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VGKing on 28 May 2013
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kowenicki said:
VGKing said:

The PR speak is beyond annoying at this point. If you want to know how exactly cloud computing will be used in the XBox and if it is even feasible, I suggest you read this Eurogamer article on the subject. Do you research and form your own opinions.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-in-theory-can-xbox-one-cloud-transform-gaming

 

How about we wait and see how it develops?  if anyone can afford to build this.... MS can.  Nobody else in the gaming industry has the funds.

The point of this article was to say MS is best placed... thats obvious and undeniable.

Dont panic... it might come to nothing.

Money isn't the issue. I'm sure Microsoft has the funds to build the infrastructure to use this technology. It's like you didn't even read the article. I'll sum it up for you but you need to read the full article to really undertand it.

Cloud Computing/Processing isn't a good idea because
-Latency
-Bandwidth Caps
-Hugely varied internet speeds across not only states, but entire countries.

So unless internet companies start getting less greedy and offer better internet speeds and no bandwidth caps, this technology is useless. It's not enough to give it any sort of processing advantage over the PS4. Even then, latency would still be an issue. Local processing will always be faster than the internet. Why do you think Sony/MS went with an APU design? To minimize latency.