows Azure (which then implies

XBL would only ever get a portion of that).

(I am going to launch an online indie game and claim it has as many servers as Amazon S3 has...)

Oh that indie developer, who created one $10 game in its entire career and just signed a deal with Sony, does not like XBL.
He might be a good designer for puzzle games, but there are way smarter people at MS when it comes to cloud computing.

I think it is funny that MS spent bilions on R&D for cloud computing and have thousands of people working on it for years and one indie game designer comes up with this. He never did anything in the cloud except having a mail account on amazon.