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Originally Posted by Kushan
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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You can believe what you want.
Microsoft has stated it's 300,000 severs for the Xbox One.
"The outfit has increased to 300,000 servers to power Xbox One users -- up from 15,000 that handle the Xbox 360"
I don't know how much more plain and simple it can be said.
Maybe you should go watch their e3 conference when they announce it.
As regards to costs,
Xbox Live makes billions,
SONY is expected to make $1.2bn from PS Plus per year.
So a one off cost to have a great infrastructure is there.
Of course currently Microsoft makes a lot more as well.
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Originally Posted by Chrysalis
I play on my own, dont dish those not into multiplayer.
Seems me and Kushan finally agree on something.
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If your not into multiplayer then I wouldn't expect you to understand why XBL members pay a fee to play online with friends and family.
So I guess your original point was meaningless :/