XBOX ONE: The Good and the Bad

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VGKing said:

tres said:
one thing during the architecture discussion the guy from turn 10 said they can move large amounts of data including rendering and ai through microsoft massive cloud computing infrastructure unleashing the processing power of the clould for xbox one.

now i can see for mmo's or only on line games how this could totally destroy the power of a static console

It's a useless feature for those of us with slow connections. Multiplatform games won't use it.

The purpose would be for high-latency processing requests.  That is, for those requests that don't require lightning fast response times it would be used, however for other requirests that require faster response times it wouldn't be used. 

The reason Microsoft is expanding the Xbox LIVE infrastructure 6 fold (I believe it was) is to provide one-hop access to that processing power.  So, technically speaking the latency to the cloud would be relatively low.  Despite that, yes, your Internet connection speed could be an issue but that's yet to be determined.