Xbox One To Offer Unlimited Cloud Storage
July 29, 2013
Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Gary Flood.
Finally, some good news for Xbox fans: Microsoft promises buyers of its Xbox One gaming and media console unlimited cloud storage when the system debuts this fall. In contrast, the current Xbox 360 device offers only 512 MB of cloud space.
The new plan, which will be hosted on Microsoft’s Azure platform, will provide the computational horsepower required to meet the demands of next-gen Xbox games while also enabling players to save unlimited game data, music and other media. The announcement was made by Microsoft’s PR team during the first-ever Australian version of the popular PAX gaming convention, when new key features Xbox One features were also announced…
Microsoft group program manager of Xbox incubation & prototyping Jeff Henshaw previously stated, "For every physical Xbox One we build, we’re provisioning the CPU and storage equivalent of three Xbox Ones on the cloud." According to Microsoft, Xbox One will boast processing capacity that is 40 times greater than that of the 360…
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