Xbox Live Going Down

[Damian]

Well just for 24 hours for an upgrade.

Xbox Live downtime planned as Tsunami rolls in

Rob Fahey 10:11 04/19/2004
It's going away for a day, but it'll come back better than before


Microsoft's Xbox Live online console service will be shut down for 24 hours later this week in order to allow the company's engineers time to install the new Xbox Live 3.0 functionality, codenamed "Tsunami".

The new Xbox Live features will require that users download a patch the next time they connect to the service, and will include some functions which have been discussed by the company since E3 last year.

Functions added by the Tsunami update include more advanced support for "clans" of players, integration with the MSN Messenger chat service on PCs and a system allocating a small amount of server-side storage space for individual users (so they can store their configuration files and so on).

However, the bulk of these features will not be immediately available to players, as they need to be integrated into individual games by the developers - the functionality of older titles will not change. Microsoft expects the first games to support the features to appear in a matter of months, as development SDKs for Xbox Live 3.0 went out to developers several months ago

[Astrakan]

Yeah, I've been looking forward to this upgrade for a while. The MSN messanger integration will be sweet. I'm also crossing my fingers for an increase in the number of friends you can have on your friends list. 200 is way too few.

KM