MS Blogger Breakfast: XNA Community, LIVE Downtime, Blu-ray, DRM-Issues

[wraggster]

Just got back from Microsoft's Blogger Breakfast and it was a hoot! The smoked bacon was delicious! Several bloggers got to throw questions at Chris Satchell, Aaron Greenberg and John Schappert.

XNA Community Program
* Games are all unrated. No ESRB intervention
* There may be a possible file size increase in the future to accommodate game developers.
* Games probably won't be restricted by region.
* Game creators will retain all rights to their games.
* There will be no certification for XNA community developed games.
* No achievements for XNA community games
* Friends lists probably won't work on XNA community games. They are still working on it.

Xbox Live Downtime Over The Holidays
* Xbox Live outage due to overwhelming holiday response
* 1,000,000 concurrent users on before Super Bowl playing Madden
* 4,000,000 new Live Gold subscribers in 6 months

Xbox 360 Blu-Ray Player Possibilities
* Microsoft doesn't care about Blu-Ray at this time
* 3% attach rate for HD-DVD add-on

Red Ring Of Death Still An Issue?
* Failure rate has officially dropped
* Microsoft is working on the DRM issue with downloaded content
* DRM issue only affects those who don't have access to Live
* In the interim, Microsoft will refund ALL your MS Points to re-download your content

http://www.thebitbag.com/2008/02/21/microsoft-blogger-breakfast-bullets/

[Elven6]

I higly doubt MS will release a Blu Ray add on, the PS3 fans out their who think the PS3's blu ray player will take the market away from the 360 are wrong. At the most it may sell a million or two based soley on the player, that would leave it in the 10 to 11 million mark, with the 360 nearing 20 million that won't do much for them.