But will we get the chance to taste the power of the cloud before The Last Guardian comes out?

Except no one is expecting that Gaikai will set the world on fire. Players welcomed this feature as a nice addition, that's all. And that's how i am expecting this to work. Stop comparing this to the MS computing cloud. They have different purposes, different requirements and different services.

It will takes years or decades, because we do not speak only about MS infrastructure. We talk about infrastructure in user's homes. You either deliver same quality to your every single customer or you just want to deliver it to some precent of players with decent, uninterrupted and flawlessly working internet connection.

And from the MS side, it's not only matter of infrastructure. It's the matter of sotware, API, it's the matter of developers learning how to use it, developers preparing new game engines (if it is worth it) and more of that - WILLING to use some niche tech just to deliver more experience to the promile of players. And these are things i can imagine, i bet, there are more. It takes years to develop a game, yet you try to persuade us, it will take few months to deliver completely new approach to new games. That's a wishfull thinking. I can bet it won't happen anytime soon in this decade for xbox one (aside of demos), anytime.

Does anyone really expect something like this, this gen. Those where highend PCs running a prototype. With one using teh cloud for assistance. I don't think its even possible right now using the fastest consumer available internet speeds.

Regardless of wether it is or it isnt, the demo was just that, a demo.

I still have the "not cloud powered" pegged as running pure CPU, and the "cloud powered" being on GPU, hence why they refused to bring up the words CPU or GPU the entire time.

lol. that's a possibility. I wonder why there was no details on specs and internet speeds.

well that's the future in 6-8 years, not just for MS or gaming in general but for everything. Those 300k servers MS has set up is nothing really (they will have more), for what they plan to do. xbox (or ps or whatever) will just be an app on your laptop/smartphone/smartTV. believe it or not i've seen the future

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The power of TNT:

"we are using the cloud and a collection of devices" about the 1:19 mark

I wonder what collection of devices mean?

And I will believe it when I see it on xbo stuff. If it works out and makes things better than its a win/win for everyone.

Gflop isn't important nor is it a comparison point that determines the complete performance of a platform.

Lets say you had two 100 Gigaflop CPU's, however one processor had ZERO cache and an interconnect bandwidth that was only half the speed as the other.
They're both 100Gflop processors, but in the real world, the one with no cache and less interconnect is going to be stupidly slower.

Also... A Haswell Quad-Core processor, can hit around 500Gflops, when AVX2 is in use, I won't mention the fact you're trying to compare a processor that excells in parallel processing whilst the other specialises in serial processing, making the comparison point even more ludicrous, generally Physics can be a highly parallel task well suited to a GPU.

Now, if they implemented a more powerfull GPU into the Xbox One, they *could* do it without the cloud.
The Xbox One as it is *right now* could also do it, but you are going to be sacrificing shaders, lighting, shadowing, textures, you name it to pull it off.

There is literaly nothing special about the cloud, every single internet connected device can use the cloud to assist in processing, Microsoft is just throwing more resources at the problem to make developer life easier and they should be commanded for that.