{"id":26321,"date":"2011-11-17T16:23:16","date_gmt":"2011-11-17T14:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=26321"},"modified":"2011-11-18T17:56:05","modified_gmt":"2011-11-18T15:56:05","slug":"incoming-xbox-live-cloud-storage-is-for-gold-subscribers-only","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/26321-incoming-xbox-live-cloud-storage-is-for-gold-subscribers-only","title":{"rendered":"Incoming Xbox LIVE cloud storage is for Gold subscribers only"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We don\u2019t know much about <a title=\"Company Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/11861-Microsoft\">Microsoft<\/a>\u2019s \u201creally exciting\u201d plans for its incoming cloud service on <a title=\"Term Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/19908-Xbox-LIVE-%28XBL%29\">Xbox LIVE<\/a>, but we do know now that it\u2019s not going to be free.<\/p>\n<p>Pretend to be, like, totally surprised and stuff.<\/p>\n<p>The next dashboard update will include 512 MBs of cloud-based storage per user for gamertags and game saves, and according to a report over on Shacknews, this<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRoaming Profile\u201d feature will be exclusive to Xbox LIVE Gold subscribers. Free subscribers will just have to go on using those antiquated flash disks instead, sorry.<\/p>\n<p>Due out sometime later this year, the new dashboard has been rebuilt using Microsoft\u2019s new-fangled Metro design language and adds other new features like live television, Bing voice search, a dedicated <a title=\"Term Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/20971-YouTube\">YouTube<\/a> video channel, <a title=\"Term Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/20999-Skype\">Skype<\/a> integration, and improved support for <a title=\"Term Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/19894-Kinect\">Kinect<\/a> voice commands alongside the cloud storage service.<\/p>\n<p>Although Microsoft hasn\u2019t confirmed a launch date, the dashboard is currently in a public beta.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a title=\"Shack News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.shacknews.com\/article\/71129\/xbox-live-cloud-saves-gold-exclusive\">Shack News<\/a><\/h5>\n<p><strong>Related Articles<\/strong><br \/>\n<a title=\"MyGaming Article\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/25709-microsoft-working-on-really-exciting-xbox-cloud-features.html\">Microsoft working on really exciting Xbox cloud features<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NO SILVERS ALLOWED IN THE TREEHOUSE :<\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":26325,"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":[257,557,243],"class_list":["post-26321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-xbox","tag-cloud","tag-gold-account","tag-xbox-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26321","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=26321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26327,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26321\/revisions\/26327"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}