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Kushan · 23-08-2013, 19:08

Ok you're obviously not letting this one go, despite the fact that Microsoft has been directly questioned on the 300,000 servers and didn't actually give an answer. So let me ask you this:

How much do you think a server costs?

Seriously. How much. I'm going to level with you, they're not cheap. A decent server is going to be several thousand pounds. They don't come cheap because enterprise-grade hardware never is. For the hell of it though, let's just say that each server costs £2,500 - keep in mind that £2,500 is actually pretty cheap for a server, especially one that's going to be offloading lots of gaming calculations (have you seen how much TESLA costs?). £2,500. Now multiply that by 300,000.

How much?

£750,000,000

That's £750 MILLION. That's before you count building the datacentre to hold them, powering them, maintaining them, etc. Do you seriously think Microsoft has spent that amount of money for the LAUNCH of the Xbox One?

It's absurd. Now say £100,000,000 and ab unch of virtualisation? Even that's a little excessive, but probably a lot more realistic. Or you know, they've just leveraged what they already had with Azure.

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Kushan cf.mega poster Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Warrington Posts: 4,737	Re: Playstation 4 partnering with Virgin Media and 200mbit speeds this year? Ok you're obviously not letting this one go, despite the fact that Microsoft has been directly questioned on the 300,000 servers and didn't actually give an answer. So let me ask you this: How much do you think a server costs? Seriously. How much. I'm going to level with you, they're not cheap. A decent server is going to be several thousand pounds. They don't come cheap because enterprise-grade hardware never is. For the hell of it though, let's just say that each server costs £2,500 - keep in mind that £2,500 is actually pretty cheap for a server, especially one that's going to be offloading lots of gaming calculations (have you seen how much TESLA costs?). £2,500. Now multiply that by 300,000. How much? £750,000,000 That's £750 MILLION. That's before you count building the datacentre to hold them, powering them, maintaining them, etc. Do you seriously think Microsoft has spent that amount of money for the LAUNCH of the Xbox One? It's absurd. Now say £100,000,000 and ab unch of virtualisation? Even that's a little excessive, but probably a lot more realistic. Or you know, they've just leveraged what they already had with Azure.