How Important Is XBL Cloud Storage To You?
Microsoft left something fairly significant out of its E3 conference…
Cloud storage is coming for XBox live – Mark Whitten has said so:
“We are making it easier for you to sign into your Xbox Live account from any console at any time to access your game saves and full profile,” the Live Executive said in an open letter to the community.
“Cloud storage will allow you to enjoy the same great Xbox Live gaming experience even when you’re not in your own living room by giving you the option to store your “game saves” securely in the Xbox Live cloud, instead of on a portable memory unit or your console’s hard drive. Gone are the days of “gamertag recovery”. Now all you need to do is sign in, no matter where you are!”
That’s good news, no? It certainly got us excited: the ability to save and retrieve at will on another console anywhere in the world, without the need to carry a hard drive or memory stick around. Not having to wait on a tedious Gamertag download is bonus too, especially for gamers constantly moving between consoles.
This is pretty significant news to the core gamer, something Microsoft might have highlighted in its lacklustre E3 press conference on Monday, if it wasn’t so skewed towards Kinect bolt-ons, kiddy titles and a new dashboard. Yes… a new dash board. How the hell does that take precedent over cloud storage? A room full of specialist journalists, its entire core audience watching from around the world and Microsoft neglects a feature that could have rescued its entire conference from complete derision. We can only guess that, as a feature that would only interest a core audience, cloud storage simply didn’t fit with the casual angle of the presentation, though this does feel like Microsoft is rubbing salt in our wounds.
But we’ll take any bone thrown to us right now, and moving the Xbox Live service deeper into the cloud is an exciting thought. First storage and perhaps sometime in the future, a game streaming service?
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I am perplexed as to why this was left out, however, overall, I thought the press conference was an ok balance. I expect further announcements at the likes of TGS, Gamescom, PAX Prime and, of course, CES.
90 mins doesn’t cut it, so they may have to restart the X events they used to do and make those specialized ie. games or just entertaiment or make it the entire IEB ecosystem and leave E3 to gaming. dunno but I don’t think the show was as bad. But then again, even though I play everything from GoW to Peggle, I don’t equate “On Rails” to being “Bad”.
BTW, I was really hoping to hear about Alan Wake.
Did you guys have a chance to play Rise of Nightmares? Some of the reactions are promising.
It’s only good for the yanks as they have more stuff to put on their hard drives so they need the room. Is dlc put in the cloud as well. What else goes on up there. How secure is it.