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| radha said: You are speculating, the historical evidence is that 1) they shutdown the halo 2 servers even when there was people still playing the game 2) they stopped supporting xbox as soon as xbox 360 come out 3) they will completaly drop backward compatibility with xbox 360 on xbone, 4) For now countries outside the 21 announce will not be able to play xbone games regardless if there are xbox 360 games on those country.
This is in relation to gaming but is the same with their software, for example, MS stopped support for windows xp to force users to migrate to windows 7 even though windows xp has 54% of the market. So what historical evindence states is that is more likely that MS will have you place all your games under their DRM schema and when next next gen comes they will shutdown all server and not provide backwards copatibility to force you to move on to the next next XBox. |
1) Microsoft did not stop the Halo 2 servers , Bungie did. the cloud is suppose to prevent this situation from happening again. Developers/publisher will not have to maintain server for mutiplayer, server will be hosted on the cloud and will be paid by the subscription to the xbox live. So it's a win win situation, less expense for publisher / devellopers and we get dedicated servers.
2) given the situation of the original Xbox, it was only natural. It was expensive to build, did not sell well and even if Microsoft would continue to support it, third party would not have done.
3) It is because of the large difference in the hardware architecture and MS will continue to support the 360. But yeah, this is the only real deal breaker for me.
4) We still need confirmation by Ms on what is going to happen with unsupported countries.
For Windows XP, it's not like they drop the consumers support, they just stop updating it. I have a laptop running Windows XP and I do not feel like I'm force to upgrade to 7 or 8 when I'm using it.
