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Originally Posted by ethan103
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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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 :/
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Not meaningless, on the 360 microsoft are simply a middleman for online play, a mere portal for services such as netflix yet have the nerve to charge a monthly fee to be that portal.
I dont have to pay a monthly fee to watch iplayer on my ps3 or pc, no monthly fee to microsoft to run netflix on my pc. The word to sum it up is people who think its good value on the 360 are simply gullible. To top it off for this monthly fee multiplayer games use a p2p system where a player is a host.
Its got so silly to the point people like youself think microsoft have 300k dedicated servers for console gaming
Most of the live resources will be in hosting files,, game patches, marketplace, dashboard updates and so on. Those will be where most of their investment is gone, and they are all things that are supplied to xbox silver members who pay no subs.