Microsoft braces for "GTA IV" crush on Xbox Live
Mon Apr 28, 2008 4:04PM EDT
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The latest installment of "Grand Theft Auto" is gonna be huge—so huge, in fact, that Microsoft is shoring up Xbox Live in hopes of avoiding another outage like the one we endured during the holidays.
Microsoft has effectively "doubled our capacity for concurrent users over the last two months" by adding "more server hardware," said Live General Manager David Ingalls in the Kotaku story, adding that Live staffers will be working overtime this week to make sure the GTA:IV launch goes smoothly.
Meanwhile, since Sony doesn't have an equivalent to Xbox Live, GTA developer Rockstar will be handling the online servers for PlayStation 3 gamers, according to Kotaku.
Microsoft issued an apology and handed out free Xbox Live Arcade games to ticked off gamers after Live servers, slammed by a crush of new users, slowed to a crawl in December and early January.
With Grand Theft Auto IV expected to sell about nine million copies this week alone—and with the seamless multiplayer sounding like such a cool part of the experience—it's good to hear that Live engineers are taking the initiative and gearing up for the onslaught in advance.
Now let's just hope it works.
Related:
Xbox Live Preps for GTA IV Server Riot [Kotaku]
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2 Posted by tjken33 on Mon Apr 28, 2008 6:10PM EDT Report Abuse
I predict a major let down in live servers once again. Then again i may be wrong =] But just in case i'm picking the game up from my local game store at 9pm est. TAKE THAT MIDNIGHTERS! lolol
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1 Posted by matt_archbold2002 on Mon Apr 28, 2008 4:41PM EDT Report Abuse
Yes, lets hope. I dont want to get home at 12:15am just to put the disc in and watch live fail to start up. that would not be cool. This is the only game that i have ever planned on picking up at midnight and i dont want to be disapointed because live goes bad again.