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Forums - Microsoft Discussion - Microsoft are finally showing the Power of the Cloud

Machiavellian on 09 March 2018
DonFerrari said:
Machiavellian said:

Not sure if MS every stated massive leap in image quality.  Compute power does not always equate to the graphical end there are many systems that come together to get a game working at a certain performance to justify server side compute.

Also, I believe a lot of people do not know what cloud compute means or the technology used.  If you believe its a bunch of servers hooked together or even xbox consoles etc, then you are only looking at one piece of a huge complex system.  The software behind the scenes is just as important as the hardware.  I agree that cloud compute probably does not make a lot of sense for singleplayer games but instead for games that are looking to do more a combination of both with a persistent world and some type of sub model.

Yep. But if they didn't want to shift market perception on the lack of power of their console (we need to look at the context) and infer that your Xbox would suddenly be much more powerful because of the cloud they wouldn't go for change of name for something that is already a reality in the form of servers.

Why dwell on things that are in the past.  Companies make many different marketing statements and they also either push forward or pull back depending on the success or failure of those initiative. It's very evident that MS has no interest in pushing for marketing Cloud Compute, just like they have pulled back on a number of other marketing themes at the beginning of this console cycle.  I am sure MS has invested a lot of resources into cloud compute but as a model for singleplayer games they probably will never market it like that again since its way to backend to really mean anything to the current gamer.  Not only that but at the time MS was looking at an always online connected system which they had to pull back as well.  This probably also meant they had to pull back on technology that required that always online connected system.  Either way they are not marketing it anymore so whatever they were trying to do, is dead or put on hold.