Xbox One to offer free 'unlimited hard drive space' via the Cloud

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DirtyP2002 said:

Angelus said:
I wonder just how unlimited it will be exactly

And what kinds of things can we store in the cloud? I mean game saves are obviously no big deal, but I can I throw large DLC files in there? Whole games?

Xbox Live offers Xbox One unlimited storage space in the cloud for all Xbox Live members to store numerous types of Xbox Live content, including your profile, games, Achievements and entertainment. This content is stored and saved in the cloud so you can automatically access it anywhere, anytime, no matter where you are.

that is MS word. So yeah, you can store whole games in the cloud. I don't know if this is just for XBLA games though.

But that's a ruse, because all games are already there in XBL. It's kinda silly to think that anyone is actually going to upload a game from their Xb one HDD to the cloud, when the game already exists in XBL (in effect in the cloud). On the game side of things it will be no different to now, your digital purchases will be permanently recorded "in the cloud" and you can download those purchases any time, delete them from your HDD and re-download some time later. Your profile is already in the cloud with X360, as are your achievements.

The one new thing in that highlighted list is entertainment that you haven't purchased through XBL. Video / music that you've sourced from elsewhere (e.g. gameplay vids) and put on your HDD being uploaded to the cloud is a new thing which is very handy for when you go to use someone else's Xb one. Of course given this is not a feature which requires any particular processing grunt from Xb one the feature should be made available to all 360 owners too. Is it?