Nothing, what they do in cloud must be something that isn't affected by users latency.
Microsoft Xbox Reveal Event - May 21, 2013
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It's not just about latency but about a LOT of data. Some of that might be duplicated on the cloud servers' local storage though, even for like the entire game catalogue, stuff like textures, physics models, the really memory intensive stuff. But a lot of the actual interactive stuff you want to be involved in the events around the player would have to be sent to the cloud.
So I don't yet see what we should be excited about here. But the devs may already have things working.
loekf
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Might explain why in that CoD Ghosts demo I saw the foliage and trees didn't move (waving, like e.g. Crysis 3).
It still has to be processed in the cloud ?!?!?
What if you don't have a connection?
To me it looked like MS is pouring an order of magnitude more money into the entire Xbox One project. There may be similar spendings on the games but they aim far, far higher than Sony is with the PS4, and some of the tech and business steps they've managed to take are seriously impressive.
Billy Idol
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Xbox, go home!
Ha ha ha, sorry...to tempting!
No Illumniroom btw.
Ha ha ha, sorry...to tempting!
No Illumniroom btw.
A possible use for Microsoft Azure's servers would be to create cloud server apps that serve as MP servers, instead of publishers having to maintain their own online server infrastructure.
I'm not sure if it would be as liberating for the consumer as say LAN or dedicated servers, but it would simplify things from the dev and publisher POV. They could retain the right to poison-pill the cloud server platform, and the game discs would not have the code (otherwise players could make their own server).
I'm not sure if it would be as liberating for the consumer as say LAN or dedicated servers, but it would simplify things from the dev and publisher POV. They could retain the right to poison-pill the cloud server platform, and the game discs would not have the code (otherwise players could make their own server).
listening to the software engineering that is going into this I do not see how PS4 can have nearly the OS features as this... could be huge to the average users..
YEa yea yea "for NA/ , Europe, offline players screwed... blah blah blah...
this gen is probably going to be 10 years /the cloud computing. a lot will change world wide by then, we are not just talking about what's up now.
YEa yea yea "for NA/ , Europe, offline players screwed... blah blah blah...
this gen is probably going to be 10 years /the cloud computing. a lot will change world wide by then, we are not just talking about what's up now.
Do we know this? or is this just an assumption? i missed the start of the tech panel.
theyre using IR blasting...
Computations done in the cloud (power crunching) with much smaller data bits coming down your pipe.
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Anyone else thinks MS come up with the cloud computing when they knew they were going to have a less powerful console?
"Ok, we don't have an 1.8 TF GPU, but we have the clouddd"
"Ok, we don't have an 1.8 TF GPU, but we have the clouddd"
Well, Boyd (who I always thought was just a little creepy) did go into the VM architecture a bit.
Interesting comment, can you elaborate?
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Indeed, it uses WiFi Direct instead of the generic wireless of the old controller.
loekf
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Not sure. Fact is Sony is doing a games console with social "crap" (nonsense) and media playback, MS is doing a living room thingie, which also happen to play games.
I already have a HTPC hooked up to my TV and a STB and don't give a thing about all those content etc. social stuff. Just want to play games on the big screen.
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