Mmmfishtacos said:
thranx said:
You should care. its because MS has far more uses for the cloud that theirs will be better. They will use the same servers for gaming or for business applications. Since ms has a large and spreadout business clientel they have server in many countries. Since they deal with busineses they must also be sure to maintain the network and not have any outages. Sony only using their cloud for games would mean there is not a need or revenue source to justify in expanding data centers or making data centers world wide. But really you cant compare the two. One is in the leading edge of the cloud, and the second biggest player in the cloud, the other would be lucky to crack top 5 cloud companies. with the cloud being effective and fast is going to rtequire data centers all over the world.
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Gaikai was named the largest gaming cloud network by Guinness world records last year. They have data centers all over the world. That's the whole point. Stop acting like sony is down and out on the one thing that matters to gamers and it's the games. Who cares if MS has the largest cloud network when most of it isn't going to be used for live.
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not sure if your serious or not with guiness world records thing. MS is rated the number 2 cloud service, preceeded by amazon, and followed by google. I believe there are another 3 or so semi big companies after that.
With MS azure the cluod can be used for anything, gaming or otehrwise as needed. Its flexible. Its not tied to one thing or the other, but is used as needed. that is the idea behind the cloud. I never said sony was down and out. I was simply stating that its because of MS's many uses for its cloud that it is bigger and worth more to invest. It would not suprise me one bit to see sony use Azure (just like apple does).