BenVTrigger said:
Why on earth would I care about always online? |
I changed my posts slightly to clarify. It's not about if you mind being online all the time or not, it's that the game becomes reliant on the connection to even function at all. Console games are heavily optimised on their hardware, streaming alot of data from the disc and the hard drive. An internet connection is not constant nor fast enough to stream data back and forth that a game needs to calculate a game enviroment, especially if only a part is streamed and has to be combined with other calculations the system does itself.
Cloud based gaming works by uploading your controller input, letting a massive server calculate the entire game, and then streaming the video and audio back. You can't let the server calculate only the AI for example and stream that back and then the Xbox One has to put all the information back together again. The AI information would take much longer to completely process than the rest that is calculated by the console itself. And even the slightest slowdown would cause information to be delayed and would probably make the game crash instantly.
In other words they are simply planning to release a cloud based streaming service like Gakai or Onlive.
