If they were using the cloud exactly as a dedicated server then they would just use EA's dedicated servers. In this video alone right here in this thread it's confirmed you're wrong, per usual. Maybe watch it?

You keep missing the point regarding other platforms. Could MS lease out Azure to EA so that they could make the game on PS4 and other competing platforms? Maybe. Would they give EA the same deal for PS4 use that they gave them for Xbox use? Hell no. Would EA still go forward with it at a higher price? Probably not, it's EA. And according to you they can do all of this on their own dedicated servers.

http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/pricing/purchase-options/

You can buy these Azure servers right now for any platform you want. We don't know if Microsoft gave EA a discount due to exclusivity, its unlikely I say since its coming to PC. What we do know is that the game is exclusive to MS platforms so that implies moneyhatting. Any other speculations is just that.....speculation.

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They're using Azure severs because its cheaper. They offer a "Pay as you go" plan which means they don't have to worry about how many servers to have at launch or how many to cut in a few years once the game dies down. You pay for what you use, no more, no less. 

How does it feel to always be wrong? Maybe you should admit you have no idea what you're talking about.

Why if they can afford then I am all in for that. Because exclusives are technically the most polished, because they can only focus on one architecture and build the game around that plus the team has a lot more time to focus on that one version. That being said this wouldn´t be profitable enough for the publishers.

The other platforms also get access to MS's cloud for Titanfall.

Medal of Honor and Battlefield never reached the success level that Call of Duty has. They never will. Just look at the latest Medal of Honor game. It's a complete joke. It doesn't matter which IP came first, Call of Duty, specifically COD4, completely innovated the genre and its the base for all FPS game made to this day. EA saw what Activision did with their "Medal of Honor clone" and tried to replicate that success. They failed becuase they're EA. That's the point here. If you can't see that, then you're delusional.

Tony Hawk, Guitar Hero, Call of Duty and soon Skylanders. There's a method to this "madness" or "milking" as you may call it. Activision knows how to handle their franchises. None of these can last forever so using Tony Hawk or Guitar Hero of how evil this company is for ruining these franchsies, just think for a little big. If it wasn't for Activision, these franchised would never have existed in the first place. If they didn't have yearly releases, they would never have been so popular and you might never have played these amazing games.

It may sound like I'm an Activision fanboy, but I'm not. I'm not buying this years Call of Duty. The franchise needs a shot in the arm and Ghosts isn't it.

Arent they both using x86? or whatever...

I completely understand what you are saying. J_Allard is missing the point.

Why can't PS3/PS4 use MS's cloud? What's keeping them from using it?

Already answered further in the thread. Maybe they can, maybe they can't. But MS sure as heck wouldn't give them the deal they are getting right now. Which, according to the Respawn people, is the only thing that made this work.

I expect the game to come to PS4. But I expect it to be changed pretty significantly and use none of the MS cloud stuff and instead run on EA's own servers. And as a result be a pretty significant downgrade. But at least it will eventually show up.