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Subject: Why isn't loading games off the cloud slow?

You just got Sarged!

I'm more familiar with dropbox on computers. When you have something in your dropbox it's both in the "cloud" and local. It's not as if the dropbox is adding memory to your computer. It still takes up your local harddrive space to keep things in that folder.

On the Xbox it's always seemed to me that the cloud actually DOES add space (correct me if I'm wrong) , the games are instead loaded directly off the Xbox server instead of your local machine. My question is - why isn't it painfully slow to say, play a save game from the cloud? Shouldn't it take much longer to write and read that save file from a cloud server?

  • 12.16.2012 7:33 AM PDT

Most games saves are pretty small, so download/upload is pretty quick.

  • 12.16.2012 7:35 AM PDT

Currently studying Computer Science & Software engineering. Hope to work on mobile devices of the future! When a certain game's credits roll, look out for my name! ;)

You will -blam!- bricks when you see what game it is! =)

Maybe there is a very efficient algorithm they use at Microsoft's Azure for the xbox.

  • 12.16.2012 7:36 AM PDT