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There was so much stuff packed in to Microsoft's E3 2011 Press Conference that the company had to leave a few very interesting things out, including the introduction of Cloud Storage Saves and a new feature called Beacons. Coming this year, Xbox LIVE will integrate these features to help bring an even better Xbox Live experience to your living room.
Cloud Saves will make it easier for you to sign in to your Xbox Live account from any console and allow you to access your game saves and full profile as well. All of your items, like your Microsoft Points, Achievements, and friends will travel along with you via the Cloud. In layman terms, this means no more gamertag recovery!
Beacons will allow you to tell your Xbox Live and Facebook friends that you want to play a game on Xbox Live. If you set up a Beacon, you tell everyone what you want to play, then Xbox Live will let you know when friends are playing or want to play the same game. Now if you're watching a movie via Netflix with your Halo: Reach Beacon on, people will know that you want to play, making it easier to discover multiplayer opportunities.
Xbox is also getting a new, simpler, cleaner Dashboard. The new Dashboard will be easier to navigate and will come with a more intuitive feel so people can get to what they want faster. And to help people find things even more easily, Microsoft is bringing Bing to the Xbox. Bing on Xbox will let users search Netflix, Hulu Plus, ESPN, as well as music, video, games, movies, TV shows, and Xbox Live marketplaces to find the content they want to enjoy.
So there you have it. No word on when all of these features will be rolling out, but at least a few sound pretty good. I'm especially excited for the Cloud Saves feature, because I hate having to recover my gamertag. Beacons and Bing don't interest me too much, as I think with Beacons I'll just get annoyed with people pestering me to play things when I forget to turn my beacon off. And I honestly don't think I'll ever use Bing, even on my Xbox (We can't be defeated!). What about you? Are you excited for the new Xbox Live experience that's headed to your living room in the coming months? Let us know!
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AshVSdarkness
As much as as llloooooove my Xbox Live, I see the cloud save being a gold thing unfortunately. Prove me wrong please!
Blue_Vortex
I wonder if the Cloud service will only be for gold members or for all. If they make cloud accessible to all members then it will be a head of PSN's version.
cardinalsfan1122
The beacons are cool but cloud saves isn't new been using it on PSN for months. Otherwise I was not impressed at Microsoft's conference there was nothing that stuck out I mean COD WM3 was I think their biggest thing and it's multiplatform. Gears looks great though I have to say.But otherwise I will stick with my cable.
rdddd
cool now i dont have to spend like 2 hours recovering my gamer tag :D ha
rottencorpse
BAM...Microsoft delivers the goods again...sweet, no more memory cards/usb drives...but i will still keep backups in case their servers fail...but i am looking forward to this big time
C4ptainAw3some
The cloud thing sounds awesome because even when you do recover your gamertag you don't get your saved games which is really annoying!
EthanDog
A few friends and I are wondering why the dashboard has to be so blindingly white. It would be awesome if they allowed you to change the color.
tmc002
Nice!!
LukeB
What was Microsoft thinking not mentioning something as amazing as Cloud Saving?!
knight5000
Very cool to see the no more recovering gamer tags and moving save files feature. I thought the microsoft conference went very well, in spite of what everyone on the live stream was saying.
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