Microsoft’s Phil Harrison Explains that Xbox One’s Cloud Can Actually Improve Graphics

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nightsurge on 26 September 2013

fatslob-:O said:
There is no way microsoft can improve rendering on the xbone with cloud unless microsoft decides to employ rendering servers to every city or town to mitigate the transfer times of each partial frames. Even if microsoft did choose to do it they would suffer losses left and right because now they have to spend more money to improve their rendering infrastructure to gain a noticeable boosts in performance plus they will only be making losses when attempting this strategy.

You missed the mark entirely. They aren't using the cloud to render... they are using it to offload processing (mostly cpu intensive stuff) to free up local resources for better graphics.

That's very possible.

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Zekkyou on 26 September 2013

They can do a lot of things, doesn't mean they will.

I'm sure this will be a feature we see more of in the future, but people who think we are going to see it soon from MS aor Sony or kidding themselves.

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Zekkyou on 26 September 2013

(double post ¬_¬)

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fatslob-:O on 26 September 2013

nightsurge said:

fatslob-:O said:
There is no way microsoft can improve rendering on the xbone with cloud unless microsoft decides to employ rendering servers to every city or town to mitigate the transfer times of each partial frames. Even if microsoft did choose to do it they would suffer losses left and right because now they have to spend more money to improve their rendering infrastructure to gain a noticeable boosts in performance plus they will only be making losses when attempting this strategy.

You missed the mark entirely. They aren't using the cloud to render... they are using it to offload processing (mostly cpu intensive stuff) to free up local resources for better graphics.

That's very possible.

The workload that they will offload will mean little for rendering because like you said they are offloading CPU intensive tasks not GPU intensive tasks and you know what that means ? It will be meaningless in the end because CPU's are not used a whole lot for rendering purposes, now if you said they were offloading GPU workloads that would be a whole different story in itself.

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ChristianTheAtheist on 26 September 2013

Why don't they just use more powerful hardware?

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pokoko on 26 September 2013

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pokoko said:

As for single-player, no. I don't want my single-player to be internet-dependent.

What if the singleplayer games are already maxed out, and connecting to the cloud pushes it even better? That way you have a singleplayer game great on its own, that receives further benefits (not possible on the game itself) if you happen to be connected.

Also, great gif.

That sounds fine on the surface but it might also be a slippery slope that leads to EA-style rationalizations for single-player games being online-required. Else you're asking developers to make programming more complicated for multiple situations. For the most part, I think both next gen consoles will have plenty of horsepower for quite awhile, so I can't really see cloud off-loading really being needed for single-player games.

We're also still looking at the fact that most third-party titles will ignore both the PS4's extra top end AND the XO's cloud support so they can just code them the same.