Major weekend Xbox Live outage casts more doubt on 'Always on' Xbox 720 plans

Play games, win money. It's almost too good to be true.Xbox Live is currently experiencing a significant service disruption, with many users reporting problems when trying to sign in to Microsoft's online gaming platform. The outage — whichYesterday's Xbox Live outage was not a result of a hacking operation by the Anonmyous Group. While yesterday we claimed that they “may be involved” in the downtime, after multiple readers directed us to comments being made via Twitter. Today, we'veYesterday's Xbox Live outage was not a result of a hacking operation by the Anonmyous Group. While yesterday we claimed that they “may be involved” in the downtime, after multiple readers directed us to comments being made via Twitter. Today, we'veIf anything should highlight the danger of having a console “always on” it's this: Xbox LIVE is currently down. The current status of the service says that “users may experience difficulties with … signing in to Xbox LIVE” which is about as crucial as
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