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Hynad on 29 May 2013
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Imaginedvl said:
Hynad said:
Imaginedvl said:

Yep.

We are extensively using Azure and a good majority of the comments I see about cloud processing is just wrong...
People comparing it with remote play (Gakai), assuming that it requires a lot of bandwith, do not understand that even in a single player game there is a lot of asynchroneous operations going on which are not time sensitive and I can go on.

The only thing that makes sense from these ridiculous comments, is the fact there if you are not connected to the internet... Well obviously you cannot use this processing power. And I can only agree with this, but it is not the issue I see the most in their replies.

And if your "because you say so?" was referring to my comment about Microsoft knowing what they are doing... Well, they are the leader with Amazon in cloud processing/hosting... I may be wrong, but if we stop looking at haters alternate reality, chances that Microsoft knows what they are doing are high...

Have you read Digital Foundry's analysis of MS's claims?  Maybe you should.

Oh, right... You'll say they have no idea what they're talking about and have no understanding of technology?

Not that they say it's impossible though. Just that it's not going to be as big as MS claims.

Please stop putting word in my mouth; I said a good majority of people on forums... I did not say nobody understand it and never talked about this article.
Also this article is right in many areas but also wrong in others.

We are using the Azure to power our game (Silverlight client) and I think I understand how it works better than someone who is just reading the internet (IE: you).
I will not lie and pretend that we are using it for any rendering tasks, but we are using it in many scenarios, mainly for background aysynchroneous tasks, NPCs tasks scheduling (living world) and few other things.

We can arg about Microsoft claim being big or not... But this is exactly my point; haters sticking on PR stuff and disregarding the potential (this is very convenient).. It would be easy to just look at any PR claim (from any companies) and find the claim being a bit over-exagerated (I will not give you some very good exemples from the past years:)).

If this is actually your point, arguing that companies' PR are mainly exagerating their message to the public; I agree with that... But stop pretending that Microsoft is the only one doing that or that this particular one about cloud processing is pure bullshit...


How am I pretending they're the only ones to do that? If you know that much and I know so little, because i'm just a common internet reader, by all means, prove a point.  You make all those baseless claims without supporting what you're saying...

So... because you say so, was it?  

MS claimed the XBO is 10 times more powerful than the 360. And using cloud processing, it will be 40 times more powerful than the 360. Now, PR or not, they said that during their reveal event. So forgive me if I'm skeptical of this, and that you see me as an unknowledgeable person for that. 

One thing you fail to read: I don't say that cloud processing won't have any tangible effect on the console. I'm saying it won't have as big an effect as they want people to believe. For reasons clearly elaborated already, thank you.