NJ5 on 03 December 2009
| Uberkiffer said: I know for a fact that it costs way more than .01 cent to hose a GB of information on a server. The OP is not taking into all consideration factors that are placed into storage.... redundancy, electricity, hvac, integrity etc... that alone shows me that they are uninformed. Amongst other things offered, XBL gold offers is the ability for MS to release dev kits over XNA studios extremely cheaply (tho free for PC...), it allows us great exclusive content possibilities due to increased revenue stream, it allows MS to portray a robust pay-to-play system in which advertisers and developers can both have niches in, thus brining in more money etc.. This additional income flow means that MS is not taking on the costs of servers themselves and they are not taking on all development costs themselves. As a gamer, I feel it is important to support development, and for less than $3/month I find this to be a fantastic investment. Does anyone honestly think that a profit minded company such as MS would offer free services, free servers, free content, and then still pay developers hundreds of millions for exclusive contents for their online service...?? really? Oh, and our XBL Gold membership let us actually play MW2 online the day it was released :) that's worth its monthly payment alone. |
I said $0.1 per GB, and yes that takes into account all those things you mentioned.
For example, Akamai is a big company that offers content distribution. For high volume customers, they charge $0.05 to $0.15 per GB for video delivery, which has more requirements than simple file serving:
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