So if Nintendo is researching the same as MS will that make it more legit?
From Neogaf
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=568133
"Originally Posted by Alexandre Delattre, CTO, Nintendo European Research & Development (NERD):
The developers at Nintendo headquarters need to spend their time developing the actual platform, so I think we’d like to explore areas that they don’t have time for. For example the possibilities which are opened up by the combination of cloud technologies and new software paradigms like general purpose GPU programming.
It should be noted that while the statement seems rather vague, NERD has indeed hired, and is still hiring, researchers in the field of cloud technology, heterogenous computing, and GPGPU development. Doesn't mean we'll see some results any time soon if ever, but I don't think Nintendo would publish this piece if they didn't believe they were on the right track. Especially considering this Iwata Asks seems to be mostly aimed at potential future NERD employees.
So this apparently isn't about trivial cloud applications like storing save games and profiles on a server or something, it's seemingly about stuffing some servers with a couple of Nvidia Titans or Intel Knights Corner accelerators and using those things to provide additional computational performance over the internet. And there might actually be a practical application for something like this in gaming (same thing is true for Microsoft of course)"
Took the info from french site Gamekyo
http://www.gamekyo.com/group_article26596.html
With all these things I can only keep an open mind about this cloud computing thing. I don't know much but I'll wait and see.
