{"id":25709,"date":"2011-11-14T17:38:28","date_gmt":"2011-11-14T15:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=25709"},"modified":"2011-11-14T17:41:45","modified_gmt":"2011-11-14T15:41:45","slug":"microsoft-working-on-really-exciting-xbox-cloud-features","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/25709-microsoft-working-on-really-exciting-xbox-cloud-features","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft working on &#8220;really exciting&#8221; Xbox cloud features"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking to attendees at the GDC China conference over the weekend, Microsoft\u2019s Brian Prince said that \u201creally exciting\u201d cloud features are coming to the Xbox 360.<\/p>\n<p>He wouldn\u2019t say when, though, because he\u2019s just a big old tease.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou will be seeing things in the Xbox platform that&#8217;s cloud-specific,\u201d he said. \u201cI&#8217;m already doing it, it&#8217;s really exciting, but I can&#8217;t tell you about it or else I&#8217;ll get fired.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Back in June, speculation had it that Microsoft had already launched or was about to launch cloud storage for Xbox gamertags and save game files after the company announced it was \u201ccoming soon\u201d at E3, although that later turned out to be untrue.<\/p>\n<p>The feature is, however, confirmed for launch at some point, most likely in the next dashboard update, due out soon.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report over on Examiner, a total of 512 MB of cloud storage space will be allocated to every Xbox user.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a title=\"Gamasutra\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/38558\/GDC_China_Microsofts_Price_Talks_Cloud_On_Social_Platforms_Consoles.php\">Gamasutra<\/a>, <a title=\"Examiner\" href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/video-game-in-national\/xbox-360-cloud-storage-size-revealed\">Examiner<\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But not actually talking about them, shhhhhh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":25713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[257,91,243],"class_list":["post-25709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-xbox","tag-cloud","tag-microsoft","tag-xbox-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25715,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25709\/revisions\/25715"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}